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My brother (manager) has been confronted to a similar situation, except that he was accused of moral harassement. The employee complained about it to the director of human ressource. They reacted swiftly. They hired an independent and specialized company to investigate the matter. The conclusion was that it was a fake accusation.

This is the correct behaviour in face of any kind of accusation between employees. This protects the company in face of justice, and gives some insurance that the truth comes out. Relying on an independent company gives some garantee (not full) that the investigation is impartial.

While this is not perfect, it is the most optimal and fair reaction in such situations.

Regarding your situation, it is understandable that it is worrying because you just discovered that you are very exposed. From what you say, it appears that what you considered small talk where questions on private activities. A normal person would simply skip it or make you understand that this is not your business. But some people can't handle that because they are socially disfunctional.

I would suggest that you keep a low profile until the end of your internship. The human resource did simple put distance between you two. So there is nothing dramatic.

Regarding the small talk, I would suggest that, in the future, you try avoiding asking questions. It is better to let the other person drive the talk so that you can easily deduce what is ok to talk about. Stay in the ok subject domain. Eventually you may share some of your private info but be attentive to the other person reaction. If he/she switch subject, it means private life discussions are to be avoided. Even that could already be enough to make socially disfunctional people inconfortable.

The fundamental rationale is just a matter of respect. Some people don't like to share private matters at work. People complaining at HR are really disfunctional because they can't handle everyday situations themselves. These kind of people are toxic in their way and potential source of problems for the company. That person who complained about your behavior has raised a red flag about herself. It's for your own safety that I suggested how to avoid being confronted to such situations again. For now buck down and let the wave pass. Good luck for your future.
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Also, think about what you want. I see a bit of conflict between your two statements "an off the shelf car kit, which will let me focus on the software side" and "Extensible: I can add radar, etc. if needed"
Thanks for your advice. The first question I was asked was if I knew why I was brought into the meeting with management. I answered I honestly did not know. When they told me, I made someone feel uncomfortable I apologized for any harm I caused to this person. I asked if I could know who this person is so I could apologize to them but I was informed that they had no interest in speaking to me. Its been two weeks, and no-one has come forward to me yet sadly. If I were in their shoes, I would have come forward to someone who is bothering me prior to going to management. Though if I did feel seriously intimidated by this person, I would ask if I could have a meeting with management and the person bothering me present. But thats just me.
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Not judging you but it could just be that you might come across as """creepy""" (notice the three pairs of quotes here). The issue is that you're in a hyper sensitive environment with hyper sensitive people. If you try and initiate a conversation with certain women (even to be polite because you dgaf about them) that dislike you, it can be considered """pushy""" and/or """creepy""" (even though there's no objective proof that you were trying to force their hand) but if you're the tall, confident, handsome guy from marketing then you're "such a player". So yeah, my advice to you is stay extremely professional for the remainder of your time there, try not to burn bridges with the company, stay courteous, work hard and most importantly find a job somewhere else. Also, learn about social dynamics. If you're socially awkward you'll be more at risk of being accused of rape (whatever its definition of the day is).
Not to mention the increasing pressure that lies on HR and management as a result of the fear of being labeled the next Uber.
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> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real.

I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology. Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful, this one is only obscure if you're unfamiliar with the specific industry.

I'm fairly certain there are perfectly legitimate job titles in other industries "75% of British adults" aren't familiar with. That's okay, they don't have to be.

If it was "75% of British technical project managers", I would be far more concerned. A job opening for a "Scrum master" likely isn't an entry level position for someone with no prior knowledge of Scrum -- and if that career path is interesting to you, you'll likely already know what Scrum is.
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Nowadays it's called "daygame". Controversial topic because on one hand you have many "hobbyists" who are serious about it and optimize for success and avoiding getting slapped, on the other hand you have losers (real story) who touch strangers on the street thinking it will get them laid.
> "By saying it was the Africans who did the kidnapping, you're putting the crime on them. But if they refused, they likely would have been enslaved or killed."

