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April Fools' Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale (cnet.com) 83

Posted by BeauHD from the concept-to-reality dept.
Stack Overflow's copy-paste keyboard, an April Fools' Day prank that ribbed lazy programmers, is now actually for sale. CNET reports: It's been a joke in programming circles for years: Instead of writing your code from scratch, just head over to the Stack Overflow forums and copy the way another programmer already solved your problem. The meme is such a fixture that Stack Overflow turned it into an April Fools' Day prank this year, saying it would limit free access to its site unless people bought The Key, a device with buttons for opening Stack Overflow, copying and pasting. Enough people said they'd actually buy one that Stack Overflow, with help from keyboard aficionado Cassidy Williams and custom keyboard maker Drop, designed one for real and began selling it for $29. A portion of the keyboard sales' proceeds will go to Digitalundivided, a nonprofit set up to help Black and Latinx women succeed as technology entrepreneurs. Further reading: How Often Do People Actually Copy and Paste From Stack Overflow?
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  • Latinx (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:45PM (#61843047)

    Digitalundivided, a nonprofit set up to help Black and Latinx women succeed as technology entrepreneurs.

    A Latina friend of mine had never heard the word "Latinx" -- which has been invented by white liberals. I explained what it is. Her face turned ashen. "I hate that," she said. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

    • Re:Latinx (Score:5, Informative)

      by iggymanz ( 596061 ) on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:55PM (#61843055)

      That "x" sound won't even be pronounceable by Spanish speaking person outside the USA and the areas in Mexico heavily influenced by English, doesn't occur in the language. It is indeed a woke retard's word. Latinos reject it.

      • Yes I read that it's difficult for them to pronounce, so they don't like that word.

        • "About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It" https://www.pewresearch.org/hi... [pewresearch.org]

          "Pan-ethnic labels describing the U.S. population of people tracing their roots to Latin America and Spain have been introduced over the decades, rising and falling in popularity. Today, the two dominant labels in use are Hispanic and Latino, with origins in the 1970s and 1990s respectively ...In the United States, the first uses of Latinx appeared more than a decade ago. It was added to a widely use

        • Re: Latinx (Score:4, Informative)

          by sabbede ( 2678435 ) on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:27AM (#61844201)
          It is also an insult to the entire Spanish language, perpetrated by English speakers who want to impose their political preferences on an entire foreign language. English is very weakly inflected, and has almost no gender-inflected nouns. Spanish is heavily inflected, and pretty much every noun is gendered. So, some arrogant prick decided to impose politicized English grammar on another language in a fit of cultural superiority/imperialism, despite that contradicting a host of other liberal pseudo-morals.

      • "doesn't occur in the language."

        Counterexamples:
        Extramadura: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
        Exacto: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... [wiktionary.org]

    • Re: (Score:1, Flamebait)

      by RemindMeLater ( 7146661 )
      Objecting to newspeak is a grave offense. Report to your nearest SJW reeducation camp immediately.

    • Re:Latinx (Score:5, Insightful)

      by quenda ( 644621 ) on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:15AM (#61843341)

      "I hate that," she said. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

      Of course that was before she heard the phrase "Latinx women", as used in TFS, which takes stupid to a whole new level.

    • Re:Latinx (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Opportunist ( 166417 ) on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:34AM (#61843379)

      As weird as it may sound, but "Latinx" is yet another instance of white patronizing,. This time under the guise of "helping" them and "liberating" them.

      I can't help but being reminded of how we "helped" the people we "discovered" in the new world by "liberating" them with our religion and culture.

      • Not white patronizing, the term came from the hispanic community first. Not everything is about rich entitled white college kids.

        • For this I'd like to see some citation, because the only ones I know who try to push that term are anything but Latin[ao]s.

          • Google. Ie, websters has an entry. https://www.merriam-webster.co... [merriam-webster.com]
            That's just the *first* hit, look at others. Don't look at anything for a politically oriented web site, you can't trust anything with politics attached, especially one with a "omg people are so stupid and not like you smart ones!" oriented media.

    • This. Latinx is a stupid word, only used by overly woke idiots.

      I briefly though about ordering one of these keyboards, until I read that the profits are shared with one of these woke organizations that support people based on their race.

      MLKs dream [hellomisterbrown.com] died a long time ago. After his fight against segregation, he successors today are fighting for segregation. For example, the numerous colleges that have given in and established black-only dormitories, and even segregated graduation ceremonies. [nationalreview.com]

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        I get why some people use Latinx. In English ethnicities are not gendered so neither Latina or Latino are ideal loan words. Not that Latinx is ideal either, but there is logic to it. I don't use it myself.

