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I totally agree. Firing someone over a tweet sent by a third party - is just nuts. The tweeter (Adria) is not really responsible here, rather the person(s) that overreacted to it.
No. Though that would be pretty neat, too :D
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Others have suggested that "vendetta" is too strong; I don't know about strong, but I think it could be better phrased as "severe overreaction."

People, not just men, make crude and stupid jokes. Yes, I think it's likely that the majority of such humor comes from us (I am male), but honestly... the part of your comment I definitely agree with is that this goes too far to be productive or rational.

I won't be boycotting SendGrid over this (aside from the fact that they haven't endorsed her actions, they provide a great service that I'd have a hard time replacing, and that's reality for you), but in line with your predicted reaction, I'll most certainly operate with an increased trepidation regarding open, casual expression around women in tech.

There's a difference between offensive speech and an innocent joke. Adria's idea about what's harmful to the community is over the top and counterproductive, and that's extremely unfortunate: Just imagine if she'd said something and PyCon hadn't done anything. Then they'd have been in the crosshairs, and I'm pretty sure they realized this, which almost certainly have influenced their reaction.

This is just sad, for all sorts of reasons.
>She shamed them rightly

No. The appropriate first course of action upon being personally offended is not to passive-aggressively take a picture of perceived offenders and create a vendetta on Twitter; rather it is to turn around, confront what/who offended you, and deal with the situation like an adult.

Further this person's "shaming" was an abuse of her professional privileges and that alone warrants her firing.
Well, now I'm pretty sure who asked this ridiculous question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Did-Githubs-hardcore-forking-action-mes...
Girls should not be allowed at conferences.
Maybe this a hidden new feature of gravity, and it is impossible to get out of the heliosphere. OMG it's a trap.
Exactly. If you're sitting in a restaurant eating with some acquaintances/friends, you shouldn't expect privacy there either. The table next to you can get offended with some random inside joke that includes the words "penis", "boob", or maybe even "yoga pants."

No jokes allowed unless you're wrapped in a Faraday cage filled in with sound proof material. None whatsoever.
Remember, they were literally in a crowded auditorium with hundreds of people around them. It's just not private.

If you happen to work in California, you should know that this kind of remark, if repeated and unwelcome, would constitute harassment. If the person concerned was in management at a company, that's a problem.

As for her reporting method, the conference organizers specifically say they want information in writing, and they want to be the ones handling it, not individual attendees.

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

I think the use of twitter could use some help, however.
The point is why cant we expect the women to adjust to the realities of the world? Wherever there are girls they are going to talk about other girls and their shoes and that sorta stuff which I might find offensive and wherever there are men they are going to talk about sex. I don't see why women take an offense to that. No one is cracking a joke on her or asking her to participate in the joke.

I would rather have a sexist but cohesive team rather than a politically correct non-cohesive team. We need more and more productive people in the business, whether they are men, women or trans does not matter. People like the lady in question in my opinion are hurdle to building good teams.

I expect Sendgrid to say something about the conduct of their employee.
PyCon has a code of conduct. The write up regarding this specific incident is here:

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inapprop...

People are allowed to make offensive jokes. Except when they agree not to. By attending PyCon, you are making that agreement.

In the end, the result was resolved well by all 3 parties.

The issue is that one of the parties got fired. An overreaction by his ex-employer. In part, I blame the community. The employer probably thought to quickly defuse the situation and distance themselves. It's been mostly effective, with the blame primarily being put on the woman. Most people seem to be ignoring the actual perpetrators of the real problem, the firing.
exactly, i have female friends that make far worse joke like that, and male friends who are greatly bothered by them.
The problem is publicly posting a creepily-taken photograph of two friends at a conference, with entirely baseless slanderous claims of something you allegedly overheard them say to each other.
So I assume this means that Sony camera are better than GoPro ones.

I extend my thanks to GoPro's legal team for so efficiently delivering this information, saving us the trouble of reading a whole article ourselves or buying an inferior device.
Are they still able to track Voyager or is it just computation ? how do they communicate with it ?
How on earth can you expect privacy in a conversation that people literally cannot help but overhear? This was a crowd of people in an audience either waiting for or listening to a presentation.
They talked with Adisa, so they probably did recognize that she was a woman.

