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That was just an example. Besides, I'm not sure what you can infer about developers from the beliefs of the "best devs", considering they're only a fraction of the whole.

The point is that developers don't just buy software. They're marketed stuff constantly, like everybody else. To suggest they're immune to it seems a little naive to me.
So, i should advise you that the most likely outcome here is that you'll be arrested.

If security causes you to be arrested and imprisoned, you, and everyone else file civil lawsuits against Khosla.

The more interesting question is whether you'll be prosecuted. If I was the DA, i wouldn't bring charges against anyone who did this (which would be completely within my discretion). This would result in Khosla having to be forced to file civil lawsuits for trespass or something (which he'd lose). It would also mean the police would likely stop arresting you.

But i don't know whether the DA in Khosla's part of town is in favor of the billionaires or the beach access folks.
This is an instance of the general issue of conflict across, what I like to call, the salesperson-slacker spectrum.

Most researchers/academics lie somewhere on this spectrum. (Well I guess most human beings involved in any activity probably).

On the one end are salespeople who love to make a mountain out of a molehill they just discovered. On the other, slackers are like the perfectionists who never get anything done because they never resolved their analysis-paralysis.

There are very few who are exactly in the middle of the spectrum. The middle is a point of unstable equilibrium. You have to work very hard to stay there and can easily fall off to one side or the other.
High-end Intel chips are 8 logical cores; high-end Ryzen chips are 16 to 32 logical cores. When games becomes optimized for multiple cores, both sides win. It's only when games are optimized for more than 8 logical cores that AMD will start having an advantage, and AFAIK no game engine has ever been optimized towards such a niche market (between 8 and 32 logical cores). There will always be mid-tier desktop systems and laptops with less than 8 logical cores that could be your potential customers.
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One reason it's not OK, at least in tech, is that women are so hugely under-represented.

If a male employee not in a position of hierarchical power innocently expresses his interest to a single female coworker in the entire course of his career, is he evil? Is it harassment? Probably not... But from their female coworker's perspective, that's enough to create a pretty steady stream of random attention.

I think even that best case "only once" scenario creates a sort of crowd-sourced harassment baseline, on top of which you have to add repeat offenders, ones in a position of hierarchical or effective power, those who deal badly with rejection, the fact that the same thing happens in the street, the subway etc...
> How can you see them as people if they aren't being less professional in that setting?

I'm very confused by this question. My view of whether someone is a person is not mitigated by them acting profession.
Agreed upon tax deals have to be legal in the framework laid down by the European union if you're a member. Ireland made a deal that wasn't legal. The EU reminded Apple they had to pay it. Nothing more.
Bring a slander case against them. Happens all the time.
The culture of being being mad at sexual harassment offenders even when they apologize is what is toxic in the tech community.

ok
>Similarly the fact they have to now choose between throwing away financial opportunity or acquiesce to this harassment

And what of the situation in which women continue to associate with their harassers? Do they truely have no liability? Why is it impossible to consider the possibility of some women using sex to get ahead? Why does this have to be such an absurdly one sided topic?

And yes, being lonely to the point of depression is indeed justification for making initial advances which may be misconstrued as sexual harassment, when monetary or other favors are accepted. If they do not cease when identified as unwelcome, they become a problem, sure. But the onus is also on the victim to communicate, and continued association is not only a mixed message, the victim begins to take advantage of the sexual tension by leading the harasser on and continuing to accept business favors.

In our rush to protect these women, whom we paint (unfairly and innacurately) as defensless, we only consider the imbalance of power and totally ignore the imbalance of sexual capital that is rife for exploitation especially by females.

I also do not believe that down votes are designed to signal disagreement.
No. That's not right. Don't be stupid.

People meet romantic partners and spouses at work all the time - are they all sexual harassers?

The true answer is: "It depends".
Silicon Valley's old boy power structure is getting toppled
Well he did mention he began counseling a month ago.
I worked for a company that used fast payments to induce vendors to accept payment via "payment card." If a vendor wanted to continue getting checks or ACH payments, the payment would be processed 2 days before the late date.

In this case, the bank (WFB) had a payment card revenue-share agreement with the company, the commercial card version of cash back.
I think most normal/adult people don't want to live in a world where you can't ask out your coworker.
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I believe they already sell world peace in a can.
they should put their money where their mouth is.

site fails spectacularly using Firefox mobile.
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Ipinfo seems to have the exact same logo as Podio (https://podio.com), a service owned by Citrix.
It's a qualified apology. I dislike how he not-so-subtly tries to justify his actions by painting a context that delegitimizes Sarah's claims.

It's worth noting that Sarah claims that many other women contacted her with similar stories of harassment, the fact that all of them are also women of color is especially telling (as were all of Caldbeck's victims).

