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What you're describing is, unfortunately, standard practice in the industry - and has been for a long time. I've been around for a while and have been as frustrated by it as you. (Sorry for self-quoting, but I wrote about this in the last bit of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3341058)

This may not be what you want to hear, but in my experience, organizations don't change much, so take your hopeful energy and channel it into finding (or starting) something else that is better. Hacker meetups and open-source projects are two ways to interact with other programmers. As far as work goes, try to find (or start) a place with a culture of collaboration. They're rare but do exist. The trouble is that absolutely everybody will say "yes" when asked if their culture values collaboration, mentorship, etc., and you need some way to cut through the bullshit. Best way I know is by knowing a person who works there.
No. A thousand times no.

Guys make these comments either a) because they are irredeemable assholes, or b) they don't understand the harm they cause.

If they are permanent jerks, firing them can and will help. For everybody else, then discussion is useful.

There is no reason to accept this kind of bullshit, and I refuse to.
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You are painting these things as universal. If there were some rule about women and potlucks I'd care. As it is, there is not. I have never even seen a potluck in the workplace! There are much bigger, structural problems to worry about right now. It's like we're on a boat with a hole in the bottom and every interest group is complaining that their feet are getting wetter than all the others. We wouldn't have this problem if the environment were more conducive to smaller businesses - women could avoid these problems by becoming their own bosses. Instead of escaping our entrapments we are arguing for better conditions in the prison.
I just have a 1st generation iPod Touch which i bought a month after release because I thought it was really cool and didn't want to commit to ATT.
These people seemed a bit clueless. It's very fast using Android.

1. Load "Places" (Part of Google Maps but separate menu icon)

2. Hit "Restaurants" or whatever.

3. Done.
If someone who feels offended by swear words would not fit your company culture, perhaps you should keep it.
Dunno. I'm a woman, and I think that blog poster needs to lighten up.

I've worked in IT for years - usually as the only woman on the team - and I've never felt degraded or discriminated against for being female. Maybe slight prejudices in the beginning when the guys think I'm not as good as them, but I enjoy proving them wrong. There is banter, and sometimes it's not 100% HR approved, but I've never felt that it was mean spirited or intended to put me down. I've found that by and large, computer engineers are super-nice, funny, and respectful towards women.

The comment about the guy noticing her low-cut dress and wanting to sit near her... not entirely appropriate, but is this really bad enough to run to HR and complain? That said, I wouldn't feel comfortable drawing attention with my clothes, so I would never wear something low-cut. I find that a lightweight cotton dress shirt is more comfortable than a tight, low-cut top anyway. If someone asked me to arrange a pot-luck or bring them coffee, it would simply not be happening.

I'm on the East Coast though. Maybe all the disrespectful frat boy "brogrammers" are working on the West Coast?
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I made no such comparison. It's called Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio/

My point was that if we accept your argument, we must also accept the patently absurd (at least to me) argument that one must have compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer, and it doesn't sound as though you disagree.
You're forgetting the in-app purchases. OMGPOP only makes a portion, albeit a minority, of their revenue from the initial sale.
job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass;

I'm intrigued. How the heck did that scene play out? How exactly do one produce an image of his ass in an interview. How come he had one taken in the first place. So many questions ..
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I don't think this is the core problem. Feedback is occurring, and the response isn't "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll avoid doing that in the future."

It's "lighten up!" That translates roughly to: "what I was doing that bothered you is so important to me that I refuse to stop, so get over it." I think that is the core problem.
I'm using timeanddate.com since long time, and plan to continue to do so:)
Love their multi-zone meeting planner. Also lots of useful details, such as when the next daylight savings shift is going to happen in a particular location.
Tied to one big client, but wanting to spread out.
The value of the game to Zynga is higher than the value of the game on the open market, since Zynga can cross-promote their other games and also suck up a whole ton of personal information from the Draw Something userbase.
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So it is only a tradeoff when they get all the money they possibly can by making the stuff less useful to us? Sorry, that is absurd. No one is saying they shouldn't be paid, just paid with a different model, that the tech has changed, and the model should change with it. Preserving the status quo, against the changes wrought by technical progress (a useful art resulting from scientific progress) is sort of the opposite of "furthering the progress" of those things.
Firing people is clearly an extreme option; it might be worth asking kcunning if she felt that was an appropriate reaction (I'd guess not). Writing a blog post, on the other hand, has generated half a dozen people changing their minds about how much sexism they're prepared to put up with (ranging from "I am confronting my own active sexism and resolving to change it" to "I am more inclined to speak up to challenge active sexism when I see it"). Speaking for myself, it was a series of posts like this that gave me the confidence to start calling other men out when I saw active sexism take place. I suppose you could argue that everyone in this thread who is appearing to change their mind is lying, but that seems to be begging the question--purely on the responses I'd suggest that the preponderance of evidence is that writing blog posts does produce incremental change.
Enthusiastically seconded. Nothing makes me hit the back button faster on a startup/app website than a mostly-empty page with a video on it. Especially when the video is just a close-up of somebody's face talking, i.e. there's nothing that requires a video to demonstrate.
Not to mention the Allies not giving a shit.
To be fair though, I've worked in places that were 70/80% female before and I was usually the first person they asked when they needed something heavy moved.

