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So, making a joke about a "dongle" with your friend is a firable offense, but taking a photo of someone without their permission and publicly calling them an "ass clown" is okay?

Because she was offended at crudeness directed at no one and merely overheard, that means crude insults directed at people are appropriate? And in a way that's meant to harm them publicly?

What a damn strange time we live in.
>>I agree however that PCBs do need fewer iterations than software to become practically bug free.

I would say that is the case because making mistakes there is expensive.

And yes the process they follow is generally far better than we do.
That may be true as the reason, but I cannot believe they could misjudge the importance of Reader to its users - they have all the logs and know exactly what the usage is. They just decided they didn't care enough, and could accept the negative publicity.
Rape is a very serious criminal offence. Rape, in the UK, carries a 5 years as a minimum starting sentence, increasing if there are any aggravating factors.

Her behaviour - tweeting a photo of a bunch of people and accusing some of those people of sexual harassment - is unacceptable, but let's not make ridiculous comments comparing it to false rape allegations.
Fire the individual has as about as much sense, as kicking someone out of an airport because they happen to have a bottle with more than 3.4 ounce of liquid. Sure, there might be a rule or code, but there is also a thing called overreaction.
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Probably the normal Apple marketing reason: make the things they use seem unique, and also trademarkable.

For instance, you can only get Apple-equipment with "Retina-display". Ofcourse you get higher DPI displays from a lot of vendors, but they cannot offer you a "Retina-display".

Same for the "Facetime-camera", or front-facing camera as the rest of the world calls it.
"I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended." - Linus Torvalds
I find it very hard to find the link between this and homophobia. Could you try to explain it in more detail perhaps?
Don't say "lynch" now! Don't you know, the word lynching implies racial overtones?!?

https://twitter.com/smarx/status/313939094902292480
Well that was a circumlocutory way of saying, "We got scared by the prospect of negative press and our knee-jerk reaction was to fire someone."
I found that funny too. Using one of the distributions known for the heavy customizability and for being a "do it yourself" distribution and then complaining that he has to spend time on it?

On the other hand, he uses apple hardware and loses "100′s of hours of productivity" (why didn't he just have it repaired) and what about it? "Long live Apple"

Such is the mentality of another apple user. (I realize that probably the vast majority of apple users are the ones I don't read about). But those that do and often end up having an article here... really?
What is the reasoning?
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In git, just pull them all into one repository. It's trivial, provided that you are able to list the repositories and branch names (which is a namespacing problem).
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I dunno, seems like the firing is more to seem like they are "doing the right thing" I personally don't think someone should be let go over comments that are part of a private conversation. It was fine for Adria Richards to make sexist jokes on Twitter yet SendGrid firmly stand by her as a company.

Playhaven should have done the same.
They should change it to "We're firing".
This statements leaves more questions open than it answers, it's also self contradictory.

"This employee was not Alex Reid, who is still with the company and a valued employee." - why was the other guy not a valued employee?

"..we will not comment on all the factors that contributed to our parting ways.." - or "you can't have all the facts"

"we hope to move forward with a civil dialogue based on the facts." - which is not possible because we don't have them all.
I agree, it is in peoples nature to make fun of those who are different, be it by gender, etnicity, height, intelligence or whatever. But in most cases, this is harmless fun between two people that don't share that trait.

Only when you are actively, openly insulting said people and treating them different then anyone else you are doing something very wrong.

Some racist jokes are just really funny, but that doesn't mean I'm racist.

Also, I feel like this is more of an issue in the US then in Europe. I really couldn't imagine someone being fire for a picture posted on twitter by someone else accusing you of something nasty in The Netherlands.
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I fail to see what "gender equality" has to do with what happened. What I do see however is a company that will fire their own over the slightest chance of not being deemed 'sexist' by the deluded few with a saviour complex in our community.
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What? No. Treating women as sexual objects rather than sexual actors ("men do the fing, women are fed") is a large attitude problem in tech and many places. This is the attitude that harms women who want to get into tech (or other fields).

Quite often this "women as sexual objects" attitude is actually quite homophobic. It equates men who are fed as women or "not real men". (a la "you're only gay if you take it"). "Men must be the one fing, if you're the one being fed, then you're not a man". Stopping that sort of attitude is actually good* for LGB people in the workplace.

