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I am always surprised when well educated people misunderstand or misrepresent opposing arguments, or reuse data points that seem to support their side as some sort of argument-winning trump card.

> claiming that sex is not something inborn

Literally no serious[1] person studying gender makes that claim. The reason it's hard to understand is because the actual argument has always ben that both nature and nurture play important roles. As for why "culture" applies, remember that while sex involves genetics (and hormones, etc), gender is performative. Performance happens in a setting, thus acting masculine hap[ens in a culture/setting that defines what "masculine" means.

> Clearly man and woman are different physically

Obviously true in general, but there are surprises in the details.

> and mentally

That is technically true, but presupposing that is bad science. Historically a lot of stupid crap was invented to justify the two predefined[2] categories. More importantly, anybody claiming there is a difference needs to explain the specifics of which traits they are talking about, because for most attributes the bell curves overlap significantly.

> Lysenkoism

If you want to be paranoid, you will find ways to interpret your experience as being persecuted. Instead, I suggest actually listening to the actual arguments being made.

[1] I'm sure you can find examples of almost any claim in forum comments.

[2] Science should create categories from the observations. If you're starting with the two categories [M, F] and then trying to prove or disprove that, you're doing it wrong. These concepts are more complicated than a simple Boolean flag.
Trying to do this on my Zelda: Breath of the Wild master mode replay. Turned on the "Pro" HUD, which deactivates the map and requires more geography and landmark based navigation... surprisingly fun.
"consider the whole of the message it imparts"

This is a dangerous level of indirection. "The whole of the message". Sounds like you are reading into what it says, finding things that it doesn't actually say - without acknowledging that you are doing so.

The paper demonstrates that the author values diversity, open dialog, and science.

And many people at Google declared they were unwilling to work with such a person.

Those are the people who should have been fired, for creating a hostile, intolerant work environment.
Tucker Carlson on Fox had him on. Fox is one of the only MSM sources where you can discuss free speech openly.
Access to data members violates encapsulation. This is OOP 101. Complaining that a language doesn't allow declaration of data members in an interface declaration (and thus reliable direct access to data members) is basically complaining that the language enforces best practices for a 40 year old programming paradigm.
My eye gets drawn to the tradeoffs made in drawing them. For instance, often things on the surface are inked behind things below (like the monument in Columbus circle) because the things below are "more important" but this does make decoding the scene harder.

Also the S line platform in the 24nd-TimeSq station is drawn in such a way that it is not so clear what it is, which bugs me because I see that platform as one of the distinctive things about that station.
I think you are on point. I, too, have found that the ability to have open, honest, respectful discussions to have all but vanished. I do not have to agree with a person to respect their right to that viewpoint. Sometimes we just have to agree to disagree.

The world stops progressing at the intersection of openness and intolerance. Some people are great at praising their viewpoint in a way that gets the point across and that does not reflect judgment or offensive statements. Others are not as gifted in this ability. We are all different, but would we really want it any other way. Without our differences we would not have many of the products, inventions, technological advancements, etc that we have today. I do not want to have discussions with somebody just like me. I want to be continually learning and it takes interacting with people who have differing skills and viewpoints than myself.

I personally posted that I did not agree with everything he wrote or some of the statements that he advanced as fact, but that I will always defend his right to exercise his right of free speech. My concern was not over whether Google had the right to terminate his employment, as that was up to Google, but that my concern was the long term effect such actions would have on an open environment which professes to allow one to exercise an opinion. The response I received was free speech does not protect one from being fired when my post had nothing to do with Google's legal right to terminate him or even whether they should or should not have done so. The response was "Really, this point is unbelievably obvious. Do you also go around crusading for the rights of foul mouthed mechanics and surly waiters who get fired for their speech?".

Given this person made an assumption about who I am, I will give you a brief statement. I am first and foremost a woman. I am a mom and one of my children was diagnosed with a sub-70 IQ and autisim. My child has been called many things and such labels have never offended me. I simply view such statements as an indication of the speakers lack of knowledge, understanding and or sensitivity. I do not get mad, nor let it ruin my day. In this country we are afforded the right to free speech. They are free to say what they feel and I am free to respond verbally in the manner in which I feel is appropriate. I am not afraid to speak my mind or to confront difficult situations or discussions, I simply choose to be the bigger person.

