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What evidence did you find in my comment that privileged women over men? Adria was offended and I disagreed with her assessment of sexism and exclusion.

What your describing isn't feminism, but some kind of matriarchy where we must appease and not offend the ruling class of women.
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Whereas that's it's been confirmed, there is a backlash against her.

So, the key is: make the accusation and don't prove it.
I agree, being happier takes a lot of work. That in itself is sad, but I can accept it.

I actually had CBT last year for 10 weeks. Although it may not have helped much, I think one or two things did stay in my mind, and maybe still help me now. When I'm back home I will call up the therapist and ask for more. Just one more thing which perhaps can help.

My food regime is good. My sleep is ok. I used to exercise a lot but recently stopped.. probably part of my falling back into another deep episode of depression.
> I've seen discussions on LinkedIn about how one gets into embedded systems engineering. Nobody seems to have a clear answer.

I don't think there is a particular shortage of jobs in embedded systems relative to demand. A degree in electrical engineering along with programming skills is highly valued in the field. The players to target is also different. Not a huge demand for embedded engineers at say Facebook, but lots of demand for them at Raytheon or Juniper. Telecoms, wireless, defense, and aerospace hire up a lot of embedded software developers.
I've been looking into Solar for my house and it's hard to justify. A $15,000 installation pays back only $150 a month in electricity. This is little more than what I could get by putting that $15,000 into a mutual fund.
A lot of people just don't want to go the hassle of discovering, learning and configuring new tools. If I look at my daily toolset - between social networking, document management/creation, task tracking, work tools - I have on the order of 40 - 50 different tools. Each one of those tools has taken me some amount of effort to really come up to speed on so that I'm productive.

For example - I use Evernote for tracking meetings, and I use Omnifocus for personal task tracking. It took me 6-10 hours to learn the ins and outs of each of those tools - and I'm pretty happy with the way they work for me. More importantly, I'm reasonably certain that both of those tools/services will be around several years from now, so I can continue to use them, track my tasks, without having to pick up a new tool.

This concept of tool persistence is really important and valuable for a certain segment of the population - and I think it's what Om is expressing here. He doesn't really trust that Google will persist their attention to "Keep", because they've started shutting down other popular services after a few years, so what's to prevent them from doing the same thing with "Keep". He'll stick with evernote, and I can understand why. It's really an attempt to make it clear why Evernote should be successful in the face of an attack by Google.
The latent support for this post: you won't lose Evernote 7 years later.

But who knows?
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How long to you have to be tired of hearing about it before you admit it is a PR mess?

If the Google reader closing is mentioned in new Google product announcements a month from now, will you admit this was a PR disaster? How about a year from now?

Google needs to grovel to get their hands around this. By admitting mistake, they can actually redirect the message to something positive.

BTW, I agree with you completely. It is trivial for me to switch services, and I am tired of hearing about it. That being said, Google is eating its own shit sandwich. Google has no one to blame but themselves.
Of course, the Reader use base doesn't owe anything to Google. If Google isn't playing the game of social obligations, talking about 'entitlement' won't get them very far.
And she reported the incident, in writing.

Their note about public shaming, while accurate, is just that: a note.
I've run into this view point occasionally, but never would I have guessed it to be even close to mainstream...
For those of you looking for a refresher, there is a Linear Algebra class coming up in June on Coursera that uses Python as the main language for a variety of applications. I'm very excited for it, should be fun.
I also write a LOT less code, a LOT less boilerplate code -- after writing a number of Angular apps, I won't go back.
Thank you for the links. I have called the hotline a few times in the past couple weeks.. if nothing else it was just because I had to tell someone how close I was and how bad I felt. I can't tell anyone I know. Partly because I can't bear the embarrassment, but also because I don't want them to stop me.
Point well made and so true.

Vim definitely appeals to minimalists and it's non apparent design and GUI makes it sexy. But I totally agree that's it's not worth to learn Vim nowadays and people using Vim in general just want to show that they are some real hackers.
That picture was not covertly taken; the guy could clearly see the camera. Pictures can't be slanderous (or libelous); they're factual records. The quote was quite baseful, in that it was based on what she heard. All personal experience is non-provable in the sense you mean, but that doesn't mean that witness statements are meaningless. Indeed, they're a foundation of justice systems everywhere.

She definitely had the legal right to do it. In her shoes, I hope wouldn't have. But then again, I'm not the one at subject to all sorts of sexual harassment. People can only take so much.

Your hypothetical is a little crazed. It makes me think your screen is flecked with spittle. The guy admitted the quotes and admitted an error. He claims the forking comment was not intended to be sexual, but looking at the wording I have a hard time believing that. Certainly one could reasonably take it as a sexual joke.

