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>It wasn't offensive for girls featured in the video (or why did they?), yet it's immediately offensive for some random stranger on the net who then proceeds to command its removal. If something is gross here, this is.

Got to say, I agree. The advert doesn't appeal to me in the slightest - the sexuality is so in-your-face and over-the-top. It's pandering and almost condescending:

Look, a geeky guy hugging a model in panties! Buy our shirt, it has a website logo on it. Look, here's some boobs, here's some leg, you're a man in your twenties who works in tech, so this is what you want, right? So just give us the money already.

The advert has turned me OFF the product it was selling by being too overt. But that's just me.

What I find objectionable about this saga is Kane's rather entitled "I find this offensive, so it must be removed" attitude. The advert itself is not, in my mind, sexist. The idea that women need some kind of guardian angel who stops models from being shown in promotional videos - that I find offensive.
Would it be considered "hacking" if you where "willingly" providing your password to them?
+1

As long as consumers choose to us services that monetize primarily on ads, (Facebook, Google, et. Al), I say game on. I may not personally agree on a style basis, but focusing on the morality of a business model seems like a way better time sync than trying to get everyone to capitulate to your opinions.
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Well I'm glad you admitted it, because the number of men in your boat is all too obvious to me. Again not to further aggravate your guilt response, but all you have to do is read some of the responses to this (http://blog.sqoot.com/we-can-do-better-an-apology-from-sqoot) to see how many are the male apologists. All out in force trying to assuage their guilt by defending the guilty.

Unfortunately those who can't get over the guilt you feel via this association, are far more likely to defend the same behaviour in others in order to make that feeling go away. This is only going to stop when we stop feeling guilty and choose to act differently.
I think the whole topic is silly.

If your potential employer asked you for passwords to your bank accounts, stock managers or asked you to hand over your journals, why would you comply?

I know the job market is still tough out there for people, but why would you want to work for a company that won't trust you based on your face to face interview, the documents you submit, your references and a due diligence web search?

Were people compelled to give out their AOL passwords for jobs in the 90's?
That's very interesting. What specifically are you drawn to? Is it someone else's code you saw or the feeling you got when you first automated something? Or is it the theoretical aspects of computing?
First, since the power draw would be small, the transformer could be small too. Second, you could probably use solid-state devices like a regulator & rectifier combo instead of a transformer.
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Agreed, and a lot of it has to do with the context. If your're selling swimsuits, then you hire models, have a photo shoot, and sell swimsuits. But in the technology industry, where a lot of people are working very hard to encourage more women to get involved, there's no place for this type of objectification of women. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard.
The fortune 500 list is a moving target with plenty of large scale failures on a regular basis. Compare Profits from these lists:

1995: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

2000: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...

2005: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/fu...
This is slowly getting out of hand. I would even dare to speak of censorship.

Who cares what a random girl in a video is doing? Was she forced to appear in there? Then what's the problem? It's not even "fucking gross", it's just a couple of people giggling around being silly!

I'm a girl and never felt objectified by bosses/colleagues in the tech world, nor suffered any kind of sexism. But maybe it's because I never cared for it. I did my job and was respected for it, just like everybody else. In this century YOU are responsible for the way you present yourself to others and that's how you will be judged. They will respect you (or not) because of what you do, how you do it, how professional you are, what you accomplish.... regardless of what you are.
> The police are not going to risk their necks climbing up a power line to take out a ~$30 transmitter

They do have varmint rifles though
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How many of those relationships do you think were sparked by public sexist comments during a meeting? You're veering dangerously into "beep boop" territory.
I think it is naive to think that politicians are "servants". If you take a critical look at it, politicians don't "represent" you in the same way I would "represent" you when you hand me $5 to go down to the corner store and get a soda.

See here for more details, The Indefensibility of Political Representation : http://mises.org/daily/3383

I actually agree with the OP in a minor way, that "there are also really good reasons why it lasted 300 years", but has the US government lasted ~250 years in anything near the same form?

No, it started much closer to an anarchic Hanseatic League. Some days now, it looks more like Communist China. The way "the code" is written leads to continual aggrandizement of power.