Way to go and completely distort all historical evidence to try and shift the blame. Let's get something clear, the natives selling other natives were from tribes/kingdoms that had been at war for centuries. Europeans clearly created more demand and are at fault for that. But the natives were very clearly and very well documented NOT coerced (like you are trying to claim), they just continued doing what they already did for at least 15 centuries before.

And also, they continued doing it AFTER the Europeans stopped slavery. Thing is, even today there are millions of slaves in Africa and really we can easily agree it's not the Europeans that own them or trade them in present times.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

> "Your comments were about how Portugal was at ease with it's slavery past, and came as part of the "Africans were the kidnappers" spiel. Mainland Portugal was in control of Brazil at the time, part of this time involved the court located in Brazil."

No, my main comment was that LISBON didn't had the slaving history as the article is trying to put on it and as such, Portugal being the first nation to forbid slavery (even of just in the mainland) goes on to validate my point about LISBON.
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By your own description it sounds it is founded, asking what you're up to this weekend is a lead in to asking for a date. I get that wasn't your intent, but that doesn't matter, does it?

Others have said find another job, that sounds like a good ideas. I probably wouldn't put this internship on my employment history.

And seriously, your 20's are for getting laid as much as you can. Are you? Because if you're not (outside the workplace obviously) the women at work might be picking up on your energy and taking it the wrong way. The more you get some outside of the office, the less you'll be emanating that "oh I wanna fuck that" energy around the office. I'm not saying get a girlfriend but having one (if you are suchly oriented) might help dissipate that energy on a regular basis.
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What about the professional social skills of the person that made the complaint? Couldn't she have raised the matter personally instead of going straight to a manager?
And how toxic is a workplace where you can be accused of unspecified behaviours by some unknown co-worker and be automatically on the wrong side, without any clue as to know who accused you and why?
By contrast, does anybody think that having "stronger" dynamic typing (don't convert strings to numbers as implicitly, etc.) like Python's would not be a huge benefit?
I have extensive experience writing professional (i.e. Not consumer oriented) desktop applications in both Python and C++, and you're right on the money.

Java may not be sexy or purty, but it works and you can actually hire people to do it.
I especially like this sentence:

"Yet the company's "database" had acquired some interest from a new generation of script kiddies who didn't know SQL, didn't understand why normalization is a good thing, and just wanted a dumping ground where they could lob hunks of poorly formed JSON."
Is it ironic that the author is Sir Cary Cooper, who received knighthood at a birthday celebration for the Queen? It's an honor, but with so many knights running around, hasn't that title become a bit ludicrous itself?
The cost of doing business just with US companies is the same. The US will seize your assets, no matter where you are, if you as much as ever violate any of their laws.

Kim Dotcom is a good example.

Companies having to follow the law of where they provide their services is a far deal less prohibitive.

And, frankly said, I'd love it if Google, Facebook etc would leave the European market — as local competitors would appear very quickly, and, due to the huge size of the European market — would actually become viable competitors to the American companies even in the international market.
Accusing you without specific reason so you cannot defend yourself is a bad form harassing. Consider to step up and demand either specifics of the accusation so you can defend yourself, or all charges being dropped immediately in combination of an excuse from your employer. Check your local law if you could threaten to sue them for misconduct if they are not willing to cooperate. Consider not to comply with their demands to restrict your communication, ask your coworkers in a friendly way if they know more or if there was anything you said that made them feel uncomfortable.
I think the most important experience a poor man can have is "Selbstwirksamkeit", the experience, that one can influence ones own destiny and not remain a puppet to be pushed around, slaved and sheparded by bosses, police and landlords.

