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> I wonder if someone who practiced true altruism would ever develop OCD. If I'm only focused on helping others without thinking about myself, would it be easier to let things go?

Sounds like a recipe for developing scrupulosity, not having/communicating personal boundaries, or both.
I've worked in female-dominated environments (I used to be a copy-typist). They were fine. No passive-aggressive anti-male comments, no questions about my sex life, no harassment. The conversation topics were about more stereotypically female topics than in other places I've worked, but I was made to feel very welcome.

I'm sure there are toxic women-only work environments (humans are great at making anything toxic) but it is absolutely possible to have a gender imbalance in a workplace without it being obnoxious.
Wonderful! The one untold story is the more I use it the better the programmer I become. It is so easy to benchmark and profile code. It has a great community that will help you how to write high performance code. Congrats!
From my personal experience, just about everywhere.
Just yesterday I wanted to cancel my AA membership (the motoring organisation, that is) and there was no other option but to phone.

Pertinent to this thread I had a subscription with The Times and the only cancellation option was by phone.

Anecdotally, it's very common with phone and utility providers too.
Come on, even if what you said wasn't absurd,i.e you can be racist if someone attacks you on Twitter, the NYT fired people for much, much less than the disgusting vitriol the woman posted for years.
>is that there is an extremely toxic culture around the game.

You hear that about most games that are competitive. Teenagers interested in games where you are trying to pwn everyone, are gonna be crude and awful a lot of the time.
A lot of economic growth also came out of World War II, but this isn't something we want to repeat.
Spoken like someone who’s never played the game. Get ready to be banned for no fault of your own, just because your three teammates decided to report you for the lulz. There are people who post on /r/dota2 complaining that they get banned from the game for nothing but picking techies each game. They don’t even say anything. People just report them immediately.

By the way, streamers are one of the most high impact users of the game. They are also one of the most unfairly targeted by report systems. This problem is extensively studied and very tricky.
YouTube, Facebook and others have several orders of magnitude more money to throw at the problem than an indie game company.

That’s why Riot’s level of progress over the problem is so remarkable.
> ...this is all true and everyone knows about it...
I'm with you up to here. (Well, not everyone knows about it, but if you're paying attention to the issue at all yod do.)

> ...people feign disgust at these articles...
My disgust is not feigned. So would guess many feel genuine disgust because it's disgusting behavior.

> ...but we're all complicit...
I don't think so. One has to participate, condone or accept it to be complicit. Are you're making an oblique confession?

> ...and understanding that this is way things are.
Absolutely not! There is no reason it needs to be this way, even at a game company.

> ...Nothing will change.
Perhaps, perhaps not. It would certainly be a shame if nothing did. Riot may not find it as easy to continue in this vein as they have in the past now that it's been exposed to daylight. Many of their customers certainly don't care if even like it. But many do. Hopefully they will see the light and figure out how to grow up.
You want the quality assurance, yet you don't think that it is acceptable to pay more than 4x the cost of parts. How do you expect that these tests (which are insanely expensive and take decades to run in some cases) will be paid for?
Does she have any recordings of those things that were said? Since it happened so often? Because this entire thread, with lots of people being angry at Riot Games, is based on someone's word. Not saying it's not true, but you might want to proceed with some more caution. I've seen a friend's life destroyed (he committed suicide) by things his ex were saying about him. None of which were true (I heard her admit to this). Anyway, if it's true, then they should be ashamed.
> Only half of the route is in exclusive lanes, which means the half the time buses will be fighting traffic.

Last I heard, the main segment that will not be dedicated in the end is a road used almost exclusively by students who now have free passes.

I don't remember why but I got the impression this last segment was a combination of nimby and challenges of retrofitting an area not meant for it.

My concern for this road isn't the lack of dedicated lane but it probably has the most dangerous behavior, things like impatint jaywalkers cutting into traffic and cars turning onto the road at bad times.
I’m not advocating litter, but the minuscule amount of dried blood left in the tip of a test strip is simply not a safety concern. They can and should be binned.

Proper sharps disposal is important, however. IMO all states should allow simply tossing clipped needles, but some states require sharps containers even for clipped syringes.
You could use https://mbasic.facebook.com/ which doesn't use any JavaScript (there is actually no script tags in the page source).
I’m glad I’m not the only one that experiences this visceral action. I absolutely hate it. I use the URL bar to see what site I am reading (who would have thought?!). When I look in the URL bar and it says “google.com” there, it drives me absolutely bonkers.
It is a compelling story.

