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I honestly don't understand how someone can be sexist. I have never thought lesser of the people I've worked with because of gender. I don't know if this is too personal but would you mind talking with me to explain what it's like. ive worked work many females in the past with no issues besides personalities. I just want to really understand and empathize.

feel free to reach out at jbhatab@gmail.com if youd be so kind
To my mind the JVM is where containers make the least sense. If you build an executable jar you can run with "java -jar ..." then that seems just as simple as "docker run ..." and gets you the single-file deployment, and you can control memory allocation via flags if you need to. You don't get virtual networking but IME that doesn't add value in the first place.
The reason for the title, as explained in the article, is because it's surprising. In other words, you wouldn't think that the culture of SV would often be difficult for women based on the way these companies market themselves.

It's the same reason why after every election there are dozens of articles about white progressives being at odds with the black community, as opposed to just having a general article on race relations in America or whatever.
I'm above the average looking guy. When I added my picture to LinkedIn the amount of spam increased substantially.

People are really biased creatures. Usually the intent is not malicious, but rather caused by tribalism, evolution, empathy, mirror neurons etc.

One example is ageism, which is actually a systematic bias. For examplem to be a president you have be 35 or older. Let's imagine we created a perfect candidate in a lab which is 29. She's creme de la creme. And we have abolished this law.

No dice. She would not win.
I love that we both started our comments with "jq is great". I hadn't seen yours either=)
Getting employment opportunities through professors (outside of research) doesn't really apply where I am from.
Dr. Drang explained it best a year or two ago. Basically if we stuck with sun time, then sunrise in Chicago (and other places with similar latitude) would be 4:30 AM in the summer which would be kind of a waste unless everyone just woke up an hour earlier anyway. If we didn't change back for winter, then the sun would set before most people got off work during winter which would be very hard as office workers need some sunlight during the day.
And if your user base is hit by a nuclear bomb?
I always found "Become yourself" more useful
But what does it have to do with gender? Yes SV is highly competitive but are we in a place where it's common for men to put down women just because of that?? It seems extrem to me.
Of course it's not. It doesn't allow you compare to other industries at all. The question you answered was:

>Do we have any comparative data that suggests that SV is any more sexist than most industries?

You provide no comparative data. Comparison to other industries is necessary to identify the scale and causes of the problem, which are necessary in order to fix the problem.
Would you not volunteer help to them if they said those things and are now suffering from cancer?

Yes of course families help each other no matter the previous bad choices.

On a societal level we try to help people with cancer even if they don't have health insurance. That's what Medicaid is. Unfortunately that only helps save them from death; destitution probably feels almost as bad and we don't have an easy solution to that.
The 'education level' field is the only data to compare whether the employees are equally qualified. There are many variables not accounted for other than gender that could affect salary. So, no, that simple chart is barely sufficient to demonstrate anything at all, certainly not systemic sexism.
From a person who makes a living selling software I like GPL v3 where I dislike GPL v2. This mostly resolves around that I can offer a proprietary license to the clients for the software in situations they dis-like GPL v3 but it also keeps everyone source code open for modifications.
I've seen that interview. I lean to the side of "nothing to hide, not bothered". I've never taken pictures of my penis; I assume that it's not really that common. If it is common I'd expect it not to be common for people over maybe 25? Or only common for people who want others to see unsolicited pictures of their genitals.

I mean if you did make "dick pics" and were bothered about people seeing them then you likely did it wrong and your ISP had access and your phone provider had access and your backup service provider had access. At that point, why would you - short of guilt - be bothered that the government might have potential access in a situation where you were accused of a crime. If you're on the "nothing to hide" side of things, how does that push you to any other position.

In short, it's pithy, and Oliver probably made good talk-show level comments but I don't see it as really being a persuasive way to couch the argument for greater privacy.
Very clever way to make sure the programming language never gains any significant traction. ;)
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I'm currently living at the bay, but planning to move out as now I have a family and would prefer spend more time on family. I like the bay for such vast amount of opportunities, but family is always my top priority for me.

I would like to know if I move somewhere said .... Asia, China, Canada, whether I can still find a HQ at the bay (I would want to visit once a year) while working remotely. And companies that really embrace remote culture (the whole team can be remote).
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I think they fully realize that the fan base is starving for that content, but they have no real reason to dilute their IPs with games on mobile. They have a giant war chest, and 2 portable consoles out right now. Mario Run was an interesting, polished foray into mobile, but I'm also getting it's as far as full content from them will go on mobile.