        As for MLK, his famous "I have a dream" speech is a somewhat depressing read now, as it's clear that much has not changed for black people in America. For example, he encourages continued protest with this line:

        We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

        On the subject of segregation at the request of the students (your second link), MLK wanted blac

        • In English, the only gendered nouns are pronouns and loan words. Yes, English preserves the gender of loan words. A female dominator is a dominatrix. A female chauffeur is a chauffeuse. A mixed group of Latinas and Latinos are Latinos.

          That a modern American political movement does not like gender inflection does not justify imposing their prejudice on another language by trying to replace a collective noun with something unpronounceable in either language. It would sound like latinks, not Latin-X, if

    • I understand why people reject "Latino" for being inherently male but Latinx is just a bad alternative. There's another alternative which is both (1) widely used both inside and outside the community for decades and (2) not gendered. "Latin". As in, "Guatemala is part of Latin America". Or "Latin American literature". You already understand it and there's no weird linguistic bullshit to deal with.

    • As someone living in latin america, the "latinx" is sooo annoying.
      There are many social problems - latin american self-identity and its genders is not one of them. I'd also wager that people quite enjoy and are proud of th differences between latinas and latinos.
      A great example of hoy silly this attitude can become is the cartoon Speedy Gonzalez (the mouse that runs really fast with a stereotypical big mexican sombrero): for a while, it seems to have been blocked in the USA due to some silly outrage, becau

    • No, invented by latino/latinas who wanted a gender neutral word, and it arose in the LGBTQ community. Unless you say all hispanics are white and all LGBTQ are liberal, what you said is inaccurate. Now, go ahead and disagree with the term, but I really don't understand that when someone disagrees with something that they have to just make up lies about it and exagerate how awful it is.

  • No, it's "latina" if woman. The made-up in 2004 word "latinx" doesn't apply even if you buy into the B.S. reasons for the word's creation.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      But what if they're a bi cisgendered female quadruped that identifies as a moonlit stalk of broccoli?
      Is that back to latinx?

      • Actual Spanish speaking people use "hispanic" as the gender neutral word for a person, hilariously enough.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by quenda ( 644621 )

          Actual Spanish speaking people use "hispanic"

          But "hispanic" includes Spain, Portugal and Equatorial Guinea, while Latino refers only to the Americas.

          • And? If it's the word they use to identify themselves you should respect that.

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by quenda ( 644621 )

              And? If it's the word they use to identify themselves you should respect that.

              Can't tell if serious or woke parody.

              • I'm serious. If you wanna be a bitch about what people identify themselves as, then go to 4chan with all the other idiots.

                • Re: (Score:2)

                  by quenda ( 644621 )

                  Oh dear. This has nothing to do with identity politics, with what people call themselves.

                  Simply the semantics of words. And I forget this differs geographically.

                  In the US, "Latin" has come to be an abbreviation for "Latin American". Understandably, in the UK it can have a different meaning.
                  A "latin lover" is a stereotype than may be French or Italian.

          • But "hispanic" includes Spain, Portugal and Equatorial Guinea, while Latino refers only to the Americas.

            Sorry, but that is wrong. I've been reading this nonsense comments for a while, so I guess it's time to spread some education

            Latino by itself means something that derives from Latin, the roman's language (which is called like that because it was originated in Lacio, a region of Italy). By that extension, all countries which had their languages and cultures descending from Latin, are called "latinas". This includes Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and possibly others in the Mediterranean sea.

            Now, when Spain a

            • Sorry but you are wrong on many aspects. The most important one is that the Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) does not dictate. It just compiles and recommends.

              • You're wrong

                For starters, the grammar and orthographic rules for Spanish are dictated by the RAE. As for what constitutes correct Spanish, of course it evolves with time, and RAE listens, but at the end of the day, they're the official source.

                If you think otherwise, good luck writing to any official Spanish speaking institution. Or university. Or school.

                • Oh boi. I am a Spanish native speaker so I might now a thing or two about my own language. In this tweet you will see that RAE _recommends_ usage: https://mobile.twitter.com/rae... [twitter.com]. You'll see most of the tweets use the word _recomienda_. In my lifetime I've witnessed several changes in the recommendations. For example, 20 years ago _solo_ when referring to the adverb _solamente_ only required graphical accent when it could be confused with solo referring to _soledad_ (the fact of being alone). For several
            • English does not have such an institution. Sometimes I wish it did. Then at least Irony and Literally would still be used correctly and Decimate would still mean to reduce by a tenth.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            Some Americans describe themselves as Irish, despite having never been to Ireland. Words use to describe ethnicity encompass more than just origin.

