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Does anyone use WebObjects for developing web applications? Can someone compare it Python/Ruby for development?
Very true post, however, I disagree with the "Do not ever work" and "Do not ever try hard" parts. For everything you enjoy doing, there's always some work behind it. When Picasso went to paint, he had to spend time setting up his canvas and his palette, which I'm sure wasn't as fun as painting the picture itself.
I would think that the pattern is more than just being a woman... but I know what you are trying to say.

I'm not saying that her behavior is at fault (100% the man's fault), but I'm suggesting that PERHAPS there is something she could have done differently to avoid what happened, and if so, it would be worthwhile to determine what that possible thing is.
Sure, Here was the original top comment I found appalling:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875900

This right here is called denial. In short "I have a friend, who is like this guy, who was accused of the same thing and he got off." Which in my opinion is denying that the female involved is telling the truth and that this person is completely innocent.

Additionally, this is the second highest post as I type. I don't think I even have to respond. At this time, the comment that makes the same point as me is downvoted to the negative:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875948

At this point I don't want to continue further defending my point. Downvote me if you like. I find the responses here about 50% disturbing and 50% uplifting. That is no reflection on HN, but on the tech community. Before today I would have gladly recommended to my daughters to follow a tech path. But after tonight I've lost my innocence on that. I've never really thought about these issues from a woman's perspective before tonight. And I've never really been involved in a situation like this. So my responses might be a bit different than the typical younger 20's male responses. And I'm fine with that. Maybe I've just lost my innocence.
Not sure why you're so adamant about this. The OP asked if he should be terminated and the folks you're responding to simply said it's best to wait until you have more facts and can make an informed decision. Firing anyone at any time can open you up to a lawsuit. There is nearly zero barrier to filing a lawsuit; and a lawsuit, even one without merit, requires time, energy, and investment from the company to defend itself. That's why so many companies go out of their way to stay out of court and only fight those cases that are so clearly black and white they have little to no chance of losing. When a case falls into the grey area the cost of loss typically drastically outweighs the cost of settling. You have to make sure you do it properly. Proper documentation, proper reasoning, and proper legal support--especially in a case like this.
It consumes about the same as 5500 mid-sized cars?
Hacking the Canadian border control system
I think really stretches and abuses the language.

Yeah, but the damage is long done. These definitions are already codified into law.
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I'm upvoting you since I believe the question has some merit and does have to do with the discussion.

Anyways, I've made no such claims, but you have to admit that it is as easy for a woman to completely destroy a man's life with such allegations, the same way a man can destroy a woman's life by committing a sexual crime against her. For this reason it is a necessity to have actual proof, be it video, witnesses, and most importantly DNA.

To answer more clearly your question: Anyone has the right to state whatever negative things happen to them, but the moment you start pointing the finger (in this case the alleged sexual harasser) you better have proof not only because you might be potentially destroying the life's of many people in the process, but because you are also opening the door to a suit for defamation of character.

Think about it, if it so happens that it's not true, he might lose his job, the custody of his children, any future career in the field in which he has established himself, being labeled as a sex offender, etc. If you're going to completely turn someone's life upside down, you better have the proof to prove such allegations.
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Yeah, sure. Here's one:

http://www.bna.com/bnabooks/ababna/rnr/2000/rnrvictims.pdf
"Never have to answer for it?!!? Um if you're sexually assaulted (multiple times?!?!) you should definitely be reporting that to the POLICE where the offender will, I'm pretty sure, have to answer for it. Right?"

Without witnesses, it would be hard to prove that such an event did or did not happen. (Not saying I agree or disagree with her blogging it, but I can sympathize with her doing so in an otherwise powerless situation.)
So, I'm going to venture beyond the issue of consent (which legally, and ethically is the only issue), into a grey area of perception.

Often when men think about this situation, they think of some non-repulsive (to them) woman who doesn't have any power over them grabbing their package. Often they conclude "Well that wasn't so bad. I generally want to have sex with females. A female just pawed my package. Cool, maybe she'll sleep with me."

Now let's assume that's a hypothetical guy's default reaction. What are some nuances that might change that reaction?

1) What if the woman is repulsive to the man? What if his friends will mock or shame him?

2) What if rather than pawing at his package, she tried to stick her finger in his ass? There's a psychological (and physical!) difference in vulnerability to having stuff put in you, rather than probing with your appendages.

3) What if the aggressor has power over the victim (I'm not saying that's the case in the article)? I.e. She can paw you, and you're going to always wonder whether your next review depends on your reaction.