Perhaps it's just that many guys are so disorganized that it really makes sense for the woman in the group to take notes etc.
> Because all of the other Germans who didn't agree with what was happening just accepted it and went along.

That's not why Schindler didn't save all the jews. The point was risk analysis.

> Are we done here?

Unless you want to inject yourself between my reply to another poster again, yes. Feel free to see yourself out.
Another solution is to simply put the passcode requirement to "Immediately" just before going into the line. It is annoying, and I'm glad jwz pointed it out.

Disappointing that we have to worry about security drones going through our email/personal records. TSA sucks.
This isn't "borrowing". This is IP theft. And these aren't "ideas" these are full blown products.

"Ideas are cheap, it's the implementation that really matters."

The games that Zynga copies were not "ideas" they were IP. And Zynga wasn't inspired by them. Zynga flat out, straight up, cloned them.

When you work your ass off, sacrifice time with your family, your savings, and invest it into building a profitable flash game online, iterating week after week until you get the formula just right. Only to have a bully come by and clone it. That my friend, is NOT borrowing. That's NOT implementing an idea differently. That is theft. Those are unfair business practices.

People like me are angry at Pincus because his method, if it becomes popular, could completely fuck up the startup ecosystem.

What if ALL of silicon valley starting acting like Pincus? Instead of acquiring sites and IP fairly, they simply cloned them. What if Google simply cloned YouTube div for div, color for color, feature for feature? What if Amazon cloned the technology used in Kiva's robotic logistics system instead of acquiring the company? What if Microsoft cloned skype and its algorithms instead of acquiring it? This isn't Github where you can fork someone else's work. These are companies that people put their lives and savings accounts into.

Here's how it works:

1: Crazy young entrepreneurs risk everything to find a new profitable business or build a new product. Because they're small they can easily pivot and reiterate day after day and evolve their product/solution/business faster than a big company.

2: They find something that works, VCs jump on board to grow the business/product/service and the crazy young entrepreneurs who worked their asses off expand their business/service/product.

3: Big players like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon can use their muscle and dollars to acquire the startup and assimilate it into itself and offer this unique new service/business/product to their established customers. Thus benefiting the entrepreneurs who try new things, the investors who help grow new things, the big players with lots of established customers, and the end users. So many people benefit from this ecosystem.

What Zynga does is dangerous. It basically gives the little guy the finger, steals their hard earned IP and doesn't give anything back. This is what makes it despicable. Most entrepreneurs keep their voice down about it because they don't want to look like angry disgruntled losers who are envious of a successful entrepreneur. But if you don't call it out and say anything about it and on top of that give Pincus a CEO of the year award... That hurts all of us.

On top of all this, Zynga sees nothing wrong with what it does. Again, if they were open about the whole thing they'd be seen in a slightly better light. Still unethical copycats that hurt an ecosystem but at least honest about it. If they did the right thing and properly acquired the games they clone, we'd all be cheering Pincus on.
We want to come up with rules for things: either this statement is "sexist" or it is not, and here is the objective reason for that decision.

Um, yes - geeks want objective rules which allow us to figure out that an activity is either legitimate or not. This principle is called the "rule of law".

Are you advocating that we should abandon the rule of law in cases of sexism?
Well, it's not my area of expertise...

If you'd like to direct me to where I can read a more balanced view of the history of slavery I would be pleased to read it.
In case it goes away, here's a copy: http://pastebin.com/yZxWJD9n
> A male may wear shorts to be comfortable, but he's wearing a sleeveless top because he wants to show off his biceps.