          • Nah, the people in those European countries don't refer to themselves as "Hispanic", just "Spanish"

        • Hispanic is an adjective though, right? Latino is a noun - different part of speech.

        • Some do, some don't. If you're just looking at just the English speakers, hispanics are amazingly diverse with no consensus about almost anything. And they certainly don't agree about "hispanic" as being the universal term to use.

          Now, in Spain itself, hispanic has more meaning but it also focuses on Spain itself while ignoring the indigenous American latinos and latinos with African ancestry. It would be like calling all whites in America, "Britainos".

      • also, give such a person a sound beating and kick them back into the closet. Broccoli by moonlight looks scary.

    • Re:latinx? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by H_Fisher ( 808597 ) <[h_v_fisher] [at] [yahoo.com]> on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:54PM (#61843145)
      "Latinx" is just the latest example of educated white people trying to tell another culture how to identify itself. You'd think we'd have learned better by now.
    • Do people from central and south America call themselves "latinos" / "latinas" in the first place? If it's a short for "latinoamerican" then it should be written with an O no matter the gender, so the word looks like an exonym even before getting the woke treatment.

      • I don't think people call themselves latino(s)/a(s) when in their countries, in those they tend to refer to themselves by the name of their countries. Also, Brazilians don't think of themselves as inciuded in the term because we associate it with speaking Spanish, not Portuguese.

        That said, whether the continent (?) is referred to with an -a, an -o, or with no gender qualification, depends on the gender of continents. In Portuguese continents are female, so we say it with an -a, as "America Latina". I'm no s

        • Latin America is the proper English term for the Spanish and Portuguese speaking parts of the Americas, so at least we still have that right. Though I would not be surprised is some pathetic excuse for an academic is petitioning the AP to have them start saying Latinx America.

          • Latin America is the proper English term for the Spanish and Portuguese speaking parts of the Americas, so at least we still have that right.

            It should include French-speaking parts too, since French is a Latin language, and French Guiana is a country in South America.

            • But I don’t think it does. It has been a while, but I don’t think the Caribbean is included at all, which I think is where all the French speakers are (can’t remember if there are any on the northern coast). We tend not to think of the French as being a Latin people, despite the linguistic roots. Hell, would we include Italian? If you want actual Latins, look in Italy; if you want Latinos, look south of the Rio Grande?

              Now, there is a massive Italian population in Argentina that we

              • I don’t think the Caribbean is included at all, which I think is where all the French speakers are

                There are French-speaker in the Caribbean, but French Guiana is three countries to the southeast of Venezuela, which is the one bordering the Caribbean Sea and thus considered part of the Caribbean. See the map.

                We certainly don’t call Italian Americans Latinos or Latin Americans, even though they are the only ones who might actually be. What does that tell us?

                Well, in the late 10th and early 20th century Italians, similar to the Irish, suffered a lot of discrimination in US and weren't considered "white" proper by the majority of American whites. Were these modern "${LOCATIVE} American" terms created back then, and I suppose US-born Italians would definit

  • slashdot duplicator (Score:5, Funny)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:29PM (#61843195)

    When can I buy a slashdot post duplicator?

  • Real Programmers don't use Copy Paste keys (Score:3)

    by quenda ( 644621 ) on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:19AM (#61843349)

    ... real Programmers use the left mouse button to select text, and middle button to paste. No keyboard needed.

  • Does anyone else find it extremely annoying that smartphones do not offer three essential computer features that everything had before smartphones?:

    * A copy/paste button. (Nokia Series 60 phones had one. It was extremely nice.)
    * Undo/redo. (This has been standard in all software for decades. Now, on smartphones, It's mostly gone.)
    * "Do $action for everything (selected) in this list". (How many damn times do you find yourself doing a stupid repetitive action that we literally invented computers to get rid of

    • Well, select and hold is how I copy text on my phone and tablet. Then I tap somewhere to get the option to paste.

      While the idea of a scriptable shell on my tablet sounds kinda fun, it also sounds like a place it doesnâ(TM)t really belong. And on a phone? Why? Wrong tool for the job!

  • Where's the key that selects the code? You mean I have to use a mouse & select it manually? Pff... It said lazy in the title. This is waaay too much like work! >:-(
  • Back in 1993 I installed my first web server. We wanted to let people submit a form and have it mailed to us. Looking for a reference for decoding the submission, I found the whole program already finished, written by a guy with my name. Of course I copied it, changed the destination email address and the subject, and Voila. Why re-invent the wheel?

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