Also, your closing flounce is a lot less persuasive with a newly created anonymous account. One less generously disposed than I am might suspect your company and your partners are entirely fictional.
So you'd agree that Adria shouldn't be allowed to PyCon next year since she posted face pictures of attendees (and sponsors) and then called them 'ass clowns'?

This is not just about PyCon that is for the whole world to see. Future employees, these guys' kids, family, friends. Is that acceptable you think?

I also think there is space here for PSF to also issue an explicit statement regarding public humiliation and posting face pictures of attendees with slanderous and insulting captions. It is about free speech and all, and maybe if she caught them in lobby without their badges on it might have been OK.

If anything this damaged PyCon's reputation. I don't want to go anymore as much. I keep my mouth shut anyway, but what if I say something wrong, or look at someone the wrong way -- now my picture with my badge and an insult is plastered over twitter. That is the definition of a hostile environment, no matter what gender, color, sexual orientation.
I think the issue here is more her posting the picture and identifying the people, no? I had a strong urge to tweet "There's a guy with a Jagermeister hat and Green Day shirt reading a Berenstain Bears book in the doctor's waiting room" a couple months ago, and as funny as it was, I wouldn't have posted a stranger's picture.

I think it's fine to vent on Twitter about the things going on around you, the medium is suited to that. It's easy to use it as your own personal live log. But it's not necessary and I think a privacy violation to post random pictures of people.

Perhaps she just takes a lot of pictures and was in super tweeting mode, like tweeting every meal and had a lapse of judgement? Didn't look at her other tweets. But that is the issue, that of the picture, correct? At first I didn't realize there was a link to a photo anyway and didn't know what the big deal is. Not sure what kind of employer would fire someone over a photo of someone claiming that they said something (privately) as well.

It's sad because it makes it harder for women who have more serious concerns to be taken seriously, and to let those women also have reactions and express their discomfort, in a way that doesn't include publically shaming all those involved for more minor incidents like this.
I'm also a Python dev, and my observation from several threads here (and elsewhere) is that the perception is quite common.

IANARailsDev, obviously.
I will definitely check out these authors. In fact I'm making a list right now of all the resources you guys are posting. If I'm going to try, I've got to try my best.
They're still processing and uploading videos. It'll be up soon, I imagine.

Edit: It JUST went up on YouTube and Lanyrd 10 minutes ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQLVm0-8Yg. Not sure why the downvotes.
> If at this point Google reinstates Reader, I can tell you they will win many hearts and goodwill.

except these good will and hearts from various people who complained won't be paying any money to google (at least, for this particular product).
And she followed it, in writing.
I know that this is good advice, but it's very hard not to find the final part of suicide the most attractive. When you feel so bad each day, a permanent solution is what you look for I guess.
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I agree. I would never take drugs of any kind. I've seen what they do to people who are generally happy. I can only imagine what they'd do to someone with negative thoughts.
Are you claiming that in the incident in question, a conclusion that she was in imminent danger of sexual assault is what motivated her to say these things? It seems beyond far-fetched but assume that is how she felt at the time. This does not exempt her from us thinking critically about whether or not that is a fair - much less: rational - conclusion. What in the context of the situation as it has been described would lead her into believing they were targeting her or sexually harassing her? It is irrational and seriously makes me question her low opinion of her own gender's threshold of insult.
Oh shit. She didn't file the HA-RASS-401A form. She deserves everything she got.

> She never directly replied to or messaged pycon staff

That's not true. At all.
Wow, really look forward for such a solutiion
github.com/reeze please :)
I spend 90% of my time thinking or debugging, not writing/editing, so I feel like it's optimizing the wrong thing. If you're typing with two fingers, don't use any shortcuts and only use your mouse to move around, then by all means try to improve. Personally, I don't feel it's worth it. Sure, you should know your tools, but I feel many programmers take it to the extreme with Vim/Emacs and Dvorak keyboards.
Actually, if you'll read the ZNet article that post is based on you'll notice that users who didn't connect their Windows Phone calendars to their Google accounts before February are still screwed!

