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Quoting Sundar Pichai (Google CEO), emphasis mine:

> 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). They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent. So to be clear again, many points raised in the memo—such as the portions criticizing Google’s trainings, questioning the role of ideology in the workplace, and debating whether programs for women and underserved groups are sufficiently open to all—are important topics. The author had a right to express their views on those topics—we encourage an environment in which people can do this and it remains our policy to not take action against anyone for prompting these discussions.

Good luck with that. You can't take a guy out back and shoot him for speaking his mind, and subsequently expect others do so.

I'm certain Google management knows this as well. They know exactly what they're doing and they're fine with it.
"The author had a right to express their views on those topics—we encourage an environment in which people can do this and it remains our policy to not take action against anyone for prompting these discussions."

Maybe he missed the memo that the author has been fired? How is that encouraging for people with unpopular opinions?
What I don't understand is why vets are considered in short supply in Australia. Graduates vets out of uni struggle to get jobs here.
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I have few Python algorithms and data structures here:
https://github.com/lion137/Python-Algorithms
https://github.com/lion137/Python-Data-Structures
You can use them if you want to extend a bit your; all tested and working (as far as I know).
Let me know if you need me to add any comments/explanations to code...
Yes. This is a case where I upvoted the article for the work and clear thesis, but would downvote the editorial staff if I could. They gave this author a bit of a softball pitch and could have cut this way down. Column-inches aren't worth sacrificing quality over.

As an American, I've noted the popularity of this kind of "America still sucks!" media material. I've seen it for 40 years and I imagine it'll still be going strong 40 years from now. It's not that I have a problem with introspection and going over all of our faults and thinking about where we could be better. It's after a couple hundred of these things? I'm not seeing where a lot of them are adding any more to the discussion.

It gets to have more of a feel of a religious sermon or catechism, where the material is well-known by both the speaker and audience and held dear, but over time the ritual of pronouncing and consuming the material can become more important than the content itself.

Still, given the caveats about the genre, points for style and cogency.
So if it's good for R&D now, it should disrupt its way up the value chain over time, right?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRneMj7LX8U&list=PLC86T-6ZTP...

A summary of what happened back then: https://cryptologie.net/article/316/junipers-backdoor/
> Because gender discrimination is rife

Please stop making these unqualified statements on very touchy subjects
Give me a break.

1. It wasn't published anonymously

2. What he's saying is not even close to promoting slavery or legally allowing religious discrimination

3. The entire point of the screed was that the diversity issue isn't talked about openly but should be. The response by Google's diversity chief literally says:

> Part of building an open, inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views, including different political views, feel safe sharing their opinions.

So your assumption that these things should not be discussed at Google is wrong, at least in the eyes of their Diversity chief, who's opinion I would think is highly relevant in this case

Finally, like many others in this thread deride what's said in this article as untrue and unhealthy without ever backing it up. Obviously I'm not saying the article is 100% right, but most the claims he makes about men and women have scientific backing, they are just not regularly discussed. As others have noted his premises about men and women being biologically different are basically a summary of this study:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x
There is just no winning in the following chain of arguments:

- We can debate anything

- However, some views are too harmful to be debated

- Whoever is most vocally outraged decides the boundary between open to debate/too harmful
>relatively fair.

What the hell does this mean in the first place? Elections could only be either fair or not fair, you either can win in a honest competition or you can't since the regime can apply some measures to restrict such possibility. This sounds just ridiculous.
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Neither is it fun, readable or implies any sorts of knowledge of the language.

- One-char function names.
- You call a "list" a list. Shadows built-ins. At least use lst.
- if list==[] is non PEP8. Should be if not list.
- [list[0]] could be written as list[:1]
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> Somebody as brilliant as Peter Thiel would be fired today, or more likely: never hired

Or never apply to work for Google in the first place. There are fashions in morality just as there are in clothing ( http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ) , and who can predict now what ideas may become crimethink to Google's HR department in future?

If you're a talented, in-demand programmer, why work for a company that might arbirarily sack you based on your opinions? This doesn't mean Google will fail -- they have sewn up the web advertising market tight enough that they could weather a decade of bad decision-making.