In short, I respect the rights of others and bring to any discussion respectful challenges and dialogue when I feel it is warranted. Sadly, I have learned over the last 10 years or so that I cannot expect others to do the same.
I actually wasn't aware, thanks. I've been on GPM for years, but it might be time to get a refreshed view of the competition as well.
Wanted to add, an online commenter is probably one of the last people I would consult on philosophy, humanism or any kind of larger social issue. It's not exactly her scope.
It depends on a lot of things. In a prior life, I took some month-long vacations with effectively no communication back home. (it was pre consumer Internet.) It's definitely qualitatively different from my more typical week or two intermittently online trip these days.

That said, I get antsy if I'm "in the office" (physically or otherwise) for too long and, when traveling, there does come a point where I'm ready to get back to my house rather than living out of a travel backpack.

These days I find it much more practical to take a couple of 1-2 week vacations and spend some time around business trips than to take a huge chunk of time off. But circumstances will vary.
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people post this stuff all the time, you should stop crying about persecution.
"Because many developers have a limited depth of understanding and no desire to increase it" is the pithy but correct answer.
Interesting. I was never asked to do any reviews of my doctors or other healthcare providers.

As for your second question, I semi-jokingly tell my kids that my consciousness will be uploaded to the cloud and I will be posting dad jokes to their twitter long after I am dead. Just need to make sure I pay for hosting in advance.
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I have not attempted to refute his claims; they're too messy to make it a coherent task.

I have refuted the idea put forth by other people that his claims are supported by the scientific research he links to.

(My position, upthread of that comment, is that the document itself doesn't so much make claims that are wrong as display the deficiency of the author's critical-thinking skills to such an extent that Google should not have hired him. Imagine trying to read a design document or an outage postmortem written to the same level of coherence and with the same level of intellectual honesty.)
I never got the idea that Carmack plays games much, he mostly creates them.
I would agree that go has many flaws, but the formatting and gofmt is not one. I welcome a language that enable me to not care at all about the formatting, and just focus on programming.

- Write a messy formatted code
- Run gofmt
- Commit
Googlers got a very clear message: comply or you are out. The diversity crowd grabbed power and asserted it.

I don't see anything good coming out of this.
You can find complaints that range all the way from "spot on" to "wildly inaccurate" for any tool.

What project did you have in mind? What specific complaints did you see that made you think "this isn't a good fit"? And what did you pick instead?
Apple Music is rapidly evolving. They're putting a lot of effort into it.

OS integration is a big one for me, Apple Music is just so seamless. Personally I hate the Spotify UI, search is among the worst, and just like Google Music I find it has way too much Karaoke bullshit cluttering up results when it doesn't have the song you want.

That plus Spotify having no way to upload your own local files makes it a complete non-starter for me. Apple Music is getting way better on the radio & playlist front. The New Music Mix knows me surprisingly well.

I'd give it another shot if you haven't tried in the last 6 months to a year.
Yes, in go these things have solutions. Maybe not the best ones we can have, but there are ways to approach the problems beyond just giving up.

1 - Most editors automatically support that. I wouldn't say being forced to follow a certain code convention is bad, but it understandable that it may bother some people.

2 - You can still the code-reuse features of inheritance by using embedded structures with methods attached to them.

3 - There are many solutions which solve the problem without needing to commit the vendor directory to git like `glide`.
Lets use rocket attacks instead of terrorism. You could consider the actions of the US and Israel to be terroris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_...

Tel Aviv seems great honestly. Really my only complaint against Israel is the expansion of settlements and the alliance with South Africa during apartheid.
Actually, diversity measures make things worse by promoting below-average candidates unfairly based on their superficial attributes (skin color, sex etc). This actually achieves the opposite of what is intended as it reduces fitness selection of whatever genes make someone good at/interested in STEM topics. By going against meritocracy you are harming the vulnerable groups by giving them a crutch to rely on.
The amount of people who will actually do this and go through it is so tiny that this comment is worthless. Give and take a few years (and perhaps not in SF/NYC), you could say this about any decent paying job.
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>Terrorism is just minor nuisance [sic]

If you look at the raw numbers, only 3 people died in the boston bombings. But if you look at the economic costs,

- The entire boston transit system was shut down for security reasons, disrupting the entire city

- Large numbers of people did not go to work the next day, costing hundreds of millions in lost productivity

