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I agree with most of what you say. Except blaming "a mostly government run school system". I came out OK from a poorly rated public system in California.

Please stop blaming the school system and our government. Our society puts so much emphasis on women looking a certain way; the way they should socialize; they need to be pretty, cheerleaders and subordinate ... Little girls aren't supposed to be nerdy and engineers. That's what society tells them in the movies they watch, the songs they hear and reinforced at home ... Let's get Jane some dolls. We'll give John a lego set. That's the "problem"
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> Plus, in a democracy ordinary citizens are also to blame for their government's decisions. They can always vote something else, protest, revolt etc. People all around the world have done it for their governments (and of course Americans at different times).

Those BASTARD Mosul Kurds ! I KNEW they did something to deserve getting mass-murdered and raped.

Thanks for clarifying that not revolting means you are guilty of whatever government happens to rule the piece of land you're currently occupying does. And of course, what it did in the past.

I must say, I was not clear on that. Well, I still am not clear on that.
> The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. In the real world, farmers would begin switching to white onions and the supply would increase.

I think you've got it backwards. In the real world, supply is increased to meet demand. Farmers aren't going to grow more white onions just to see what happens. They've got to believe it's going to be a more profitable crop because it is in demand.

To extend your food analogy, it's like when Paul Prudhomme introduced blackened redfish at fine dining establishment Commander's Palace in the 1980's. Redfish went from being a "trash" fish to a species overfished to the point of near extinction. Importantly, nothing changed about the redfish itself. What changed was a new emphasis on using it in a dish.

Similarly, lobster went from being a peasant or prisoner food to a delicacy when railways and canning helped extend the demand beyond the northeast US.

What if a big part of solving the pipeline problem is simply for companies to demand more diverse candidates because leadership finally start to recognize the research that suggests that diverse teams outperform homogeneous teams on many metrics? I think this has to be the case because no one is getting into an employment pipeline that ends with what is perceived to be a hostile working environment.
@wolco: "... don't have a burning desire"
@feeping: "... computers were just there ... because I could code"
@wst_: "... who deeply care about their choices"

I disagree with the above sentiments, despite those being excellent reasons or attitudes to choose a field/calling/career. It is not necessary for others to arrive at a path in the same way that other people do. It is entirely possible that the burning desire, inclination, and careful choice occur after being accepted into a program or after more exposure into a coding environment. It is also very likely that such desire, inclination, and choice are discouraged by not having relatable peers or role models. I would find it much harder to fit and grow into a role if from the very beginning I was expected to already have inclinations and reasons that are similar to my coworkers.
> Maybe something like the blind auditions

Exactly! If you want to remove gender, race or some other aspect from the decision making process you have to actually remove it. You can't just try to fix discrimination one direction by creating discrimination in a different direction.
> What I don't understand is why this is so bad?

It's the idea that it would be unfair that on average women cannot do as well in things men do, ignoring basic biology that genders are different and that there are things that absolutely no man can do, that women can. Even sometimes those areas which privilege females are seen as they were basically cornered into doing, and have no bearing into the fact that while there is some chauvinism, that possibly on average the desires, needs and skills may be not better or worse but different. And the women that embrace those things are positive are seen as being dominated against their will, or brainwashed into hating themselves.

In short, if a women does something that historically men used to do, then it's good. Else, and even more if it is something that historically women used to do, they are being subject to sexism.

The PhD guy should know better, perhaps too much specialization in his field made his brain go fritz.
While Unreal 3 games are usually pretty easy to spot, Unreal 4 games that make full use of the engine's customizability are not. The lighting and texturing capabilities received a massive overhaul between the two versions.

If they aren't straying far from the defaults then it should be obvious why they would look the same.

While an experienced Unreal developer knows what to look for, the average gamer most likely couldn't tell if a AAA game was using Unreal Engine 4.
The cold war was not cold. In Africa it was red hot. We see the results there today of communism's spread.
> The other is convenient and fast dispensers that counts tools and sponges as they are used.