As for why the public was ignorant to the danger; radiation was only discovered in 1895 (x-rays). First injuries the following year from x-ray exposure. First death in 1904.

I am no expert, so I can only speculate. Thinking that pre-internet, information moved slower and scientific information slower still. The radium they were using was "different" and really trendy. Even a handful of deaths wouldn't repel the masses. It was only 12 years after the x-ray deaths.

If I can be cynical for a moment, this is a cycle that replays far too often. Some industry uses a product that is more or less known to be dangerous and it is only with years or decades of evidence, public outrage, and government intervention does that industry change its ways. Not always is it malicious or intentional, but this kind of thing does seem to happen a lot.
Really cool project! Loaded up Gauntlet and was able to start the game but saw a lot of artifacts after my warrior moved across the screen. Did the ROM have some dust on it like my old Gauntlet cartridge? Hehe.
> there's only one way to be a Christian and LDS aren't Christians.

What? Do you mean Catholics? There are non-Catholic Christian churches, but they are still Christians.
> A junior developer could've easily skipped it...

But the senior developer should catch it in a review before ...

> ...deploy it somewhere where it would explode in runtime.
Direct reaction to the existence of things such as https://nabla-containers.github.io/ ?
I spend 2 full hours a day reading articles, forums and blogs. Speaking is slower than reading so I like videos less. On the other hand newer technologies tend to be presented before they are written about, so there is value there.

I toy with the really interesting stuff a couple of hours a week.

On the whole though i find it very straining to stay up to date on everything I think a CTO needs to know.
"until recently" meaning several years ago? Availability of terminals and support for the chip was what lagged, not the cards themselves (though that's a semantic argument in this case).

I would also somewhat argue that "most" cards are chip and signature, not chip and PIN. While in the US my cards all prefer PIN, it wasn't until I got out of the US that for some reason they all wanted a signature - talk about irony.

It's still far from ideal and not nearly as rigid as it is in Europe, but it's not quite as bad as you seem to think it is.
Size doesn't equate to quality though. eg even when Microsoft was at it's peak it's fair to say they didn't keep pace with innovation (aside finding new ways for their software to hog memory and CPU). All too often it takes an underdog to shake things up.

However what the size of US corporations does prove is that the American system is better for building dominating businesses. But I'd already said that in my previous post.
You commies never have enough. Until your country turns Venezuela and then walk away from your responsibility
Virtually every woman I know has stories like the ones in both this blog post and the original big Kotaku piece. The sheer pervasive depth of Riot's misogynistic culture is less common, but it's a difference in degree, not in kind.
Can we have confidence in our ability to protect biological systems from unforeseen and less accounted for effects of increasingly powerful technologies? From the state of things in 2018 - surely this is not a paranoid concern.

I am all for research into GMO and controlled applications in medicine and secure problem cases, but find the history of industry and mass agriculture can not yet be trusted with it.
So, in tech, do people not go to strip clubs anymore?

Like, what's the culture now? Are all interpersonal relationships now formalized into an algorithm?

Do people not get into actual fistfights at the office anymore?
collect samples from the remaining reef (all over the place) and cultivate them artificially until the situation is sorted out?

That's something we might be able to do on a smaller scale.
>stories like this encourages me to never hire women

When you hire, you have to consider if the person is a good cultural fit. Sex of the applicant falls into that category; if productivity is fine in your male-dominated workplace, don't put that in jeopardy by hiring a female.
> I'm skeptical that metrics have more value than the word of a seasoned engineer on a project.

That's a rather odd statement to hear from a dev (or developer advocate) because I've always heard fellow engineers talk about how data is more important than opinion. Why is this an exception?
the selenium-requests package offers a nice integration of this.
Sarah Jeong's anti-white, anti-male, anti-cop tweets date back to 2013, long before the election.

https://archive.fo/7m0Tz

I don't agree with you that "they did it first" is a valid defense for this behavior, but if it were, it would be a defense for Trump, not for Jeong.
Absolutely fucking not. If stuff like this happened at any place I ever worked at heads would roll, and fast.

These things are highly cultural: If you land at a place (like, apparently, Riot) and you are outnumbered by a few hundred people who are more or less accustomed to this behavior, the insanity is like a tidal wave and will realistically be impossible to stem and I wouldn't assume anyone to have the strength to do it (although I very much applaud anyone who does!)

The beautiful part is, that you don't. This is not normal. You do not have to endure this or be complicit. Do not work with or for assholes.
I think there are self-reinforcing pockets out there. I'm a manager also, and I know if I heard any of this I'd stamp it down immediately. Heck, if I didn't, I wouldn't be doing my job, and I'd (hopefully) eventually be called on it myself.
Apparently it's part of further locking down their API (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/psa-cross-posting-tweets-t...) so that random apps that have been given permission to post by default can no longer do so.

