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Also in Italy, everyone. It is just the standard way to present yourself and/or say goodbye. I would also say I am more prone to do it with those people I don't know at all or very well than with my close friends.
Nice typo about Shirley's elder son wanking in on her... I hope?
You are completely right, those are very good ideas... except if you want to make some money with your coding efforts.

The sad thing is, these days you only seem to be able to make money by holding your customers hostage in your online systems (cloud) or ecosystems. I miss the days where developers could make money selling just software.
>girls

You should start by referring to female workers in SV as women.
> It seems to me like the victim wasn't making it clear that she was uncomfortable

The default position should be to assume that everybody is uncomfortable with everything unless otherwise stated.

It's like a good firewall policy - default block all and then explicitly allow.
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except that there are responses from Atlassian (Not necessarily very helpful ones, but not none)
I would pay an arm and a leg to be able to use Linux (specifically Ubuntu) as my day to day OS. I miss the tools, ecosystem, flexibility and most importantly the shell. I have been toying with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for the past few months. Managed to get it up and running after an intensive weekend.

Few days later I forgot to wake up the laptop from sleep before disconnecting the external monitor.

All hell literally broke loose...
I meant if someone show interest not all the time, men can be dumb and are unable to detect subtle hints.
Do you have a reference for this problem? I would love to hear more. Is it thought to be a hardware bug, like this recent snafu with arithmetic (but for which power tuning was not mentioned as contributing) http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-cau... ?
Thanks. Is that a special privilege or something?
They spotted one of them driving nearby in his own car.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35267787 about half-way down.
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Is there an MSWindows equivalent?

(You can write your own window manager for the platform, and the existing one is highly extensible, but I've not seen this happen much apart from the occasional handy shell extension)
It is an improvements to the usual naming convention "Microsoft Business Share Centre Enterprise Edition 2016 R2” though! I prefer the single naming concept even if the name isn't stellar.
I think this is one of the most useful things a male team member can do to create a positive atmosphere and fight back against this nonsense.

Speak up! Diffuse situations in the moment when you can, provide private feedback when needed, make corporate complaints when necessary.
You should spend less time condemning other people and more time reading what they wrote.

It's great that your mother felt confident standing up to abuse. Not everyone does — and someone early in their career, knowing that their entire life trajectory can be affected by their boss's reviews and networking, is going to feel different than, say, an established figure in the field or a worker at a union shop who can expect their support. The author of this article appears to have gone to Google directly from college and it's only reasonable to worry about jeopardizing your first big job by leaving quickly.

The other thing to pay attention to is the nature of the abuse. It's easy to reject some guy who makes a crude leer in front of witnesses. Her former boss was apparently more subtle than that since he managed to get at least one female coworker to take his side excusing his behavior.

That's not an accident - the men who do this kind of thing usually aren't the crude street-harassers of stereotype and are smart enough to pick women who are more likely to be vulnerable while leaving as little clear evidence as possible.
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> The 60% number refers to "unwanted sexual advances", not sexual harassment.

Right, this is why I stopped reading the article after the first sentence and flagged it. One-off unwanted sexual advances are not only not sexual harassment, they're specifically exempted by law from being so.
Found a typo if it hasn't already been pointed out - "Prioritze" is missing an "i" in "..tize". This is under the heading "Track Your Team's Performance. Get Results."

BTW - Excellent job. I've built something quite similar for the company I work for to keep track of tasks and work load internally.
This is why corporations won't exist in their current form by the end of the century. I firmly believe that working solo prevents every problem the workplace could possibly present. As a LGBT male I feel that even though all these companies try to prance around with rainbow flags and make racial and gender based hiring quotas - it just furthers segregation. By abandoning the fuckers in HR and fighting for your own place in this world, you get places. If anyone were to question my sexual preferences or harass me in a coffee shop, I'd clock that bastard across the face, drag him to the pavement and stomp his sorry ass. Try that at work in your sissy ass silicon valley office.
My mother was anything but "weak and powerless". Sure, standing up for yourself isn't "ladylike", and not everyone is willing or able to do it, but the current assumptions are "she is weak and powerless" and "he is a big strong bully". That dynamic is easily changed, but you have to be willing to stand up for yourself.
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Yes, life must be so hard without being able to date people from work.
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Again there's a specific issue about power imbalances. A colleague says some things you don't like it is quite easy to ask them to refrain. With a manager that may not be the case, especially if you're new to the world of work.