The form factor isn't ideal for their games the gameplay model (short bite sized bursts) isn't ideal, even the pricing isn't ideal (look at the outcry over paying for Mario Run, I've heard people dismiss Mario Run immediately over the fact it wasn't 99 cents).
Huh? I didn't say anything about causation.
This is true, if you animate CSS properties that trigger reflows you can seriously harm battery usage.

I try to stick to only animating the transform property, which should perform better than a raster format, since it doesn't require any new data per frame
I think most of it can be explained by this:

> The percentage of female computer- and information-science majors peaked in 1984, at about 37 percent. It has declined, more or less steadily, ever since. Today it stands at 18 percent.

In an environment that's over 80% male, not to mention largely young and/or single, women will have a rough time. I don't think SV is necessarily any worse than any other similar environment (e.g. infantry, oilfield work), but that's not high praise.
Yes. Truly, nothing improves a society like the constant exercise of interpersonal brutality.
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Good story. Well played! (Note: it's "cede control", not "secede control".)
> the bluetooth connection was super unreliable.

Human bodies make great faraday cages.

> analytics lib that tracks feature usage seems like such a standard part of developing a mobile app

Right, and we talked about this in a follow-up TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxRSjC1rPmA Just because analytics are a standard practice doesn't mean they should be a standard practice for any particular product.

Developers for more personal/intimate devices need to recognise the impact their data collection may have; that different people have different "Device Intimacy Spectrums" (e.g. people who live in places where adult toys are illegal will be more concerned about what is collected); and, gain informed consent for any data they collect.
Hard to find any. It's a primitive format ignoring 20 years of video compression research. It tries to be replacement for GIF by repeating its mistakes: it has very basic inter-frame compression, lacks motion vectors, doesn't guarantee keyframes, RGB-only, and frame decoding isn't parallelizable.

In 8-bit mode it supports even fewer colors than GIF (GIF can combine frames to achieve thousands of colors), and in 24-bit mode it's larger than GIF.

For full-motion video it requires 10x-15x more data than VP9 to be decompressed by the CPU, and there's no hardware acceleration.

https://kornel.ski/efficient-gifs

There's false dichotomy between "animations" and "videos", mostly due to historical reasons and that older codecs (and AWebP) used 4:2:0 subsampling which made them blurry. VP9 supports alpha, 4:4:4 mode, and it's cheaper to decode (it's more complex, but using 10x less data offsets that), so it'd be best to forget that GIF and APNG ever existed.
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It should be interesting, but LLVM jit brings in a substantial up front cost. Maybe Andres found a way to mitigate it.
They did something amazing that at least I had never heard of in the game industry. In one of their making-of videos released today they said that every so often everybody would take a week break(at the same time) to play the game. This served as a check-in of sorts to see what everyone else was working on and to get company-wide exposure and feedback on each other's work.

It shows. I played the entire game through use sleep mode on the switch between sessions. Not a single game breaking or fun breaking bug. The consistency throughout is phenomenal... Well, the people work on Death Mountain killed it; looks better than the other areas IMHO.
Because Silicon Valley can't even agree there is a problem.

Just look at this thread of all the people whining for more data on this supposed "problem". Some of the folks won't be happy until there are secret Amazon Echo's tabulating all the shitty comments and passive aggression in every office or emails being scanned and categorized for domineering and condescension.

and even then you'll get a bunch of "correlation doesn't equal causation, dummy!"
All business is about borrowing stuff from the future -- getting as much gain as possible now and deferring the costs as far as possible into the future, when someone else needs to pay back the debt, or when it can be defaulted on. Business managers don't let tech workers spend time refactoring because it violates this basic business principle. They will make up some other positive-sounding label, e.g. Agile Development, and bandy that around instead. When the system's technical debt is called in, those managers will have already moved to another system to pull the same con, or they'll replace the system with a fresh one complete with green-card-seeking programmers. The programmers on the old system will be retrenched without payment via stack-ranking, and their health problems caused from stress and lack of sleep forgotten about.
IMO the reason is that most IT wasn't really engineering until fairly recently. Back in the 90s, which weren't long ago, you could make a ton of money without really knowing anything at all.

Nowadays those people are senior leaders. So they do what people do in these situations: gather the tribe. (Aka old boys network) More than in any other line of business that I have seen, IT has lots of old school ethnic and cultural fiefdoms. Bro guys, various south asian groups, school alumni, etc.

The places I have worked at that had more women in technology also had fewer of these networks.

