"Political" would tend to mean something that people take a fixed view on, and where they're unlikely to change their opinion even if you present nice data to support your view.
"$PARTY has problems with massive IT project" isn't necessarily political.
"Dumb $PARTYians screw up yet another simple project!!1!" probably is.
It's probably best to avoid, even if there is a tech link:-
Israel / Palestine
Circumcision (ie, even if the story is "new laser robot performs safe circumcision" it's probably best to avoid it.)
Abortion
Political processes as they're happening (ie, if the primaries are in progress, don't talk about them)
Anything more about Snowden or NSA or spying. You should have assumed your email was open to all, that's been common advice since email was invented, and we've been warning you about Echelon and similar since the 90's.
Global warming unless you can ignore the trolls
Sexism unless you can ignore the hateful trolls
etc etc etc.
I would seriously prefer to read tabs vs spaces or vi vs emacs than a lot of the stuff on the front page.
"Political" would tend to mean something that people take a fixed view on, and where they're unlikely to change their opinion even if you present nice data to support your view.
"$PARTY has problems with massive IT project" isn't necessarily political.
"Dumb $PARTYians screw up yet another simple project!!1!" probably is.
It's probably best to avoid, even if there is a tech link:-
Israel / Palestine
Circumcision (ie, even if the story is "new laser robot performs safe circumcision" it's probably best to avoid it.)
Abortion
Political processes as they're happening (ie, if the primaries are in progress, don't talk about them)
Anything more about Snowden or NSA or spying. You should have assumed your email was open to all, that's been common advice since email was invented, and we've been warning you about Echelon and similar since the 90's.
Global warming unless you can ignore the trolls
Sexism unless you can ignore the hateful trolls
etc etc etc.
I would seriously prefer to read tabs vs spaces or vi vs emacs than a lot of the stuff on the front page.