... and reliable. Not like those stupid vending machines. You would think after so many deaths they would have fixed the problem.
I'd like to see you jokingly, for the LULz walk into a biker bar in Iowa or Missouri wearing a Hillary hat.
> At the same time, there are co-workers who are questioning whether they can safely express their views in the workplace (especially those with a minority viewpoint).

Minority viewpoints in tech become silenced and their author(s) ostracized by the biases of a mob mentality. It doesn't even matter what you write because most people won't even read the original source, instead floating by on derivative tweets and extremely biased summaries (in whatever direction agrees with their existing views).

Irrespective of the original memo, and this is something I've felt more strongly in the past couple years, it's just not safe to share dissenting viewpoints in tech anymore.

We used to be the industry where anything could be discussed critically and the most objectively correct answer could win (logic! science!). Nowadays it's so political and heated, I've found it best to just stay out of the discussion and not share dissenting views anymore. I think the real problem we need to fix is being able to have rational critical discussion around topics we disagree with.
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Yes and no. On the useful side, they own some of the process inherent in large organizations. But they also act as a conduit to push that process to team members.

In practice, our scrum masters have been a place for the PMs, Analysts, and QA leads to go as their positions have been displaced. I would like to see more technical scrum masters that can own technical impediments, but that doesn't seem to be happening yet.

I also think that spreading scrum masters across teams will disconnect them from the specifics of the work and allow them to act more as coaches than non-technical team members.
Many here are tasked in their day jobs with implementing vaguely defined requirements. This feels like just such a case and thus the responses indicate a few of the possible ways one could take this entity goal and implement actionable rules.

The bottom line challenge I think AirBnB has going forward is how far are they willing to go in researching their customers? Will they only be reactive in case of organized events or can a single person get evicted based on social media posts?

It's easy to say case-by-case unless you're talking about an organization dealing with thousands of bookings per day. Unequal application of a policy can sometimes have worse implications than no policy at all. And it's hard to see how the policy can possibly be enforced uniformly.
There was a passing mention of evolutionary psychology in one of the points where the author was explaining other reasons for the gender disparity.
You will see it explode indeed (where "it" means "the browser" and "explode" means "tab gets throttled and/or crashes"). I understand the motivations for everything-in-a-browser, but this approach has major externalities - e.g. the client's power, both as in CPU and as in battery.
It is hard to notice the gradual changes, and we tend to give too much weight to the natural variance in the weather.

A conversation I had with an older East coast snow ski instructor was illuminating. The ski season is a few weeks shorter than it was 30 years ago. That's real economic impact.
Some quick research on this suggests that the average college graduate in engineering (which is programmer material, at least programmer material for companies like Google) is around 130. Sources like [0].

Therefore it is not unreasonable to deduce that people who work as programmers in prestige companies are, on the average, from the very right-hand tail ends of the normal distribution curve, and the differences of men and women (on the average, again) are significant enough to cause an over-representation of men among this group.

The same thing that causes an over-representation of men among homeless alcoholics at the left-hand-side end of the normal distribution.

[0] https://qz.com/334926/your-college-major-is-a-pretty-good-in...
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I agree that people with the wrong political opinions should not be allowed to work, and that it's up to corporations to be the ultimate arbitrator of what is acceptable political discourse.
The Q doesn't really replace the 6 though. I lived on the UES and worked around Grand Central so taking the Q would've probably doubled my commute. The 6 is a nightmare in the morning, but the Q actually helped with that. Anyone going to the west side would take the Q instead of the 6 to 51st to transfer to the E.

I only lived about 2 miles from work so as long as there wasn't a foot of snow on the ground, I would just walk. 40 minutes of fresh air beats 20 minutes on a stuffy train every time.