I am not drawing an analogy. I was trying to help Joeboy understand how jokes can sexualize a context in a way that makes people feel uncomfortable.

As a frequent teller of jokes, I always try to match the joke to the audience. If religious people in the US faced a 1 in 6 risk of physical assault for their religion, you can bet I would be very careful about telling any joke that might make them fearful. Wouldn't you?
Damn, maybe they have such successful HR/recruiting that they have a surplus of developers and just wanted to reduce headcount? :)
Being offended by that type of humor is certainly one thing, but I can't figure out why Adria seemed so upset by it when she publicly made the very same type of joke on Twitter with a friend of hers (https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425). As a result, I'm finding it difficult to understand where she's coming from.
I realized I had to do something or she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with the idea that women as a group aren't weak and in need of white knight protectors.

It sounds more like she was personally offended yet wanted "to be a hero", where elsewhere she recognizes that "It takes three words to make a difference:“That’s not cool.”"

I can sympathize with being uncertain about how to react to a situation when people are being rude, and it's often overlooked that calm personal confrontation is actually very difficult. But I think a good heuristic would be to save the heroics for when you meet a villain--and that doesn't seem to be the case here. Most rude people are just oblivious and too comfortable to suspect that people around them aren't.
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I am super thankful I never went to your school and I really wish we didn't inculcate kids with views like that.
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I don't think it's ok to just say "she's a woman so she automatically will be crucified if she speaks up". To me that's much more damaging than the initial sentiment of speaking up in the first place and the potential damage therein.

I believe that you're perpetuating the idea that women aren't on a level playing field by repeating that point. Whether or not it's true, repeating it does nothing to solve the problem.

Whereas my points offered a potential way to alternatively address the situation, yours seem to throw your hands up in the air and say "gee this is pretty bad huh. Somebody should really clean that up...".

In short, what would you say should've been done if being loud or being quiet have negative consequences?
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Good luck
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Again, which British. We have more accents than you have states.
Here's an interesting line of reasoning:

Had Adria posted the photo of the two men and made her claims about their conversation anonymously, would they have been taken as seriously?

Probably not. How many people are fired over a harmless photo and unsubstantiated anonymous claims? It was Adria's reputation and position that lent weight to her claims and got mr-hank fired. Now, let's follow up with another question:

The next time Adria Richards makes a similar claim, will it be taken seriously?

Almost certainly not.

The negative effects of Richards' actions were only made possible by being tied to her identity, which is now basically discredited. This is interesting, because it shows that social media is really starting to settle down and behave like more traditional manners of human interaction. Completely anonymous interactions are still possible, but lack power. Conversely, identity carries power, but if that power that is misused it quickly dissipates.

When I first read the reactions to this incident, I initially felt sympathy for mr-hank and outrage over his firing. This naturally led to anger against Richards, and I had to wonder if this anger might cause people to overreact and shame her excessively. However, this is exactly what would happen in a traditional human social setting, and it's healthy. She abused her power and hurt another person, failed to show any form of remorse, and now this reaction by the community is disarming her so that she can't immediately harm others. She will have to earn that power back, and it's not going to be easy. This is as it should be. The HN community also appears to be rallying around mr-hank and trying to see that he's looked after. Again, this is very heartening to see.

Like nature in Jurassic park, established patterns of human interaction in a community setting seem to find a way.
Two of my clients were never able to get that to work in IE8 or IE9. Thankfully, we haven't needed to try in IE10 because we've finished a site-wide revamp at both to bring their apps current.
Considering Adria's remark on Twitter that she "feels like Joan of Arc", I would suspect this as well.
Why would it matter if they shut it down? With Google Takeout[1] Google has proven to be be pretty good about making sure users can move their data out of Google's services.

So you use Keep it ends up being good[2], but then 1 year from now Google announces it'll be shut down. Oh no! I guess I just have to download all my data from Keep and upload it to Evernote.

I understand people (although seemingly more people than actually used the product) are upset about Reader, and justifiably so, but I think it's a little hyperbolic to evaluate every new Google product in that light.

[1] https://www.google.com/takeout/

[2]I haven't used and don't really plan to, so I have no idea whether or not it's good.
My 8x great grandmother was actually born in 18thC Knightsbridge. She stole some clothes and a spoon (which she tried to dispose of in her "privvy") and was sent as a convict to Australia on the First Fleet in 1788.

