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There seems to be the usual disconnect here between the meaning of sexism and sexual.

Sexual references and images can make people uncomfortable and may be inappropriate, but they are not sexist. It's not surprising that in a male dominated field, sexual references are primarily female - this also doesn't make them sexist.

Sexist: "Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex."

Again, these images may be inappropriate in a professional context, but they are not sexist. In my personal opinion, sexuality is a part of life and sexual references don't bother me. They should be used judiciously and not to the point of distraction, but they are not inherently inappropriate. Others may disagree.

Calling sexuality sexist is sexist itself. It implies that sexuality is the domain of one gender, when in fact it is universal.
What if both are different aspects of the same problem?
If this was written by an American, yes. I don't know many people who know what "engine braking" is. A very slightly higher number of people I know are capable of driving a standard shift vehicle. Most people know what a manual transmission is, but not everyone.
What does fame have to do with novelty?
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FWIW, it has also been shown that women are okay accepting lower salaries and are less likely to ask for raises (i.e. less aggressive at trying to get better wages and such). This is not to say that I think that sexism doesnt exist, but rather that your 'evidence' is potentially misleading/false.
So my friend and I have added 365 bits of inspiration - one for each day. We then have a separate part of the site where a user can press 'submit' (bottom right corner) and submit their own inspiration. This can then be viewed by clicking 'shared inspiration' - again bottom right. So the site has two parts to it - a social type of part and then a daily dose part.
So what is lacking from that slide, as the OP depicts it, that disqualifies the OP interpreting it as sexist?
great idea :) but basically what I want is something to help students learn with friends and share their learning experience with friends, not really with their classmates because they can have friends at different schools. thx for the feedback
See, you just called me a "douche" in polite (from my part) conversation.

That's your way of advocating for more politeness? Just goes to show the hypocrisy of the whole thing.
I think the difference here is that Maps probably loses Google money, or doesn't make them very much. If this is the case, why should the pay Apple to be featured? Search is a different story, as this is where Google makes their money.
Don't forget that these photographs are a human creation.
Thats really only half the story. Apple couldn't give their customers the experience they wanted to give them: Turn by Turn, no data mining, etc... while staying with Google. So they made the decision to go their own way.

Hindsight being 20/20 they should've stayed with the "subpar" google maps until their new maps were less "subpar". It's great to point out hindsight but it's hard to fault their logic that they needed to move away from Google Maps. The only thing to really nail them for is doing so before apple Maps were fully baked.

(for different definitions of subpar)
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> "After measuring a 4.9 magnitude seismic event tonight, South Korea’s defence ministry confirmed that it was caused by an underground nuclear test. North Korea’s nuclear capability is estimated to be about 2 kilotons."

I'm not sure if this source is confirmed or not, but very interesting...
I have no objection to that. I just don’t want those words written by people to make it sound like the application is a person. The app can talk about itself doing things (it does do things after all) but not as a human being with feelings and stuff.
>What does fame have to do with novelty?

Nothing. It has to do with the "proved" part. Something known to be true man for millennia does not get "proved".
Make it a black male then
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well basically what is the age of the stack users? i guess 20+...this will not really be only for students...think of it like stackexchange but just between my friends and it can be for highschool students too
Oh God, women are so whiny/boring aren't they ... They can zap the fun out of anything ... I'm so fed up of there eternal attempts to ruin everything.
Just what I expected, an uninspired port. The interface is.. terrible..
What a load of shit.
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Maybe our community has more wide-reaching problems that could also be addressed? Sexist humor strikes me as coming from the same general jackassery that made people mock Heather Arthur's Replace project. I don't think we, as computer scientists /engineers /hackers/etc, have cultivated a positive environment for collaboration or communication... We have plenty of toxic tendencies that should be addressed. (sexism then being one of many things.)
Indeed, I guess I was a little too fuzzy in how I phrased myself in hind sight. Thanks - a good addition in itself.

I guess the only really suitable way of explaining the situation is "It's complicated.". It's a colourful situation and in no way is it neither black nor white.
Playing devil's advocate here: that shows that scientists take gender into account when making job offers to students, but it begs the question as to whether doing so is unfairly discriminatory. It's possible that CV+gender is a better predictor of future job performance than CV alone (for example, if female applicants are exceedingly good at writing CVs specifically).