I'll leave the last words to PG:

> Almost certainly, there is something wrong with you if you don't think things you don't dare say out loud.

and:

> I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
I just pushed multi layer perceptron with back propagation algorithm:
https://github.com/made2591/go-perceptron-go
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
No, I'm mostly upset that people are taking the document as something much lighter than what it is due to its use of weasel words. Take a critical read of it with some understanding of political speech and what comes out is "the author believes that all gender-based diversity programs should be scrapped with minimal replacement" - I'd like people to read it as that and discuss it based on what it actually means, rather than trying to suggest that it's anything less than that.
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You got a good point. These days social class is more a determining factor for chances to move up than it has ever been. The risk with race, gender or other policies based on past evils is fighting the last war.
I am not. I am replying strictly to "this is pure censorship." So fucking what? At work we are absolutely expected and required to censor ourselves, that's practically the definition of "work."

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I did skim it and it seemed like the pseudo intellectual mumbo jumbo people who think they are being really smart but really are just being obnoxious write; since I read way to much of that sort of thing already I didn't care to read further.
Well, Lytro is still in business and they are doing precisely that. https://www.lytro.com/immerge

It's a true plenoptic (light-field) camera.
Hey there - my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you Likes|Digest - a weekly email digest & a searchable list of your Twitter likes - the second project for my personal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months".

I wanted to build Likes|Digest because I often times I like different tweets as a way of bookmarking - but never get back to them.

So I thought that a weekly email reminder with all of these likes could at lest help me take another look over it. And since Twitter doesn't provide a search feature for all this likes I've also added a search feature (which is still a work in progress).

Would love to get your opinnion on it.
As the note basically says; starting a debate does not excuse you from suggesting that some of your co-workers are there because of a "lowered bar", your evidence being psuedo-scientific bullshit about the tech-skill distribution among minorities and women.
I feel this way a lot about Gnome, and even Ubuntu's attempt at "Unity".

It wants to be Mac. It wants to be Windows. In the end it's like all of the worst parts of both, made in to a mutant of dis-congeniality. They want the familiarity and user experience of both, and in the end capture neither.
As someone working in tech, I find it somewhat offensive that Uber had some real twats working for it, and now I am categorized together with Travis as "tech discriminating against women".
Would you be willing to defend your country in the Hindukush mountains?

The definition of 'Defence' can be streched and bend in various ways. You can be sure, that in the end almost every casus belli is in 'defense' of 'your country' or 'your countrymen' or 'your values'.
Can you link what you're looking at or provide the bond CUSIP?
I believe you have misconstrued the message Sundar was giving.

The difference between having the freedom to speak one's mind, and breaching a code of conduct that you sign when you agree to work for Google is clear cut in his note.
The definition of pH is pretty much a measure of the proton concentration of things dissolved in water. You can look at similar measures in non aqueous solution but then it doesn't fit the definition properly.
It's not market forces. It's the fact that they hire so many new grads. Lack of mental/political/ideological diversity in universities leads to lack of diversity inside Google too (and Facebook and ...)
Its not just collective guilt its collective punishment.
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By doing this, Google is sending a strong signal that they will not tolerate a diversity of opinions.

That does not bode well for them, for a restrictive intellectual environment is anathema to the kind of intelligent people they want to hire to keep the company competitive.
But Firefox has the option to disable search functionality in the URL bar - not sure if it still asks you or if it's hidden behind an about:config option these days though. It's also significantly better at matching parts of URLs and titles from your history in my experience.
And fighting 'defensively' also has a large range. Most recent wars involving western nations would probably be categorised (at least by them) as defensive whereas I would disagree. There's a huge difference between fighting because your country has been invaded (e.g. troops on the ground, trying to overthrow your government, killing civilians) and fighting because a country has dangerous weapons they could theoretically use to attack you at some future date (both arguable defensive, but only the first would I consider fighting in).
.>try to remember this is because it took so long for society to accept women in these roles that it may not have been a dream of many until the last decade or two.

Revisionist bullshit. Hardly surprising from a cunt like you.
You got eaten alive in the name of "science" and objective inquiry for sharing information relevant to assessing the impartiality of experts. Funny.

Thanks for sharing.
Moral of the story: stupid angry lynch mobs win when they are loud enough to be the majority. It doesn't matter how uninformed the majority viewpoint is.. majority > minority.

There is no debate, only angry people seeing what they want to see. Get angry first, ask questions later (or never) - just people being people.

