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Norway has had "gender points" in relation to acceptance at university for several studies, especially in the STEM related ones. The gender gap has closed a great deal in most of the STEM studies, but not that much in CS related ones.
Some of the studies have become nearly 50/50, and an interesting event is when they tried to remove the "gender points" from one of the studies, and the female acceptance rates fell to almost zero. Females in Norway generally have better grades, so one could make the argument that the difference is because of interest.
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> The fact that group X is known to use certain tactic does not mean Y is using it too.

No, the use of English in politics (which this is) is pretty consistent, actually, in my experience. If he wanted to have a discussion, point at a policy and suggest an alternative rather than falling back on "merit is good, women are terrible engineers".

Replacing discriminatory hiring with paid apprenticeships and other education for groups the organisation is lacking in, would be a great example. Men can still get into Google because there's more of them in the pool. They're never discriminated against for a job, since the apprenticeship pool is separate from the job pool. Google gets a more-qualified, more-diverse workplace with more control over its training program. A win for everybody.
> The past few days have been very difficult for many at the company, and we need to find a way to debate issues on which we might disagree

...So we've fired the person starting the debate? Am I missing something here?
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Differences that cause someone to be less qualified are called "weaknesses".
Exactly. A very reasonable document is criticized as being "unscientific" or "discredited", and when pressed for specific inaccuracies, this is the best response? The left and corporate culture has gone full retard on this issue.
Until the late 60s, "programming" had very little to do with the "software development" that bloomed in the 70s.

Interestingly, "dumb frat bros" are somehow not affected by people calling them that and manage to fight through the emotional pain and still achieve their dreams of being in tech. I've noted a very large group of people react negatively to the person who wrote the memo, writing insults(like "dumb frat bro"), demanding he be fired, threatening him with violence, the whole shebang. Unless I'm missing something, you seem to be implying that women are inferior to "dumb frat bros" because the "dumb frat bros" seem to be better at handling other people trying to bring them down.
Very similar experience.

I had to preempt the word and then either imagine a synonym or add a long vowel as a launching pad ...."Oh! Blackboard"
Am a black programmer.
Would hate to be a diversity hire.
Don't feel like I'm hurting.

Do I qualify as belonging to a minority according to your definition of "the oppressed", or will you "dismiss or minimize" my opinion because it doesn't align with yours?
Russian TV has operated in patriotic imperial brainwashing mode for the past 15 years (and their culture in general - for the last 300 years), so no surprise here.
Sorry, that makes sense. It's Scandinavia if that helps.
would you fight for the EU?
I think he was smart and planned all of this. I am reading that he has previously complained to NLRB and plans to sue Google for firing him arguing that his dismissal was a revenge.

And by reading memo instead of its misinterpretations on feminist blogs it seems like he just pointed out that Google created environment where people who dont agree with current left leaning political correct agenda cant express their opinions safely anymore. And he got fired for exactly this: expressing opinions that are not aligned with SJW dogma.

His language was very careful, his claims were sourced. He mentioned multiple times that this controversial points are not his personal opinions but rational explanations, and he was very careful to point out that he doesnt generalize based on this data. I havent find single sentence that could be used on court as proof of misogyny. He is guilty only of opening talking points SJWs and feminists dont want to talk about and use tactic of character assassination to dismiss messenger instead of debating his message.

HR was forced to fire him by outrage that many of their vocal left leaning echo chamber activist caused. I am not convinced this was beneficial for google. He will probably won the case for compensation.
And from PR perspective? Sure, regressive left, SJWs, hardcore hillary supporters... they will like this move. But conservative publications use this as perfect point to smear Google, accuse them of spreading left propaganda, accuse them of firing conservatives...
I am not sure which camp is bigger and which brings more money.
Most of the time I agree with this, but some areas (where e.g. Google make Dart but also make Chrome), I think there are risks.
indeed a followup question could be: would you fight for the EU?
For all the people who think the memo actually had a point, this is a huge opportunity. You can now get a court case going and get a judge to rule on it.

It would, of course, be a good idea to do some background research into biology, sociology, cross-industry comparators and the history of software development. And drum up some expert witnesses. I'm sure you'll be fine.
I am going to strongly disagree with you, it seems as if you are guilty of blowing facts “out of your ass,” we the the implication that bioequivalence is the same as therapeutic efficacy. Because that isn’t always true, especially in psychiatric drugs. It could be true in many cases, but it isn’t always true – which means there is sometimes a clinical justification for non-generics.

Here’s one study addressing that specific issue:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12860486/
> due to systemic discrimination in hiring.