Now, you may think I'm distorting the situation, but I'm just trying to illustrate that even for a guy who thinks his reaction would be "Cool, gropage.", the real situation may well just feel like an attack.

I.e. it's fun to theorize about men's reactions versus women's, but unless you're actually a man who has been the victim of unwanted attention, you're unlikely to really know how you'd feel about it.

My reaction on reading the article was "Holy shit, people actually do that?" I guess I live in a sheltered world, oh and I'm a large male.
> If this is really a normal phenomenon at tech conferences, I'm a bit shocked that no one have mentioned it before.

As an example of this type of incident being mentioned before, while this list is not limited to incidents of physical sexual harassment it includes some:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
Understood, and yes people do need moderate their own behavior in order to safeguard their own safety. We don't live in a perfect utopia.

It's just that every time a women is assaulted and the first response out of most of the people she tells (including the police! and others who are supposed to be there for her safety!) is "Well what did you do wrong?" it makes women want to not speak up at all.
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If that's sexual assault because it's defined to be sexual assault, then it is. Can't argue with that. Words can mean whatever we want. I think the point I was making is that, at least in my case, I had a definition of "assault" long before I ever heard of the term "sexual assault" and I believe the latter is more of a legal term than a common sense, everyday term. Assault involves violence and planning. If there was no violence, and also possibly no planning/premeditation, I personally find it hard to swallow calling this "assault" of any kind. I mean, to put it in perspective, we're talking about, at worst, one adult male putting his hand inside the underwear of another adult female, at a bar, late at night, very likely while one or both parties are drunk, and one or both parties have been flirting or otherwise being touchy-feely with lots of folks all night preceding it. Add to this people who don't read body language and attraction cues perfectly well. And add to this some men wanted to be sexually aggressive and dominant toward a woman they find attractive -- and add to that many women wanting and liking men to do that -- and this adds up to a recipe where I could see something like this happening, and honestly, it should not be such a big deal. Slap on wrist? Sure. Crime? Not so sure.

And again: what about the concept of no harm, no foul. It's life. Move on.
It's not her, it's him.

That is all.
I wouldn't tell her anything, quite frankly, other than to suggest that SHE analyze the situation and make her own determinations.

Going to extremes (don't leave the house) is obviously not a realistic or constructive option.
>" As far as I know no chakras have been found during any dissection nor have we found any evidence of them indirectly. So any claims made on the basis of chakras are invalid as far as I'm concerned."

Were someone to dissect you, they would not find your concern, or any other mental state (or your personality either). However, it would be absurd to argue that therefore you have no concern on that basis.

"Concentrate on your breathing to reduce your stress" suffers from the same problem. Upon dissection, there would be no breathing. Furthermore, "concentrate" is no less problematic than "chakra" within a logical-positivist framework.

None of which is to deny that many life coaches may be FOS -- I found Ehrenreich's description of them in Bait and Switch consistent with my observations.
No, I mean that quite literally. The pattern is being a woman. I don't know a single woman that something like this hasn't happened to, and it is usually much worse than an unwelcomed kiss and grope.

The only way to avoid it is tell a woman to never be attractive. Never be friendly to men. Don't ever smile at them. And god forbid, don't flirt with them.

Don't get drunk and try to have fun. When us guys get wasted, the worst thing we have to worry about is one of our friends shaving our eyebrows, not some strange dude trying to fuck us.
According to this marine engineering book ( http://books.google.com/books?id=PCSpWWuTgkkC&lpg=PA53&#... ) and this website ( http://library.fentu.ru/book/gumi/101/English/section_1_main... ) which seems based on the book, slow diesel engines are more efficient, but turbines are used in ships.

The steam turbine has until recently been the first choice for very large power main propulsion units. Its advantages of little or no vibration, low weight, minimum space requirements and low maintenance costs are considerable. In steam turbines high pressure steam is directed into a series of blades or vanes attached to a shaft, causing it to rotate. This rotary motion is transferred to the propeller shaft by gears. Steam is produced by boiling water in a boiler, which is fired by oil. Recent developments in steam turbines which have reduced fuel consumption and raised power output have made them more attractive as an alternative to diesel power in ships. They are 50 per cent lighter and on very large tankers some of the steam can be used to drive the large cargo oil pumps. Turbines are often used in container ships, which travel at high speeds.
You are right. He needed a visa to get on the flight. However, my understanding of the refugee stuff is that one doesn't actually need to enter the country. You're not inside the country till after the border guard has waved you through; but you can still ask for protection while at the border. He's probably still in detention, which doesn't really count as being in the country in my book. He used the mask to try and get protection, not simply enter Canada. Very different motive.

