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Hmmm.

If any of her sexist male coworkers made jokes about "kitchen and stuff" in my office, I'd fire them on the spot for cause and take pains to make sure other organizations knew in detail about their behavior.

If you accused a victim of sexual harassment of "whining" in my office like you just did here on HN, I'd fire you on the spot and make sure other organizations knew in detail about your behavior.

Guess then we'd be sure that both you and they would have shut up about "kitchen and stuff" in the work environment, eh?

How about instead of being sexist, we men just do the right thing.
I would have thought everyone learned that concept in grade school. Is it legal to graduate someone before they understand mathematical induction?
So people are not satisfied with reddit and youtube and want commercial entertainment?
> You're right. That is the healthiest approach for her. Which makes dealing with the bullshit that people fling at her for not having thicker skin all the more valuable. She could go along to get along, but hasn't, so everyone else won't have to go along with this crap too.

Sorry, I'm a little tired today, could you rephrase this so it's easier to tell if you're being sarcastic? (serious question)
I moved from a start-up in the pre-IPO phase to a start-up in the pre-we-have-checks-with-our-names-on-them phase, and it didn't work out. I took a small pay cut and the increased risk, and a learned a ton on the job, but in the end the mismanagement and inability to accept feedback, I think, led to their demise. At the high point, there were about eight of us working there.

I should have started looking for a way out when the paychecks started coming late and I didn't find out until payday that I wasn't going to be paid. I got laid off three months later. My salary has never recovered.

Would I do it again? Apart from the fact that my wife would probably leave me, for sure. The long hours and tough projects were really challenging, but both in a good and bad way, and I worked with some pretty passionate people there. You just have to make sure that the founders are someone who deserves your absolute faith.

Finally, if you're employee #1, you probably deserve some equity (if you want it - you might not). I don't know what phase this company is at, but it should be anywhere from 5 to 10 percent (closer to 5 than 10). If a company offers you anything more than 10% equity, that's probably a warning sign.
It's satire. It's making fun of people who think they can control data or stop people from sharing files.
I believe Twitter and Foursquare are doing this too. Their Scala-based appservers are API endpoints, serving JSON to the javascript/Backbone.js frontend.
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There is a strong reason for the shaft to be covered by the cover of the same shape: it requires less material than any other shape. So with all else being equal, it's the optimal shape; it makes sense to use other shape only if there are other outweighing concerns.
I've been seeing a fair few of them. Seem to be a couple on the front page now that are new today, and there was a another a couple of days ago.
If you are in the market of selling pictures of cars and you take a rare (in fact, entirely unique) photograph of a car, then someone else takes a picture of your picture and sets up shop next door to give them away for free, they have deprived you of your ability to earn money from distributing that which you invested in the creation of. Just like diluting your equity in a company, they have not taken your physical property (or shares) but they have taken value from you regardless.
job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass;

Holly horror story!

Sadly I am not surprised to hear this, because I've heard many similar stories. And yet out of the very large number of male friends in the industry I have, including myself, none of us have ever or would ever do anything like that. The paradox here is answered by the fact that a tiny share of creeps will always be found in any sufficiently large set of humans. And the larger the set, the bigger the number of creeps.

Thus I think the only way to guarantee this kind of thing becomes part of the past is to radically increase the share of women in the industry.

Now, that doesn't prevent creeps from being creepy, but it does guarantee that the small number that they must be, can never be creepy to a large number of women.

This is kind of depressing as it basically assumes we can never completely get rid of creeps. But does anyone believe 100% proper behavior, from 100% of the people, 100% of the time is possible?
Sorry, but if one person in 30 is being a jerk, that is a steady stream of subtle harassment. Most professionals deal with what, 60 people on a weekly basis? That's two jerks every week.

And your math is off. Even if there was only one woman in tech anywhere, reducing 100% male interaction to 50% male interaction would only decrease the jerk count by a factor of two.
How about men, on a global scale, making it very clear that it's not OK?
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The cut away from the totem was simply the film's final inception: a seed of doubt in the viewer's mind.
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OMGPOP was smart to do this deal. They really had no choice. It seems really difficult to come up with new games. If they didn't do the deal, Zynga would have cloned the app and introduced it to their huge network of "_____ with friends" players for free and OMGPOP would have lost market share and revenue.
It's supposed to be a tradeoff, exactly. The reason why you want producers to get money is so that they can keep producing stuff you like.
Agree, althought I'm not fully convinced the web is fit for "web apps", or that even "web apps" make sense. At least not with current technology.

