• (disco) in reply to dkf

    My solution.

    return male;

    Reasoning.

    Women want to be men, men want to be men. The 1% of trans as a failure rate isn't that bad.

    And, by the way, why do these forms always assume I'm human. I was born a wolf dammit! I can't help being attracted to wolves. It's not a choice! It's not.... a.... choice.... cries

  • (disco) in reply to deadman
    deadman:
    Did anyone click on the word "Discourse" in the article ???
    No, and I didn't click on the word "ColdFusion" either...
  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue

    How is "trying to guess the impossible based on statistical likely-hood" sexist?

    Hey, I could use this.

    Hey, insurance companies! You're sexist for saying men get in more wrecks. They do? Well, you're sexist for charging us more.

  • (disco) in reply to xaade

    The sad fact is that European Commission seems to think it. For real. Yeah, WTF (well, it was with life expectation, but that's just a statistics too).

  • (disco) in reply to Bulb

    I'm beginning to get offended at all the people getting offended. It's seriously disgusting. So much negativity I want to vomit out society from my mouth.

  • (disco)

    Running this code against a test set of the 20 most popular stage names for strippers in the USA produced some interesting results:

    Crystal, Brandy, Angel, Candy, Jade, Devon, Scarlett, Star: Male

    Tiffany, Amber, Lola, Ginger, Charity, Anastasia, Cherry, Kitty, Destiny, Chastity, Raven, Bambi: Female

    That's 60% accurate. Close enough for government work, I guess.

  • (disco)

    literally the first story on this website that made me actually say "what the f***" instead of just wonder "Oh, I've seen that before."

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    Crystal, Brandy, Angel, Candy, Jade, Devon, Scarlett, Star: Male

    That's 100% accurate.

    FTFY ;)

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    FTFY

    We must go to different clubs.

  • (disco)

    In mild defense of this, and I guess all WTFs like this. We always assume the programmer in question thought this was some brilliant solution to a reasonable problem, and just "didn't see all the problems".

    In reality I think any programmer that has been around long enough has gone down swinging against a boss, client, or Big Idea Guy, who has an unworkable idea they refuse to believe is harder than they think it should be, and insist it needs to be done despite objections like "here's 39020 ways this will fail".

    It's entirely possible this was just a "I'm being forced to do this, so I'll make it usually work against all the names [Big Idea Person] is trying, and then we can all move on with our lives" type solution. I think we've all been there.

  • (disco) in reply to Sizik

    If I count right, that's 49 wrong meaning 51 right.

    You can't tell me that's not better than guessing on average!

  • (disco)

    And what is it supposed to do with those of us with gender-bent names?

    When I was born I got the male spelling of the name. Now it's purely female.

  • (disco) in reply to LorenPechtel
  • (disco) in reply to xaade
    xaade:
    And, by the way, why do these forms always assume I'm human. I was born a wolf dammit!I can't help being attracted to wolves. It's not a choice! It's not.... a.... choice.... cries

    *cuddles the lycanthrope in their midst* "Don't worry, it's alright, there's nothing wrong with being snuggly now, is there?"

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    we actually do this in our code base for that. users are asked gender but are given an option to decline. if they decline the system will take a variety of factors (name, interaction history, birth date, purchase history, etc) and guess a gender (it is marked as such so marketers know not to rely on it if they interact with the customer directly)

    I wish Amazon would do that. I buy my underwear on there and the next thing they do is suggest female underwear made by the same brand.

  • (disco)

    Apparently "Ben" is a female name.

  • (disco) in reply to mruhlin

    Yeah, Amazon's suggestions can be pretty crazy at times. Among other things they have no concept of cause and effect--buying ink does NOT mean I have any interest in buying a printer that uses that ink!

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    That's some awesome regex abuse.

    You'll probably find something similar in Discourse's markdown parser.

    And @accalia, you now have your logic for Sockbot! Although I have to like you slightly less, since the only person that I know with your birthday, I'm not exactly a big fan of.

  • (disco)

    What about:

    Addison Adrian Ainsley Alex Andy Ari Ash Aspen Aubrey Bailey Bay Blaine Bobbie Brett Brook Caelan Campbell Carroll Charlie Chris Clay Corey Dana Dakota Dale Daryl Devin Dorian Drew Eddie Eli Elliott Frances Frankie Gabriel Glenn Gray Harper Hayden Jamie Jean Jesse Jordan Jules Julian Kaden Kelly Kennedy Lake Logan Max Morgan Pat Peyton Ray Reed Riley River Roan Rudy Sage Sam Shawn, Sean Stevie Tanner Taylor Toby Tyler Val West Winter

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    And @accalia, you now have your logic for Sockbot! Although I have to like you slightly less, since the only person that I know with your birthday, I'm not exactly a big fan of.

    I'm NOT rewriting that logic in JS for sockbot. not unless you show up at my door with two briefcases (one full of century notes, the other of alcohol)

    as for the birth date, if it helps my birth certificate lists TOB as 23:59 so you could just give me a minute and shift me over to June 3

  • (disco)

    Yesterday I constructed a tower out of unicorn tears and ivory. There wasn't any sin involved, or ColdFusion either, but plenty of catnip.

