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"This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it’s just pathetic and sad."

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That is a really nice selling pitch for the culture there.

What isn't said is "we expect you to stay at work till 9pm+ because you don't start coding until 2pm, when the food coma has worn off."

;-)
Thank God someone else sees it.

There is no reason that your browser can remember a unique username and password for every site you wish, but not a single OpenID url. Or that it can fill in username and passwords across wildly-varying-markup sites, but not in the much-more-frequently-identical OpenID fields. At absolute worst, the OpenID experience can be 100% identical to the Username/Password experience, but no browser I've seen has even done this trivial implementation, much less a more seamless one.
I think community acknowledgment is basically useless honestly. I think it comes down to individuals needing to understand privilege and how it affects them and the groups they are a part of. Then the individual has to take it upon themselves to make a change that matter to the people around them, and the people they want to have around them.

If individuals don't take responsibility for their actions groups can never change.
This is a pretty good starter inventory for what feminists mean when they talk about "male privilege".

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/

You may disagree with the analysis behind the list's construction, but I see little if anything on that list that obviously gets crossed off the list by virtue of being a geek.

Social justice theorists also talk about different kinds of privileges, so the idea that geeks have male privilege does not exclude the possibility that there is another form of privilege that they lack that others have. Some other types of privilege that are sometimes considered are white privilege, class privilege, heterosexual privilege, etc. You can have male privilege but not white privilege, etc.

In other words, privilege isn't simply a binary have/don't have thing such that geeks have it and women don't.

You could make an argument that there is some sort of gender-stereotypical privilege that, say, football players share in but geeks do not. Is that where you were going?
This is a great thing to do if you're a CEO or founder, especially if it's sincere. users feel flattered when you ask them for an opinion or feedback on a feature.
I believe it will still be less work than recreating the whole thing.
What do you want me to do?

"Feel bad about yourself" is usually my takeaway.
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> If this interpretation is correct, then media that portrays men as badass and woman as sexy isn't necessarily showing evidence of pandering to males. It may simply be reflecting evolutionary gender roles. It may be that this is one thing males should stop all the self-flagellation over.

It's not about self-flagellation or who is pandering to who. The article makes a broader point about how the perception of gender roles affect's our collective judgment about women's' contributions in geek society.

Your point about the basis of roles in biology is well taken, but:

1) It's not really clear how it's relevant to the larger point of the article. Batman is surely the epitome of sexual desirability in a man (rich, smart, attractive, crime fighter!) but what about the Joker and the Doctor? Skinny guy with disfigured face and pudgy dude with a neck beard? Those portrayals have nothing to do with sexual desirability. The Joker is supposed to convey manic-scary, and the Doctor precise-scary. Meanwhile, all the female portrayals are sexy-something. Sexy-crazy, sexy-eco terrorist, etc. Indeed, the point you make really reinforces the point in the article: we only portray women in terms of their sexual attractiveness, while we're willing to entertain a full range of human traits in men.

2) You can't say how much of these perceptions is rooted in culture versus biology. We're genetically predisposed to be skeptical of people not from "our clan", and slavery of not-like-kind people has been a feature of human society since antiquity, yet here we are in 2011, with massively different perceptions than even 60 years ago.

Perceptions aren't just abstract subjects of self-flagellation. They matter. Heck, geeks should be all too aware of this. As a born loudmouth, I've noticed countless times where people would take my opinion more seriously over someone who was more socially cautious. My girlfriend and I went through a pretty extensive recruiting process in our field in the last year, and you couldn't pay me to switch places with her. She assiduously avoided mentioning me, because it always lead to people trying to figure out if she was a flight risk, while my mentioning her always made me seem more stable. Even if the difference in perception gives women a few % handicap (though I'd postulate, without evidence, it's a heck of a lot more than that, especially in fields like tech or finance), that's a pretty substantial liability when you factor into account the level of competition.
> Trolling and protesting are two sides of the same die.

This is true. However the difference with our conversations in the west recently regarding g+ is it is a private company requiring your details on their own property, there are many alternative places to discuss that don't require your personal details and governments are not likely to require such a thing.
Footballers, cheerleaders and hollywood are held up as a meritocracy.
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Anyone remember Perfect Dark? There was a female protagonist that could kick some ass.
Seems like Embrace, Extend, Exterminate is in full swing here. At the very least, I see custom additions to OAuth, plus a requirement for client IDs and access tokens. In other words, you can't talk to their servers unless you ask nicely, and they can revoke your program's access at a moment's notice.
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Oh right! I mistook your original post for a completely different scheme. Don't know why but I was thinking about encoding data in a single call by reencoding the paging signal.