Developing apps to run on the browser still implies a lot of redundancy: you are forced to work with solutions that weren't created for interactive applications in the first place (HTTP, DOM), limited to one language designed by comitee (Javascript) and code reuse is minimal. Everything just feels hackish (at best) compared to native frameworks (e.g., Apple's Cocoa), and in the end it's hard to achieve good UX and compatibility.

I would rather see more people deploying native aplications with great UX backed by REST APIs than shoe-horning apps into browsers (which break the web).
Silicon Valley investors (PG included) prefer to invest in young rockstarish startups, so why are we surprised when we see these high profile startups do immature and sexist things?

If maturity and manners were important to investors, they would be screening for it. As far as I know, they are not.
What about "Because he would have been angry about it, and sometimes we don't make the best decisions when we're angry?" Why go fishing for the least charitable reading?
I'm a guy who's taken "shit" from co-workers before, and it's no fun. Rather than keep coming up with witty retorts, it's usually best just to get out of the situation entirely.
Right. I guess what I meant is that the backend is still responsible for everything it's always done except for generating HTML views. The rest still applies.
"Every big website on the web right now"

Can you define big? I've worked on some big sites that used MRI ruby for APIs and we served a ton of traffic with strict SLAs for a max of 250ms at the 99th percentile and things like that.
I think what I am learning from this thread is that this is an "untouchable" subject, in that if you do not naturally side with the person's allegations and white-knight for them, you are part of the problem.
It's the prisoner's dilemma: yeah, everyone on the web would be better off if businesses weren't doing this, but individual businesses will continue to do it as long as it's in their best interest to retain very tight control of and limit third-party access to the data and meta-data they capture from users.

I'm not sure how or even if the infrastructure of a distributed system like the web could be engineered so as to prevent this kind of situation. Perhaps the solution is to build in a system of financial incentives -- not unlike what the Bitcoin folks have done to solve the Byzantine Generals problem. It's an interesting problem.
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I have no idea - but that is a cool theme for sure.
Yes, women as sexy/sexual objects were listed as a perk. No, it's not as bad as slavery, and no one is saying it is. I'm not sponsoring hooters, and I've never been to one. Am I supposed to protest hooters now in order to have a legitimate claim against API Jam in your mind?

The message I'm getting from you is that you care more about group A than group B. Group A is all of the poor men that would like to see beautiful women while at API Jam and don't care about how that would make their fellow professionals feel. Group B is all of the women that want to go to a hackathon as professional coders, and not have to worry about people from group A. Will people from group A show up to any event? Yes, but they shouldn't feel that their sexism is welcome. I think group A has enough privilege, and they can do without this one perk for the sake of group B.
Wait till you come across the thumpers, we have one, his only saving grace from being shown the door is that he falls into a different category.

Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own wife's car locked up at work because she failed to be properly respectful?
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Code samples, a small test, interview 1, interview 2, offer is pretty standard.

But that 'small test' is usually 45 minutes to an hour of programming, not a weeks worth of work.

You're not stupid for thinking they might use what you created. How did you license it on github?
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there were other books he also read, one of which mentioned ejaculating on a prostitutes face. I think Enders Game just happened to be the most notable of the books that the teacher read to the class.
I don't know about you, but I deal with jerks all of the damn time. But luckily no more or less than all of my peers. This would be very different if I was a woman.

And we wouldn't reduce male interaction by 50%, we would increase female participation by hundreds of percents.

That way if someone is being a jerk, many people can all confirm he's being a jerk.
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I can't seem to find a study which showed that while only %3 of men ever make such comments, women involved in our community experience this a steady stream of subtle harassment. And the sad fact is that this is due to the lopsided share of men to women.

This reminds me of growing up Asian in rural northern Appalachia. It also reminds me of discussions I've heard on local African American radio talk shows. There's this constant subtle pressure one feels, and it is the result of knowing one is subject to arbitrary disrespect coming from out of the woodwork. The fact that it's often "plausibly" deniable doesn't make it better.

Knowing that you have a target on you does have an effect. That it's fairly uncommon doesn't make it better, if it happens often enough that the possibility is always lurking in the background. It's easy to see how this could impact someone involved in creative activities.
That's what I was getting at
But there IS changing everyone's behaviour. In my lifetime, drunk driving and spoual abuse have become socially unacceptable. Overt racism has become socially unacceptable. Two women got engaged at centre-ice in a hockey game, a bastion of blue-collar society.

