A woman learning Haskell

The newest entry in our "Look at that Haskell idiot and laugh". It's a woman that writes an angry rant because she couldn't remember that... vector product is anti-commutative.

http://betsyhaibel.com/blog/2016-04-29-haskell-vectors-and-implicit-knowledge/

Problem 10 took me a month.
They thought it was too simple to explain. They thought that anyone learning Haskell would have retained all the random topics that are contained in high school precalculus. They thought that anyone learning Haskell would be the Kind Of Person who just “naturally” remembers that sort of stuff.
This could be a rant about the arrogance of the functional programming ivory tower.

Yep, you've seen it: high school pre-calculus is officially "arrogance" of the functional "ivory tower". But there is more: she actually feels that the Haskell community hates her:

Real World Haskell assumes that all truly educated people remember vector-math intricacies off the top of their heads.

Intricacies, ahahahaha! Remembering one of the most basic operations in vector algebra is an "intricacy" now!

I think Haskell is a really pretty language, but I can’t tell if the Haskell community wants me.

Oooh, the discrimination!!! They've included an exercise in a book that she wasted a month solving! The oppression!

It’s still cruel.

I couldn't solve an exercise in a book! Goodbye, cruel world!

And when we encode that cruelty into our educational materials – however accidentally – we turn surviving that cruelty into something we value above all.

Oooh, the evil patriarchy embedding cruelty into geometric problems! And vector product was invented by a man! It's all those evil men, we should cut their balls off!!!

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It only gets worse, the whole story. So it is actually a faggot complaining about that he didn't understood linear algebra during his study. Her 'friends', whether it be male/female/retard, are not much better: https://twitter.com/vaurorapub

Some piece of 'her' blogpost about her anxiety of stronger male figures. It just fits the whole modern feminist theory. Don't make women stronger, make males weaker:

By contrast, when I’m talking to Bryan I feel afraid, cautious, and fearful. Over the years I worked with Bryan, I watched him shame and insult hundreds of people, in public and in private, over email and in person, in papers and talks. Bryan is no Linus Torvalds – Bryan’s insults are usually subtle, insinuating, and beautifully phrased, whereas Linus’ insults tend towards the crude and direct. Even as you are blushing in shame from what Bryan just said about you, you are also admiring his vocabulary, cadence, and command of classical allusion. When I talked to Bryan about any topic, I felt like I was engaging in combat with a much stronger foe who only wanted to win, not help me learn. I always had the nagging fear that I probably wouldn’t even know how cleverly he had insulted me until hours later. I’m sure other people had more positive experiences with Bryan, but my experience matches that of many others. In summary, Bryan is supporting the status quo of the existing culture of systems programming, which is a culture of combat, humiliation, and domination.