Your idea is much more feasible and actually kinda cool.
AFAIK, they are no longer working on Lunascript (the language) but still use the Luna framework in their app.

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That's a shockingly insightful list.

I love #30: I can be loud with no fear of being called a shrew. I can be aggressive with no fear of being called a bitch.

I've found that I can entertain a much broader range of personality tones than my female friends. You have to be an order of magnitude more aggressive to be an "asshole" than you do to be a "bitch." "Pensive" is a word you might use for a man, "moody" for the equivalent in a woman. I've never had to fight a socialized urge to defer to anyone in conversation, and certainly not to someone of the opposite sex.
Activision has Blizzard, which is an ungodly money making machine. Everything they've touched for the past ~15 years has been a huge success.
> in a non-insulting way

I don't think that's part of the goal.
Hey, that sounds familiar...
The first time I logged in, I felt like I have been using it for a while since I had no problems using it.

It also helps that the team at Asana keeps improving it. They recently launched a calendar feature which I now have connected to my Google calendar.
Nope, in India you only pay for the calls you make. I was actually surprised by your system, where you can make someone pay by just calling.
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I'm guessing this post is a direct response to "Design is Horseshit" (http://yongfook.com/post/14295124427/design-is-horseshit), which was on HN earlier.

It appears that the author of this post has taken the original article and simply replaced 'design' with 'engineering' the whole way through it, thus the unusual characterisation of engineers as "expressive creatures" you point out.
Sexism isn't exclusive to nerds, and nerd hostility is about more than females. This is the golden age of the geek, his once scorned subculture has been universally vindicated across all domains. In TV, movies, music, fashion, gaming, and of course business, being a geek is now the in thing. The geek's meteoric rise into the mainstream has caught the culture off guard. Suddenly, everyone wants to be seen reading comics, playing games, and tinkering with computers, and now the once ostracized "true scottsman" nerd must account for the burgeoning interest of the general public in "his" world.
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We were doing this 30 years ago in the US, usually when someone's flight landed and they needed a ride.

You initiate a collect call and tell the operator a bogus name. Operator calls home and the call is rejected. Ride is on it's way. It got a little easier in the 80s when the system got automated and Mom would get a collect call from "COMEPICKMEUPATUNITEDDOORSEVEN"
Have you stopped to think about what the effects of sexually objectifying women are (aside from titillating you)? I don't see how arguing that a harmful thing is pervasive excuses it.
I don't disagree with your examples, but I do think that men are more common targets for the "creepy / sketchy" nexus of slurs, including the not-particularly sexualized varieties. The same goes for the "loser / choke artist" family, I think.
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Can anyone double-check my interpretation of this?

Good fat model design: break up units of behavior and related variables into modules, and include them in the model. Few people actually break them up, but that's unrelated to what's "good". Advantages: related behavior is encapsulated, likely in separate files, and methods are always available down the pipeline. Disadvantages: huge numbers of methods at any given time.

DCI design: .extend those modules into the models as you need them. Advantages: related behavior is encapsulated, likely in separate files, and code is declarative about what it intends to be used for and cannot be used otherwise. Disadvantages: have to new.extend(YourModule) every time.

If that's the case, I can see the advantage around guaranteeing things aren't using it outside of the controller-declared intended usage. More controllable / predictable code, basically. But breaking things into modules is a good idea anyway, regardless of if people actually do so, and aside from the increased control I don't see how this is different than module-including models.