All these changes happened because people said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"
"Try to think about what you'd do if you were in the room with a team member who made a comment like that. I know what I'd do, and I don't think it is an industry norm yet."

I don't think things like this are clear cut like you are saying. What if you were unemployed for 2 years and then got a new job?

And for an entrepreneur? Say for some reason your company isn't doing well. You go and pitch a big account that could be "the big break" (that digs you out of a hole). The decision maker says something offensive. How willing will you be to stand up at that time when you have something big to loose?

Of course this is all a matter of degree obviously. Some people will definitely shy away from doing the right thing in almost all cases while others will go to their death defending what they believe. Even if it makes them homeless.

I remember being in a situation years ago at a company in Silicon Valley where the head of marketing (who is very well known and respected and teaches now believe me you've heard of him) was very offensive, parental, basically a dick. And of course nobody said anything at the time to challenge him. He was a primadonna and even his superiors didn't challenge him.
Heh. I have a blog post about that as well! Basically, some women do really believe in 'traditional' roles for women. Maybe they've benefited from the current situation. Maybe it's part of their upbringing. If that's why they're making the comment, feel free to call them out on it.

If they're doing it to be ironic (I know I have), then you can probably shrug it off. Many of us have learned to be subversively snarky to put off the ones above.
I'm willing to bet that this type of behavior is a lot less likely in a start up. Something about assholes and corporate jobs. I'd like to think nothing like that would ever happen where I work. Does any women on hear have any first hand experience?

One thing that did bother me about the article though. She complained about being asked to cook, but on her about page it says she loves to cook and looks for any excuse. I'm sure she has a better idea of what her boss meant when he asked, but it makes me wonder if she has become oversensitive after so many bad experiences. I hope not.
> People pirate music because it's free, consequence free (the reason they don't steal cars is consequence) and everyone spends all day every day justifying it.

This is the utilitarian, simplistic, convenient and completely false view. People are definitely NOT perfectly rational beings working towards their maximal, personal profit. This is why, BTW, libertarianism is a silly, childish pipe dream.

Coming back to the subject, people are perfectly aware that taking someone else's physical good may harm this person directly, that's why it's always carefully regulated by many told and untold rules. Even the most small, primitive societies have mechanisms for goods exchange and appropriation.

Digital goods aren't goods, they're information; when they're shared, the originator keeps them. Nobody never sold "information", only convenient, easy or practical access to it. People never bought "music" in the form of CDs, they bought CDs as the way to listen to the music they wanted.
I have used painters in China for this. For about $270, including shipping of a large tube from China to Australia, I got a 2x1 canvas. It cost more to stretch/frame the piece than it did to paint and ship it.

There is an entire village where many of the occupants are dedicated to the craft. They will copy photographs of your family, recreate old classics, emulate a sketch you did or copy an image you found on the web.

In my case, I wanted a copy of a piece that was to otherwise be €1,000 just for an unframed print, edition of 400+. I emailed a JPG, gave dimensions and the painter sent a couple of progress shots before sending it over. Unless you compare it and the original images side by side, the differences are not noticeable.

I think the demand is there. I have actually thought about building something that sits between consumers and the Chinese artists, to capitalise on the unease some might feel in sending money abroad with little idea of what might come of it. Shuffle some emails around, load the quotes a few percent, etc.
That is what I meant, and why I said it was best for all involved. Thanks.
It's 2012, if you make this argument then I am done with you. Linux is how old? How much of the internet runs on it?\

I guess you don't know much about either Linux or business. Let me give you an example. Red Hat pays people to work on Linux, because that increases the market for people who will buy Linux support. IBM pays people to work on Linux, because that increases the market for people who will buy servers. Linux even only has a GUI because a bunch of old Unix companies sat down and formed the X consortium and paid people to write it, which they did because a common GUI would mean more software got written for Unix in general.

So go and head and make your point but do it with a Linux made ONLY of hobbyist code. If you can even compile such a thing (don't forget Cygnus funded a lot of GCC development so they could sell embedded hardware!).
Uh, nobody is talking about changing any "natural" behavior (whatever in hell you expect that to mean), no matter how shit-headed.

Behave however you like outside the work environment.

But if you behave in a sexist or racist way in the work environment you can expect to be gone. Gone. Period.