- An enormous manhunt ensued, at the cost of over 300 million

- Entire parts of the city were shut down, preventing them from going to work

- 10s of millions in costs to the victims

- Tens of thousands of hours of additional work for public employees

- Billions in lost productivity nationwide as people focused on the media saga

All this cost the terrorists only $200 in explosives. In your words, billions of dollars in economic damage "is just minor nuisance".
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> he's started putting out much more alt-right content

Alt-right means white nationalist, and it shouldn't be confused with civic nationalism, which is something altogether different.
Hyperbole - it's not really that hard. But it uses maths, so maybe not everybody has the stomach to try to understand it.
Could you be more specific? What does concise research refer to ? Do you mean info-products like videos, eBooks, and courses?
Are you using definition by belief, as anybody probably ought not to do?
> this guy felt shamed. Was that because the people were actually shaming him? Or was it because they stated facts that this guy feels shamed by?

I don't think it matters. As far as I am aware, no part of the business, or any part of this industry, is trying to help people understand why they should change their behavior and thinking towards women. The only thing I see is a sort of 'behavioral training' that tells you how to think and act, without helping you gain the empathy and compassion, or even rational arguments, needed for this to be a willing act. Do what we tell you to do or you're fired, we don't care if you believe it.

This sets back the whole cause because it makes silent angry people who stew until they get shamed at a retreat and then churn out ignorant manifestos they are subsequently fired for writing. If the company gave a shit, they would do more to help change minds, not just silence them.

Maybe their retreat was supposed to do that. But it sounds more like people there were hostile rather than compassionate, and didn't do their job to help these people understand. And now the alt-right has a new poster boy to push their propaganda.
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You can sort each by country, genre, language.
I wonder if the author has gotten a chance to use Java or C++ for any extended period of time. While I don't think Golang is the greatest language ever invented, the trade-offs it offers for the productivity it provides is paramount to me.

I think an appreciation for Go and the choices it makes can only be fully felt once you've spent a significant amount of time in another less expressive/convenient/simple language.
how to start it?
Or Google can reduce the overrepresented candidate pool to match that of underrepresented by randomly select the appropriate number of candidates from the overrepresented (i.e. Randomly reject, lol). This should have no effect on te bar each candidate is expected to pass, underrepresented or not.

Interestingly this hypothetical scenario would probably increase the false negative rate for overrepresented applicants due to random rejection, which effective lowers false negative rate for underrepresented applicants relative to the overrepresented.
Sorry I was unclear. I mean the field of psychology in general (or whatever parts of it are useful for marketing), and the general identity of the target market.
You are assuming that the change in the 80s was something that made programming less attractive to women. But that's not the only change that could explain what happened. It could be that one or more other fields changed to become more attractive to women.

Until people stop focusing on where there women aren't, and instead focus on where the women are, we aren't going to figure out what the problem is in programming, or even figure out if there actually is a problem with programming.

There's a graph here [1] showing percent of bachelor's degrees going to women in several different fields over time, from 1970 through 2010.

The decline in women getting CS degrees starting in mid '80s really stands out. However what also stands out is that nothing else seems to have gotten a noticeable bump around the same time, so assuming that those women who are missing from CS did not leave college entirely, where are they?

It's possible that there is a bump but we just can't see it. There were only about 40000 BS CS degrees granted per year in the middle '80s. Some other fields beat that by a large factor, and so it is possible the missing CS women could have been absorbed into a few of those big majors where the bumps might be small enough to be lost in the noise.

Another interesting thing is that if you look just at CS, the total number of CS BS degrees was growing through 1985, then started falling [2]. If you look at just men, and just women, the same thing happened for each. For both, from 1970 to 1985 they were on an accelerating growth curve (almost exponential), and then for both it turned around and fell quickly (also almost exponentially) then leveled off.

During that growth phase the women's growth curve was accelerating more than the men's curve. During the decline phase, the women's decline was faster, too.

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor...