Notably, the effect of the faculty participant's gender was not significant, so the study did not show men discriminating against women, but both men and women taking gender into account.
[this is a tentative explanation, no judgment, neither justification nor condemnation]

My impression, as a male who's evolved in several macho environments including high tech, is that the grossest sexist jokes are about males' frustration with gender imbalance, rather than against women.

What makes a joke funny? The fact that it's intellectually engaging, or wildly surprising, or that it discharges an existing yet unspeakable tension. 95% of sexist jokes are neither of the two former. The "fun" in sexist jokes shared among brogrammers is that the group rolls itself into the most degrading mediocrity engendered by a frustrated-males-only-attendance, with nobody lecturing them that they ought to behave better, what with their over-education, supposedly progressive social views, genuine interest for the opposite sex etc.

To take just one example in the comments here, "We are hiring fashion interns" with underwear girl pictures is simply not funny: no intellectual stimulation, nothing comic nor original here. And it's neither about women (models or professionals) nor about underwear. It's about the crippling level of frustration admitted by making such a lame joke, and by laughing at it.

My empirical observation is that when a few women join a male professional setup, sexists jokes quickly vanish, not because people don't dare cracking them, but because they don't feel the need to tell them anymore (IMMV). It nevertheless remains half of a vicious circle keeping women out of some career paths, to the detriment of both genders.
In the examples you gave, there are 2 problems: 1. It reduces women to nothing more than sex objects. Sex isn't just part of the job, but the women's whole reason for being included. 2. Women (and men!) feel like control over their sexuality is being taken away. When a presenter puts up a slide of a stripper, some of the audience will feel uncomfortable just because their sexuality was invoked without their consent.
Next month: "Studies show the most successful entrepreneurs are young, narcissistic, 30 somethings with a chip on their shoulder." (Which is what so many VCs have been saying)

There's good points. But this feels like a bad case of "blind eyed data worship". That's like saying "the best entrepreneurs are women" because when you compare data, female entrepreneurs grow their companies faster, with less risk, and are profitable sooner (all true facts, go ladies!). Yet when we look at startups and businesses we see men all over the place, at the top of billionaires lists, with massive companies, worldwide reach, huge patent portfolios. All despite there being 10+ million female entrepreneurs in the US. This is another case of the data not matching up to real world results. Maybe because there's more to being an entrepreneur than the data recorded. Like aggressiveness, risk, market, idea, management style, etc...

Every time an article like this comes up I can always think up of numerous examples that prove the exact opposite. From Egotistical Puppet-master Steve Jobs (RIP), to Numerous VCs that have stated over and over that they find "young, narcissistic guys with a chip on their shoulder" to be really good entrepreneurs, to real world examples all around me. Can someone explain this?

Because my explanation is that data patterns like this only explain: "what has happened, not why it happened or what will happen." Sometimes, numbers and data are only as useful as the places and methods you use to collect them, and the way you re-arrange and present them. Which very often is "poor".

TLDR: The Best Entrepreneurs are people who adjust to change and get shit done.
>I never understood why "political correctness" has to be political. Almost all of the words that aren't PC, are must more entrenched in the social, societal sphere than in politics.

It's not about "politics" as in the narrow sphere of political affairs (democrats, republicans, voting etc).

It's about "political" in the wider sense (that is "trying to be tactful", not to annoy various sides, etc).
My parents are not tech savvy. However, they do know to 'Google' it. While they may not know how to change the home page it doesn't matter what device they are on. They go to Google to search. Even if that means finding Google through Bing.

If they are doing this.. I wonder how much value this will actually be.
I agree, can you really do sexy without sexism?

Is using sex inherently bad?
> "The hiring market is segmented by too many technologies for me to claim to be an expert at?"

I think that's a concern to many new programmers (myself included) when looking at the pace these tools and frameworks are coming out and then maturing.
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I still hold doors for women too. Time to take me out back and shoot me.
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So do you suggest that the way women are represented + put to use in the media/marketing is okay? Just because X is the case, doesn't make X okay.

There's an obvious point being made when a slide with women clad in bikinis is shown at a geeky male-dominated conference. Do you think that's about some women looking sexy? And what do you think about the contrast between those slides and the technical ones? Do you not think doing that expresses an opinion about women's place in technology?

Personally I find what marketing does to women both when advertising to them and advertising using them utterly despicable.