Managing people is a responsibility and you can't act like people you have power over are just your colleagues. Perhaps in time if you build up a close working relationship with people you can be friends who do or say things that are more risky - because you've established boundaries.

It's also worth saying that if a colleague is being inappropriate the first stop doesn't have to be HR, it can be a manager - they are there to ensure teams work well. A good manager should even pre-empt the complaint if they observe the inappropriate behaviour. That's what makes it so bad when the manager is the one at fault.
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Why not just write an email client that has sugar for connecting to gmail? A lot of the gmail UI, to me, feels clunky. I switched my email client out to RainLoop as it has all of these features and it also allows me to connect to multiple inboxes at the same time, as well as different types of email servers.
Yes.

First of all, they'll probably just tell you how many shares you get. So, you don't even know what percentage of the total you have! But even if they did tell you, they won't show you the cap table, so there's no way to even evaluate the worth, since you can't see how much the investors are going to be paid out first. And even if you did know that, the board can just print more shares and make yours irrelevant anyways, so you still can't tell what they're worth.

So, assume they're worthless.
I can see your point and to be honest I kind of agree with you. In unpolluted democracies that's how it should happen. I don't want to sound too negative but, unfortunately, as governments are funded by big corporations, this is what happens nowadays:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/17/news/economy/oxfam-wealth

and even with regulations in place. Companies want to grow more and more every year, even despite sometimes the market being saturated. How it that only possible? Cutting costs - Congo is what makes this possible. Congo and our will for buying such products. My point is that only people can change this, by not buying. If we don't buy, only then companies will change - You need to talk their language - You need to get to their pocket - money.

With this I don't mean that the market doesn't need regulations, pretty much the opposite. I'm just saying that most of the times regulation only is not enough.
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> You should spend less time condemning other people and more time reading what they wrote.

You could spend less time assuming I didn't read everything. The attitude of "saying she should stand up for herself, at least once, before going to HR" is hardly "condemning".
The article mentions two good working examples that do everything you mentioned and more:

https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot
https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit
> The new IoT provides valuable data about its users, their habits, daily routines and preferences.

Herein lies the problem. IoT should not provide that data to the third parties.

Also this:

> We have become more comfortable with sharing personal data, e.g. when it comes to incorporating wearables or fitness trackers into our daily routine.

That those are the only reasonable examples one could come with only shows that the "sexy" IoT is just a bunch of bullshit, overpriced toys that are only meant to monetize people's data even more. This trend should be nipped in the bud.

RE "unsexy" IoT, the article says:

> It is now almost completely based on open protocols, rather than the proprietary ones of the past that were used to tie customers to a specific vendor.

I didn't know that. Somehow I was led to believe all those protocols are closed and licensed, requiring you to join some "consortium" or "alliance", paying a $shitton entry/licensing fee. I'll look into it. If there are established open, working standards out there, then it's what I want to use in my DIY IoT / home automation solutions.

EDIT:

> (...) into your app.

That's another problem. Our obsession with apps. This is something that really needs to be culled too. One of the biggest factor that makes the "sexy IoT" barely usable is that every device has its own app. Which means, every company gets to develop a shit UI (each crappy in different way), and the time it takes to switch between apps is several seconds. This should all be standardized - I should have just one app for all my IoT, and it definitely must not be made by one of the vendors (for the same reason nobody uses software provided by e.g. printer vendors).
If you've privileged to have adequate savings and good prospects, sure. For a lower-middle-class graduate on their first job it isn't always that simple.
> To prevent this, Bitcoin uses a proof of work function: each participant in the network gets a share of the voting power corresponding to the effort he or she spends on calculating sha256 hashes, not to the number of identities one represents.

Which leads to the problem that whoever can spend the most money on computing power gets the most votes.
Honestly, I wouldn't even respond. I would imagine any response you give is going to be twisted as your original ones have been. You've tried to be reasonable, and you don't owe her anything - don't engage her any further.
This isn't about your mother. Your mother managed to push the problem onto someone else, which is nice for her. There will always be people who, for whatever reason, don't.

Is your attitude that it's acceptable for these people, who do not push the problem onto someone else, to be sexually assaulted? If it's not acceptable, why is it incorrect for the victim to seek help? If I were burgled, I would seek help. If I were mugged, I would seek help. Why is it incorrect for me to seek help if I am sexually assaulted by a manager?