Googles response is simply to appease both sides as best they can, recognizing that one is the majority. The firing is enough blood to appease the stupid & intolerant, this post is to appease the rest.
I live in Dublin and I can barely understand native Irish people either. I side with the computer.
> The whole reason diversity practices exist is because "some classes of people" are already being harmed. Without "diversity practices", we already have practices that emphasize and discriminate sex and race, except they happen to be the status quo.

Citation needed and it needs to be relevant in a liberal tech company environment.
There's been a lot of shade thrown on "leftists" and "marxists" in relation to this manifesto. Yet it was a senior member of Trump's team that said 2/3rds of Silicon Valley CEOs being Asian was a problem.

Note, 2/3rds of CEOs in Silicon Valley are not Asian, he was probably overreacting based on looking just at Google, Microsoft and Facebook, and they're probably under-represented at the management levels overall.
> 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

Yes, almost as if the entire system was heavily weighted in their favour!

> Unless I'm missing something, you seem to be implying [something I wasn't even vaguely implying but makes a good false point to try and hang a specious argument on]

Does that tactic ever work for you in arguments?

> demanding he be fired

He demonstrated -in spades- that he wasn't capable of being a professional team player within that environment.

> threatening him with violence

That is too far and wholly wrong to do.
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We can also cool the earth via Sulfur Injection in the Stratosphere (like Vulcan eruptions demonstrated). German Spiegel[1] had an Article a few weeks ago that also mysteriously threatened international sanctions or war to countries who try that.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/klimawandel-geoengi...
NSA backdoored Dual EC that is used by Juniper.
>I would not mind if Google were 100% Black females. Just as long as it's a merit based system.

Yeah, you really would.
This market force might actually change in future.

In this case it seems that James planned all this to happen and is gonna sue Google:

> "$1 million in bonuses" was changed to "$100 million as a compensation" after Damore was "fired" by a Mr Kunda Píča whom I have never heard of; Damore plans to sue Google; he had previously complained to NLRB and wants to argue that his dismissal was a revenge which would be illegal. See a Damore's defiant answer to Reuters.

And about PR, while vocal left leaning activists might cheer decision to fire him, conservative and centrists media used this as great point to smear Google as leftist propaganda. This is great talking point for proving accusations that google manipulates search results to prefer certain political agenda. Recently Jordan Peterson caused quite a stir when his youtube and gmail accounts were revoked, YouTube decided it will start isolating videos with controversial views even if they dont brake ToS...

This moves will be used by anti PC camp a lot to steer users to alternatives to googles products.

Facebook and Twitter already pushed a lot of potential users away by similar behavior, alternative platforms are getting more and more relevant.
Its hard to say if this vocal PC SJW activists are just vocal minority or actually majority talking with their wallets. Based on results of recent US elections and financial problems of some feminists and left leaning publications, and on majority of comments on uncensored pages; I would say that PC ship is probably sinking fast.
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In the morning.
I think that's fair.

Not sure who was challenged by this piece apart from the author. Sometimes that can be interesting of itself though.
These include all the commit logs. How many times did your first commit for a brand new feature need zero fixing.
I reckon life begins at birth.
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A "Note to Google Employees" on a public site.

Seems legit.
By firing the employee, Google is sending a strong signal that they will not tolerate a diversity of opinions.

That does not bode well for them, for a restrictive intellectual environment is anathema to the kind of intelligent people they want to hire to keep the company competitive.
> Diversity efforts have always focused on outreach, not on discarding resumes because the candidate is a white male.

This is factually inaccurate, for example the BBC recently advertised positions where white people were explicitly excluded.
Wow. I hope this is sarcasm. I'm sure that those who need soup kitchens don't share your point of view.
You forgot there's still a ridiculously small percentage of female coal miners
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Can anyone recommend a good book on how to break into the Unreal Engine 4 SDK?
> Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach

What if all you are achieving is rearranging the dirt (ignore the negative connotations to dirt)?

Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find a place to work regardless of outreach efforts. The URM outreach efforts will just shift the talented URMs from other companies to its company.
(In case someone missed the reference: this is a comparison to Mao's Hundred Flowers campaign, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign. People were spurred to speak their minds freely, but, after a few years, punished for dissenting.)
> Why take a tuk-tuk to a waterfall that might not be there?

Because if it is there, it will be pristine and untouched save for the few local people that know about it. And meeting the locals might be more interesting than meeting the other tourists at the crowded waterfall on Trip Advisor.
Could be just whitewashing.
> What is your opinion on companies that interview with requiring rote knowledge on frameworks, or even put it on the job titles (eg. Senior Django developer)?

