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The original argument was that it is uncharitable to claim that Damore was "exactly" fired for pointing out pipeline problems has an impact on closing the gender gap. That's not what he claimed, and it's not why he was fired.

> One way that sexism presents itself is an underappreciation of valuable skills, where traits that are typical of the dominant group are recognized as valuable and marked for advancement instead.

I agree, but Damore positioned the differences in gender abilities as a "Possible non bias cause" and not because of systemic sexism (of or relating to "implicit (unconscious) and explicit biases are holding women
back in tech and leadership").

> "6 foot tall basketball players are at a serious disadvantage in the NBA". This is a clear fact.

This is a bad example because, unlike height in basketball, there is no evidence that dimorphism in humans (size, psychological, hormonal or otherwise) causes any difference in preference or ability in tech culture or software engineering in general.

> There was nothing exclusionary about the memo

You're welcome to that opinion, but many at Google felt otherwise.

> and "othered" is a meaningless term.

The editors at M-W feel otherwise [1] and a one sentence definition is returned by most dictionaries and at least one search engine[2].

> He was fired because his memo caused a PR nightmare, and through no fault of his own.

Again, you're welcome to this opinion but that doesn't change the original claim that he was fired for merely having an opinion about "pipeline" issues affecting the speed at which the gap can be closed. That claim would be uncharitable.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/other-as-a-ver...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=othered+definition
Some great numbers from Tobi, team, and ecosystem. I just wish they weren't so gung-ho on the "one million stores" metric, because the two figures juxtaposed don't do them any favors.

As a Magento person though I am keenly jealous of their level of insight into platform transactions. $3B is amazing.
> Mullvad is __about__ $5

5€ is currently $5.54. I'd call that about $5. It's about the same price as if you paid with crypto too.
I've met some of their alumnus and I found them, over a period of months to years, to be arrogant, entitled, and Machiavellian pricks in their own worlds of "meritocracy," exploitation and hyper-rationalism. Much like the billionaires ruining everything, their only allegiance is to money and they didn't seem to get Golden Rule lessons from their parents.
Sure, 50% of boot camp graduates are women. What’s the ratio if we include actual university undergrads gender ratios?

If I’m not mistaken, there are more men going into cs than women here in the US. I don’t think a parity can happen unless equal number of women pursues cs degrees. I believe the disparity is more inline with career choice/goals.

Unfortunately factoring in case studies involving the technical aptitude’s of women versus men in technical hiring, the results are bleak for women; hopefully this changes and I am not saying women are not able to compete; it could be a cultural issue and the low numbers of women entering the field makes it even harder to achieve gender parity.

I find relevance when discussing gender disparity represented in the trucking industry.
Working on anxiety can be life changing. I highly recommend the book "When Panic Attacks" by Dr. David Burns. In fact just the other day Dr. Burns had as a guest on his "Feel Good" podcast a tech guy who was rebuilding his web site (https://feelinggood.com/) in exchange for help with his anxieties. In a nutshell, the guy was a "handsome, successful, Yale educated, British" guy who was suffering from anxieties in social situations. Dr. Burns also has a book called "Feeling Good" which is geared more towards depression. Burns is one of the pioneers in cognitive behavior theory. If you're suffering from anxiety and/or depression I highly recommend his books/website/podcast - I will also note that Dr. Burns promotes drug free and rapid recovery that can be accomplished in many cases through "bibliotherapy" - e.g. just by reading a book and , most importantly, doing the exercises/work he recommends.
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Even when they do, there is a problem. They specialize in DB code. AWS specializes in infra... and can just take the DB code as well. That is a pretty huge competitive advantage (while the db company has to develop that second specialty). Even worse, there's the further monopoly advantage that companies can just role it into their AWS bill instead of doing another vendor evaluation. The fact that Amazon has almost all the competitive advantages for offering someone else's code it what seems unfair.

(the one they don't have is the ability to offer super specialized support and modifications for their customers, which is where a lot of the database companies have made their money - on consulting)
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Yes but this is literally the point of an interview. Strip away what it says "on paper" and engage with the person directly. I'd say if they were passing over talent in the past then that's an issue with their interview process.
Broken how?

Broken in the sense that Slack kept going forward even after the complaints kept rolling in. How hard would it have been to pull the latest release?
Any info on pricing? I can’t find anything on their website. Don’t like taking to sales goons.

It looks pretty slick. Going to install the free version to check it out.
Most people don't care. The chance anything at all bad will happen is so incredibly low.
Thanks for the examples but those all still seem like things vast majority of Linux users can do today, since vast majority of Linux users have root access. Both desktop and server.