This is descending into analty, so I'll stop now :)
How appropriate. Edison was Tesla's hero, and Edison gave him the shaft.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where every women wore long skirts, didn't drink beer, and weren't over-friendly to me just because these are all 'risk-factors' for increasing potential of inappropriate behavior.

I'm pretty sure most women wouldn't want to live in that world either.
I believe you are referencing the GIF theory.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
I hardly think correct use of a technical term (in this case, in the field of law) is an "abuse of the language"; see http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/assault.html

The rest of your argument seems to boil down to the same behavior would have been fine if it were consensual, and that kind of situation makes it easy for the guy to misinterpret consent. This reasoning is absolutely ludicrous. First, he kissed her, then "I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear)", then he jammed his hand down her underwear. How would that be misread?
Its much cheaper to manufacturer a device that uses the audio jack than one that uses teh 30 pin adaptor.
The lesson from the Duke case is not that false accusations are more or less rare than what we feel in our guts. It's simply that these sorts of cases elicit enormous emotional responses; however, we owe it to ourselves and our civility to recognize that fact and force ourselves to make judgments based on facts and reasoning and not those emotions.
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If you were to block CANVAS or VIDEO you'd essentially be halting HTML5 progression.

With access to a decent selector engine, it's actually not that hard to selectively disable only the things which are (likely to be) ads. I've been doing that for years with nothing but CSS -- the fact that ads come in standardized formats actually makes it easier to put together selectors for them.
Yeah, but that probably means the smart thing for a woman to do is assume all men are potential rapists. Maybe you're OK with that? Not me.
Crowd sourcing open source projects: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534517
It's a touchy subject, one where if you think differently than other people they may judge you for it. I wouldn't blame someone for coming up with a throwaway account.
That's awesome - I put in a backorder for one months ago and would love to see this go well for the developer.
Haidinger's brush
Perhaps you should send the author a note asking to add your sentiments to her post.

Honestly the only thing that could possibly make any difference would be if the whole thing was fabricated. Which would be a huge difference.
She said no, he groped her. What do you propose she should have done to be a "steward of her personal safety"? Live as though every male could attempt to sexually assault her? Is that how you want your wife/girlfriend/daughter going through life? Do you think that's how they want to go through life? Is that how we want female members of the tech community feeling at these types of gatherings?

Look, I appreciate the fact you're trying to make a reasoned, pragmatic argument on an emotional issue. But the fact of the matter is this is a situation that we can change and do something about. Anyone should feel comfortable participating in our community without fearing for their personal safety; we have the ability to support victims and make clear to those who would commit these crimes that it's not something they can get away with, which is not the current status quo.
perhaps it should not be a crime.

I think about things like this, and compare it to say the US-Iraq situation, one in which no US leaders have been charged with any crime, and I'm just shocked really. It feels like living in some Orwellian mad house. Perspectives and priorities are so backward. Hand in/on/near/above another person's clothes/underwear --- CRIME! ALERT THE POLICE! JAIL TIME! Invade another country on the explicit premise and justification of threat of imminent use of WMD's by that country, causing thousands of US and Iraqi deaths, which turns out there were no WMD's and the US administration appears to have spun matters and manipulated the public and Congress into getting the mandate to it -- not a crime. Oops. No big deal. A simple mistake. Oh well. It's life. Let's move on. Back to prosecuting the hands-in-panties situations! :)
3 miles away produces a 6-mile diameter safety zone.
The slow diesel engine can be connected directly to the propeller shaft, making it mechanically very efficient. I could be wrong, but I don't think a 90 RPM engine with extremely high torque would be appropriate for hooking directly to an alternator.
I think it further proves the point that when you are no longer the underdog, it is hard for you to compete, stay fast and nimble, and stay innovative. Buzz and other Google-initiated (not acquisitions) forays into competing products have been disappointments. AdWords is no longer easy to use from the customer standpoint (and by the way, you searchers and AdWords supported email users are not the customers--you are part of the product being sold), that we have had to hire a full time guy to manage our AdWords campaigns and utilize outside AdWords consultant services.