The way I read it, people who deliberately want to cross-post tweets are essentially collateral damage.
I imagine it would be difficult to get such members of a group to agree on the value they bring to the table. NYT probably thinks they'd deserve more than the LAT, and certainly way more than USA Today. Can't imagine these groups cooperating. It's winner takes all and then some niches for Breitbart and the like.
Then again, you are not the company. If anybody speaks for the company as a whole, it's the CEO.
You're sort of skipping over the bit where a bug in the software (or a hardware issue) kills the user. That's the crux of "being blamed" and regulation.

You might say in response it will "almost never" happen, but when it happens to your loved one it most certainly matters a lot.
Yelling obscenities against minorities, directed at those of your own group seems like it would strongly reinforce an "Us" / "Them" differentiation.

What's more bonding than shared mockery of the other?
This is kind of typical. So she joins a company that with male gamedevs and gamers, almost instantly complains about their language and how they design stuff then actions and language that is hard to believe gets spoken or done and she finally leaves and all that happens within six months.

Take this for example:

> "Rape became a punchline to jokes quite frequently, including one instance where an employee went on for several hours about how he was going to rape his male colleague, who was his hotel roommate. He was graphic in exactly how he was going to rape his roommate, who was a new hire, and it was obvious that the individual in question was extremely uncomfortable."

That sounds completely bonkers and while I have worked in some bro-like companies even that is a bit hard to believe. It went on for several hours and no one said anything, really several hours?

Sorry, I kind of want to believe her story but there is all too often females just trying to ruin male culture because some females just seem to get offended by everything and this scenario seems much more plausible to me. What is more likely, that everything she wrote happened just as described or that she exaggerates most of it because she got offended by some stuff along the way?

I would say the second one unless proven otherwise. She makes a lot of grand accusations and for that I demand proof in order to believe it.
You have incorrectly processed the information available to you and arrived at a wrong conclusion.
Typical John Kass... slow news day at da Trib?

Nevertheless after half a decade in The City, people from my hometown of Cincinnati stated I had picked up a bit of the Chicago accent. After another half decade in The (other) City, it’s disappeared.

A few best friends of mine grew up in Beverly, fwiw.
Please pm me what company you are almost CEO of. I want to be adequately prepared to avoid this place like the plague.

Also, I'd like to point out, you said:

>(some people even go and insult like you, because they can’t handle people having different opinions).

>stories like this encourages me to never hire women, because they’re obviously over-sensitive and will at some point write a “I have been offended and this company is sexist” post

You wrote both of these, unironically, right next to each other. Can you tell me how not hiring women isn't a case of you not being able to handle people having different opinions?
These sound like good questions to ask someone over a coffee or pilsner at http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/prague/2018/
I disagree that nobody bothers. I've seen people bother about this.
Its not the endpoints that are a big deal but everything in between plus easier access to those end points.
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1027272580925935616
Yes, I'm stating that Germany is behind the USA when it comes to protecting individual freedoms. Censorship and hate speech are an affront to individual liberty and freedom. In fact if you want, I'll say they're not only behind but driving in the wrong direction.
>Do you really think that she was being serious when she said "white people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins"?

Yes. The fact that she has many other tweets that disparage white people shows that that wasn't just a one off.
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Businesses still use a ton of checks, too. Even if they have direct deposit for employees there's an absurdly good chance that they're paying all their vendors with a paper check. I still don't fully understand why this is still the case, other than there not really being a compelling reason to change a system that works fine.
Sidenote: I've never been more grateful for how HackerNews handles downvotes and the like. Seeing the comment in gray helps me steel myself for what I'm about to read.
The BBC isn't directly funded by taxes in the usual sense (and therefore the government, which is a tricky situation to be in). It's funded by the collection of a license required when you have a TV, and it's collected by the BBC itself (in reality outsourced).
Somewhat related, though not a flat price: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle
> do people not go to strip clubs anymore?

I've been in the industry 20 years and not had that happen anywhere I worked in the UK.

> Are all interpersonal relationships now formalized into an algorithm?

Eh?

> Do people not get into actual fistfights at the office anymore?