If it is really true that "Elections and the regular change of power allows governments to be wrong and adapt.", why not have elections every 6 months?

There isn't enough value in the average person fighting the legislation which affects their lives in minor ways relative to that obtained by lobbying interests.
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Please note my parenthetical.
You missed "tone argument" (as in, "I don't like you being uppity about this thing which I don't care about so I'm going to draw attention to the language you chose to use rather than deal with the actual issue at hand.") but otherwise yup, that pretty much hits all the high points.
Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their ... papers, ... against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

People used to write down their thoughts on paper, for their own private use, no different than using computers today (save at orders-of-magnitude different velocity). Courts have been struggling with this notion for centuries.
I would set up a fake Facebook account if I were very desperately in need for a job. Or just say I don't have one, which is true at the moment. Otherwise, No and Goodbye.

Sharing my password, any of them, is simply totally unacceptable. No way. I'm not giving them the key to my front door either am I? Or my ID card with my boss' face on it so that he can impersonate me, because that's also what this is (though that probably won't happen, so they key example is better, but that doesn't make this less true).
No WTFPL? For shame. http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
It's not hard to fathom at all. For as much as the average person complains about work, people really want jobs.

There's a severe power imbalance. If you don't take the job, in most cases there are seven other qualified applications who will take it instead. Odds are that one of them will fork over their login info. And even though few people truly want to disclose it, once it becomes a de-facto standard, people will have little choice. The power imbalance is the crucial problem, and companies shouldn't be allowed to dictate unreasonable terms to employees or potential employees just because that imbalance allows them to obtain consent in most cases.
Technically, yes. What I was referring to was more mundane though. The difference between writing a parser/interpreter partially in PHP or minimizing the php code to a loop and then push all the hard stuff down to preg is significant. Optimizing it further is probably futile, compared to what else goes on in a typical http req-res cycle.

It's a red herring anyway, so I sort of regret bringing it up. Much more important is the other point - that this is a standard tool, rather than a tailored one.
It wouldn't be honest to only quote with-testing and force them to pay for something they may (mistakenly or not) not want.
Not necessarily - for example, fluorescent lamp glows near high-voltage power line, even if is not plugged in to any power source.
> Also, Is it just me or do any other Mac users get infuriated with their folder/app structure?

Adobe's complete disrespect for your file system is legendary.

And to make the experience even worse, if you move the 7 useless folders in say /Applications into something like /Applications/Adobe (that you never use anyway), their software updater breaks all over the place.
I should have specified that those actions take place out of context. Such as showing a half-naked man riding on a horse down the beach to sell a product to women.

Obviously everyone has different sensitivities, but if you cannot objectively identify sexism of both men and women in advertisements, yes you're a hypocrite.
Sanz should have realised that what he saw as her attacking him and his brand was actually a girl trying to get some social justice. If he removed his ego from the equation he would have understood that a thoughtful response and change in behaviour from him and his associates would have provided a PR win-win for him and a happy response from the women that his company may serve.

I literally can't believe he tried to play the victim card and to get her employer involved. Knowing how to handle yourself and how to represent your company under stress is very important.

There is a great opportunity for somebody to start an association of start-up founders that are female-friendly and get people to join. Creating a social contract to do the right thing would help people lead in the right direction without feeling criticised.
The law making it illegal to deny the Armenian genocide has been invalidated by the constitutional council. The decision is quite interesting actually:
- It is right to forbid denying the holocaust, as it has been recognised by an international jurisdiction (the Nuremberg court)
- But it is wrong to forbid the Armenian genocide because it has been declared a genocide directly by the French government, so it could be used to censor anything.
It seems a weird choice to me(I'm French), but it makes some sense.
(http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionne... -- in French legalese)

Also, free speech isn't absolute even in the US, for example I think you must also have libel laws.
The point is, "transmit? To where?". Unless these things make a WiFi mesh and you are in range, you would require some sort of gateway to access the data.
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What do you think about? Am I right?
I'd pay $5000 to see that idea happen. 50/50 ownership with the coder/designer. And i'll pay for PPC to market it.
If they ever do get this going and it works (unlikely even if it isn't a joke), it could be a very interesting thing for doing freenet style things. No global IP to trace to and the pirate bay could end up completely anonymous.
I'd like to hear more about your strategy for beating the cold-start problem. You'll need to ramp up both sides of your two-sided market to be of value to either side.
In my experience, it just means that your habits have become that which you don't want them to be.