We should make that epxerience part of any curiculum on public schools.
Maybe, just maybe, it's a reaction to all that's wrong with job titles - https://stackstreet.com/4-problems-with-job-titles/
Thanks for your insightful comment! And I'm sorry to hear of your brother's story. It has been hard, but I have suspended talking to people about non-work-related topics since this incident. I thought I was in a domain of acceptable topics, but I guess its better to exercise extreme caution. I am also not very socially-skilled so perhaps this lack of experience has been the catalyst for this incident. I would think that a normal person would signal to me that they are not interested in talking further, or should they feel bothered inform me of this prior to going directly to management, but I guess if they feel extremely threatened or intimidated, they might see management as their first option.
But how am I supposed to know what to buy!
Was Lattner the right person to run the Tesla Autopilot development program? Spending seven years perfecting a programming language is a very different -- and relatively serene -- job compared to putting together the mythical ML/heuristics package that will prevent people from dying in self-driving Teslas, and making it happen yesterday.
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Even if Ms. Dent was trying to manipulate him sexually, Mr. McClure totally missed the point. If they had met in a public place, with no professional context, he might reasonably have twitted her about flirting with him.

But in a professional context, he would have been better served by just making sure she didn't get hired. Because you don't want to hire people who sexually manipulate their colleagues.
> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it.

> I would guess that their motivations go beyond just looking for sex and knowing that one time in twenty it will work.

> Those are the people we call bullies, whether their acts are criminal or not.

Spot on, sadly a much overlooked and ignored fact.
While "sexism" certainly feeds into that, it's not the actual problem, the problem being that "assholes" often end up being very successful people because they can easily force their will upon others, regardless of gender.

This is the very same dynamic which leads to "assholes" being way overrepresented in CEO positions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...

These are ruthless personalities and their success is often build upon exactly that ruthlessness.
Why should the silicon valley vc ecosystem be exempt from that dynamic? It seems it ain't: https://www.saastr.com/are-silicon-valley-venture-capitalist...

As a male, on the short end of that naturally existing power dynamic, you are flat out of luck because you can't point at your gender and generate drama to monetize on or take whole companies down, instead you are lumped up into a big sack as part of the supposedly "systematic problem" by labeling it a "male dominated culture", taking every male person into a quasi sippenhaft trough guild by gender association in the "fight against sexism".

As somebody who considers himself a somewhat decent person, this whole tone in the discourse is getting rather tiresome because this also creates quite an oppressive environment for people who merely want to find a relationship partner. I feel guilty just thinking about approaching women on the street, I've rebuffed advances by female coworkers because that's not considered "appropriate", I don't want to approach that nice cashier in the supermarket because I fear I might bother her/creep her out. And because I've always been rather awkward with social situations, the outcome is quite predictable: I've been single for these last 10 years, while constantly being told how much of an asshole I'm for having been born with a dick.
To be fair, I'm in tech, have known actual "scrum masters", and still don't think it's a real job title.
I feel you said (a), and (b) and (c) were my additions. If you implied them and I missed it, then please consider my comment as TLDR-as-a-Service =)
I find it quite the offensive take on tech jobs.

Arguing that "scrum master" should have a more general name is one of the stupidest things I've read. It's based on a methodology and has a specific meaning. Asking 1000 random people what pi is might result in them defining the food so we might as well change the name of either one. If you don't know what scrum master is you should not be applying for it anyway.

There is no problem with tech job titles. If anything it's a solution. If you don't want to work for a company as a ninja then the environment is probably not the right fit.
Wow, that seems counter-intuitive. I suppose it must be due to the computation of the heuristic, combined with how few relaxations are needed in CH.

GraphHopper is really nice work by the way. I believe you are still working on implementing stall-on-demand? Will be very interesting to see how much difference that makes on long-distance queries.
" I feel there is really no evidence other than the testimony of one person"

There is not even the testimony of that person. They don't told you what she say, they don't allow you to confront her.

For all that you know they could be making up all the thing. I don't think this is the case, but it's a possibility when everything is done in the dark.

Don't take this as advice, please, because I can't predict the results, but in your position I think I would feel compelled to confront them. Maybe with the help of some worker representative if that it's available to you. What I would avoid is to confront the woman, that could backfire very fast.
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I also used a fair bit of C/C++ in the past, the debugging process feels very different to me. It's definitely much slower but in that case it's worth it because of the flexibility you get out of it.