Mobile users like android don’t have root but I don’t see why an untrusted mobile app would need bpf.

Only benefit of allowing non-root that I can see is enabling untrusted containers in cloud environments to do the same. All large cloud providers use KVM/zen (not containers) for untrusted users in which case they already have root.

Can you give an example of a scenario where the user doesn’t have root yet still would want to do those things?
The GSA "just worked". Also having the name recognition for public search did a lot to drive its enterprise popularity. It didn't have a lot of bells/whistles, but it addressed the commodity search problem well.

Agreed relevancy is a problem. PageRank works well for public content but internal search has plenty of relevancy problems. Having little control over this certainly hurt.

Managing on-prem hardware/appliances is a difficult business. I don't fault them for moving to a more scaleable model.
> The STEM gap is lower in countries with more discrimination against women.
> A mediation analysis suggested that life-quality pressures in less gender-equal countries promote girls’ and women’s engagement with STEM subjects.

In plain English, this is just saying that STEM is seen by women in those countries as a way to economic advancement, which is why they embrace it at higher rates.

This is especially the case in a country like India, which I suspect represents a significant sample of their study.

Added to this, despite those countries having higher overall gender discrimination in, they don't share the US's particular cultural tropes (themselves of pretty recent creation) that imply that women are inherently worse at STEM subjects. Indeed, among middle class educated Indian families, expectations of STEM achievement are as high for girls as for boys, evidenced by the large number of Indian women who became doctors even 2 generations ago.

That educated middle class population is who the tech worker population is being drawn from, which is why their gender representation in tech shows more parity. The paper referenced confuses the overall population for the sample population.

Also, it's not that similar discriminatory tropes don't exist in places like India, but instead of gender, they are projected over other classifications, like language or social class. As a result, the representation of certain linguistic groups and social classes is higher among Indian tech workers, regardless of gender.
I'm surprised to hear that.

Years ago, I speculated on a CF list that the CFF must have covered some of my medical bills because I was never charged a copay at UC-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. But I was told the CFF didn't do stuff like that.

I was deathly ill at the time that I was diagnosed and I showed up at my doctor's office and they had big signs saying they would not treat you if you owed them money, so I asked what I owed because I had never paid them a dime and they looked me up on the computer and said I didn't owe them anything.

I shrugged and didn't really think about it. I was fighting for my life and on a lot of drugs. I didn't have the wherewithal to be overly curious or try to find out what was going on there.

So I just assumed military benefits plus, oh, some charity or other.

Anyway, glad that worked out for you.
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> So if you are a small cosmetics company the FDA will prevent you from selling your product without thorough testing but if you are a large cosmetic company you can simply tell the FDA that everything is OK.

Possibly they're stricter on small companies because if they mess up, you can't fix the issue with a big class-action lawsuit? If Johnson & Johnson mess up, they're big enough to be able to compensate consumers directly.

Not saying it's an ideal solution but if I were a budget-constrained federal agency trying to minimize harm with limited resources I could see myself making a similar call.
What are lawyers healing?

Did women suddenly discover an interest in healing in the past 50 years?
> it's an easy out to avoid taking action at whatever stage of the 'pipeline' you happen to be working at...you need to look for other ways to find talent that bypass that problem

Another 'easy out' is to simply lower the bar for female applicants
It's important to give the right answers to questions, answers that signal the right intentions. Giving the wrong answers means you don't really understand the situation, and aren't really invested in solving the problem.

So when a young female applicant asks you a question that might not precisely be worded as "why is your company all men with only the white ones in positions of power," it's important to not frame the reason why this is as a pipeline problem. She's not dumb. She knows that.

Because she's not actually asking for the reason. She wants to know if your company has the wherewithal to overcome the diversity problem in spite of the fact that there just aren't a whole lot of women looking for tech careers at present compared to men. Everyone already knows there aren't that many applicants. Everyone knows you can't just hire a woman just because of her gender. That's not the point.

The way you answer this question is to, without right out stating there's a pipeline problem, make sure you've put into place all the other pieces that will cause women to not run screaming to all their friends what insensitive clods you are. Talk about your code of conduct. Talk about your contributions to the cause of diversity. Talk about any issue you had in the past relating to you not understanding people that have very very different life circumstances than you and what your failings were in obtaining a resolution satisfactory to all parties. It's hard to talk about but well, diversity is a hard topic.