Look into creating a morning routine that gets you to working on something so when you wake up you get out of bed and start something, anything. Start making breakfast (this can be easier if you have the coffee pot on a timer so it is ready upon waking), pound some water & a banana before going for a run, do hygiene and get dressed -- any of these make a good starting point. Finally, getting out of the house/apt to a workspace can really help the focus as well -- I dream about working on my startup all day at work but when I get home I frequently fall into the traps you've discussed unless I go to a place specifically to work.

As a redditor you might want to look at /r/getMotivated.

Finally, the biggest thing for me has been realizing that "just start" is really, really helpful. If I can just make myself start on something for 5min then I can easily work on it for 5 hours but that initial resistance is by far the worst of my barriers.

Good luck.
Actually, it does get mentioned a lot, both in discussion of difference of portrayal, how it hurts men who don't actually want to strive towards displayed image (or, for example, have little chance of developing such a body type), and how it hurts women (because a heterosexual woman will probably end up in a relationship with a guy, and in our culture, it's not a question if he's influenced by the mainstream image, but how badly).
GM was at least on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure that can be attributed more to massively underestimating how much healthcare would cost in 2008 during a union negotiation several decades prior than to any sort of dirty tricks.
> Considering the timing of the blog post, it certainly looks like a response to Apple's launch

Microsoft announced this at the Build conference last September. They even announced the specific 100%, 140%, and 180% sizes that they wanted app developers to provide.

I think it was in the "8 traits of great Metro style apps" session. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/BPS-1004
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>BTW, iPhone 4 is a 3.5 inch 640×960 resolution (326 ppi).

But the new iPad is 264 PPI.
I still haven't got past how they plan to power the damn things. Which is to say, that doesn't even seem to have entered the plan.
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> The actual root sexism isn't the story here. It's a story about PR, or about making- and dealing with- complaints.

I think it is, actually. This method of dealing with women who speak up - veiled threats, sniping about "tone," complaints that 'we're not being treated fairly!' - is the actual root sexism. It's not just a PR problem or a problem with complaints. The anger here focused directly and solely on the woman who made the complaint, in an ugly and crass way, and that qualifies as more inherently sexist than anything in the video.
You're right, the original sexism definitely isn't the story. But the way the geeklist guys handled it wasn't just bad PR. As Kane pointed out several times, the way they treated her was part of the same orthodoxy that gave rise to the sexism in the first place.

Threatening a woman for speaking out, repeatedly invoking one's "family", demanding politeness, etc., saying she's desperate for attention, all have overtones that aligned with the sexist narrative in an unfortunate way. When two men are accused of condoning sexism respond by trying to bully the woman who's complaining, that means something different than just bad PR.
Just because it makes sense and makes money doesn't mean it's ok.

If sports-lovers had their options limited in life because of stereotypes perpetuated (in part) by beer commercials, then that would be a problem too.
Nothing wrong with a less frition-filled work environment. But it should not be mandatory. Also real friction caused by workplace politics rarely reduces due to such events.
My point with all this is that you can advertise however you want. Naked women, women in bikinis, who cares. However if you do some blatant sexism and want to attract intelligent women into your ranks, or want to attract intelligent men who give a shit, you fail. Furthermore you can expect a PR backlash. And of course will try to justify yourself.

The reason for this is obvious: they have NO INTENTION to take the video down, and will do anything they can to stop criticism. Classical Trolling.

The appropriate response would have been:

"We are sorry for this, and did not realize the sexism portrayed, we will begin work asap to move away from such advertising."

That would have been the end of the conversation. And would have boosted their cred if anything.
I would hope the US has similar privacy laws to Canada where a company that is solely responsible and has access to your personal data is required by law to use that data only in the ways you have explicitly permitted. If the company wishes to provide your data to a 3rd party or use it in some other means than what you agreed to they're liable for lawsuit and punishment.