Sorry for the crude language, but I can't think of a good verb that has an active and passive form like that
To be fair, it's right that they keep the public information relatively light. If I was fired by an employer I wouldn't want them writing blog posts about why they did it. Especially when it's just some random dude who got fired.
This is the fundamental problem for any cloud services. You don't know if a small company like Evernote is going to go bust, too, and many have, sometimes bought to kill by Google and its ilk. So it's no safer than using large company products. And if not Evernote, some other service you once used, like say delicious. Or they don't update it as fast, and it gets clunky, like flickr (not coincidentally both bought and ruined by yahoo)

For real security of data and use: either

1. Download and install with local storage only

2. whatever service you do use, save all the things locally frequently, in multiple open data formats.
This story comes a bit as a shock to me - but being french, maybe there's a fair bit of cultural difference here.

I can say that here, women in my circle of friends are way more likely to issue the "big dongle" joke than men o_O (even between girls alone).
I think he has a typo at the end which should be gggqG where gg means motion to top of file, gq means reformat over a motion and G means motion to end of file.
If you're at a conference, you should behave professionally; you're not down the pub, or out with your friends. It's as simple as that.

Hearing stories like this is both tiresome (what do you mean this is still happening?!) and embarrassing; it makes male IT workers look like a bunch of poorly-socialized teenagers.
There's a lot of bad information going around.

What would be useful would be a collection of Adria's and mr-hank's posts from the original thread.

I've seen people saying Adria should never have confronted them because "men are abusive". Leading me to believe these people never read the part where Adria said she didn't talk to them because she was tired of having to explain herself, not because she feared for her safety.
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If I'm reading it correctly this is what this statement really says:

"Alex Reid might've been involved, but he's a good guy in general and we're keeping him. The other guy however, it turned out after an internal investigation, wasn't exactly spot clean and for him this was the straw that broke the camel's back."
There is none. They are trying to cast themselves as the liberal and progressive ones.

"What about lesbians?" is not an uncommon response, here's some details on why this isn't such a great justificiation: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/What_about_lesbians%3F
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It isn't worth the legal costs of suing all those small fry.

eBay can leave them to bubble along making next to nothing (relatively), competing with each other for the few users who are looking for and managing to find an alternative, and hope they just die out. If one does end up looking like they might have a chance of growing to a size worth caring about, then the legal team will be called to action.
You can debate whether she should have been offended, but it's clear that she was offended. It's possible to offend people unintentionally.

Given that, her actions are totally understandable. I doubt that she intended to get the guy fired.
I also find it very hard to find the link between this and sexism. Nevertheless, the reasoning goes as follows:

If a sexual joke is classified as sexism, it necessarily requires a link between sexuality and gender[1], since otherwise, a joke about sexuality could not have any effect on gender, hence could not be sexist[0]. But by linking sexuality and gender, you imply that there is no sexuality within one gender, since otherwise you could not make the leap from ‘sexual’ to ‘gender’. By assuming that all sexuality is inter-gender, you ignore intra-gender sexuality, i.e. homosexuality.

Yes, this is an exaggeration and I usally don’t care at all what you think/say of/about my sexuality and would furthermore prefer a society where everybody can say whatever the hell they want and if people find that offensive, it would be their own fault rather than the fault of those on whom they eavesdropped. But this whole sexism debate really annoys me, so apologies for that.

[0] Where I use ‘sexist’ in the meaning of ‘generally treating different genders differently and/or specifically dismissive of one gender’.

[1] I hate the word ‘gender’, but saying that you imply a link between sex (the activity) and sex (the property) might be slightly confusing.
Is that sexcism ?

Yes. Stop sexualising professional conferences.
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We, male developers, actually benefit from her actions. One guy may have lost his job, not a big deal, gonna get another, after all this publicity he got quite famous, but the main thing is that less woman will want to take the job of software development, less employers will want to hire woman because of the possible problems like this and so less concurrency for us and bigger salary.
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There is a very big cultural difference there indeed.

The French are quite famous for the degree to which sexuality is (respectfully) integrated into the workplace.

The US on the other hand didn't manage to do that, so has a general policy of keeping sexuality out of the workplace altogether.
Doesn't the American Constitution have that 'freedom of speech' amendment?

I'm British, so American culture is alien to me, but I've always had the view that you can say whatever you want.

People have shouted how Hitler did no wrong, and people have cried how x, y and z people should be put on a plane to another country, but when someone overhears a private conversation containing technical terms (that if you're pedantic enough to take as a joke) you get persecuted; professionally shot by firing squad at dawn.

