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> I think the culture is still deeply sexist

What's also deeply embedded in many circles is that acknowledging any difference between men and women is "sexist". I've seen people called sexist for acknowledging that using attractive women in advertising leads to increased clickthrough rates. Should we deny the evidence of our own eyes?

You're complaining about people "aping the world around them". Isn't that just called acknowledging reality? I understand and sympathize with the desire to make the world more fair. I think cultural crusaders have gone well past that point, however, and are now asking people to deny real facts. They're applying social pressure to make people make false claims about the world.

Don't these people realize that using the thread of ostracism and unemployment to suppress earnestly-held, non-malicious beliefs rooted in honest observations of the real world is just going to lead to resentment and a massive backlash against not only the overreach, but against any actual bias?

People who call everything "sexist" are bringing about a world where everything will be sexist.
Granted, people should not be distracting class clowns during a conference. The line about the daughter? It's impossible to tell if it was funny without knowing what the speaker had just said.

This entire post appears to be a statement about how female speakers are unfairly treated at tech conferences, but in reality it is the poster saying "look everyone, I'm a hero"
That's just dumb. It would be one thing if they were having a quiet conversation among themselves whispering back and forth and were told to stop. But clearly OP could hear them, they weren't being quiet. And allowing such behavior to go on where people can clearly hear it is the same thing as condoning it. That's besides the fact that if you're going to act like that during a talk, you shouldn't be in the room anyway because you're being a distraction to everybody else.
What? OF COURSE he has a right to interfere, he can say whatever he damn well pleases. Furthermore, all he said was to knock it off; you seem to imply he lectured them or something similar.

He set an example by demonstrating their behavior was not socially acceptable.
> perceived irrational behaviour

If someone is irrational, how should we react? Sympathetic? Fearful? Most things we consider mental illnesses are irrational behaviors.

When used as a propaganda terms, calling a political opponent "mad" or "half mad" is intended to call into question his/her beliefs and statements, and to create fear that his/her actions will be unpredictable (counter to his/her stated objectives, etc.)
... if so, then why do asians appear to dominate them?
Sandi came and did the training this book is based on with our company, and the iOS/Android devs got a lot out of besides the Ruby peoples... it uses Ruby, but it's not about Ruby.
Any chance you have some good links to read on this?
These things keep happening in Denmark but the thing is, very few people actually care here. Avoiding mistakes of this caliber isn't rocket science but it does take a little effort and awareness and as long as nobody cares there is no motivation to make that effort.

In that sense this is just giving people what they're asking for. They're not asking for security so they're not getting it.
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Why feedback should be immediate
Founder of Streak here (we make the InboxSDK). Would love to know which use cases we don't cover but do agree, both libraries were targeted at different layers.

Gmail.js lets you avoid doibng the DOM hacking yourself but is still fairly low level. The InboxSDK was targeted for people who are building apps inside of Gmail. We assume multiple extensions to be running and make sure they play nice, we handle auto updates to handle changes in Gmail and we try to guide developers to using standard Gmail UI styles. We have inbox support coming soon which will let you write your app once and have it work in Gmail and Inbox.
Not sure what your point is since I never claimed react invented hot reloading.
Vi is part of POSIX standard so if your OS is POSIX compliant it should include vi. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
After touching most mainstream languages, I conclude that many of the languages have different syntax and stuff, but the principles are mostly the same. So without having read this book, if it teaches you OOP via ruby, you should be able to apply it in Java as well, but maybe with different syntax but the outcome would be the same
It's not just sleight of hand. Race isn't even a scientifically defined concept, and it can't currently be defined or measured with existing technology. Everyone is a wide mix of many races.
I would agree. I'm not quite sure talks about "being a woman in tech" really solve the problem unfortunately (And I think that was the intent of the article), but clearly there is a problem that has to be fixed. That said, I think the other comments just show how this behavior is allowed, which is really sad. Imagine if the men in your story were making comments about the speaker and their child being black - I doubt the comments here would be as 'kindly' as they're being to these men.

I perfectly understand that it could have been a joke - but if you're going to make a joke like that in a public setting, then you make sure others around you can't hear it. If you're wiling to say something like that loud enough that others can hear you, then it's not really a joke anymore.
BT doesn't own Telecity I suspect that if they did it wouldn't have happened.

And BT pays out around 3% dividend to its owners which is not excessive a lot of BT's detractors have an axe to grind (Sky, Murdoch and Virgin) and want to cherry pick customers and to hell with the USO.
Soledad came to my city (Thessaloniki) for a conference a few months ago, and gave a very interesting talk on the new audio/graphics APIs in browsers. It was a great talk, and, I agree with her, much more interesting than "I'm a woman, here's my experience".