I think you're muddying the waters in quite a weaselly way here, and it makes me feel uneasy. We shouldn't repress sexiness (whatever the hell that would mean), but this is blatantly nothing to do with that. Nothing.
We're not talking about criminalizing the behavior, so freedom of speech doesn't enter into the matter. The author is trying to change the market response to the behavior, by pointing out that it has a destructive aspect that many people (particularly men, who dominate the tech industry) may not be conscious of. One reason that we have freedom of speech is that it permits challenges to orthodoxy, and in this case the orthodox position being challenged is that sexist jokes are OK at professional conferences.
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It was completely frowned upon in my driving education (around 7 years ago) - and my driving school was/is the most popular in the UK.

I always do a combination of down-shifting and braking as this saves fuel vs purely engine braking and I'm using my brakes what they were designed for; and you don't ever want to try emergency braking with cold brakes.
I recall reading this quote recently:

"Just because you're offended, it doesn't mean you're right" ― Ricky Gervais

Now, I don't feel it is appropriate for the article, but as an overall discussion on political correctness it does. The people that are fighting a legitimate battle against sexism, racism, and other prejudices have a hard time being taken seriously because there is so much noise.

When almost every complaint is more about censorship or silencing opposition those who are battling for basic human rights get painted under a broad stroke that belittles their actions and efforts.

Again, I'm not saying the author of this article is wrong; I can't even say firmly whether I support it or not, the jury is out on it.
Okay, thank you for derailing my point with an utterly pointless semantic quibble.
> Sexism in tech and the workplace are real problems, but I don't think a slide with a woman in underwear is a good example.

You're dismissing a real problem here. Sexism is not isolated to acts of discrimination, it is a part of culture. Fixing sexism is not just about stopping discrimination, it is about changing culture. We bombard kids with pictures of sexy women in bikinis and men in lab coats, and wonder why there aren't as many women in tech even though they're so damn competent at it. Showing pictures of women in underwear in tech slides sends the message, "women are for sex, not tech". Don't hyperbolize this by calling it the "asexual approach".

Imagine putting on a clip from a minstrel show in your presentation. Horrifying, right? But you're not actually being "racist", you're just being "racy". Maybe you think the "aracist" approach is impractical. Maybe a bit of harmless playfulness about "negroes singing songs and working on the railroad" should be encouraged. After all, in American corporations, white folk are routinely told that they cross the line when they compliment a black man on his natural sense of rhythm, or his large penis.
There are lots of users who will praise your game without paying a cent for it (either via piracy, playing a friend's copy, or whatever).
> I want, I want, mine, mine, mine.

I was picturing suddenly turning to one of my colleagues, giving him a good push, grabbing his computer and saying "MINE!".
Except, like most words, sexism has multiple definitions and you've conveniently plucked the one that makes your point.

Here's the second from Merriam-Webster: "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex"

These behaviors continue to push the idea that women are eye candy.
What would their alternative be to Google? Seems like users will uproar if they were to switch to bing. I'd be happy with ddg...
Kudos for derailing the discussion from one about the objectification of women through imagery to a discussion about gender-based humor. I'm honestly a little surprised that so many people here fell for it--it's more or less the oldest trick in the book.
In addition I couldn't find any articles in the first 3 pages that you could describe as having an anti-oil/pro-environment stance and certainly none that would raise the ire of big oil. Do you have examples?
The question is, what classes do that module systems don't?

Modules (at least in Python) are singletons.
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I don't laugh at unfunny "jokes" already, perhaps"let's stop tolerating when others buy in" might be more appropriate, if less pithy.
I think† the key point many people miss is this:

"These are just a few examples..."

It's endemic. Everywhere. Each example on its own is a unwelcome irritant, but the repetition and seemingly universal acceptance makes the problem so much worse. O(n) probably...

I don't attribute any malice to most of the presenters, "Most of the guys were genuinely sorry and glad I made them aware of the damage they were doing.". No raindrop feels responsible for the flood, and all that.

More obviously sexist material is noticed by many more people, and uproar rightfully occurs (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57434780-256/dell-apologiz...). But the continuous, boiling-frog, "just-a-joke" sexism is a big problem.

†I don't actually know...
Engine braking allows you to save fuel (by using stored energy of the drivetrain to handle compression of the air that normally would require work from combustion).

And, as long as the car remains in gear there's not much extra wear on the transmission itself (certainly not compared to the torque from the acceleration the preceded it, at least).
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Interesting comparison. Thanks for linking it. I am not the developer of SupportBee app, but the comparison is useful nonetheless.
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I'd say "freedom of expression" serves kind of the same purpose as "political correct" on this one though.