Anything but passing the buck.
I can justify this, but I'm wondering why Mullvad doesn't give them a slightly better deal. It is basically the same deal that you get if you pay with crypto, except you -- the user -- lose all the benefits of that. So why not charge something like $4.50? Or $4? They are bringing bulk to Mullvad. One of them, or both, could eat the cost until the price stabilized. I'm sure at Mozilla's scale they could push Mullvad's operating price down.

But the fact is that this does create more links in the VPN, and thus more security risks. Which isn't a big deal for the 99% of us that are just using them to torrent and prevent Comcast from seeing our data, but there's still a principle thing, which is part of why people are jumping from PIA before the merger has even happened.
I don’t know what EDA software was used to produce the schematics, but it certainly wasn’t KiCad.

Also from the overall style it looks to me like the schematics actually were created by some east asian ODM and not by Puri.sm themselves.
to build on this- among younger age groups- women are more likely to be college graduates than men.

Women willingly choose different education paths because of different interests.
Probably not, but why do they need the billions of dollars of funding and steep subscription cost then?

The per-user cost is only Silicon Valley reasonable - it's nearly as high as GSuite which provides a lot more value, and if so many other major business suite companies (Google, MSFT) weren't absolutely terrible at building chat applications I'm pretty sure Slack would be forced out of the market (or to actually compete).
Most of the stuff on scihub was funded by tax dollars
Maybe I am missing something.

2^((1024 - 795)/5.5) = 3.4e12

Isn't that over 3.4 trillion times harder?
As someone learning clojure (my first FP) I realized I’m learning it because a.) Im good enough now that I can learn it after learning languages like python, and b.) it’s because I love the craft of programming so much that I want to push myself to be better in hard ways.

I wonder sometimes if Haskell or lisp whatever crash less in production because they’re written by people with a penchant for high quality craftsmanship?

I can imagine Python written beautifully and craftfully could also have these same properties.

Or maybe not. As I said, I just started learning FP :)
They are? Hilarious since it seemingly has no impact at all.
> For example, why hasn't Datastax rolled out a cloud offering on AWS yet?

Umm... they do (https://www.datastax.com/platform/amazon-web-services). Instacluster also has an offering. Which kind of highlights the problem.
Thank you for sharing this. Would this be useful for me if I only need the deployment management part? Don't really need to track experiments, just looking for an easy way to deploy my models to Fargate.
Distributed systems bring their own problems. I've seen more production outages caused by poorly coded or configured HA setups than due to any single-host level hardware failure. I remember one application where a 60 second network outage caused a forty minute database outage due to HA supervisors going batshit. What works well are simple setups like async log shipping to another site with manual fail-over. If you think you cannot afford 30 minutes downtime there is really no amount of money you can spend to be sure you are improving your chances.
It sounds line the kind of thing that would generate only negative publicity
They couldnt even refrain from prtisain name calling in the document. What a farce. While I am sure the POTUS has done some impeachable things, this does not look like the methphorical smoking gun it is being hailed as. I honestly fear this is just going to make it more difficult to bring the hammer down in the future when the sitution is indeed dire. Democrats, you had it in the bag, but this will temper the election results. I will not vote for those who choose to posture and prostitute their time for image and money, rather than spend it working on the real and pressing issues of the nation.
> better performances

I don't mean to bash slack too hard, but it honestly feels like the performance has gotten worse over time for me. Certain actions like Up Arrow (edit previous message) and loading threads on the "Threads" page seem to take way longer than they used to.
Modern tech support is woefully broken in many ways, and the speed to which consumers resort to complaining on Twitter is a partial symptom of that broken system -- it's the result of consumers feeling like mass, reactionary public shaming is the only strategy that works anymore.

That's not what I'm getting at though; I'm not saying everything is awesome, or that public backlash is even the best way to currently enact change -- I just want to push against the occasional criticism I see that complaining about stuff doesn't help, that consumer backlash is ultimately just virtue signalling, that boycotts don't ever work, and that it's all just a waste of time.

To be clear, some types of complaining are harmful, problematic, or worthless: this is complicated, it isn't black-and-white. But it's not universally worthless to publicly push back on company policies. There are a nontrivial number of stories about consumer backlashes actually causing companies to change course. What that suggests is that on more important issues (just for one example, arbitration), we could see real movement if the backlash was large enough and unified enough.
People love their square footage and you can't get that with a prefab 1 story.

That and most prefab/manufactured homes look cheap.
> fixing the gender imbalance

An imbalance doesn't inherently need to be fixed. If the imbalance is because women are simply less interested- an imbalance is desirable.