Look at the story about the dude stealing tech from Google, starting a fake company to get bought out by his pals at Uber. In what other industry is bullshit like that even possible!
I'm very familiar, thanks. I didn't say these efforts didn't work in some cases. I pointed out that the early beta testers were the wealthy. That said, minors are still getting psychotropics without their consent and where their lives aren't in any danger (ADHD). Again, a phenomenon driven by wealthy parents.
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WhatsApp also supports 'gifs' that I think are just short videos with no support for sound that play inline. Kind of what Vine tried to do.
It's more likely to make type erasure more extensive. The main effect of type erasure is to stop people doing naughty things in generic methods. When one doesn't have to support JVM reflection, erasure can be pushed further.
Well I feel cheated, as an introvert that never stayed in touch with anyone from college and who went into a wildly divergent field from my major. I didn't experience either of the major benefits you're touting; the education was everything. I still think it was worth it, but I absolutely think it could have been done better and cheaper online.
I won't get into the healthcare topic as it's still a mess in my opinion, however, regarding one's right to security, as far as I know police do not have a duty to protect someone. [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-pol...
"A recent survey called “Elephant in the Valley” found that nearly all of the 200-plus senior women in tech who responded had experienced sexist interactions."

-- from the article (which includes a link)
Someone needs to alert the White House about this. Terrorists implementing piFS will have access to all the secrets of the US.

The movie industry should just shut down now. Any two people implementing piFS will have already shared all possible movie files, including future, unreleased films.

Your medical records are now available to anyone with time and patience.

The horror!

(Seriously, we should see if we can wind up Spicer about that first one and see if he explodes).
He's on antidepressants too, so this should help a lot. I wonder why he wasn't prescribed them sooner.
Wow. IOCCC spins my head yet again.
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Twitter does the same thing.
perhaps:

1) a set of timers- days, weeks, months, as appropriate for your subscription units.

2) a data model with users and subscriptions and a means of cross-referencing them. subscriptions are time-stamped upon creation...

3) a set of routines that perhaps runs daily that compares now (Date().getTime()) with subscription timestamps
then compare to timer-values and mark subscriptions as desired "expired" or maybe "one week before expiring" and thus worthy of an email etc...

4) a means of notifying the client of a users subscription status. (additional field on published user object etc?)

5) a means of restricting assets, probably in the router, based upon #4...
> Analysis is easier because you already have a running agent that you can remotely query about deployed software.

Not sure I buy this. Sure, I can query the docker daemon for what images are running, but that's not enough to tell me which images are vulnerable. I still need to build something to actually scan the images.

Also, on any linux host, I don't need a daemon to tell me about deployed software - the package manager can do just that, and the tool used for scanning in this article appears to just query the package manager, which would work just as well on any linux host outside of docker.
Works only for people in well functioning families.
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I don't think getting a programming job without possessing a degree is that rare of a story anymore. You can teach yourself anything online. I am actually self-taught developer and when I started, I was working primarily with people who had degrees, occasionally coming across another self-taught developer. I started about 12 years ago, but now I am increasingly encountering self-taught programmers who can run rings around developers with degrees.
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If there is not equality of outcome, then either: (1) no equality of opportunity exists; or (2) there is some confounding factor.

Ironically, you identify the thing that creates unequal opportunity: the "culture" that "comes along with gender minority work environments." Men have the opportunity to go into programming and be in a culture that is not stacked against them. Women don't. That's not equality of opportunity.

Acknowledging that the existence of a gender disparity in and of itself creates a hostile culture for the minority gets you halfway to understanding why attempts at eliminating the disparity directly are justified. And such measures are inherently temporary: once you eliminate then disparity that creates the hostile culture, you eliminate the need to take any affirmative measures to keep the new ratio.

You also precisely identify why you can't fix past institutional discrimination simply by no longer doing it. The past discrimination creates a culture that's hostile to the minority gender. That culture is self-perpetuating without active intervention (the "policing" you complain of).
Hah, you may, it does seem pretty crazy, doesn't it?

I would say that the reason it seems crazy isn't rational, however. If I was forced to break down the reasons that this worked, I would condense it to three:

1. I focused entirely upon a single skill that is highly desired right now (Javascript / Web Development in JS/HTML/CSS/JS Frameworks). I didn't "waste" any time learning other programming languages, systems designs, or even anything beyond the most basic of algorithms and algorithm design. These things are not necessary to build webapps in Angular/Backbone/React/Vanilla. My bootcamp (hack reactor) assisted with a very focused curriculum.

2. I was able to condense this learning to a short period of time by being utterly focused on it and nothing else, all day, every day. I was learning the one skill I needed to be employable from 8a-9p Mon-Sat for 3 months, and then 8a-5p Mon-Fri for another 3 months (when I was a TA).