The guy I knew who did that at his gaming company Christmas party got put on "final warning" for a year.
I think anentropic's probably insulting you because you're being an asshole, actually.
My perspective is that in a tech company you usually still have the nerds and bros dichotomy. The nerds are the engineers, while the bros are the ones in sales/management/community/design positions. You can also see this in pop culture portrayals of tech jobs as well, such as Silicon Valley (Bachman is a bro caricature) or Halt and Catch Fire (Joe's about 90% psychopath, 10% bro).
Well that's fair enough but in some cultures it's fairly common. I am not a big bro guy but I've definitely discussed women with male friends/colleagues. I don't think it's super demeaning or immoral to discuss girls that you like, it's just getting very taboo in parts of Western culture when done by men. Sex dynamics are like at the core of society it's all still happening whether you're speed to discuss it or not.
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Yeah, I don't defend the fans, I was talking within the business. Football (soccer) all around Europe follows a don't ask, don't tell among players. They know who's what, but it's not public because of the actual shitty homophobia among the fans.
Is this a joke?

edit: Judging by your other comments it's not. Jesus Christ.
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> i.e you can be racist if someone attacks you on Twitter

That is not what I said. I said she admitted what she said was wrong, publicly renounced the tweets, and stopped doing it. That is literally the opposite of what you are claiming I said.

Yes, it also matters that her intent at the time was not a belief that white people are inferior but to mimic the style of people abusing her to point out the absurdity. Was it the wrong course of action? Yes, but not all wrong things are equal. As I just said, the fact she has apologised, not repeated the action, and renounced what she did matters.

> the NYT fired people for much, much less than the disgusting vitriol the woman posted for years

Then give those examples, they don't change the facts of this case.
This is almost certainly about OEM Windows licenses.
Nope, that isn’t a thing. I’ve hired a lot of people and never once considered that, nor has anyone else in senior management positions that I’ve worked with. You are just an asshole.
Maybe I'm wrong about the offensiveness of these, but lamer and n00b are sort of neutral.
Wouldn't an increase to the survivability of the command-and-control structure of the US nuclear forces mean that it would be harder for another power to think they could succeed in a nuclear attack on the US? Wouldn't that tend to decrease the likelihood of war?
What’s the relationship exactly? I’m not saying to not hire women because they think differently, but because they’re much more likely to react in a harmful way against a company with these types of posts. That has nothing to do with me presenting this fact and another user calling me “asshole” for expressing an opinion.
It stops being "amateur comedy" when it starts directly interfering with other people against their will.

If I go to a comedy show, I accept that I might get offended; that's on me. The power dynamic when I go to work, where I am expected to work with my team in order to get compensated, is massively different.

Nobody is making claims about "policing" (whatever that means in context). I don't care about words impact on "society as a whole" as some abstract concept. Society as a whole is comprised of people, and starts with the people around you upon whom you have the most direct impact. If you knew you worked with (or played a game of CoD with) a gay person, or a black person, how would you feel about using those words? That's why it's "bad for society as a whole"--because it's bad for the people right next to you.
I prefer Linus philosophy of not breaking userspace, so they should try finding a solution that is not breaking things(I assume someone will comment that is impossible in this case, add an attempt to prove/motivate it)
I don't believe for one second that anyone at Google, or any majority that is, is going to stand up against censorship in China. Worse, I think Google would be fine making China the "new norm" for the whole world. If you look at what is becoming of our beloved Internet, the story is mostly about censorship and shutting off disfavored voices.
What? Having social iteraction owned by a private quasi-monopoly means the monopoly can screw with how you interact with the world at will? Who could have guessed that?

Really, I don't understand how this is news. It's what was going to happen, everyone with half a brain has known that since facebook started being a thing, and anyone who cared could trivially avoid it. So how is it that there are still people who apparently care that this happens?
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I think it is this[1], right? I think you should update the Worg: Org Blog Wiki[2] with it if you want more people to discover/use it.

I liked the thoroughness of "why I made this project" in its README.

[1]: https://github.com/ctindall/org-blog

[2]: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-blog-wiki.html
Though in the end there is absolutely no difference.

In Sweden we are abandoning that concept because it is an unfair system and lots of people have switched to the internet for the same content (and don't even have a TV).
There's also a difference between "talking about women" and the things described in the article (and a lot of different ways of talking about women, which can be done without degrading language). Calling a coworker a "Ho" or complaining they'd not be willing to share a hotel room with an unknown man is not the same level as "they didn't like that we talk about women".
Agreed. And that is why DS9 was the best revival series of the run.
Justin Fashanu [0] is a counter example. He came out in 1991(!). I don't see how it's a problem now when it wasn't back then. That said, it's the fandom that's rotten, not the players and the industry itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fashanu
Comment is clearer in context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1813443
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