It's ridiculous how many times I see this dropped out of nowhere in this thread without any sources or proof.

This is a very contentious statement on a two sided issue.

It is similar to proclaiming that minimum wage increases will always lower job opportunities without any proof.
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It's not a non sequitur, by "discrimination" I mean unjustified discrimination. I didn't "twist words", so stop making bad-faith accusations. You have setup a strawman of your own, deciding that by "face no discrimination" I must mean an extreme level of literally no negative bias, even at random or by error.

I disagree that "Making it proportional is [a target]". Hiring should not be based on sex/race, but that doesn't mean it can't be based, justifiably, on things that correlate with sex/race. The issue is here is that there is no direct insight into the factors hiring decisions, other than broad hiring statistics than do not distinguish between e.g correlation and cause.
Probably a stupid suggestion but ask some of your friends if your website is reachable, it's probably fine for you because you're the developer. But it looks like there's some issue you're not aware of.
I said exactly what you are saying.

Most people chose jobs because they pay well for little work.

Nobody really calls for diversity among coal miners.
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Correct, and bioequivalence is not the same as therapeutic efficacy.
Yes. Here’s one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12860486/
How does you not wanting to hire leftists jive with your solution of "blind hiring"? If you did blind hiring, wouldn't you end up with a quite a substantion group of leftists? Your position doesn't seem to be consistent with itself.
The military as a refuge for those who would otherwise have a hard time finding work/education/healthcare etc is probably a US phenomenon - and the US military probably would be less attractive if more progressive politics meant better conditions for all.

In countries with pro armies outside the US I believe it's more like any other job such as a policeman. In countries with conscription it's not even a job, it's more like a part of mandatory schooling (I have lived through both kinds - I did it with conscription and now it's a professional career like any other).
Trouble with the law, dropping out of school etc here now means you can't become a soldier, just like you can't be a cop.
I always laugh when I see this complaints, given that Lisp was already running on IBM 7090, Univac M-460, IBM 360 and many other mainframes.

Any of those tiny environments run circles around the hardware constraints of 60's and 70's mainframes.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1345/aph.1M141

If the therapeutically value of an excipient is that they change the absorption rate of the active ingredient, then that effects the bioequivalence of the drug. For example, comments in this thread refereed to different sized particles in inhalers which can have a direct effect on absorption rates.

If we disregard the therapeutic effect from the rate and extent that the "active ingredient or active moiety in pharmaceutical equivalents or pharmaceutical alternatives" reaches the site of drug action, what is left to change the therapeutic effect?
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The article didn't really give an example of using contexts but from what I can tell they are a way to add additional semantics to a function? The article mentioned cancellation and implicit parameters at least.

My first reaction was that monads would solve the problem. Since this is go hardcoding cancellation intonthe language probably is the best available solution, though.
It's certainly going to be an easy sell to the bulk of the Guardian's readership.

Can't see them publishing the equivalent article about the prejudices of, say, the north London elite.
Seems a bit mad to make a private company the gatekeeper.
In general, stimulants were once more popular as apatite curbing agents. When the drug was developed, they probably thought people would use it to lose weight, so 'glucose eater' has the same general effect they were going for: weight loss.
GNOME guys seriously need to learn to make land pages.
Other reasons besides education for why women are underrepresented in tech
I love how you throw around the term "qualified" as though it were set in stone. Like one person is obviously more qualified than the other, as though these people are 100m sprinters whose performance is measured within a fraction of a hundredth of a second.

We're treating highly educated specialists tasked with delivering highly complex, variable and nuanced output like 19th century factory workers. How many hundreds of books have been published on just the question of measuring employee productivity, yet for the sake of this conversation we toss terms like "more qualified" around like they are law.
It's hard to assume good faith in your opinion when the article that published his memo explicitly stated that they had removed the references from it.
Might be worth remembering that companies like Google have significant links with education systems, so they can address their hiring not just at the "who is applying" stage.
Also, regarding "lowering the bar" - remember there is a lot more to building a SWE team than finding people who can do the best whiteboard coding challenges. Coding skills can be improved, diversity of backgrounds is also a team strength and one that can't be taught.
So, one would hope that by forcing hiring diversity now, companies 1) force the white dude monoculture to break down, encouraging 2) more women to see SWE as an appealing opportunity, making 3) their future hiring pipeline and hiring committees sufficiently diverse that they don't need to force numbers.