It was definitely a welcome addition though. It probably takes half the time to get to Penn Station from the UES now.
Perhaps men find the trades to be a more viable option.
Sure, so why can't we accept that then, if that's the case?
Cache link because it is down for me at the moment:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170808013732/quillette.com/201...
it doesn't look like he's suggesting his female colleagues are genetically inferior - more that men are more inclined towards programming than women on average, and that this will lead to a gender disparity. There are plenty of areas where men or women are more commonplace due to different gender averages of capability or interest, and that does not in any way mean that one is superior to the other. As the old saying goes, men and women are equal but they're not the same.
Is this inherently bad? That would imply that, for systemic reasons, girls are not "brought up" to enjoy computing. Is there harm in girls having different preferences, even if they are driven by the culture? Aren't most preferences driven by culture? You raise interesting points. I believe we should be motivating girls who show interest, but is there harm if no interest is shown?
People are not onions. People learn. Even if companies will lower the bar on entry for women they will be just forced to educate their employees more on the job. For people just out of school it might seem strange but jobs are where you get most of you useful education.

Is it additional burden on the companies? Sure. But we are fine with taxing companies and placing on them the burden of workers protections and environmental protection. This is just another protection. Protection against reinforcing inequality. I'm not saying it's good but additional education for less educated and more equality in society doesn't seem bad if the only cost is money from the richest corporations especially the ones that get most of their money from advertising which nowaydays is less about informing customer about your product existance and all about everything else.
The hard truth. It seems like nothing other than the college you went to matters in this industry. Atleast everyone should know about this situation so that people with passion and skill opting for engg from low tier college because they couldn't get into top ones won't waste their life
>Would you proclaim that at the time of marriage vows? No.

"Freebie lists" (shared lists between couples of people they'd be allowed to cheat with, if the extremely unlikely opportunity arose) are a thing - at least in pop culture.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freebie%20lis...
In a robot you use inverse kinematics to decide at what angle you should be setting your joint angles and then feedback control set the joints to the correct angle (in a very simple robot). I'm not aware of any feedback control mechanism that would turn xyz-space feedback to joint-angle-space control without going through an inverse-kinematics step.
We can simply inverse the logic to get the statements about men, so why aren't they fundamental and toxic misandry?

To inverse the quotes:

Men, on average, are more closed towards feelings and aesthetics. Men are not social or artistic.

Men are more disagreeable, leading to men being more combative, getting into fights, and being argumentative.

Men are emotional cold and don't have positive emotions.

You can't have a "women are in comparison to men ..." without getting "men are thus in comparison to women". How is those statements promoting men over women?
What was the architecture of your predictive model? Was it designed to learn the underlying physical dynamics from the tons of sensor data?
All sorts of social biases play into that too. Growing up, I "wanted" to be an engineer. After a mid-20s career change, I ended up as a lawyer. I love it, but not only did I never consider it as a kid, nothing ever prompted me to think about the possibility. Engineering is the societal default for a smart brown immigrant kid.

I'm already seeing this play out with my daughter. At four, she's highly gender normative, which means she wants to have pink everything and play with girls, not boys.[1] But she also loves puzzles, numbers, legos, and building things. That came to a head recently, because she ended up being the only girl in one of her science camps. At age four, she's already grappling with the tension between her gender identity and what kinds of activities society tells her are associated with her gender.

[1] One of my grievances about the Google Anti-Diversity Memo is it makes an erroneous assumption that just because children show some gendered preferences at a young age (e.g. trucks versus dolls), that somehow explains a gendered preference for/against programming as a career choice.
Oh, those bastard mysoginistic blue collar male manufacturers, keeping the good manufacturing jobs away from females who are forced to settle with being lawyers.
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These just sound like laws that should be enforced by the courts and the regular legal system. Why do we need an additional federal bureaucracy to administer them?

The question isn't if the ends are desirable. It's whether it is acceptable to merely consider whether the DoE as currently-constituted is the best way to achieve them.
There's also an announcement for the more general public: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/webvr-new-speedy-fe... (including some RAM comparisons with Chrome plus some startup stats)
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The problem is "whataboutism" is the new Godwin's Law. It's used to stop any conversation that the other person doesn't like. It had a good run until the alt-right realized they could use it too, and use it anywhere and everywhere. And when they use it, the other person has to stop talking, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card for neo-nazis and internet trolls.