Or to air out his armpits !
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He's hiring a designer...
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Once again, it comes down to a difference between what each person considers an appropriate apology. What you usually see (including in this case) is an apology, followed by people arguing over whether the apology was sufficient or not. "Sincerity" is gauged based on whether you think the apology is good enough. If not, the usual response is to say that the offender obviously didn't care enough and is being insincere.
There is probably a little bit of confirmation bias: anyone who didn't end up at a large-name company probably dropped off the radar. Maybe he wasn't the top engineer, if he went to work for zarklxyr.com. Oh, but Facebook, that's impressive, he must really be good.
I understand exactly what you're saying, you and I have had this exact argument before.

The notion of being "irresistibly drawn to the work" seems very shallow and amorphous. Would you (or I, for that matter) still be irresistibly drawn to it if the pay were dramatically worse? If the status were worse? If the working conditions were worse? If people systematically objectified you and your gender?

Following through with that example, do you think we should make day-to-day life worse for software developers to drive the-less-than-committed out? Maybe have hazing rituals or public shaming? Force interview candidates to walk through hot coals? Endure a persistently hostile and alienating workplace? It's all the same bullshit.

Regardless of the whole "learned skill vs. natural talent" question, the ability to make software well is an aptitude, it's not a calling. It's not (and shouldn't be) the priesthood.
You're a hacker purist. Most consumers are not. Many actually like the features that Touchwiz brings.

It's actually interesting in that "pure, unadulterated" Android has very heavily borrowed from Sense UI, TouchWiz, and Motoblur. Those custom skins were what really helped move the platform forward.
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Your response is sad, because you accuse me of things I never said. I never said "bullying" was justified. Infectious disease is a fact of life. We can wash our hands and prevent the worst plagues, but there is every reason to think that total elimination of disease would be ecologically unsound for humans. People need an immune system. Do you think that I am now "justifying" HIV? It's not "sexism" to be a prejudiced human being.
In all likelihood we wouldn't have gotten into or through the industrial revolution (hell, probably even the renaissance) without people performing many of the loan and financing functions modern day "bankers" fulfill. The current possibilities for space exploration likely wouldn't exist.

I know it's fun to hate on bankers these days, and that there are some good high profile examples of things going wrong, but try to keep some perspective. Just because you can paint everyone with some brush doesn't mean it's actually a good idea.
My favorite is http://mammals.org.
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Do you recognise the difference between examined bias and unexamined bias?
airport.com - what a domain.
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Where can I get good excel templates for startup financials?

I want to create my balance sheet, income statement & cash flow statement.

I know the default answer is 'docstoc' or one of these hosting sites, but a lot of the templates I have seen seem like overkill for my simple needs.
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Cass R. Sunstein in Free Markets and Social Justice offers a chapter with an interesting perspective called "Why Markets Don't Stop Discrimination." The book is actually one of the more readable economics works I've seen, and the author gives a more in-depth account of why competitive markets would normally be believed to work the way you're saying you expect them to work.

The basic idea is that even if you operate in a competitive market, your customers and associates may not: and due to this, competitive markets can sometimes only float the ball to some socially-appropriate level. So, let's talk about someone who stops doing business with you because they know your programmers are female and they hold some subconscious belief that female code is of lower quality. (I mean, if you called them on it they would say "no, of course not!" but somewhere deep inside they'd prefer the familiar and they discriminate institutionally rather than individually.) Now your incentives to discriminate are bound up in a complex: that complex contains their tastes, and what they're willing to pay to get a product which tastes right to them. If they're in a very competitive market they might not be able to afford any overhead, but if they're a personal user, or they are turning a profit, they get to choose based on their tastes alone and then your financial incentive is to also institutionally discriminate. The whole point is that discrimination might be "economically rational" while nondiscrimination might be "social justice" and therefore they can come at odds -- which is more or less the topic of the book.

I found it an interesting idea.
gccgo does support Solaris, and should support any operating system that uses ELF binaries.

The gc Go compiler currently supports FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. That's at least 95% of the servers out there (probably more). There is code to support NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Plan 9, but we have held off polishing it for Go 1.
The "computing is hard" excuse is a pathetic cop-out by people who can't see past their own self interest.
You're getting quite a bit of flak for this. You got a sucky boss? I rather like my co-workers, and potlucks are just one method of team-building/friendship making that can be had at work. No, work buddies should never be your only friends, but to have a pleasant time around co-workers, and to have team-building events such as those? There's nothing wrong with that; and, I would argue it helps to create a condusive and lower-friction environment.
It's not about performance, it's about simplicity. There's just so much to rails that becomes unnecessary if it's just an API.