Also worth remembering that women CS grads entering the field used to be climbing at the same rate as lawyers and other similar fields, then something changed in the mid-1980s and while the other fields progressed ever-nearer 50%, CS numbers took a nosedive. I don't have good research into exactly why that happened, but I'm guessing women didn't say "oh we're doing 32bit computers now? Nah you keep this one bros" ;)
uTorrent used to be really efficient, small memory-footprint, full featured bittorrent-client. One of the best software I've ever used to download... perfectly legal content [1] from the internets.

Now it's full of ads and performs poorly.

[1] Like all the different Linux distro install images over and over again.
Europe is strictly regulated, yet those regulations, at least in France allow homeopathy to be prescribed despite absolutely no effect beyond a placebo. Almost every pharmacy in France is loaded up with homeopathic nonsense despite the “regulations.”
I'd also add that support in Vim and Neovim are also very good.
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But no one said that?

Could you provide text snippets where this was said?
I don't think KDE has too many settings, but I do agree that the need to adapt to different form factors has made a lot of UI a lot cleaner and more concise. Mobile and tablet interfaces seem to have had a positive impact on cleaning up the desktop, while still providing means to change commonly needed settings.
200 currently. But I have 16gb. And I like how it looks and works. Jiggily windows when I move them. A centering crosshair when moving windows. The way they'll shuffle behind and in front of each other with a cute and quick animation when changing focus. All plugins you can choose to use or not, and even tweak.

And to "SmellyGeekBoy"s point: that's the thing that makes Linux so Linux-y. I can choose that. Or not. Or a raw command line only. Or have Plasma, Neon, Gnome, Cinnamon, LXDE, Lubuntu Next, and XFCE all installed AT THE SAME TIME. It's what you want. It's what you like. It's YOUR machine. Your desktop environment. You choose and tweak the one that suits you. No one should be able to hate or discriminate against that, it's not their desktop. So fuck'em.
> Dowry is almost non-existent today in Western culture.

Do you not understand that being able to provide a dowry in the past is being "rich" today? Peterson's whole approach to evolutionary psych can be summarized as "this is what people have done in the past, therefore it is a big problem that people are now doing something different." The problem is that Peterson does not seem to actually know what people have done in the past, and how similar it is to what happens today. The result is a lot of ignorant ranting about problems that do not exist.

> Divorce rate is extremely high among lower status people. Single motherhood is alarmingly common.

This was actually the start of Peterson's rant that I mentioned. When in the history of "Western civilization" was this not the case? Lower class women were always treated as slaves, serfs and/or prostitutes and constituted the majority of the population in Europe. Out-of-wedlock births and maternal material deprivation is the historic norm. Forget even having a single mother, many more children than today were raised in orphanages because their single mothers were too poor to provide for them. The only discernible reason Peterson finds this novel or "alarming" is because of his misogynist views on women now having the choice of marriage and divorce.
The quote you take issue with is kinda, sorta justified by the wikipedia article he cites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...

A meta-analysis of scientific studies concluded that men prefer working with things and women prefer working with people. When interests were classified by RIASEC type Holland Codes (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional), Men showed stronger Realistic and Investigative interests, and women showed stronger Artistic, Social, and Conventional interests. Sex differences favoring men were also found for more specific measures of engineering, science, and mathematics interests.[77]

The wikipedia article in turn cites:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140

Results showed that men prefer working with things and women prefer working with people, producing a large effect size (d = 0.93) on the Things-People dimension. Men showed stronger Realistic (d = 0.84) and Investigative (d = 0.26) interests, and women showed stronger Artistic (d = -0.35), Social (d = -0.68), and Conventional (d = -0.33) interests. Sex differences favoring men were also found for more specific measures of engineering (d = 1.11), science (d = 0.36), and mathematics (d = 0.34) interests.

Not exactly the same point he made above but you can at least see how he is coming up with "women prefer jobs in social or artistic areas", "men prefer [coding]". I wish for his sake that he hadn't gotten into the differences between front end / back end code because it does sound particularly speculative and presumptuous - but if you can take a step back and take a broader look at his arguments there does seem to be some scientific evidence in support of his main thesis that "that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership".