I know why they're doing this and IMHO it's a dead end. Among companies with tight budgets(I worked for a few of those) there's a notion that you'll get more value out of someone who already knows the required framework so you should focus on that in the recruiting process. That may be true for small, short-lived projects(3 months max.), but what matters the most in the larger, longer ones is something, that can only be expressed as the ability to program.

Basically it's a sign that this company is mainly occupied with doing the grunt work for larger companies. A job like that sure, pays your bills, but is also soul-crushingly boring.

> Along with that, it seems like most web dev jobs just are hooking up API endpoints for applications that don't get a lot of traffic, so there are no interesting speed/performance problems to solve.

Well, this is web development for you. Hell, most of the time this is software engineering for you.

But there's a way out of this: Like I said before - a company with its own product that does something fundamental(like e.g. a framework). I spent two years in such a company and I can tell you this - I only dealt with interesting problems there.
What kind of vets? Livestock or household pet? I could imagine a glut of graduates who refuse to work on farms, creating a shortage there but an oversupply in household pet vet practices.
Ruined is such a loaded word. I'm guessing it did not meet the expectations of these people you've met.

National parks are places where nature is left to their own accords, and that happen to allow easy access for people to see such mostly-unspoiled nature. Nature does not care what you think about it. It is not constant, but rather changing and evolving. Sometimes, points in time in that evolution are glorious and pleasing. At others, they may seem mundane, or even repulsive. To force nature to remain in a certain state just reinforces the idea that things don't change. Let's leave that to zoos and botanical gardens, while letting national parks retain as much of their full cycle as feasible.

I wonder what this person's thought was about the no-longer-flowing Minerva Terrace in the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. Is it ruined as well? As an analogy to putting out forest fires in national parks, perhaps the Yellowstone administration should put in some piping to at least wet these terraces down a bit to save some of their previous glory.
There are a lot of reasons why Google isn't 50/50 Men and Women. And people try to justify it by saying "The company can't do anything about it." Many of the reasons sound well thought out. But these reasons also could have been used in the 70s when women weren't doctors, lawyers or accountants either. And (with the possible exception of at the partner level at the latter two) this has largely proven to be untrue. Nobody worries that their doctor, lawyer or accountant is female.
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It is false because the science is bunk. Social conditioning likely explains all (and definitely explains most) of the measured differences, not biology.

The author has a popular science level understanding of gender differences. Based on that he concludes women are unsuited to be engineers compared to men.
I agree mostly. But there may also be a cyclical effect where women don't go into CS because they don't see women working in tech. In which case Google shouldn't necessarily have a legal obligation to hire more women, but there may be a moral argument or even a long-term self-interest argument (i.e. increase supply of good engineers) for it.
By firing the employee they're effectively sending out a strong message about it no matter how they sugarcoat it.
Actually I think they probably would. The Guardian's schtick is quite full of "Oh god we're all so awful, we must repent". Although you may be right - it's more likely to be aimed at everyone they consider less enlightened than them.

All that said, there certainly is something in what she writes, particularly about the naivety of people growing up with little world perspective like that.
"your evidence being psuedo-scientific bullshit"

*Citation needed.
I think "throwaway charges about how the U.S. is horribly bad" lacks charity for what the author is getting at in this piece. While exploring shadow narratives to American exceptionalism may not be everyone's cup of tea, you must agree that it's rare (and even refreshing) to see an identity politics op-ed that relates to the foreign policy and conduct of one's country, rather than one's own gender, sexuality, or ethnicity?

Perhaps it's just me, but it seems the overwhelming majority of op-eds I read these days are outrage screeds pertaining to the latter.
I just want to point out: it's very interesting to read your caveat because the language is remarkably similar to the preface the author felt obligated to include (which in turn echos disclaimers often attached to modern critiques of affirmative action programs by white males). Perhaps you've even played slightly into the parent's hand helping make their point?

Regardless, I find such disclaimers cumbersome and unnecessary. I'd rather interact as adults who understand how to critically dissect each other's essays than instantly assume bigotry or privilege and infer the most insidious implications: "he is basically saying all women suck at their jobs amirite". It just feels so.. unsophisticated. (To be clear I'm not directing that at you I'm just lamenting the situation in general--oops there _I_ go.)

Do you really think the author would say anything different than you've said if you engaged directly?