I also dislike the mentality this mindset implies that I, as a man, should be surprised that a woman can code, and should therefore ask her about how she managed that feat, as if it's not pretty much exactly the same as how I started.
The interface is not necessarily the content of the message conveyed by the interface. Lines of text std(in|out) is a well-defined interface. Some programs may go further and specify the format of messages passed on that interface. https://github.com/synacor/dtk is one such system that specifies (for most of its commands) tab-delimited records as the message format. It interfaces well with other elements of the UNIX ecosystem, however, because its interface is simply lines of text on std(in|out).
I'm all about ML, but let's talk about OR
We've banned this account for trolling.

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The "goals" include "how" to make money though. It's defined right in the business model. Every businesses' goal is "technically" to "make money" to "survive".

To what degree and how are the business model and the focus of my points here. Eg: open core vs consulting.
If you abuse HN like this again we will ban not only the throwaway account but your primary account as well.
That is quite the obscure and interesting issue to run into! Who puts colons in their filenames though? I haven't ever seen that used...
Iunno, what's unique to ruby?

I can only think of module mixins. Everything else (blocks, anonymous functions, syntax sugar) can be roughly approximated (i.e. generics), since I strongly doubt the book would use any of the metaprogramming features.
Author here. Any questions are welcome.
>When one of them says loudly enough for me and others to hear, "Your daughter sounds like a real bitch! hur hur", I turned to them and said, "You guys need to knock this off now."

/r/thathappened category

This really sound so fake that I actually created an account to call this out.

>The thing is, I don't think those guys were bad people, I don't think they sat there in their minds thinking, "let's tear the woman down". I really don't think they thought about it at all. I also don't think they'd have sat there, chattering away, if a man had used the same framing story (father and son, father and daughter).

.....
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Q&A with Ron and Topher Conway
I did ask them, and the post contains everything they had to say in response.
Neither of those have revenue close to RedHat.

Futhermore, the irony of RedHat being the exception that proves the rule that there's far less money in open source, is that its revenue is minuscule when compared to closed-source tech giants.
Yeah, I agree with you. I attended a similar talk by a woman framing the talk about the time when her mom died, and, guess what. Nobody said that her mom or sister sounded like a bitch. Does that mean sexism doesn't exist? It probably just means that there were no assholes in the audience, like the GP's comment just means that there were a few assholes there.
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> "their large, forward-facing eyes"

Appearance.

> "the way they pounce on and bat at things"

Style.

> "their little fangs"

IMO, fangs aren't exactly a cute feature. Cats aren't cute all the time. This isn't a cute image of a cat IMO, for example...

http://baddogneedsrottenhome.com/images/emails/55c8ce1c28a9b...

> "They are also fairly intelligent. Intelligence can be cute, and the cuteness of intelligence is enduring. Rabbits are cute to look at, but make for boring pets; cats and dogs can fascinate and charm us for years and quickly become considered friends and the near-equals of humans. And don't tell me that a cat who's figured out how to operate doorknobs or lightswitches isn't adorable."

Again, style.

It's possible to see a cat's playfulness and intelligence as separate from its roots as a predator. I don't think we actively have 'killer' in mind when we see a cat look cute or do something cute.
Why wouldn't you put colons in filenames? Unless of course you use Windows. Colons, spaces, backslashes, whatever.
Enjoyed 'but also pigeonholes you into “talking about being a woman in tech”, instead of “woman who knows her tech”.'

Subtle difference, I believe that's the purpose of this up and coming podcast show that I've been following [1]. Women having a space to talk about tech instead of talking about how's it like to be a women in tech.

[1] https://thewomenintechshow.com
If you are a member of a disadvantaged group, you often do not have the ability to identify as a professional first and a group member second. That is the effect of being disadvantaged. Other people will make your life seem primarily about being a group member. Think about dealing with sexist/sexually-charged comments, racial tension at the office. Even if you want to just be a professional, other people will get in your way (and not always intentionally). Maybe imagine what life would be like for one of those people.
What does youth have to do with anything?
> Do you think all companies that can't scale massively such as consultancies are lifestyle businesses?

This is the term I've always heard for it. It's not insulting. Deloitte or KPMG aren't really... scale. They're huge, but that's not the same as scale. In 2015 Facebook made around the same amount of revenue as them, with like 5% of the employees. And they still have a ton of room to double their userbase, expand into new markets.... What would it take for one of those firms to double their revenue? If they had twice as many customers, could they handle it overnight?
or they had a real desktop client.
Just a note, _iostreamer_, you can use `command.parse` in Vorpal to pre-append parens to every command before it's evaluated (your project is written in Vorpal).

BTW, love this idea.