See also http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US//windows-8/use-google-win... :

I want to connect my Google account after January 30, 2013
Here's what you need to know:

Unfortunately, with Google changing the way it supports EAS,
your Google calendar can’t sync with the Calendar app.
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I believe it was you who simply did not think about the impact of your words when you compared the situation to that of 2 gay men discussing "virgin asshole". I think you need a moment of introspection on your own commentary.
a bit more edgy but some of the same general points - http://pan.sx/Dongle_Jokes.html
Yeah, that quote from the blog was a bit scary to me, I do understand feeling feeling uncomfortable of saying the wrong thing, but is it so impossible to keep talk professional at a programming conference that the best option would be to keep women out? I don't think it's exactly a huge sacrifice to ask people to make at a professionally oriented conference.
I'm not sure what you mean by _really able to be huge_ -- a large single page app? a site with a huge number of pages? # lines of code? I don't think there are any hidden limitations in Angular proper -- in fact it will allow you to organize source for a "large" project very well, and will perform very well -- but you have to be careful with scope digests (i.e. don't try to "compile" a bazillion objects -- but that is mainly common sense)
Furthermore, Atwood seems to take the success of the platform as a ringing endorsement of all its characteristics, as evidenced by the recent commentary on user experience and the development of his forum.
A bit ironic, if I read it right Gorilla Glass has a (Mohs hardness) of about 7 or 8.

Aluminum is about a 6 but oxidized luminum is corundum/sapphire is about a 9.

The one thing you may have had in you pocket, oxidized aluminum object, will now be the entire screen.
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False, false false!

Try getting away from Wiki and read your local laws. PyCon happend in California, which is so ubersensitive about privacy that even call centers and debt collectors have to inform you and recieve consent to record your conversations.

Having been a vidographer and photographer for bands in and around California, it's a pain in the ass all the legal forms and releases you need to obtain in order to publish the likeness of someone. There's a reason "extras" are paid in California.

First, for taking his photo without consent, then turning around and using it in an official disciplinary capacity - totally against the law. Whatever his wages were, she may be liable for paying him out of her pocket as a result.

Second, she even admitted here in this thread - she took something as being sexual that totally wasnt - so she's made up her mind that this was offensive and inappropriate. Shame on her, and I do truly hope that she joins the ranks of unemployed soon for her actions (turnabout is fair play after all, arent we trying for equality?)

Lastly, she admits in her blog post that they were talking amongst themselves and she overheard something and decided arbitrarily and without invitation to join the conversation. Having done so, it's also your responsibility, not the trade show organizers, to attempt to resolve the situation which she clearly refused to and even refuses to acknowledge - she should have asked them to knock it off.

Instead, she chose to rally the troops instead of talking with authorities directly and skip the step of asking them to knock it off - it's only harassing if they persist.
ever note has a free version.
I agree with you 100%. We don't see many 65-year-olds around. My intuition is that software engineers are intellectual athletes. Like traditional athletes, our abilities start to dwindle after a certain age. We can't learn new technologies overnight, simply because our brain can't process information as quickly. Our memories become faded. It's sad to think about, but definitely worth planning for.

At the point in my life where I'm financially set for life and ready to move on, I plan to become a pilot in some capacity. Probably not for a traditional carrier, but maybe for sightseeing around NYC, or aerial photography. Aside from technology, flying is my other passion. I'm just not pursuing it commercially because it's a terrible career (salaries start at $20k, and you have to go through security every day. yuck!).
You don't have to. You can use a username.
many or most? I think of most developers as folks who are asked questions "is it possible to do X?" and can't help answering "yes, but..." of course it's possible. And would equally be embarrassed when their code doesn't live up to marketing spin.

I also think any developer worth their salt is going to respond sheepish and apologetic when their code neither adheres to convention of the collective hacker zeitgeist or is documented sufficiently for someone reasonable to get it up and running quickly.

Maybe we need a new acronym: SNAP! "Sensitive new age programmer"
Did you read his rant? He's currently self employed and interviewing. I am not unsympathetic to his cause, or his angst. But I don't understand your assertion that he should be asking for even more compensation than he is, how does asking for even more salary helps him out here, could you say more about that? What exactly would be different if I were "more clued" ?
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Mind backing up either of your points? I pull two things from your post:

a) Somehow a world with sexism can't enjoy a simple dirty joke.

b) We each have a personal duty to avoid dirty jokes due to a "power imbalance".

c) There is indeed some sort of power imbalance worth correcting which is not already being corrected.

d) Some generic abstract thing is harmless, but really it actually isn't ~-=in the real world=-~.

e) Viewpoints not in agreement with yours may be dismissed as silly or defensive.

That's cool and all--would you mind explaining your reasoning?

I don't even disagree with you on several of those points, but as presented you haven't really done anything to aid a genuine conversation.
These are all interesting points. In terms of caring for something, and something being dependent on me, I know that this would stop me wanting to kill myself so much - but it would be out of guilt. I already have that feeling for my mother. I want to find a positive reason to live, instead of what I see as a reverse negative.

The traveling thing - it's funny you should mention that. A month ago I did exactly this. I've left my business running and I've gone to another country. I am trying to spend as much time as possible volunteering, to help other people, as I thought this might help me. So far unfortunately I have felt very bad here. I am not entirely sure why. I will be here for another 2 months before I return.
So with Rails, applying security patches is "like taking a homebuilt experimental aircraft out for its first test flight".