Equality in opportunity will not neccessarily lead to equality in outcome. Any argument on this topic that is rooted in outcomes can be immediately dismissed. Attempt to measure the actual source of the problem- which is opportunity.
I'm relatively new to the US, can anyone explain why Asians or LatinX people born in the US in middle-class families should get better treatment than "white" immigrants who recently came from poor Eastern European countries?
Solar panels are also less efficient when it's hot, but these are all just losses that can be overcome by throwing more panels at it. If you have a giant desert, it's basically free energy for the taking - you just need to make that initial investment. And unlike e.g. Sahara, there's well-developed infrastructure around the desert, nor are there issues with political instability.
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The reason is that content editable is a gaping hole in the HTML5 spec, at least last time I checked, there are tons of undefined undefined behaviors (not a typo) where vendors have to choose what they want to do and where developers have no idea that the behavior does not exist in a specification.

My very wise coworker made every effort to avoid that minefield. I thought he was wrong for many years, but I have been forced to agree, content editable is completely and utterly useless and should be avoided at all costs.
I like to think that companies run by humans don't solely consider profit as their only metric for success. If you're not solvent you can't do much as a company but it surely helps to actually give a shit about the people you affect both immediately and from a distance in both circumstance and over time.
Kudos to the PMs?

They allowed a half-baked (if that) feature to be shipped out and then wouldn't back down from it for a week.

This reeks of PMs pushing a feature that isn't ready yet.
Yes, for sure my suggestion was an incomplete answer, but still you would want the lower language be GC-aware/GC-compatible so I am not sure what the advantages of having two languages would be compared to having a GC language that can have non-GC modules/functions.

We also have an example of something more similar to what you are asking with Javascript+wasm (or better Typescript+wasm). I think they are both a fertile ground for future growth.
Alaska uses GoGo and they also give away iMessage for free. A weird side effect is that sometimes you get more than just free messaging. Every time I've used it, I get full Internet access (though it sure is slow). My wife's phone only ever gets iMessage. No idea why I get the accidental free upgrade.
Citra, and citrus flavor in general, is definitely still very much in vogue for American IPAs, but I don't really think of there being a huge difference in carbonation levels. British beer is usually less carbonated than American as a rule, but carbonation is actually one of the few areas where often-extreme American IPAs are relatively restrained, so it's not this massive gulf.

"Imperial" is a tough descriptor for a British style, at least in America, because here it's usually used to signify something akin to "double": more alcoholic, more hoppy, just generally "more."
What makes you think they're retiring to sit on their asses all day and "spend their billions"? Maybe they have new and interesting things to do.
Thanks to everyone that has responded so far. I didn't want this post into an advice-seeking conversation, but I really appreciate that you're pointing the red flags. I know that no workplace is perfect, so I just wanted to relate with others that have terrible workplace environments with toxic cultures.

I could go on with the list of things that are definitely off (the gaslighting, the verbal abuses, the fear culture that's been instilled, nano-management, etc.), but that's really not the point.

Also, this is not in the US, but it's also illegal here.

I've started to interview at other companies and will leave soon (and hopefully wiser).

I also think that many of these rules, policies, toxic culture, etc. weren't created in a void, but they were built with one stone a time, all of that subtly disguised in 'the company's mission', or with statements like "less millenialism, more professionalism", and the 'work hard' mentality (that the founders don't even abide to, since they work the least of all, some even have side gigs). I really feel sorry for many of my non-tech co-workers that don't have that many options out there.
There are two big problems with Patreon that come to my mind immediately. One is repeated issues with kicking creators off for poorly explained reasons.

The other is that they seem to hate the idea of batching transactions. For me the biggest draw of Patreon is that I can have 10 $1 pledges and only pay one credit card fee each month. But they keep messing with the backend and they've forced new creators into a completely different system that does separate charges. According to them they don't even make more money off this, so why are they so stubbornly insistent on charging these pledges a 40% overhead?

Overall they don't listen very well, and they grabbed this big pile of VC cash to do god-knows-what with and motivate them way too much to increase fees.
> I absolutely observe bias in hiring processes

It's interesting that you went on to describe your bias against white interviewers. It's going to be quite difficult for white people to hire non-white people into their organization if non-white people are biased against performing well for white interviewers.
Uhhh in neither of those instances did you get hit by anything with substantial mass. If you did, you’d be dead. Survivor bias.
A weissbier can mask a lot of errors because if its phenolic and estery yeast. A proper example of a beer that will showcase the slightest mistake is a simple pilsner.
For someone who habitually uses old MUD style emote lead-ins I was constantly needing to back edit comments to fix:

* sigh * this was disappointing

being turned into a list.