I mean if he wants to bring up contextual details, maybe McClure should mention that like Caldbeck, he is also married. So how more scummy can you be? A sexist harasser and an adulterer. These guys are only sorry they got caught and are now back pedaling to save some face.

People need to understand that this type of behavior causes terrible damage on the victims which can last for years and often leave permanent scars. So it's especially fucked up and unjust that people like McClure and Caldbeck, when caught, can simply make a half-assed -- and in the case of Caldbeck and Sacca, narcissistic -- apology; lay low for a few months; and then jump right back as if nothing happened.

For fuck's sake one of the LPs at Binary knew about Caldbeck's reputation and harassment issues and still invested.
Folks, half of this conversation is now so greyed out I can't even properly read it. Regardless of whether you agree or not - please stop downvoting. A person's asking legitimate questions. Don't silence the questions. Don't punish people who just talk within the discourse.

There's no one being attacked here. No one's being objectionally rude. It's just an exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Let those be.
I sincerely doubt the change had anything to do with DRM. Book sales have been declining for years. Developers just don't use books as their primary source of learning anymore. I believe OReilly is going to double down on their subscription service, Safari.
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Don't shit where you eat is a sensible, safe rule to live by; ymmv.
They were/are run by bad people who did bad things this isn't acceptable and it's not to be expected except by apologists and lackeys. I don't appreciate you minimizing wrongdoing.
Nobody reasonable is going to misinterpret a request for coffee as sexual harassment unless you are socially inept.

"Hey, do you want to get coffee sometime?"

"Oh, no thanks"

"Ok, cool. No problem"

Proceed to move on with your life.
It should be able to. I'm using websockets in Apollo with a JS back end.
Actually, in that post the OP only ended the free, unlimited version of their API.

Since the OP in this case only has a limited free version, I don't think it's going to be an issue.
All the more reason not to engage (or attempt to initiate) a sexual or romantic relationship with a subordinate or superior.
>If the only people in your orbit you feel you can connect with that way are at work, that's a sign your personal life needs some development.

Then a very, very significant portion (quite possibly close to half of the population, or approaching thereof in some fields) have personal life developmental problems......or....it could just be that your world view or definition of "appropriate" is a bit off. Which one of those situations is more likely?
"The word inclusive is a politicalized word, so I'd like to see that go"

I agree 100%. Not only is it politicized, it can come across as patronizing. I would like to see companies adopt 'universal design', which is more accurate description.
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"monopolistic behaviour is considered illegal if it restricts competitors."

I think there is a major fallacy in this reasoning. Case in point - look at the trains in UK. Tracks, rails, signaling, services are all owned by different companies. While this sounds great from a regulatory perspective, it's not so great for bringing about changes. Which is perhaps why, most of the trains still run on ancient signaling tech, no GPS trackers. I admit, I have very cursory or superficial knowledge in this domain, but at the outset this is what it seems like.
OTOH, the FCC's way of looking at monopolistic behavior seems prudent - it's just based on price. As long as consumers get the price advantage, a monopoly is fine.
Matters of personal-identity are completely orthogonal to what the Rust community should be about.

Reading your posting, I think you're implying that non-traditional notions of gender is evidence of irrational thinking, and you think Rust community would be better-off with an exclusively "rational" (by your measure) membership.

My retort is that it is completely irrelevant - I compare it to admitting open young-earth creationists simultaneously with adherents to Wahhabism into the Rust community: both of those positions (in my opinion) are as irrational and non-evidence-based as otherkin or your notion of gender-identity, and yet all of those individuals are capable of making valuable contributions to the language, the runtime, the standard library, packages and so on - accepting their work has nothing to do with condoning or endorsing their opinions (for example we still call radiation meters Geiger counters, even though Hans Geiger worked on Nazi nuclear weapons).

I won't respond to your questions posed because it's both outside the scope of this discussion and I believe poses a dangerous distraction to identify a wedge with which you can coarsely separate people into groups you think you would agree with - and more importantly: we should not be pontificating on gender-identity because none of us are subject matter experts in the field.
Thank you for thinking about the user experience. Recently, I had to forcibly change an email address that I had in my possession for over ten years. The service was shutting down.

It was incredibly annoying to change this value for some of the sites I had accounts with. Some of them assumed I had access to my old email!

Suggestion:

So, I would prefer you build into your design the concept of an "identity". The identity is me! I can paste (I use keepass) in an email or my username. Your software can figure out which one I'm using. Also, please allow me to use long passwords, and don't disable paste with JavaScript! Also, allow the email to mostly be a hidden key. I only want to use it to interact with you, not something revealed to the public at large.
1. No, they can't "simply decide". That's not how the legal system works.