Hmm, I don't think I want to start my next commercial airline business on Rails.
> elating and disclosing a situation that happened in a public place fully to the best of her ability

If the _best_ of her ability is to take a picture, put it on a public forum then tag it with an insult "ass clown" I don't know what to say. Maybe she should lose her job a "developers' advocate"
Really, groveling? yeah if anyone mentions Reader in a month's time it will be an issue. It's not a main new story, and Google won't get anything back by reversing their decision, the damage is already done. Some people are being overly dramatic and hypersensitive, they'll realize that and they'll get over it, as always.
Also Glass.
Will watch it tonight.
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Why cryptography hasn't been based on NP-hard problems?
This would be the Google Now that doesn't run on my Nexus One? :-)
You can that error when you execute `python extract.py`? Sounds like the Python interpreter can't find the extract.py file on your path.

Also make sure you use double backslashes for directories like the example in Github: https://github.com/mikeknoop/pioneer-dvr-filesystem-tools/bl...
In my experience, refraining from scatological humor in public settings is an uncontroversial mode of behavior for the most part. I wouldn't call the incident at hand scatological, though, but maybe I'm jaded.
Using it because it sounds better can sometimes run contrary with the word and its meaning. In this case being confused with a pretty bitchin' New Zealand band. But let's be honest here, with the sprinkling of select phrases in other posts, we both know exactly what you meant and why you used it.
Reader is a desktop RSS app and it has been pretty popular app for OSX and iOS.
So - what you are suggesting, is that Solar Panels (installed) are still too expensive and/or electricity is too cheap for you to invest in solar panels for your house right now?

My understanding is that many people invest in solar panels because of additional government incentives.
Very good points.

As in my reply above, I have in fact pretty much just done this. I went to South America last month and will be for a few months, volunteering. I left everything behind and rarely talk to anyone I know. I think I may have expected too much of myself, being able to handle this. Incremental sounds more sensible.
Because anal prison rape is a fair analogy for a bad dongle joke at Pycon? In all seriousness, how do you think the situation you described is at all similar to what happened at Pycon? Are you saying that Pycon is an event of similar hostility to prison - if the attendee is a woman? Please. This is beyond ridiculous.
As a GoPro Hero 3 owner I know all too well of the botched launch of the Hero 3. It was almost rendered useless until they acknowledged the issues and released updated firmware to fix the issues. What makes matters worse in that situation is I and many others contact their customer support for help and they would not acknowledge it was a known or widespread problem until obviously things reached boiling point. The camera is much better now, but having said that it is obvious the company is being run by the wrong people.
Is this a problem worth solving as a startup?
Please help me with this 2 questions.

Thank you,
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Both can be faked equally easily, given equivalent verification mechanisms.

Without the help of professional services, a layman can be easily fooled in either context.

However, if the layman is going to get the diamond appraised by a professional, then the same standard should be applied to the other task. One can likewise use professional services to accurately determine a person's net worth.

My point remains.
It's amazing how simple things can be. I wouldn't think of that but it's worth a go, even if just as a distraction.
So it'll cost 8.7% to save a few steps? Or is this somehow otherwise not possible?
I think it's likely that what we now call computer science will end up being essential to understanding the systems of the universe...it just so happens that we are using computers to discover it, like previous investigators used weighted balls, inclined planes, or chemicals.
> and to be quite frank some people are being quite whiny and entitled.

The mistake here is thinking that google's 'free' services are free. I am letting you spy on me (gather metrics on what I read, what I've marked as important, what I've shared with others) in exchange for the use of your product.

That type of data should be worth 10x more to an advertising company than the 5 or 10 dollars a month than I would pay for each service.
Without getting into details, there was some significant mismanagement of my user account, resulting in incorrect tax being withheld until I noticed the problem and notified them about it. After an unreasonable amount of time spent resolving the problem with a number of different people on their end, the end result was a large tax bill that I had not budgeted for.

There have also been other less significant issues, mostly regarding my status as a foreign employee. I speculate that it stems from a lack of properly engineered software on their end. In all cases, my problems would have been fixed by some logic along the lines of "If (employee.status == X && !taxesApplied.include(correctTaxes)) then trigger alert Y". Perhaps I'm too much of an engineer, but I find it hard to believe that a company that focusses solely on HR can even operate without this kind of automated check.
Google Plus isn't a replacement for RSS.

I am subscribed to 100+ RSS feeds that have no corollary in Google+ and likely never will.
That or their lawyers got bored and said... who can we fuck. The communication failure was between the PR team and the lawyer team.