- the Vorpal guy
I think it depends on the state of knowledge. The tech industry is well aware of the gender/ethnicity distribution. And quite frankly, at least companies, community groups, and profound leaders have progressively been doing something about it for the last number of years. It just takes time to make progress. Look at other industries which have poor representation of men or ethnicities and see how many inroads they've made in say, the last five years compared to tech.
Great article. Thanks for sharing it after you found it!
"The danger, then, is that not only could Mr. Thiel’s public embrace of Mr. Trump backfire on him, but it could also become another plot point in the larger story line that Silicon Valley is exclusionary and narrow-minded and that its innovations are advancing global inequality."

silicon valley "squirming" over one of their own supporting trump is PROOF of its "narrow-minded"ness.
Criticizing a woman, even calling her a bitch, is not misogyny. Misogyny is hating women because they are women. What OP described is just heckling.

And what OP did is white knighting, i.e. a man defending a woman, because she's a woman, in order to appear virtuous. Like posting about it on HackerNews.
> As the success of Pokémon Go, an augmented-reality game, shows (see article), there can be big profits in the avant-garde areas where nerds like to experiment

The article doesn't point to the correct page but to a story about Theranos, strange.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21702208-theranoss-fo...
I can't see how that's a problem. I don't know of a single language that is easier to understand at a glance than ruby.

Unless you're doing configuration, Ruby syntax is as simple as it gets.
Unclear -- is this a physical book, an ebook, or both?
> allowing such behavior to go on where people can clearly hear it is the same thing as condoning it

Toleration is what allows people who have different views to work together toward common goals. You can't have civilization without it, because no two people will agree on everything. If these people were really as boorish as the OP described, the best approach would have been to let them embarrass themselves.

What's next, hushing someone who dares admit he voted for a Republican? (I can imagine the rationale now: "you're enabling war and bigotry by proxy! Public GOPism is unacceptable!")
> This really sound so fake that I actually created an account to call this out

Do you remember Adria Richards.
Except they do, because they signal wealth, power, and authority - at least in European/European-descended countries.
The Maildir format uses colons in filenames, which has created problems with running certain email software on Windows.
did you try phoning/mailing support ?
“Why did you shoot me? The new warrior cop is out of control (2013)
One objection I can think of is that Ruby is dynamically typed. Something that is elegant in Ruby might be a horror in Java.
> reverse racist

Racism implies an overarching ideology. A true racist would say something like, "White employees are better than black employees."

Y Combinator has never suggested that minorities are categorically better employees. Preferring to hire from minority groups has many benefits unrelated to race: increased diversity boosts profits[1], for starters. There's a huge difference between racism (trying to keep minorities out of your office) than what you're calling "reverse racism" (trying to have a diverse office).

1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091252.h...
I do: "find ~ -iname ":" | wc -l" yields 49 entries. Some of those are Xorg-related (which identifies displays with a syntax like ":0.0", which ends up in some log file names) or gvfs stuff. But most are PDFs, usually research papers which I tend to save as "title: subtitle - authors.pdf".
Because I am fine writing, but feel completely awkward displaying myself in public! (I'm speaking for myself here).
I'm pretty certain that Microsoft already (mostly) made this backward-incompatible move several years ago, when they shut down the last of their (old Skype protocol)<->(MSNP24) gateways in 2014, so any Skype clients that predate the MSNP24 support being added to Skype no longer work.

The thing they're doing now is probably either breaking Skypeweb backward compat or a rev on MSNP, depending on which mechanism the embedded clients use. Quickly reading the actual blog post that the Ars article is about [1] (which I couldn't find an obvious link to in the article) makes me think it's probably Skypeweb they're breaking.

[1] - http://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/20/skype-the-journey-weve-bee...
I'm using it to develop www.trebel.la, which will hopefully be out on the App Store this fall. But it also has a pretty unconventional (game-like) UI. IMO, if I wanted to build something that was well served by standard Android or iOS widgets, I would just write native apps. Kivy will never look or feel just like a native app, but since it has evolved from a game engine, it's a great choice for apps like mine that are part game, part standard UI.
It is interesting to contrast this discussion today with the discussion Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" spurred 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304310
Many young-ish people live in 1 bedroom apartments they own, while planning to sell it eventually for a multiple room place they can raise a family in. If there is a permanent downturn, it screws them.
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It sounds like you just don't like that approach. You didn't mention anything about how it's ineffective - or how Firefox's approach is more effective - at curbing the use of Flash.
I recently discovered I'm allergic to weed. No nail biting prepared me for this.
Laphman has reminisced in a few of his essays about growing up in his august family in San Francisco - wonderful memories, windows into bygone eras. The pleasure of reading his essays, as for the magazine itself, lies in the prose itself even more than the ideas.