2. The case argued was that the tax deal was illegal when it was agreed upon and therefore void. Sweetheart deals / government aid is generally illegal in the EU, and neither Google nor Ireland should have been surprised.

3. Do you have any examples of the ECJ changing interpretation on a whim? I do see that Google lacks legal certainty, but when you're as unique as Google is, lack of precedent comes with the territory. That said, Google is walking up to the red line of its own volition. There's a limit to how surprised they can credibly act when they find they have overstepped it.
No more $5 dollar books by registering as a 'print-book owner'?
Nailed it. This is thinly-veiled damage control. While he may genuinely be sorry, his plea for recompense should be directed privately at those his actions affected. A self-effacing blog post like this reads to me as code for "please don't blacklist me in the valley".
> You are absolutely forced and 100% expected to do this in a situation now, right?

Not remotely. Just look at any of the recent Fox News harassment scandals, or literally anything involving the current POTUS.
Create solid markup, uncluttered by additional elements that the past tells you that you need. Design your site using what Grid and other new methods have to offer. Then look at how you deal with the browsers without support, by serving them something slightly simpler.

Perhaps a fallback like, oh I dunno, <TABLES>?!
Just earning more isn't the problem. Having control over their career is.
Sorry for that. I've edited the title
Its only a problem if the other party is not into you, figuring out the ends sorts out the means. There have also been instances where the other party recoils and indicts the proposal. It is the reality of life even though some might disagree.

Nonetheless, workplace relationship is emotionally dicey and avoiding it is a safer bet.
IANAL but I saw some comments from one, apparently in USA you have to consistently do unwanted approaches for a long time to be considered sexual harassment.
Sounds like we're clearly making progress.
It has nothing to do with salaries; if you're in a position to make decisions about someone's future (hiring them, firing them, etc.), it's not appropriate.
Would you please not rant like this on Hacker News?—regardless of how wrong someone else is or how bad an article. You've done this before, and it lowers the quality of discussion.
> I think asking coworkers out is a huge no-no

No way. It's a case by case basis. If someone legitimately seems interested in you, and you are interested in them, there's nothing wrong with asking them if they want to get a bite to eat or something once. Baby steps. It's just inappropriate to immediately reach for the "let's go out" or a romantic advance, and especially inappropriate to "pursue" someone. This is true in almost every social sphere, not just the workplace. It's called being a gentleman.

The idea is to be a gentleman, not a creep. Whether at a bar or at the park or at work.

The only difference as far as the workplace is if you have some sort of position of power above the other employee. Even if you somehow maintain complete impartiality to them, others will probably not see it that way and think it unfair to them. Not to mention that 9.9/10 times someone doesn't want to be hit on by their boss.

You gotta understand, for many people their work life and personal life are the same. A lot of happy couples met in the workplace.
> Honest question, maybe one best asked to my female friends: at what point does propositioning someone transition from simply not mutual attraction to sexual harassment?

It's fairly obvious and self-evident. I consider myself to be on the autism spectrum, and even I know when a female friend is not interested in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Like the legal test for obscenity: I know it when I see it.
> I did read that but misplaced it when replying.

This is some of the most ridiculous phrasing I've ever come across.
It's not out yet. But if you follow indie games much it's pretty well known.
Absolutely, reasonable is the key word here.
This reminds me of when Jiam Ghomeshi made a post about being into S&M right before his accusers charged him with rape.
Apologies like McClure are insincere because his behavior has likely been going on for years; targeting many many women (at least 6 according to his accuser); and because McClure knew then, as he does now, that he was in the wrong.

Why do you think he is apologizing? Do you really think he is sorry or just sorry he got caught? I'm sure he is sincere, sincere that he feels bad that he got caught and is now suffering the consequences. This is just like the murderer who cries crocodile tears during sentencing.

Occam's razor. A devil does not become a saint overnight.
One could also term it "adult behavior".
Oh that's interesting. First time I heard about. I keep always hearing about "fire in a crowded theater" in "free speech" arguments and discussion.

So what's the new thing then?
I wonder about people like you. Do you live in the real world, and interact with real people? Do you have real friends? Because it doesn't sound like it.

Not dating your coworkers is a sensible rule that some people follow and some companies may have policies around ... but a rule you have no hope in expecting to be universally adhered to. Case in point: The sheer number of (happy and unhappy) couples who met at work.
You can also just hook the process in the real time to bypass it.

Going out on a limb here, they most likely HMAC sign their requests using a secret key embedded in the application, so you'd have to reverse that too.
Of course there is: "Hey, I'm interested in you. Would you like to go out on a date sometime?" If they say yes, great, plan a date. If they say no, respond with "Ok, that's cool." Then continue to act the same way towards them you did before.