Ultimately, she would bear children to 3 men across 3 convict colonies - one of the guards on the ship en route to New South Wales, my 8x great grandfather who would become the first hangman of Norfolk Island, and a freed convict in Tasmania.

In modern London, as opposed to the London she left, that would probably earn her a reality tv show.
I'd call 4 out of 6 years working self-employed a long time for a 24 year old.

Your snark isn't appreciated.
The common anecdote is that Google used Angular to make the the Doubleclick advertiser interface, which is just as big if not bigger than the Wordpress admin interface. It turned out to be great, with much less lines of code than what they had before (GWT).

Regarding Backbone + Angular in a large project, I wouldn't touch that code base with a 10 foot stick.
The conference organizers ask you to not handle it yourself: see https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i..., where it says:

"Report the harassment incident (preferably in writing) to a conference staff member"

If she had asked them to quiet down, it could have turned into a pissing match. Or maybe they would have complied. You never know how it's going to play out.
I live in SF as well, and I would also probably feel safe. But that's because my lifetime risk of sexual assault is very low, and San Francisco is a pretty safe place.

But if you need a different story to imagine feeling unsafe because suddenly people around you are talking about sex, I'm sure you can make one up. The point was to help Joeboy understand the feeling, not the specifics of the situation.
It's not exactly great humor, but I'm confused as to why this is offensive to women specifically (let alone an axiom of sexism). Because it references male organs? They're not referring to females at all. Not to be too reductionist, but that leaves me thinking of two possible conclusions:

1. women are too delicate to handle any references to anatomy

or

2. the "jokes" were simply crude and, while off-putting to anyone with a developed sense of humor, nothing to write (tweet?) home about with regards to being offensive
Have you tried the usual more exercise and herbal remedies like Kava Kava... you can also Pray to a higher power... taking one's life is the ultimate selfish act...
FPGA are not what I would recommend for a "what-do-we-do-after-Arduino" type of device.

Hell, FPGAs are Jedi-Master class devices as far as I see it. This is the kind of firepower you call in when you have something that no off-the-shelf micro can do, like emulate an obsolete processor, or put 128 of them on one chip, or hash Bitcoins, image processing, etc etc etc.
How are they "debasing themselves with this humor"?
Baseless? PyCon disagrees, and apparently, so do the two friends.

http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inapprop...

So, unless PyCon is lying, the claims were verified. If they had not been, you'd have a point. If she had made the claims, but never went to PyCon and resolved it properly, you'd be dead on.
The thing about PC is that even if you disagree with it, you'll still be vilified. The smart thing for an employer to do is the PC thing, even if they think it is wrong. Why risk being singled out and made an example of?
Am I cultivating a hyperactive sense of irony if I point out that, instead of turning around and asking them to take it elsewhere (as a mature adult ought to have done), she played the "damsel in distress" card and tweeted to thousands of people to come stop the big, bad boys behind her from making naughty jokes?
Yeah . That's something we are aware of and plan to fix. We still haven't optimized our site for mobile or tablet .
I have a domain with a catch-all address, and so I just makeup addresses to use on the spot, but I know people like me and you are in the vast minority; none of my non-tech friends and family would ever do this. Also, sites like mailinator are often banned from sign-ups.
This is the funniest comment I've read in a while, but it's also sad. You managed to insult women, gay men and the hacker news reader at the same time. I don't know which women you're basing this on, but the ones I know don't fear for their life when they hear a penis joke, even though it's distasteful. And I don't know which gay bars you frequent, but I've never heard anything close to that. Even if it were the case that you heard something like this, you should have fear because gay men will surely rape you, right? And the average hacker news reader is not stupid enough to fall for this ridiculous comparison between talking about virgin anuses and making a penis joke. Equivalent would be if the guys in the conference were talking about how good virgin vaginas are when a woman sits down in front of them. If that was the situation you can be sure that they would have no support here.
Well I see the point but my startup is at point where I don't need a co founder, I can get by just fine by hiring a person on a contractual basis and he/she can get the job done.
Really interesting work. What about offering a hosted version, similar to what SqaureSpace offers?
Are you seriously trying to draw a connection between two guys making a joke to each other about how the word "dongle" sounds like the word "dong"...