When you use Javascript for a few years, your habits change and you get used to really quick debug iterations. With Typescript, you get slower debug iterations but you don't get any extra flexibility beyond what Javascript itself offers. No pointers, no threads, no low-level access to system calls, no custom memory allocation, no performance gains... It doesn't have any of the features that make C/C++ an awesome language.
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The problems could be tackled nicely by a clean functional solution like Iteratees[1], maybe with a hight-level API like Reactive Streams[2].

[1] https://github.com/playframework/play-iteratees
[2] http://www.reactive-streams.org/
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The new Nokia phones are engineered and designed by a company called HMD. HMD was founded for the specific purpose of making "Nokia" phones under the license after Microsoft sold it off. HMD is based in Espoo, with their office right across the street from Nokia HQ, and the company consists mostly of ex-Nokia phone engineers and other employees.

So basically the phones are designed by the same engineers, and the office where they are designed is right next-door to Nokia. The reason it's a separate company is just that Nokia is not that interested in making phones right now.
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Actually benzodiazepine addiction is perceived to be a particularly bad problem in the UK. There is a clinic in Is real that treats a large number of Israelis who allegedly wrecked their nervous system with LSD and are now unfit for the IDF. A clinic in Poland is always treating drunks who drank too much 1-propanol.

Benzodiazepines deliver fast relief from anxiety but they interfere with learning and memory. Naturally people can learn how to deal with problems better and maybe therapy can speed up that process. Benzodiazepines throw a monkey wrench into that, but antidepressants do not.

That article has a social context on that the news media is benefitting enormously from trump because people keep reading and watching to see what crazy thing trump will say next. CNN might be negative on trump, but the massive coverage they gave him, driven by a quest for ratings, made him more credible than the other republicans.
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Can we stop with the self-aggrandizing CxO titles while we are at it?

I've had someone introduce themselves as a CTO of a company that has 4 people. How many other technical officers are there for you to be the chief of them?

It sounds ridiculous.
I'm not sure I would consider your advice on never initiating non-business related small talk to be so bullet proof, particularly when we get into issues of "creepiness", which is a term that isn't often well defined or viewed in the same light by differing people.

Now there are definitely behaviors that I think can easily be labeled as creepy(leering at people, making inappropriate physical contact, asking too many unwanted personal questions, etc) but there are other behaviors that are harder to automatically equate as such. As an example, I tend to be relatively introverted, and extremely private when it comes to discussing my personal life, this is especially true at work or with people I don't know well. As a result, I typically don't engage in small talk at work, and seeing as I rarely ever bring up my personal life, I very rarely ask about others. This isn't to say I'm not cordial, but when at work I prefer to simply focus on getting stuff done.

At one prior job, I worked with an extremely extroverted and talkative group, not gossipy or inappropriate, but simply gregarious. I would obviously join in when directly asked but I was always hesitant to initiate this kind of discussion. I did over a long period of time end up becoming close friends with one of my coworkers, at which point he let me know that when I first started some of my coworkers thought it was somewhat creepy that I never talked much about my private life.

I only relay this situation to point out how difficult it can be to navigate these kinds of interpersonal relationships, particularly in larger groups. One person's reluctance to discuss their weekend plans, which to me was completely benign, can be another person's creepiness. Just to be clear though, I absolutely think there are behaviors that are very unequivocally creepy or unwarranted, I'm not trying to argue that this is always, or even mostly, a matter of personal interpretation.
Thanks for your input! I have toyed with the idea of meeting with management and making such demands, but between being nervous of getting fired sooner than my internship already ending, I am reluctant to do so. On the other hand, I feel this may be good practice on how to approach a similar situation should one arise, and when I am in a permanent position. The single co-worker I asked (and generally confide in) was very shocked to hear this and had nothing bad to say about how I handle myself around other people in the company.
Where in that sentence do you get the idea that he "stopped 'making smalltalk'" after "they told [him] they had a boy/girlfriend"?
> I'd really like to sincerely ask if you've had a run-in with it yet.
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Yes, I've met many people with borderline personality disorder.

I helped the English NHS create their KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) for borderline personality disorder; I campaign for services to better meet the needs of people with BPD.

What you're saying is ignorant bollocks.

False accusations are not more common among people with BPD, and false accusations are rare.