This is super surreal, you'd get laughed out of the room if the same events happened in the UK (and probably most of Europe).
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"Imagine you're in a room filled with thousands of hot girls and they suddenly start talking about their big boobs and hot legs"... Hey, there are many female rapists!
Yes. Stop sexualising professional conferences.

Exactly. If you're in a professional environment, behave professionally.
If you look into those statistics, most assaults take place within relationships and are not even considered assaults by the assaulted women ( it is the interpretation of the people conducting the studies). Outside of the home men are actually more endangered of violence than women ( not even taking violence in prisons into account).

Don't want to defend violence in relationships, but I think it is actually a different problem than men's tendency to rape (ie people are bad at choosing mates and conducting healthy relationships)
One problem with many conferences is sexualised content that treats women as passive objects in sex. Only one form of sex is shown, and it's the man conquring the woman. As a result many tech conferences have started out to outright ban sexual content at events like this to counter that.
Never said it's dying down, on the contrary - the supply of such skills will eventually have to be much more common given strong demand. The new uncommon will be something else though.
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There's a difference between going on your own, paying for your ticket, and being anonymous... and going on the company's dime, as an ambassador for the company, wearing the company T-shirt.

I saw the photo (as I'm guessing most have), and it was very obvious that they were representing the company. I'd have been pissed too... they shouldn't be sailing so close to the wind that there was even potential for the kind of "he-said, she-heard" that has happened.

I don't fault Playhaven for firing someone who hasn't represented them in the manner they expect when that staff member is on their dime and acting on their behalf.
Nice story. His friend traveled to Thailand to get the file?
Exactly...i am german and when i am around my girlfriend and her friends, well if i would shed a tear on every sexcist comment i would be crying all day...
So by talking about ‘big dongles’ you treat women as sexual objects? Could you elaborate slightly on that?
That's true, but OTOH I used to work for a very conservative bank with all kinds of policies on diversity, sexual harassment etc but people would still make remarks like "tee hee, he said dongle" without worrying about being fired or posted all over the internet.
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US Constitutionly free speech refers to the government making laws banning things. That's not what happened here.

This is super surreal, you'd get laughed out of the room if the same events happened in the UK (and probably most of Europe).

Same thing can happen in Europe too. There was some ruby conference in scotland which cancelled itself for sexism reasons.
One of the two guys lost his job after an internal investigation. It's hard to say "this wasn't the only thing he did" in more specific terms.

But yes, this shouldn't have been said. If he lost his job for just this that's probably too harsh. Then again there's plenty of Adria's around who've lost their jobs for complaining far more subtly.
While what you say is true, there's no reason for everyone to have to bear the burden of a few people's irrational fears. I don't know were the dividing line should be, but overheard undirected conversation doesn't seem like a reasonable threat to me.

Adira was perfectly within her rights to complain to the conference organisers about rule breaking behaviour that was annoying her. The twitter shaming and blog post about harassment was a bit overboard though.
Could you please define sexism?
Well if i was the little girl on the photo in the slides..
I guess I would rather work in an industry with occasional sexual jokes
then in an industry where the reaction to hearing something you don't want to hear, even though it is not directed at you,
is snapping a picture of someone without their permission, posting it online without their permission and proceeding to insult them,
instead of just asking them to stop or minding your own business..
You're thinking of britruby, not scotruby.
This entire situation makes me upset, and frankly, makes me feel I should watch my toungue when joking with mates and someone could overheard me.

That doesn't advance the fight against sexism. In fact, it makes it more adversarial.

Besides, offended != sexism. I hope she's happy.
I've seen a similar message crop up in EO training lately. But there they differentiate between "Systemic racism" and "Individual racism". I'd guess she's just parroting without understanding... I hope.
We don't know, because GCC does not execute as a Python program.

This wasn't testing the speed of compiling a program as C++ versus compiling it as C; it was testing the speed of compiling the Linux kernel using GCC-compiled-as-C++ as the compiler versus using GCC-compiled-as-C as the compiler.

(And it concluded that the difference was insignificant anyway!)
It was a private conversation that somebody happened to listen to though.
So Alex wasn't fired, was mr-hank fired? I wonder, they don't disclose the name of the guy who was fired.
Well freedom of speech legislation just guarantees that the government cannot prosecute you as a criminal for saying something. It doesn't mean that a private company cannot fire you or a conference cannot ask you to leave etc.