Sinatra + Sprockets + Sequel seems to be perfectly reasonable.
Everyone seems fixated on the design of this particular page (a one-time use site to find a great designer). The important thing to take away from this and what makes it great in my opinion is how honest he is and how he address the concerns a designer will have. All the nonsense you see in a typical job post is simply mentioned briefly in the last of 6 bullet points under "boring details".

I bet he gets a great designer because he's demonstrated he can provide a great work environment for said designer.
I think most people in most modern societies would agree a line should be drawn somewhere.

If she wore a bikini to work, is it really fair to expect every guy to not say something? Now, that "something" should be closer to "you should change your outfit" than "I'd hit that", but still, the responsibility for the dress and generally accepted code of conduct falls on the woman in that case.

I don't see this stance as sexist because, as others have noted, we expect similar conduct from men.
So it's not meant to be a thoughtful mechanism for promoting change, just a way for people to act out their fight club fantasies on deserving victims. Gotcha, sorry I was so critical of you.
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I think it's really brave of you to own up to this. So often people develop a sort of bunker mentality and can't see other perspectives.

If there's hope for you, there's hope for all of us.
We respect you more than to try to lure you with promises of iPads, snacks, foosball tables or any of that junk...

Thank you, I'm glad companies are respecting the fact that good developers can see through these 'perks', and hope this will go the way of the 'rockstar' or 'ninja' developer descriptors. We can all afford plenty of $1.50 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to maximum gluttony levels on our own salary, and this is no way to prevent weight gain at a startup. About the foosball tables, at the last startup I was, we were so busy that if I or anyone else were caught near it or the complimentary Wii/XBox/Pool Table/Jacuzzi, it would be guaranteed to appear somewhere on the next performance review.
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You know, you raise a pretty good point. I screwed up in the heat of the moment.

I can go to great lengths to explain that the copyright/IP battle is uphill, and that every talking point parroted blindly and every baseless assertion made without logic is just more deadweight we have to work against, and that the (relative few) people trying to work for a better future can't afford to treat unsubstantiated remarks with anything less than full-on ridicule and insult. That's all well and good.

But, really, this is about respect, and regardless of how I feel on the topic, I crossed a line in what is otherwise a place of civil discourse (and the occasional lighthearted troll).

Thanks for calling me out on that.
That's what I mean: he apparently had issues with containing own instincts. And by saying "I am afraid I won't be able to contain myself" you actually state more-or-less the same — that you're aggressive and prone to act aggressively against your own better judgement.

Yeah, sure, people like him that should be shunned, and preferably prosecuted. But, actually, one of the reasons they feel free to do things like that is the culture of domination that's not really hurt in any way by people making violent remarks about them.
Honestly its probably more like the top 1% didn't follow the crowd and didn't want that job at (insert famous company here).

But thats my own definition of top 1%
A man's opinion of this situation is equally valid, since a man is equally influencing the situation. If this was a problem that occurred in a vacuum, away from men, then a man's opinion would have less weight. Are you disagreeing?
The Mali (GPU) kernel module source is there, but not the proprietary userland libraries. So the situation is as you say.

(AFAIK the only Android manufacturer to secure binary distribution rights for GPU drivers was Google with the PowerVR GPU in the Nexus One, and that download comes with heavy restrictions - only for Nexus One, only for Android, do not redistribute, etc. I don't know why GPU manufacturers are so paranoid.)

That said, I don't really know the S2 but I'm fairly sure the Mali GPU libraries and the baseband are the only closed components in the EXYNOS platform. So it could be worse :/.
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Hmm, I can see the difference between that and "reasonable". Thanks for the clarification.

In that case the point I made is fairly moot, as it basically agrees with you in that it's a "BAD" thing to say.
Disclaimer: I worked for Palantir.

Palantir does a good job pitching the "We only hire the best and brightest." The pitch worked on me. When I accepted the offer, the smartest person I knew from the CMU CS class of 2006 (my class) was working at Palantir, and this definitely reassured me on my decision.
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Right now 3 of the 5 "members" are arguing on the frontage of HN about rails and APIs.

Now I don't even want an invite.