Note: I just wanted to point out that I am appreciative that you are attacking his memo on the merits of his arguments. I apologize if that comes across as a patronizing thing to say, but for me the big scandal here has really been the way that dissenters have warped, twisted, and outright dismissed his memo as wrong without even attempting to counter any of his points. To me it feels like the liberal left (of which I self identify, btw) are dismissing his argument not because it is wrong, but because it contradicts their beliefs or because they are afraid of where a serious exploration of the subject might lead us. I don't personally have any issues with affirmative action (although I can understand how it might upset some people) - but I do care greatly about protecting the free and open exchange of ideas. And the calls for the this guy to be fired feel like a disturbing form of censorship to me.
That kind of thing is unfortunately the norm here in the UK too.
that's not how evidence works. I have no interest in assessing or refuting whatever studies he might have cited to support his argument. the argument was that his coworkers were biologically inferior for the job of programming, which I can tell you up front is an unsupportable position. the studies might point out differences sure, but that is a far cry from the conclusion of inferiority or superiority for any particular task, and suggesting such a thing is morally and ethically repulsive.
Thanks, there is quite a bit of info with great visualizations. It seems 1751-1800 was a relative minimum of years of wars.
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The "assholes" may not have come from elsewhere.
Thanks for the tip. I'll check out Neon.

I was really liking Cinnamon, but I don't know. Something just felt incomplete, and I was having odd issues that seemed to be exclusive to running Cinnamon. I switched to Plasma, and have really liked it, very much, a lot so far.
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> If gender-based diversity programs are responsible for qualified women getting jobs that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten due to bias

But is the bias substantiated so that diversity hiring tracks it? Do the men who lose out to diversity candidates, the same that are benefiting from bias (as individuals, not "men, as a group")?

Isn't this like saying "Jailing innocent men is a fair price to ensure the guilty don't get away"
Maybe I'm reading too much into your post but I sense some anger or indignance. If that's true it is misplaced. Understand that if he phrased it any other way, he would have been further crucified.

Phrasing it more honestly and straightforward would be heresy in a corporate environment.
Yes, the coating on extended release drugs can be very sophisticated:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/business/generic-ritalin-...
Yeah - a high caste Tamil Brahmin has fired someone for expressing the belief that not all people are equal :)
On the other hand, maybe there's not going to be a Year of the (any) Desktop at all anymore...
I feel that one critical thing that have been missed by many is that on the meta-level this manifesto largely acts as a defence.

Feminists/whatever have come with far-reaching accusations of discrimination. Often backed by very flimsy arguments that often has a frightening lack of details and specifics. What I find the most absurd is that I can't recall ever having heard of an actual woman who was discriminated, instead one is very happy to talk about various summary statistics.

The point is that these accusations have been raised, and in fact come to be accepted as the established truth. Almost everyone, at least in public, agrees with the feminist viewpoint. Somehow, despite these opinions being universally agreed upon, many are not interpreting the manifesto in the context of a defence against these accusations.

Finally, I can to some extent understand the need for affirmative action However, one question I find interesting to think about is, when are we going to stop it? When has society gotten "good enough" that we no longer need these policies?

It seems society have made very good progress towards grater equality in the last few decades. Yet when reading the news, discrimination facing women and minorities seem worse than ever. Instead of relaxing affirmative action as society is becoming increasingly equal, the situation is the other way around with a never ending stream of demands for new exceptions, extra initiatives and so on.
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No, but you obviously also don't necessarily know if some streets it asks you to go to are in bad areas, unless you know about the city/country it has you visit in a lot of detail.
Looks interesting, I didn't even know that you still could buy PowerPC she. Anyone know of pros and cons?
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Good luck with your political oriented filtering, you should add that into the job description, and save people more time.
Pretty sure this piece was written by a second-year college student.
Yes, exactly, and a very good reason to dismiss these as a valid reason for war.
Proof is living here in India. Watching year after year, your seniors, neighbors, cousins, class mates, tuition mates, office colleagues burn through insane hours entirety of the whole academic life from childhood till late teenage, working for doing good in exams, scoring the top ranks that there are, and yet being denied seats in professional colleges.

The very fact that you ask for proof means you are completely disconnected from the everyday reality of life middle class hard working students face in India every single academic year.

Even today I meet freshers at IT companies who have stories of having scored in upwards of 95% aggregate marks, and best rank in competitive exams(JEE, NEET, NATA, CET etc) and lose out an engineering seat to some one who had 35-45% marks.
It's actually a game or sorts. I think I've misjudged the content of the website.

You kind of have to read the code to understand what is happening, but it's actually the users that can take part in the hack, there are several steps to a back door that will allow players who participate in the ICO to 'hack' it and withdraw the funds.

The first clue to the hack is on the website, the plan was to reveal the rest over time.

In my own head I thought I had put the right level of clues to have people make the jump and see what was happening, without being too obvious on how to do it. I think I've made it too confusing though from the comments I'm getting it, and most people are just taking it at face value and seeing it as a scam. Which I guess is kind of the point. Most participants would lose their contribution, but some could also take out more.

I might rework the website to explain it better and try again.