Furthermore, given that my employer has a duty to ensure a safe workplace, why should I not upbraid my employer for failing in that duty, or advise them of the problem so that they can correct it? If I saw a dangerously loose carpet, I would tell them. If I noticed some buzzing wiring, I would tell them. Why should I not tell them that one of their employees is sexually harassing people?
but I'd guess Eastern-ish Europe would be worse

You don't have to go to Eastern-ish Europe for that. I've spent some time in offices around London over the last couple of years and I've found that it's much more likely to witness sexually-charged conversation in the IT workplace than here in the US.
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Sure. And why would I trust anyone who says I'm a good guy, trust me, without any confirmation?
No it doesn't, they use basically the same definition as the U.S. Read the link...
Given you spent a large chunk of your waking life at work it's a breeding ground for attractions to be formed same as school, uni etc.
I live in France, and it is natural to kiss on the cheek.
Recently I was in UK and without even thinking about it I kissed a girl on the cheek to welcome her. After it happened I just realized what was going on. The thing is that it takes some time to reframe your behavior. But I have also been away several months and then it was feeling weird for me to kiss a girl on the cheek.
Office environments today are like minefields. A man never knows when his next step, word, or simple action will be misconstrued as harassment.

Hold a door? Thats harassment.

Wink ;-) in an email or IM? Thats harassment.

Tell an off-color joke? Thats harassment.

Complement female coworkers outfit? Thats harassment.

Stand too close in an elevator or inline at the canteen? Thats harassment.

Getting caught looking looking at a female coworkers boobs? Thats harassment.

The problem is that at the end of the day it is all up to how that female employee "feels." If she is especially sensitive, then everyone around her has to walk on eggshells.

Why can't anyone have a sense of humor about any of this?

I think I'm going to watch 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton tonight, just to remember a time when people had a sense of humor about dealing with toxic office culture.
> The bottleneck for success often is not knowledge of the tools, but lack of understanding of the customer needs.

THIS! +1000! I would even leave out "often", or at least replace it with "usually".
Read my paragraph one? "The big difference is these women had no power over my career."
I'm very happy to see riemann featured here. I've been using it in production since early 2012 and contributed to it (intensively, at one point) as well.

It's been a breeze, rather worry free and its very good collectd support has enabled us to cover very interesting use cases at Exoscale.
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Yea, typo.
Perhaps. She did not live long enough to experience the "culture of victimhood" herself, so I can't say what she would have done. I do know she wasn't fond of the idea in the 70s and 80s, and regularly eschewed the notion that she was any different from any of the men with whom she worked. But the fact that she was a "quiet" feminist, that did things, rather than talking about doing things, leads me to believe you may be correct. She was not a whinger.
You actually believe that all sexual advances are sexual harassment, unless the person says yes?
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I have to say picking up one of Apple's newer computers and flipping it over to see Designed in California - Made in USA made me smile.

Not that anything is wrong with products made elsewhere, far from it - just there's something to be said for investing in manufacturing at home.
This is fun to see. I work in this space currently.

Seems to be a potential solution for small academic/independent labs w/o a budget for what you have labeled a "mainframe" system.

However, you can purchase an old simple tecan/hamilton/beckman for under $2K that has more flexibility then this machine (e.g. ebay "beckman 2000" or "Tecan Genesis 200").

The open source software certainly provides good flexibility for the "hacker" types. But a script step on those other platforms provides the same abilities.

Just giving my thoughts. Curious to hear more.
In New Zealand, isn't there also a huge insect called the Weta? I've never been to your beautiful homeland, but I've heard tales. I wonder what exactly differentiates these "tree lobsters" from Weta.
I don't think the idea that corporations aren't going to exist by the end of the century has any basis in reality. What evidence do you have to suggest that?

And if you could explain it without needlessly hostile phrases like "fuckers in HR" or "sissy ass," that's probably for the best.
If you think her actual claims are not harassment, then argue that.
Thanks for the reply and very informative link, I hadn't considered that the Edwin corporation marketing department might just be full of crap!
Personally, I like hearing and sharing with my coworkers about our lives outside of work... to a point. If my partner on-site is having a hard time at home due to issue X, that directly impacts my interpersonal relationship with him/her: were they to blow up at me in a moment of tension, I'd be more comfortable giving them a pass knowing where it might be coming from.

That said, I think it's the "to a point" that's the difficulty here. Because that point is a socially-negotiated line and may be different between different coworkers, in different work contexts or surroundings, or just on different days. And... pardon to say... but "we" (as computer science professionals) aren't renowned for our attention to social cues and ability to navigate and be informed by same.