Someday I'll buy all the back issues.
Easterly is an economist at NYU (who published one of the earliest papers on the subject), I'm not sure about the others. However the discussion is a good representation of some of the debate that's gone on regarding interpreting correlations between regular-ness of borders and GDP (i.e. is it that having artificial borders was disruptive, or was it that borders were drawn artificially in areas that had fundamental characteristics which have caused them to have lower GDP today).
I was hoping that Shumway, Mozilla's effort to render swf files using JS (like what PDF.js is to Adobe Reader), would be released at some point. It looks like the project has been added to the Firefox Graveyard [1]. I don't have Adobe Reader installed on my Mac any more, and don't really miss it.

While Chrome's proposal to white-list the top-10 domains is a good start at curbing the loading of Flash on my laptop, I prefer the approach being considered by Safari to report that Flash (and other legacy plugins) is not available on the platform even if it is installed. [2]

Safari's approach will ensure that most users see HTML5 content and won't really miss Flash. Folks who use sites like Twitch that insist on Flash will know how to force Safari to load the content they want to view.

Unfortunately, Safari's user share outside of Mobile is very low. We need Chrome, Firefox and IE to adopt a similar approach (or agree on an approach for all vendors) if we are to really rid ourselves of Flash.

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...

2. https://webkit.org/blog/6589/next-steps-for-legacy-plug-ins/

Edit: Moved links to the end of the post.
Presumably it's faster, but I haven't seen a comparison so I can't say.

In interactive contexts, it probably helps to keep the application in a single state while reloading, but I don't believe that applies here.
> I also don't think they'd have sat there, chattering away, if a man had used the same framing story (father and son, father and daughter).

What would you have said if they had?
Ebook, provided as an epub download immediately after paying for it. (no pdf or mobi/Kindle files)
Scrivener for iOS review: A sophisticated writing and research app for on-the-go
Some people want the EU to basically harmonize markets but there are a lot that want it to do more than that. One of the main arguments in Brexit was the extent to which the EU could control non market stuff like immigration and human rights law and Turkey only dropped the death penalty to fit in with EU standards.
Twitch has their HTML5 player in beta right now:

https://blog.twitch.tv/html5-player-turbo-beta-starts-today-...
Safer smart contracts through type-driven development in idris [pdf]
> I don't think those guys were bad people, I don't think they sat there in their minds thinking, "let's tear the woman down". I really don't think they thought about it at all

Yes, they are bad people, and the fact that they didn't have to think about going out of there way to tear someone down is part of why they are bad people.

They didn't have to think about "let's tear the woman down" because they were already at the position 'she didn't belong there.' And yes, there would most likely be something similar with a man and his daughter, it just would simply be along the lines 'she's never going to get married if you teach her to act like a boy.'

> I think there's a lot of unconscious, unconsidered, unthoughtful bias that they (and we) all carry around by default,

Yes there is, and it makes you a bad person. You should be derided for it every time it shows itself.
Yes, I read the docs on the project.

How hard is it to hit cmd-R? Or install a browser extension that reloads every n seconds? Do we really need to add complexity for this?

If it works for you, go for it! Call me lazy, but unless I can see a substantial, measurable increase to either the user or my experience without tradeoffs, I am not going to invest the time.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who believe government shouldn't do anything unless it is fraud-proof. The narratives around welfare and food stamp abuse make headlines for exactly this reason :(.
The entire post appears to be about female speakers being unfairly treated is because because it's a story about a female speaker who was being unfairly treated.

The "look everyone" jab is completely unwarranted.
How dare you police his speech by telling him he shouldn't have said anything.
Mmmm, I've been through the process and gotten an offer, and it wasn't that far off what the industry standard is (and honestly beats regular DC rates). They're really solid overall.

Granted everyone's got their own experiences, so YMMV I guess. Just curious where your data comes from?
The colon should be reserved in Unix to separate path names a la PATH.
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Useful if only for timestamps. 2016-07-20T16:27:00Z!
> Programmers and software engineers are in very high demand these days — we need a lot more of them, and we want them now. A Computer Science degree takes 3-4 years in most schools, which is way too long and costs too much.

We need more construction workers, but civil engineering degree takes too long
and costs too much. Do you see the stupidity of this sentence?

Once upon a time there was this concept of vocational schools. It was later
replaced with colleges and universities, which by their very nature are far
from industrial setting and thus can't teach what's necessary in the industry.
That's not institutional power. It takes advantage of public opinion, rather than institutions like the government or powerful corporations.

The accusation could be just as harmful coming from an individual, in most cases. It depends on the type of accusation, though.
It isn't, though.