[2] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474991/it-careers/wome...
I... I feel I can't believe the company has 1) top salary, 2) top benefits 3) unlimited travel 4) work remote 5) top enterprise clients 6) small teams 7) work as much as you want?

either someone is ridiculous at managing at all of this (kudos!) or something is slipping somewhere. Even in custom-dev it can be cutthroat, especially with large-scale projects and demanding clients.
I am not surprised you mention "missing generic".
It can be done by using interface.
As "no inheritance", you can use encapsulation.
As "broken package management", you can use "vendor".
Above are all about how to engineer application.
There is no only one way to solve it. (if you are from java/C++, I don't think those OOP concepts are the king rules)
As of "Google Guidelines", I would judge you just entered the beginning level of software engineering. (You dont know how much pain without those)

In conclusion, I think you blog title is just making horrible attention.
I'd imagine the drivers being really upset... because I assume they'd also use the vehicle for personal things as well.
This is what I have found. When I travel, I want to travel deep, so to speak, and suck out all of the marrow. I have tried to do work while touring by bicycle and, while work could easily finance my trip indefinitely, I was seeing much, much less by bringing it along. Better to save up for shorter trips, free to wander as I will.
Elite women mathematicians are less likely than men to believe they’re elite
New York uses the reverse of that. You fill out a paper ballot, which then gets fed into a machine for counting. A random sample (of sufficient size) of the paper ballots are then counted to verify the electronic results.
With a navy group next door and the massive amount of anti-missle and anti-artillery stuff that's doubtless setup on the peninsula, I don't think the risk of a strike on Japan or S. Korea doing any significant damage is that high.
I have a password at work which is required to be EXACTLY eight characters, with no special characters.

Took me a long time to come up with a password.
That is exactly the point. When the US has the #11 world GDP/capita and Slovakia has the 39th ranked GDP/capita (at 55% of the per capita GDP compared to the US), shouldn't the US strive to have higher educational standards? It's not down putting the Slovak educational system, it's more of a shot at the US system and the lack of emphasis on educational rigor.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Lifestyle businesses eventually give you more of what you really want, freedom.

VC backed startups seem to just give you a new set of bosses.
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Go's most impressive feature to me is it's build ecosystem. Took one of Tyler Treat's experiments and had it running within 30 minutes, no real previous Go build experience.

The language itself? Meh. Python/Haskell/C/LLVM IR cover my use cases. I see Go as another wrapper on top of LLVM IR when it is convenient and that is it.
Where does the assumption that I don't know how selective breeding works comes? Because if someone has concerns such as mine they must obviously be some anti-scientific luddite?

For one, selective breeding has been going on for millennia -- and from people who had to eat its results, not mega corporations 10 times removed and interested in short term profit.
If it was that dangerous we'd know it by now.

Second, the species must be already related and/or compatible to a certain degree -- the same reason we don't have cat and snake hybrids in nature. Whereas with GMOs you can have arbitrary changes and mixes.

So it's not "waay more random" as it has way more limited scope. It's only random in that practitioners are not certain of the successful inheritance of the desired traits.

But it's like comparing playing with lego bricks to playing with creating stuff at the molecule level.
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import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";

import "rxjs/add/operator/map";
import "rxjs/add/operator/reduce";
import "rxjs/add/operator/take";
import "rxjs/add/observable/of";

// etc. - this way you only get what you need into your bundle
Your preferred solution to the problem of gender inequality is a magic ray gun that imparts empathy and compassion?

I mean, OK. I agree, that would work. But you honestly don't think that's what we're trying to do here? It's hard. People are jerks. All we simpering SJW's are saying is while people are still jerks, would it really hurt so much if they were forced not to act like it in ways that actively hurt things?

You're saying that people's opinions are the problem and that doing this thought police stuff isn't changing them, so it's not a solution.

Isn't the actual problem, though, that women (c.f. this very thread) don't feel comfortable or welcome in tech careers? How is the inner mental landscape of a bunch of dudes going to fix that? Isn't the "real" solution to, y'know, actually make things better for women in this industry?
I do not think Bobstaples is advocating no repercussions for exercising free speech. I know that in a thread I commented on someone assumed I was saying the same. I think what he is saying is that we can have a respefult open discussion that does not devolve into snap judgments, name calling, etc.

And you are correct that speech has consequences; it can make you feel like you are walking on air and can hurt more than a physical blow. I think what he is saying is that we have to learn how to listen without judging and respond without casting aspersions. Sometimes we simply have to agree to disagree. No two people are alike.
> Should working children on farms in Iowa be banned?

Yes, especially if they're working on tobacco farms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27350413

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/photo-essay/2015/12/08/teen...

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2015/12/08/teens-toba...
Sometimes I feel good about not being short and not in the escalator business.

Very interesting article/point of view.

“Monsieur l’Abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerais ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire”

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