In short, I feel like sexual harassment training might better be spent training on soft skills / communicating and reading ones coworkers better.

PS: This absolutely applies equally to both parties in the original blog post. With the additional responsibility that the manager, as an individual in a position of authority, has a higher standard to uphold than the employee. Either they misread or ignored signals that these topics made the employee in question uncomfortable, or such signals weren't clearly given. In either case, communication breakdown.

PPS: Simultaneously, I know I produce my best work when I feel like my team (including management above me) knows and communicates with me as more than a cog -- and yes, sometimes this includes crass language / semi-appropriate jokes or stories. In a lot of ways, it's a verbal trust-fall exercise. If I'm uncomfortable with anything, I try to clearly communicate that back to whoever is sharing.
This is not a trivial thing. Why should I trust you with my company's secrets?

How do you manage key storage securely? Can people at your company see my secrets? If somebody comes with a court order will you give them my secrets and not tell me? What encryption algorithms do you use? What experience do you have in reducing attack surfaces from internal and external threats? Is any of your software open source? Has your software been audited? Is it PCI (or any other standard) compliant?
Facebook (in addition to Google, as mentioned above) has already required all 3rd party ads to be served over https both on their core site and on all apps on their desktop platform.
One of the suggestions on the blog comment is good, explain the issue in term of car and parts, people usually get that.
I agree with what you say about Iran but I think the US should still engage in order to make inroads with moderates there. International pressure has worked in Iran and a large country like that does feel the pressure. 3 million protestors in 2009 is a big deal. They now have more more moderate presidents and foreign ministers. I think the US should support Israel and also be as neutral as possible in the Shia-Sunni conflict which is coming more to the forefront. The US will be active in that part of the world because of supporting Israel, but we have to be smarter. There have been too many mistakes. Recently I think meddling in the Syrian conflict was also a mistake which can rightly be seen as pro-Sunni.
If you desire to respond, I would relate the topic to her field. She claims to be a photographer. Surely she has a vague idea of copyright law. I would explain that you had developed a piece of Intellectual Property and licensed said property in a specific form -akin to taking a photograph. The person who takes a photograph owns the copyright. It just so happens that Spotify and Instagram, "enjoy your work" and have decided to make use of your work under the license you have given.
Agree. There's a clear escalation path for this kind of thing. First time something weird happens, ignore it as a possible misunderstanding / off day. Second time, make a clear verbal rejection. Third time forward, you're dealing with a pattern of clearly unwanted behavior so everything gets documented in writing and reported to HR. If HR doesn't address the situation in a week or so, bring in the lawyers.
In France it can even include the men kissing the men and nobody thinks anything of it. Cultures really differ a lot in this respect.
Come on, that is bullshit. Simply, don't go out of your way to be an asshole. Genuine compliments are fine. Leering is wrong. Sexually suggestive comments or winks in emails are wrong. Don't treat anyone as a lesser form of life. This is so fucking simple and it makes for a better work environment for all.
>extras usually in the form of various culture and activities

Note that the average local more or less intentionally can't afford the time or money to visit the tourist traps. If you are not rich and want to visit the museums and galleries of Chicago, or attend a Bears game at the stadium, or a music concert, you can't live in Chicago because then you'd be too poor, you have to live elsewhere and visit.

What dense, expensive, low standard of living areas provide, is extremely dense employment. No matter how unique your job is, there's dozens to thousands of positions within walking distance of your current employer. In the more rural areas you'll see a lot more sinecure behavior, retired in place, people who've worked the same place for 20 years, nobody (such as yourself) gets promoted because the company doesn't grow and nobody quits, etc. Long term relationships are comfortable and lower stress on average, yet also less exciting and less adventurous, just like with love life.

There are also minor behavior constraints. If there's 50 companies all doing the same thing in a big city, then stack ranking basically wastes a lot of HR money pointlessly shuffling people every year, but at least its possible, whereas in a rural area especially if its a company town, stack ranking would rapidly destroy the company because the applicant pool is too small to sustain bad behavior. As a gross generalization people tend to spend far less time commuting in rural areas than urban, but the rural commute has more (high speed) miles so it is more expensive, in the city a twice a day rush hour commute might waste more than two hours of precious life per day, but at least its short therefore cheap, whereas in the country it'll be a comparatively lightning fast 30 minutes each way, but at 80 MPH and 50 cents per mile, that'll be an expensive 40 mile daily commute. City people are amazed how much rural people spend on their commute, rural people are amazed how much time city people spend on their commute.
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