3. I am a highly sales-trained ex-recruiter, and know through experience and training exactly what I need to do to get a job, fast. This includes being an annoying little bastard ;) but also includes streamlining my processes (never spending more than 10 minutes on a single application, etc) and being very good at turning a "no" into a "oh, ok, let's talk more."
> you won't ever see an autonomous vehicle winning a World Rally Championship

Never say never. These guys seem to be on the right track.
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I find rendition mentioned nowhere here. Your original point is very good, his conflation of the KGB's persecution of Soviet citizens with Guantanomo and with your point makes a couple of huge stretches, in the process polluting your original argument past the point of recognition much less sober consent. Objections to Guantanomo can't begin with the idea that it is a way of persecuting citizens of the country running it; since that's the precise opposite of the original legal basis for using a prison not in the United States - namely to keep non-US citizens from gaining any of the rights of US citizens. Contrary-to-fact is a poor start; I like your argument, it didn't benefit from his help, IMHO.
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This is exactly why I brought it up.

When compensating (in real life) for a language mismatch, there's no tool that can beat empathy. Try and think yourself in their shoes, and try to understand where they're going with their words, motions, etc.

We should teach kids more about this. It's a vastly underrated skill. Instead, we teach them to attach negative feelings to words. Which is the opposite.

When I say I feel like a fucking sandwich, it's not used as a swear word but as a modern equivalent of "verily". If you had used empathy, you'd understood. Instead, you choose to go by your own set of interpretations, which means you take it to say something heinous.

It's one of the things that set us apart from machines. We have the capacity to choose to interpret stuff however we want.
I'm on my phone, but tech is generally worse(0) than doctors(1) and lawyers(2), two professions that made huge improvements in the last decade. Note that's just doctors and lawyers, not the whole legal and medical field, which would likely be an even more unfavorable comparison.

How bad does tech have to be for you to acknowledge​ a problem? Isn't "worse the average female participation" bad enough?

0) https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/Computer_information_technology...

1) http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/physicians-by-gender/?d...

2) https://bol.bna.com/the-legal-professions-gender-imbalance-i...
NHS could've delivered him limited amount of food. He definitely didn't need this much.
>" At least Facebook doesn't have an army, or paramilitaries like DHS or just about any sheriff's department I've ever encountered."

No but they hand that data over to the surveillance state:

https://www.aclunc.org/blog/facebook-instagram-and-twitter-p...

>"The thing is, if it wasn't Facebook it would be someone else"

This is rather flimsy rationalization, see "The Futility of Illusion":

https://ethicsalarms.com/rule-book/unethical-rationalization...
There's a couple of efforts. I think this is the most public: http://www.anatomyofgames.com/anatomy-of-a-game/
Except culture begets the discrimination. The immediate fix is to go through legality. If you want to change things on the long-term to make it a better place for people of all genders, races and religions to work, you have to change the culture. Otherwise it's a problem that will never, ever go away.

For many minorities, by the time they get to work, they're so sick of discrimination that they prefer to quit, as opposed to going through the pain of official channels that are just as discriminatory as the perpetrators that they were going to report.

What you said is like saying "You burnt yourself because the house is on fire? Have you tried applying burn cream? Don't waste your time putting out the fire, just apply burn cream and live with it"
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I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think you know the problems of the people affected. I take that just from "discriminated against in an illegal way, go through the appropriate legal channels and crush it".

What are the legal channels for suspecting you're denied a position because of being part of minority X. Sure, the company is all non-X, but does it prove anything? Where do you go when your opinion is being ignored every day - what's the legal channel for that? How much effort and money do you want to spend just to be treated as a normal person. You're not going to crush it. You'll be left on your own.

> Stop wasting our time trying to police culture.

Sure, there's got to be a balance. You can't police everything and force anyone to think anything. But promoting going away from the status quo is a positive thing.
When I was a little boy, I used to do this with restaurant menus, choosing between items. I'd tell my parents one of the choices at 'random', and then if I felt disappointed, immediately change my mind.
I've been wishing for something more along the lines of open source licenses. GPL might be a complicated contract but once you know it, all you need is 3 letters to describe it. You've still got the option to write up your Special Snowflake 1.0 license, but most products won't need that or want it, so a few common contracts emerge and then we don't all need to skim pages of legalese (subject to change at whim) every time we visit a new website.
michalskop made the conflation, implying that just as the KGB jailed its own citizens, so the Americans were acting today. You are strenuously agreeing with me, in rejecting that conflation.