There's a lot of moaning here about how any interaction with a potential partner is an arrest waiting to happen, but the underlying sentiment to that is that everyone else is a vengeful harpy waiting to crucify you. It's an endless nice-guy support group meeting. When you read the articles about Mcclure and Sacco and others, though, you see common things: they're hitting on women coming to them for professional consideration, which necessarily involves a power imbalance; and their requests aren't to go on a date, they're "let's fuck" (i.e., they're inappropriate in most circumstances). You wouldn't ask a girl you met through mutual friends to just go to bed, you'd say "let's get dinner and drinks". But the creep behaviour here is creep behaviour almost everywhere, with an added dose of "I can make or break your career, so choose your answer carefully."
That's easy, the word is well defined in the dictionary: a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. Some people try to call objects entities and claim they are doing something else, but they are just doing the same thing with different words.
You had me until 'leftism'. Could you further elaborate on this point?
>Refer them to a public prosecutor because examples are needed for this to stop. We need some examples to be made.

Setting aside the fact there's nothing to prosecute in most of the cases, I'm curious why you think making examples of people is more important than punishing them in proportion to their offenses.
Also, the colossal 21MB PDF for a 32 page manual with solid black color runs counter to technological constraints inclusiveness. They could have easily made it into 20 page 2MB, or just make a web version.
> how HN user prefers sites with less CSS

That's not what people here are saying, though. Indeed, even your parent comment said how he misses a small HTML pages with CSS. Most engineers would be totally fine with HTML and a modest payload of nice, modern CSS styling, a perhaps a small bit of non-required progressively enhancing JS.

Our problem is with huge JS frameworks used in sites that aren't actual web applications (e.g., Gmail), but rather web sites (like news sites). And I say this as someone who has primarily made my living the past 5 years as a "frontend engineer" (ie, JS programmer). JS frameworks can be wonderful for actual web applications, but they're way overkill for documents online for reading (and also make the experience worse for the reader).

Oh, and we also hate of dozens/hundreds of kb of unneeded font downloads.

Also, for the record, I'm a big fan of (appropriate use of) white space and color. I definitely come down heavily on the side of bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com (vs motherfuckingwebsite.com).
I've worked with plenty of workplace couples, I'm not casting aspersions on them. It can and does work out great for many. I just personally believe in separating work and life. Sorry for the un-nuanced answer.
Resolving the dispute in a way that everyone is happy with may reinforce bad behavior in that you can get away with closing the path for N years; but at the end of the day, if there is equivalent access to the beach with the old path and a new path that the landowner is happier with, the public still has the same access going forward as they did before, and it likely would have been allowed if he had gone through permits.

So it also shows that in the end, even billionaires need to follow the law; and that its probably a better use of their time to work with the commission to find a good solution, instead of to fight the law.
Are you confusing them with China...?
> I've ranted about this here before, and I'll rant again.

You make one hell of a rant, man. Props.
Get off your cross, we need to the wood. Lots of people, including in the tech industry, manage to interact with potential romantic partners both romantically and professionally, without triggering lawsuits or tearful Medium apologies. They do it by being mature, considerate, and respectful, and accepting of any outcome, without consequence. If you see the gross behaviour of Sacco et al and think "OMG I'm next!" then that's on you, not the prevailing culture.
I think it's more that on the scale of how injust something can be, this just doesn't seem up there enough to be worth getting upset over.
O'Reilly used to produce the definitive bibles that you were required to own to work on different technologies, but I feel like the quality has gone down over the last 10 years or so. I don't know if that is a byproduct of developers relying on books less, or technology moving faster, or poor publishing decisions. But it has probably contributed more than DRM, one way or the other, to their decline.
> Its only a problem if the other party is not into you,

You're part of the problem.
I second this. It was a compelling argument until self-sabotage via way of injecting politics.
This reminds me of the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) in San Francisco.[1]

"Scattered throughout Downtown San Francisco are public plazas, atriums, and roof gardens. Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) hide behind secret elevators, security guards, and stairs. Their elusive trait raises the question: if
they are public, then why are they hidden?

In a city where land is scarce, POPOS allocate open space to prevent overdevelopment. The 1985 Downtown Plan mandates developers build and maintain 1 sq ft of public space for each 50 sq ft of commercial space. Yet, developers hide them from the public to keep cost of maintenance low..."

[1] - https://medium.com/sf-popos/the-21-secret-parks-of-san-franc...
Moose must be hard to detect too I wonder how they tested for them.

Imagine a 700kg (1,500 pound) moose with velvety brown fur suddenly wanting to cross the road at night in front of your car when you are traveling 120km/h (74mph).

That weight is all up high too on spindly legs. It's like running into a high table with 700kg of weigh on it.