Stop blaming the victim.
On the contrary, this happens all the time in startups. Think about it: a lot of startups consist of early 20-something males running everything.
Good points. I guess I just fall into the category of people who want my phone/tablet to act as a fancy remote control, more than I want to be able to transition from watching a specific thing between multiple places.
The network effects of Draw Something's user base add immense value. Think FB vs. G+. If Zynga had made their own Pictionary game, it would have been a graveyard.
> People pirate music because it's free

I do think that's incorrect, but there's a broader picture issue that makes this irrelevant: Why does it even matter?

You're misunderstanding the original argument. Of course it's possible to make some money for selling something that is free. Specially if you convince people that it's not free, and that you'll go to jail if you do otherwise. But what they mean with "there's no market value", is that it doesn't create any new value to the economy. It's just money changing hands. If you ask me for 5 bucks and I say "yes, of course, no need to pay me back", we didn't just magically create value in the economy because I payed you 5 bucks for nothing. The value in the economy is the same, that's just money changing hands.

If I pay money for a copy of a song, that's just money changing hands. It didn't add any new value to the economy. If I didn't pay money for that copy of the song. The song would still be there. No change in value.

Unless, of course, if you make the argument that music would cease to exist if we start sharing it for free. Which I would honestly rather not get into.
Are we talking about the same startup field that puts people on stages at conferences with slide decks full of half naked women?

In any case: she's not asking for a holy jihad. She's not claiming to be the victim of a violent crime. All that needs to happen is for people to stop telling her to "lighten up".
You can clone a site, you can't clone execution. Last time I check having a site in the US does not give you the right to own the same business model elsewhere. Folksy has done a terrific job in attracting UK shops and buyers. Good for them.
I would expect most professionals deal with fewer than 30 people on a weekly basis. Thinking back on my last four jobs, I don't know if I ever dealt with more than fifteen, and I was a project manager in two of those roles.
The other factor is the stereotype in our media culture, look how Hollywood still pictures Nerds and technically versatile Women. A women who is good with computers and not a confident sexy goddess is automatically a looser.
Because being young does not mean you have to be immature, and sexism should have nothing do with either immaturity and youth.
I voted this story up because I want somebody to kick Salesforce's ass.
I wonder how hard it would be to also support self-hosted mail users (with a webmail client talking imap, or ideally something which works with mutt).
They have different connotations:

"Hang in there" - common phrase of support. Have you seriously never heard of this?
"lighten up" - dismissive, which I didn't say.
"change your perspective" - Helpful advice for many situations people have to endure unjustly. If you've never been in a situation like that, be glad. If you are, and you cannot change it easily, changing your perspective works.

You're trying way too hard to villainize me, to the point of erring on the side rashness.

EDIT >> removed ad-hominem. Sorry, I slipped!
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Feel free to link up that post!

And thanks for replying. I think I have mostly seen the subversive-snark variety and just kind of laughed and moved on, so that’s good to hear.
The rest of my response should make it more than obvious that I took her concern and health seriously.

It doesn't, unfortunately. That's the problem with mixed signals: they're mixed.

For the record, if you realize ahead of time that a word or saying will have an unintentional double meaning in a context that you don't want, find another way of saying it.
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When I first looked at OpenStreetMap a couple years ago I dismissed it solely because I didn't like the tile design. But now I see more and more really beautiful designs popping up (e.g. also those from http://mapbox.com/) and I expect OSM to gain a lot of importance in the next years (overtaking Google Maps maybe?). These 3rd-party tile designs a beautiful example of how much more can be done with data that's truly open!

The one thing I don't understand is who pays for hosting it. Once everyone uses OSM, won't it be prohibitively expensive for a non-profit to serve it? Maybe I'm wrong and it's not that much of an issue. Does anyone have an idea how much it costs Google to serve the Google Maps API? Wikipedia is in the same situation, and they solve it with their donation pleas. Maybe it would make sense if a fraction of our ISP bill automatically goes to the most visited non-profit websites. They offer kind of a public good to everyone, after all.
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It actually wasn't single founder when YC funded them, Dan Albritton was the other founder. Really nice to work with them back in the day.
Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own wife's car locked up at work because she failed to be properly respectful?Still, why would you want someone as a manager who would keep his own wife's car locked up at work because she failed to be properly respectful?

What in the hell kind of place are you working at!?
"Fire the guy instantly" is not what I would do; not, at least, for the "low cut dress" remark.

Expecting women to bring him coffee, or demanding that they also serve as PAs? That I'd have to think about.

I'd like to think I'd refuse business from (or resign from a team that failed to refuse business from) anyone who exposed themselves to a job candidate. It's fair to point out that the question has never seriously been posed to me. I've drawn lines in other business situations, but haven't had to for sexism.