    (Bonus points to anyone who recognizes this without Googling it.)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    as for the birth date, if it helps my birth certificate lists TOB as 23:59 so you could just give me a minute and shift me over to June 3

    Sorry, it doesn't. :smirk:

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Sorry, it doesn't.

    so i'm getting blamed for being born on the wrong day of the year?

    .... is that grounds for discrimination? ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    No, you're not a SJW.

  • (disco)

    In fact, in 2007, the German computer magazine c't tried to categories first names around the world, in categories like "male for sure", "almost always male", "unisex", "almost always female", "female for sure", using the first name and the country of residence as input (e. g. "Andrea" is almost always female in Germany, but almost always male in Italy).

    They got a quite impressive database collected, but not sure about the license and if anybody continued the project.

    But they for sure did not use any regexes. :)

    Edit: Found it:

    # DO NOT CHANGE:   FILE-FORMAT DEFINITION-DATE = 2008-11-16                           $
#                                                                                     $
# nam_dict.txt                                                                        $
# ------------                                                                        $
#                                                                                     $
# List of first names and gender.                                                     $
#                                                                                     $
# Copyright (c):                                                                      $
# 2007-2008:  Jörg MICHAEL, Adalbert-Stifter-Str. 11,                                 $
#             30655 Hannover, Germany                                                 $
#                                                                                     $
# SCCS: @(#) nam_dict.txt  1.2  2008-11-30                                            $
#                                                                                     $
# This file is subject to the GNU Free Documentation License.                         $
# Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify                             $
# this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation                         $
# License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the                          $
# Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,                               $
# no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.                                      $
  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    No, you're not a SJW.

    hmm... no, but i do enjoy winding them up so tight their head explodes.

    what's really fun is getting them to do it to themselves...

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    hmm... no, but i do enjoy winding them up so tight their head explodes.

    I didn't realize any outside influence was required for that to happen.

  • (disco) in reply to mott555

    it is. they tend to just slowly melt unless you give them that little nudge to help them achieve critical mass.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Is it possible for you to make a sandwich in node.js?

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    yes, unless you want to eat it.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    [image] I was wondering why it thought that, and turns out I had the wrong year in my Google profile. I don't remember entering it, and I certainly don't remember entering it *wrong*.
  • (disco)
  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    Where are you guys finding these things?

  • (disco) in reply to mott555

    It's in *crosses fingers for Discourse to work* this post

  • (disco) in reply to mott555

    @Yamikuronue posted a link:

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/genderize/5135/31?u=boomzilla

  • (disco)
  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    It's ok @boomzilla, I've learned that @Yamikuronue exists in a parallel universe.

  • (disco) in reply to Kuro
    Kuro:
    Obligatory "But what about asian names and their unicode characters"-comment. This function does NOT return an empty message when Unicode is involved. This is so wrong!

    Apparently all Asian people are male.

    Perhaps, like the Dwarves, they hide their women deep underground.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Apparently all Asian people are male.

    Perhaps, like the Dwarves, they hide their women deep underground.

    Don't be silly. Any Internet resident knows they put them on obnoxious banner ads about how this woman wants to meet you.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Although I have to like you slightly less, since the only person that I know with your birthday, I'm not exactly a big fan of.

    Snort. That's my sister's birthdate, too.

    Hey, I'm "not exactly a big fan" of her, either, although we get along.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    Urist isn't matched by either regex. Dwarves just default to male, I guess.

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar
    ben_lubar:
    Urist isn't matched by either regex. Dwarves just default to male, I guess.

    So you agree with me.

  • (disco) in reply to vita10gy
    vita10gy:
    It's entirely possible this was just a "I'm being forced to do this, so I'll make it usually work against all the names [Big Idea Person] is trying, and then we can all move on with our lives" type solution. I think we've all been there.

    Malicious compliance: a time-tested survival technique used by disgruntled programmers everywhere.

    Mason_Wheeler:
    Don't be silly. Any Internet resident knows they put them on obnoxious banner ads about how this woman wants to meet you.

    And on fake online dating profiles.

  • (disco) in reply to Mason_Wheeler
    Mason_Wheeler:
    Any Internet resident knows they put them on obnoxious banner ads about how this woman wants to meet you.

    Hah, I didn't even think of that.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    (You'll want to be logged into a google account to see it)

    I object to this characterization.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    The canonical Urist was a female dwarf.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Snort. That's my sister's birthdate, too.

    Hey, I'm "not exactly a big fan" of her, either, although we get along.

    Oh, the person that I'm thinking of lives near Boston. But she's an only child...

  • (disco)

    I find it disturbing that, when logged out of Google, it guesses my age at "65+", which is more than 20 years off.

    I blame you people, somehow.

    Oh, or possibly adblock.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Oh, the person that I'm thinking of lives near Boston.

    My sicester lives in Worcester.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    My sicester lives in Worcester.

    Ok, maybe she has a brother that she never told me about.

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