I mean, sure, facebook could just update privacy agreement and have everyone agree to it then go this way but at that point I could demand my data to be removed/locked under law to prevent any one from using it in this manner.
While I agree with you, it's a very tough sale if you're consulting for a company without a strong programming department. I find that companies plan for best-case scenario and deal with the consequences thereafter. Bugs are usually considered a programming mistake, even while acknowledging that poor planning plays a part.
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I think so many things have changed that looking at 'before copyright' is not likely to yield much, because it's "before" so much else as well.

I very much agree with your conclusion though.
I don't have many customers who'd want to pay good consulting money to get hacking / hackers / hacks, to put together work that was hacked together, a hacky job.

Unless this is a site where you get bleeding edge proof of concepts built?

The word hack for a wider audience means someone who can't cut it.

Where am I coming from? Dictionary.com seems to sum up this one angle.

hack

1. a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.

2. a professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment: a political hack.

3. a writer who works on the staff of a publisher at a dull or routine task; someone who works as a literary drudge: He was one among the many hacks on Grub Street.

The other, less known, positive, meaning of hack* is only, largely known to the tech scene. Unless they are your market exclusively..

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Very true, I would also prefer something that works even in a text based browser. I've never really 100% fit in with the user standard, being one of the first to browse the web from my mobile phone (Nokia 6230i back then) or using alternative browsers when MSIE's market share was still >90%. I've had more than enough compatibility trouble to go along with something working on only some systems.

(For example I'm currently building a website which will also support everything from high-end desktops to text-based terminals. Only disqus comments are a pain, making the page size go from 23KB to over 500KB and requiring Javascript, but the tradeoff seems worth it--trust me, I thought it trough over and over and over lol.)
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Of course I meant "Now that's an ingenious idea". :/
What is "beep boop" territory?

I am aware that many people will choose to misunderstand me. I am not saying sexism at work should be tolerated so that couples can form. I am saying that attraction at the workplace is real and people need help learning how to deal with it. The "leary guy" might have been sexist, or simply socially inept.

If the definition of sexism includes "acknowledging the existence of boobs" then there is no hope, though.
1) OK, I concede this one, certainly we can use profiling to get an idea of what a given function's performance curve looks like. We just need some notion of how to vary the size of the inputs in a controlled way when profiling, and then we need to look at the curve and decide what kind of curve we're seeing, and then we need to actually run the statistical software to calculate the precise terms of the curve.

To my knowledge, the middle step is actually the hardest. I'm no statistician, but do we have math/software that can look at a curve and distinguish a logarithmic function with little error in the data from a linear function with lots of error in the data?

>2) Not really. You've used current thinking to define your business model. Think disruptive instead. And worst case you'd end up spending Ycombinator money and end up with a better CV.

The man-years here are the dominant cost. A SSC falls outside the start-up business model of releasing a "Minimum Viable Product" and all that jazz. You can't build a minimum SSC without building most of the whole thing.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't take someone's money to do it, but I'd be asking for a research-project budget, not an equity investment that has to be "ramen profitable".

Besides, I prefer home-made vegetable curry to ramen any day ;-).
The anger here focused directly and solely on the woman who made the complaint, in an ugly and crass way, and that qualifies as more inherently sexist than anything in the video.

Well... no, because the anger would have to have been because she was a woman rather than just directed at a woman. Being angry at a woman isn't sexist.

I don't see any evidence that the responses were that gender-specific. If I'd made similar complaints they might have also called me out on my tone.
Now, another scary thought: what if someone stole the code and databases to your web-service?

This exactly.

It's easy for a community oriented around mostly around things like webapps, SaaS, enterprisey stuff to hop on the anti-IP bandwagon. It just so happens that there's no convenient ways of pirating their software.
Yes, that's what I meant. And if you don't want to work for them, why give them the password in the first case?
>will do anything they can to stop criticism. Classical Trolling.

Trolls don't try to stop criticism. Trolls like upsetting people.
Would be interesting to quantify the difference in resource requirements between an OS which addresses a few known fixed/limited display sizes & resolutions vs. an OS which must support a near-unlimited range of sizes & resolutions. Might better explain why the latter, in the practical marketplace, is usually in a response/catch-up position to the former.