...to a person being sexually assaulted?
>They were being idiots and violating the code of conduct of pycon

I disagree entirely. The situation is one I could easily imagine myself in with my best friend. The two people in question did not curse, berate anyone or even direct their jokes to anobody.

This asshole just wanted to pick a fight and caused a father to lose his job over dumb shit (ps: I'm still waiting for the company name to crop up, he didn't deserve to get fired).

Now when actual instances of sexism in tech (and trust me - in Bolivia THERE IS TONS OF THIS) occur, people will roll their eyes. Never cry wolf.

EDIT:

The man who was fired used to work for PlayHaven. http://www.playhaven.com/
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This can sound strange at a first glance, but did you try to cut off carbs in your diet and go on ketogenic diet?
Since carbs are strongly associated with epilepsy, Alzheimers and dementia, and ketogenic successfully treats many cases (just google epilepsy + ketogenic etc), in last years big questions arise about causation of other mental and neural disorders, including depression.
Looks to me like a PR disaster for SendGrid. Last thing I'd want is my brand to mixed up in gender politics.
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Standing up to a PC lynch mob is incredibly risky. I don't blame the boss, I blame the person who sent the mob.

From a recent wired article:

"The court of public opinion is an alternative system of justice. It’s very different from the traditional court system: This court is based on reputation, revenge, public shaming, and the whims of the crowd. Having a good story is more important than having the law on your side. Being a sympathetic underdog is more important than being fair. Facts matter, but there are no standards of accuracy. The speed of the internet exacerbates this; a good story spreads faster than a bunch of facts."
The whole thing appears to be a CF. I don't think it is possible to learn anything from studying this incident, it is too tangled and wrought with distortion.

The only thing I can think of is the end of Burn After Reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQdSwFgSec
What culture is that?

* Calling people out who violate PyCon's code of conduct?
* Following this up by going to PyCon and getting it resolved? (http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inapprop...)

Are we really arguing that people should keep silent when things like this happen? When a rule is violated? That they should only respond after it's taken place?

Is that what people are really asking for?
Who is going to pay for music they've never heard though? Small artists have to give away their music if they're going to have any chance of breaking out of obscurity.
whats your point? I wouldn't have to make politically incorrect jokes and references to make myself fit in if there wasn't a fear of offending me and losing their job put there by other women who call foul at the slightest indecency....

And that's the problem,anyone can be offended by anything. while i don't' find the jokes in question personally offensive, there are some things i do that no one could ever guess i would be offended by, and they are also rather silly. So when those things crop up, do i freak out and make a scene? no, i take responsibility for my own emotions and feelings and understand that we all have different values and (generally) mine aren't necessarily better then anyone elses.
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Read the Venture Hacks book (it's $9 from http://venturehacks.com/ or you can get it from amazon, etc.) as it gives you a lot of the basic advice on pitching VCs.
A YouTube "partner" is an actual term in YouTube that basically means you have a special broadcaster account that shares ad revenue with you. Basically, she makes popular YouTube videos.
This snapshot is from her employer's website.

http://i.imgur.com/uWc8P39.png
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"The Sony does have one feature that sets it apart from the Hero3 cameras, inbuilt image stabilization. This is not optical, but it does take care of a lot of low level vibration and really works very well. The Sony battery surpasses that of the Hero3. Sony is claiming 13 hours of battery life at 1080p which is great for those who may be out shooing in conditions where you will not have access to charging batteries supply. The waterproof housing for the Sony relies on you taking the front off to put the camera into it. The problem is the front of the housing is only ..."

I think someone at GoPro just got pissed at DigitalRev because they don't care if they sell GoPros or Sonys.
My point was to show how the original comment didn't actually argue for anything, it just made some baseless and quite offensive accusations.
Why can't Google be like the rest of the tech industry with perpetual free services and 0 file format changes?
Not sure how commuting to a "smart office" is any better than commuting to a regular office. Wouldn't the truly smart thing be to work from home?
You don't have to stay on the bleeding edge. We're stuck with Ruby 1.8.7, and we've got a mix of Rails 1, 2, and 3 apps. For better or for worse.
so, for those keeping score: misogyny = bad, homophobia = win!
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