Better, I'll admit, but they seem to be claiming ponies and rainbows that'll knock your socks off, when what they're offering is just a style choice (many modules per model) + per-instance mixins rather than per-class, which seems to imply to me that they're allowing a lot more manipulation of the models further down the rendering pipeline than is generally recommended in MVC.
Well that was basically the point I was trying to make. The web is going to have to evolve to a post-Javascript future at some point. I believe this will happen no matter how hard the JavaScript-only diehards fight against it. I'm certainly not saying the web is doomed, only that it would be if the JavaScript-only crowd really got their wish (which in the long run they won't, they can't).
Considering that one thrust of the article seems to be that anyone (particularly anyone female) who despises comic book store patrons is justified in doing so, I think you're on point.
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While I agree that one's contribution to the team can tromp raw individual performance (all good leaders know this!), I would be careful not to go too far in the other direction. A bad engineer can sabotage an entire project regardless of his cheerleading abilities.
What a load of crap. Female comic book characters are scantily clad? You don't say. But let me suggest that has not much to do with "privilege" and everything to do with the fact that teenage boys are hard-wired to appreciate this kind of thing. No, it's not a "social construct" or an effort to keep the oppressed in her place.

Where do I sign up for the privilige of having members of the opposite sex fall all over themselves doing things for me in order to get my attention?
This reminds me of when I was going to college (1988-1991) and the "Collect Call" system was becoming automated (all landlines) - with a collect call, it would be the recipient who would pay the charges, _if they accepted_. The automated system would give you a chance to say your name, and then it would play a message to the recipient "You have a collect call from <Play Name that was just recorded>. Do you accept charges?"

Of course, you could say anything as your name including, "Let's go for pizza 8:00" or "Won't be able to make study group tonight" - if you said it quickly enough. The person at the other end would here the message, and then decline to receive the call.

Caller ID wasn't as common - I'm presuming the missed call culture leverage caller ID for a lot of it's signalling mechanism. (I.E. If you are a taxi, and get a call that cuts off after 1 ring from a number, it means come pick that person up. If you get 2 rings then it means call me back, etc...)
You should start using j and k in other places like gmail to start getting used to it. I know it takes some work, but I think it is totally worth the effort.
It gets worse. You can even get charged for receiving a text message.
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If you haven't already, I'd recommend taking a look at some of the 12/5 SOPA hearing replays. See: http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nf5vo/complete_videos_from_1215_sopa_hearing/

I've found the beginning Part 4 especially interesting. For example, at around 11:30 in the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_cGRZNjLA&feature=relmfu), the chair says that he is open to alternatives.

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So instead of boycotting SOPA, failing to implement it, or petitioning against it, why don't we try to propose alternatives?

If you had the opportunity to pitch an alternative to the House Judiciary Committee, what would it be?
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"Ought"? The feminist position is that women should be able to express themselves however they want. And it turns out that given the choice, many women actually do want to wear revealing outfits. Exhibit A: Halloween.
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I and many others would probably like to say to Pincus "Karma is a bitch" but I'm sure him becoming a billionaire, despite the lackluster response from the market, would make that point kind of moot.
I wrote "football fans and Baywatch viewers aren't generally holding up their communities," IOW I was referring to fan/viewers, not the players, cheerleaders & actors/actresses themselves.

(and I count myself as a rabid NFL fan)
Want to see less sexism in games? Stop buying shallow and commercialized titles and support developers who actually try to express their ideas via the medium. Seriously.

I'm not saying you should switch to a different kind of games and ignore the trends in the rest of them, but I see that a lot of people decrying "sex and violence" in various types of media are also validating the exact same works that are fundamentally based on sex and violence. That doesn't make sense.
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Been there. Had a similar situation on a one-project company I started with a friend.

In my case I was the developer and I had worked two months past our decision to transfer the company to him, the non-technical founder. When I asked him (probably somewhat aggressively) to give me a few days off to get started after New Year's day he hired another developer. He went silent and hid this from me for three weeks until I found out from the client why nothing was a priority any more.

Eventually that new developer contacted me to ask about the details of my past business relationship with the guy. He was having the same problems with him that I had.

How do I describe the guy in retrospect?

I think he drank a lot and shot his mouth off about being a CEO kickin' back collecting the cheques too much. I did all the fucking work and he collected.

Even though we had been communicating about the issue in my case he took this as a sign to move on. I'm actually pretty glad he did. I was ashamed to let the client be stuck with him and all of his failures but sometimes that's the price you have to pay to keep your sanity when things go bad.

In the time since this has happened I have done a lot of awesome technical projects and he still has a broken webpage with nothing but errors on the front page.

It is hard to find a new developer. I strongly advise you to get introspective for awhile and figure out what you did to piss him off. After you've given him a bit of time to cool down.

Meeting in person or on the phone certainly helps too. Emotional data is lost in emails - best to avoid until you've patched things up.
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