This is not "freedom of expression" being under attack. It is, at most, about let's maybe not so much invite guys like that to talk at conferences.
Seriously guys, jokes about female bodily functions are not funny. Period.

All "jokes" aside, most jokes target certain groups of people, so are essentially discriminating one way or another. But there's a big difference taking jokes seriously. I laughed when I heard the joke that I mentioned above (only because of the wordplay). Some might find that a bit childish. That being said, I still 'respect' women 100% and see them as equals. And if a girl wants to make a joke about men? Sure, why not? A joke is suppose to be lighthearted and shouldn't be taken serious at all (hence the name 'joke').

But using these 'jokes' at conferences etc... is a massive no-no. It's uncomfortable for the women that are attending. It adds no extra value at all (but sure, feel free to <insert nerd joke here>).

Ps. the examples given don't even seem to be funny whatsoever. Sure, the majority of men love checking out 'hot babes', but if women have to watch the same demo, it's just plain weird... And it's not even relevant/professional.

The equivalent would be us men, looking at topless hunks from some random TV show during a tech demo. Again, weird (although I'd probably laugh a lot more for some bizarre reason).
Of course you still have to basically chose whether you believe Musk's log data or the NYT's test results (that is to say, either could be faked).
Using gears to slow your car uses more fuel vs just braking.

Just saying / rant over / other clichéd sign off.
It also works on automatics that can be command-shifted, which are becoming somewhat more common.
I can drive without using brakes at all... And I do slow down.

Brakes are when I need to slow down fast.
Why dont the lightcycles in Tron have brakes would be a better question.
Wow, a silly brain teaser AND a strained metaphor. I'll never hear the end of this one!
Some automatic transmissions allow the driver to force a lower gear to engine break. It is not used as often, but can be useful in long slopes to avoid overheating the breaks and reduce wear.
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Web Development is fine, it's the Javascript, and especially the frontend world that's the problem.

Why do we bother with a language that's inconcise, lacks so many common, useful functions (enumerals, strings, etc), and general doesn't do what we want it to do? In spite of fundamental problems, people try to address them with custom solutions. Those are inherently very PERSONAL solutions - because everyone wants to do it well and better - bound to raise discussion and competition at some point. That's what's happening. People are trying to fix something broken with their own, idealistic ideas.

There's nothing wrong with that, don't get me wrong, but I think we all know that we can do better on a more fundamental level.
>My empirical observation is that when a few women join a male professional setup, sexists jokes quickly vanish, not because people don't dare cracking them, but because they don't feel the need to tell them anymore (IMMV). It nevertheless remains half of a vicious circle keeping women out of some career paths, to the detriment of both genders.

Except there are women attending these conferences.

Being frustrated about something doesn't make it okay to do something which hurts people and expresses a prejudice. I am personally very frustrated when it comes to women, but it doesn't make it okay for me to try to bully them, because that is what this is plain and simple.

Funny how many meandering explanations/justifications are sat in this thread. Quite depressing.
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Fuel usage is 0 when you slow down without brakes... When you use brakes your engine needs fuel to idle. (Assuming you are using manual transmission, and on automatic you can force down the gear to do the same.)
Given the constant flood of Ruby and Rails security problems of late, it would seem better to start new projects with something a bit better engineered.
Overextending the analogy, there's no brakes on track bikes but they go fast too. They don't need them, the fixed gear means applying counter pressure on the pedals stops the bike.

The clunky software analogy would be to do with lightweight simplicity.
I am not the OP and I didn't make the accusation. But if the accusation is "that the the oil and auto industries have gotten to the NYT" then yes that is both serious and obvious.
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Hi, OP here. Didn't know the existence of your original post, hope that you don't mind my 'unofficial English version', :) I've updated my blog to reference your post and previous discussions. I'm glad that my version isn't too far off.

it would have been a longer rant today, I have lot of new things to add to it, sadly it didn't get any better

Please do. I would look forward to the newer version.
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So, everytime you slow down you need to go from 120mph to 0 under 3 secs? On that situation brakes are useful.

When you need to go from 50mph to 30mph you dont need brakes at all.
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I hear what you're saying, and I basically agree. However, I still see some shops building new product with Jakarta Struts, hand coded javascript, and no continuous integration. They spend way too much time doing things that could be automated, which would allow them to spend more time on quality, or more features. (Say, if you want to use a java webstack, have you heard of spring & jquery, and maybe you should try hudson for your builds?) So, its also important to keep abreast of whats happening in the field, so long as you don't fetishize the newest/latest thing.
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