I was having a conversation about the lack of response from the president on the Minnesota mosque bombing the other day and mentioned that they had time to talk about the Bowling Green Massacre story that was made up out of whole cloth by the administration, and the guy I was talking to said "oh so whataboutism is your only response?" His argument was basically "if you mention anything other than the exact topic we're talking about right now, it's whataboutism and your argument is invalid". But that's not true, and it's not even a valid use of the word "whataboutism". It's been co-opted and corrupted by these fascists who realized that if we use it, the conversation stops. So they can use it to stop the conversation too.

You have to understand that with a lot of these people, the conversation will never move on. You try to shift the conversation back, and if they don't let it then you move on. But crying "whataboutism!" and expecting something magical to happen... it doesn't. It won't. It never will again. They've learned that tactic and incorporated it into their strategy and it has lost all of its power. Now whenever I see someone using the word "whataboutism" to shut down a conversation, I can't help but wonder if they themselves aren't an alt-right fascist troll.

Remember when Godwin's Law could control a conversation on the Internet? But now if you say it everyone just laughs at you. That's where "whataboutism" is very quickly heading.
The thing is that this guy clearly thinks some things that affect his ability to do his job. Would you trust him to write a peer review for a female colleague or mentor a black intern?

Sure, why not?

I believe that the author is generally right, and that there are psychological differences between the sexes. And I have noticed that male bosses who believe that women are the same as men sometimes end up making their female subordinates cry a lot, because they don't realize the same harsh criticisms they would use on a guy are way too harsh for many women. They would be better bosses if they were aware of sex differences. For that reason, I believe knowing the truth is better even if that is "validating stereotypes."
> The enginner did not say women can't be engineers, merely implied that the gender imbalance in the field may not be entirely the result of society

And this is where he should've exercised better judgement. You can hold that view personally, you can discuss it with your friends, maybe you can go and try to run a study on it with some actual sociologists. Don't go around pushing pseudoscience in the work place to justify your views, then expect everyone to applaud you.

> Just because the other side is crazy

The other side is deeply integrated with their crazier part and now they hold Congress and the presidency. But somehow, we need to focus on how Google firing someone for saying shit he knew was going to be controversial and would generate a reaction is "the leftist religion."
I think they're trying to define "being in love" as "never having a romantic or sexual thought about anyone else, ever," and proclaiming the concept of love invalid if it can't meet that threshold.
Live and let live. That would be an ideal out come.
Obviously spend your life however you like, I just want to put it out there that it sounds like you don't like to put yourself outside of your comfort zone (like pretty much everyone, even the hipsters).

There is nothing 'hipster' about doing something outside of your normal routine, like travelling or yoga. I'd recommend you try it more often, you'd be pleasantly surprised at what sort of things (good and bad) will happen.

I recently went on a trip, and when the plane landed my first thought was that I wished I stayed home. Good and bad things happened on this trip, but boy am I glad I did it.
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This is a straightforward consequence of Obamacare that was predicted before the law even passed. The imposition of onerous cost ratio requirements means a company can make more money only by raising costs, not eliminating them.
The questions that you're responding to aren't often conscious questions. People are incredibly malleable, and generally do what they can to "fit in." If computing had the same male-stigma as, say, nursing, I'm not sure I would have majored in CS. Subconscious effects are difficult to deal with, but real nevertheless.
> Then, a few years ago, Shire tried a new tactic: giving ever-larger discounts to pharmacy benefit managers and insurers for preferential treatment over the generics. That did not mean lowering the list price of the drug, but rather negotiating rebates that were paid not to the patients but to insurers and middlemen such as CVS Caremark.
> In an exam where an upper caste person might have to score 100 to get in, the reserved caste person would have to score 70.

And we all know that the way to treat people with respect is to deal with them as if they were handicapped.
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Googling the author's names, you'll quickly find a snopes article in the first results:

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Better yet, from the article:

Then, a few years ago, Shire tried a new tactic: giving ever-larger discounts to pharmacy benefit managers and insurers for preferential treatment over the generics. That did not mean lowering the list price of the drug, but rather negotiating rebates that were paid not to the patients but to insurers and middlemen such as CVS Caremark.

Just prosecute them for anti-competitive practice or even collusion. What they are doing is probably already illegal.
Yes, but so would checking work email on vacation abroad. It's all a matter of risk tolerance.