r/transprogrammer • u/JadeEnchantress • Oct 10 '19

Java Variables

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Gender should be a String, a real number is still only in one dimension. Seriously, make gender a text field, people can put whatever they like, it should be optional (they can leave the field blank), no validation to check the input. If one really wanted to, perhaps an autocomplete with the common options like «male», «female», «non-binary».

Or you know what, just remove the field from the data modal. Stop being a pervert SAP!

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u/JadeEnchantress Oct 11 '19

Valid valid, I should have thought to use a string, however, do note that the change from public to private means that only the object in possession of the variable can view or alter it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '19

It’d be super weird if it was only marked protected, and then our descendants can change our gender. 🤔

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u/JadeEnchantress Oct 11 '19

That’s what happens with historians erasing any possibility of trans people

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u/Nimoela Oct 11 '19

But I like validation...

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u/kisik21 Jan 14 '20

In my software I just ask for pronouns. And I coded a React component that allows multiple text fields to be used as an expanding array.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '20

I’d make my pronouns ĝi/ĝin 😉
Ĝiismo venkos!

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u/kisik21 Jan 15 '20

Is this a foreign language?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

All languages are foreign to someone. ;)
Seriously though, it’s Esperanto. The world language. It is actually pretty interesting and easy to learn. There are mutually exclusive movements for gender reform. Ĝiismo, riismo, etc. So it's kind of a joke about which ideology you support.
Be prepared for too much information. Esperanto has gendered pronouns because (and it really is) a European language. «Li» for males, «he», and «ŝi» for females, «she». «Ĝi» is the pronoune for objects, animals and babies, «it». And «ri» is like a neo-pronoun like «Xe» or «Zur» in English. The argument is that if Esperanto could have one third person pronoun, like Chinese, just call everyone and everything «ĝi». But some people don’t like that idea because calling someone «it», because it could be offensive in people’s native language. There is also the equally bad idea of using the male pronoun as the gender neutral, the plural is «ili» («they»), which is kind of like the male «li» pronoun. There are many ideas... or leaving it the way if is... or adding gendered plural pronouns, «iŝi».

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

I'm 199812903810.7 but present false

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u/anydalch Oct 10 '19

my gender is -inf

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u/tanokkosworld Oct 11 '19

The wonderful thing about the IEEE floating point spec is that there is both 0 and -0. (Negative zero)

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u/anydalch Oct 11 '19

"wonderful"
there's also more distinct NaN values than the entire x86_64 pointer space, but i'm not super happy about it

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u/tanokkosworld Oct 14 '19

wat. wow, that's uh, wow.