I won't say Google has lost its touch, but even its searches are not producing good results for esoteric queries.
I made it a point to entirely direct my comments towards those statements that I quoted, and not towards the specifics of her incident.

I didn't want to get into the much more fuzzy and subjective discussion of to what degree her actual actions did or didn't follow what I laid out.
Virtualization probably. Apple already allows OSX Server to run virtualized with the caveat that the VM must be hosted on a machine built by Apple. They'll probably just drop that restriction so you can run an OSX Server on Hyper-V or VMWare on generic hardware. It will probably be a good thing for OSX Server.
sadly, sexual harassment has been a common enough occurrence in the open source community that countering it has been a major topic over the past 2 years. Open source communities as a whole have only 1% women, much lower than IT in general. This is because you must choose to join one of these communities, and women are choosing to do something where they wont be harassed.
just for the heckofit, here's the github #11-22, which i figure will be in broad use in 5 yrs:

objective-C,
C#,
emacs lisp

actionScript,
haskell,
lua

scala,
clojure,
ASP

erlang,
common Lisp,
groovy

https://github.com/languages
go for the gold - better online dating. its sink or swim, and most sink, but if you swim, you'll be swimming in piles of money like scrooge mcduck.
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Pretty sure the responses were to this: "Better be careful about making any decisions on a blog post. That's how wrongful termination lawsuits get filed."
> Before today I would have gladly recommended to my daughters to follow a tech path. But after tonight I've lost my innocence on that.

This type of thing is, unfortunately, by no means exclusive to or even at all more common in tech than anywhere else. By all means try to prepare your daughters for the world, but I think evaluating tech as any different in this respect would be a disservice to them.
I'm sure that you're correct in this matter and it is common knowledge that it is more likely that a woman is telling the truth in such cases vs a man being set up.

That being said (and take this with a grain of salt because I'm not stating it's a fact), in my experience I've seen more cases of male friends being set up. Not only with assault allegations, but pregnancy, rape, and other convoluted evil plans. I've even been accused of such things twice in my life, once when I was a virgin, and a second time when I had a stable long term relationship (my partner and my neighbor where with me at the time so I had both as alibi).
"If it's not the first time this has happened, it might be time to re-evaluate the pattern of behavior that led up to the unfortunate event."

Er seems like the only pattern of behavior (that she's described at least) is that she goes to tech conferences and she fully participates in the happenings there. Are you suggesting she stop?

Prodding question, but honestly, we're trying to get more women involved, right? Telling them (basically if not a bit hyperbolically) to quit-being-such-sluts-and-they-won't-get-raped is a bit counter-productive. A woman should be able to participate at tech events in the conference and the after-party just like a man without the fear she'll be groped by the attendees.
Haidinger's brush may also be seen by looking at a white area on many LCD flat panel computer screens (due to the polarization effect of the display), in which case it is often diagonal.

funny I can see this looking right under the very paragraph above against the #FFFFFF background of the wikipedia page
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I'm not necessarily saying she did anything incorrectly.

I made comments towards the general attitude she espoused at the end of the post. I quoted exactly what I was responding to. Anything else is stuff that I wasn't responding to.

>> Anyone should feel comfortable participating in our community without fearing for their personal safety; we have the ability to support victims and make clear to those who would commit these crimes that it's not something they can get away with, which is not the current status quo.

I agree with all of this. Everyone should be able to participate without feeling unsafe, victims deserve support, perpetrators deserve to be called out, would-be perpetrators should be put on notice. All of that is very much consistent with what I said.
Just for corroboration, the term "sexual assault" is generally understood to include situations exactly like this one. My alma mater's policy on sexual misconduct has a reasonably nice definition: "Sexual assault is intentional sexual contact with another person without that person’s consent. Consent exists when a person freely and knowingly agrees at the time to participate in a particular sexual act with a particular person. Consent is not effective, for example, when force, threat, or coercion is used. Consent is not effective when sexual contact is with a person who is unable to say no or otherwise resist because of the use of alcohol or drugs or because he or she is asleep or unconscious."

The same policy defines sexual contact as including but not being limited to: "sexual intercourse, penetration of an orifice (anal, oral or vaginal) with the penis, finger, or other object in a sexual manner, intentional touching of the genitals, buttocks, or breasts, or coercion to force someone else to touch one’s genitals, buttocks, or breasts. Sexual contact can occur over clothing."

Most people in this thread will be viewing the term similarly to the definition above.

That said, I'll let other folks deal with the rest of your post; I won't be able to do so dispassionately.