Ironically in the UK we actually do have laws that can potentially make you a criminal because you insulted someone.
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This is an excellent initiative and has the benefit to cast some light and provide visibility on the Y Combinator startups. They will love that.

On the other hand the one dimensional ranking is not a good idea because the reality is that this doesn't exit. There are many parameters to consider and many of them are not disclosed.

Maybe you could converge interest of Y Combinator startups seeking visibility and high value contacts, and on the other end, people who want to know who the Y Combinator startups are, what they do, where there are at it. Some people might event want to pay a fee for premium information or access to backstage information.

It could be a facebook like server for Y Combinator startups with premium services.
people would still make remarks like "tee hee, he said dongle" without worrying about being fired or posted all over the internet.

I'd like to emphasize I'm not a fan of public naming-and-shaming.

That said, just because something was accepted elsewhere - or barely tolerated - does not mean that it is acceptable behaviour.
From my reading of the article it says he's actually got an offer on the table from another company, who have done the right thing. It might give pause to many potential employers, but those aren't the employers that he wants anyway.
The United States has a strong legal framework to regulate freedom of speech. But that manly regulates what is a criminal offense (something that is an offence that violates criminal law and can be punished by the state).

However it do not necessarily protect anyone from sanctions from your employer. In this case it is his employer that has acted, not the state.
This is a very silly situation. Someone made a joke about a dongle and got fired. Another person posted that she was offended about the said dongle joke and it's flared up into a massive discussion about gender in tech.

Here's the bottom line - if such a tame joke can have this large an effect and warrant this type of a knee-jerk reaction from the tech community, our conception of gender equality is seriously fragile.

Better discussions about sexism in the workplace could revolve around the lack of female leadership, sexist working environments, an overabundance of male developers, company roles that appear to be gender-specific, etc.

We are so wrong on the major issues that we want to make the full situation as easy to digest as a dongle joke and a tweet.

It's far more complex than that. And this is the only thing I'm going to say about the situation because we all look like children for addressing this.
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I initially thought you were trolling but it's clear that your response, although one I strongly disagree with, does have solid reasoning behind it.

If you're looking for actual counterpoints; I'm an LGBT man and I support Adria for her right to be offended about these statements, which I feel is all that's truly at stake here.
Sex and sexism are different things.
When personal liberty bumps up against the right not to be annoyed, it's best to err on the side of courtesy. At least, err on the side of courtesy up through the point of civil discussion -- say nicely why something bothers you, and listen if they explain nicely why they feel they have a need to keep doing it.

If somebody explains nicely why jokes or noise or cigarette smoke or whatever bothers them, you usually only have two decent choices:

1. Explain your side nicely.
2. Just give them what they want.

It's safe to say this incident never got that far. No doubt people who weren't anywhere nearby disagree as to which of the parties first got off the track. I generally lean to the side of the complainer, not the complainee, including in this case.
I probably should stand corrected because pycon did not remove the offenders from the conference [1] but settled it between all parties involved.

That actually makes maters worse tbh because if Adria hadn't posted their image on twitter for her 9000+ followers to see, it would have remained an issue settled between pycon, adria and these guys. Now the case is closed for Adria and pycon while the guys are far worse off with one of them being fired. Not good!

[1] http://pycon.blogspot.be/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inappropr...
Sounds like a canned damage limitation quote and not even remotely sincere (and doubt it is really an accurate reflection of reality either).

Anyway, where is the Sendgrid statement ? Their silence seems to be an endorsement of Adria's bad behavior (eavesdropping and then public humiliation via twitter).

I'm astonished that Sendgrid are OK with this.

There are 2 companies here I want to make sure I have no dealings with.
"I've always had the view that you can say whatever you want."

Not a particularly sensible view given the strength of libel/slander laws in England and Wales (fortunately not quite so bad in Scotland, no idea about NI) and the pretty strong "Hate speech" laws we have throughout the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United_...

[NB I'm not 100% certain that complete freedom of speech is a great idea either]
In other news, productivity begins to pick back up at Playhaven as employees are just about finished scrubbing their social media accounts. Rest assured, all references to forking repo's, dongles and other "gender equality" issues have been removed.

The biggest losers here are Playhaven & SendGrid. The dev who made the silly joke will get another job and Adria successfully raised her profile and will get more speaking gigs.
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