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This Andria that I don't know who she is at all and I don't care may be in error, or in bad faith, or whatever. But remember that to get another person fired you need a stupid cultural movement that is addressing sexism in the wrong way. So to start, blame the multitude of people that put the discussion at a level that the ancient greeks would mark as primitive.

EDIT: On Reddit there is a comment that explains much better my point of view. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1am37v/technolog...
"Ask yourself: why is she the one you chose to focus on?"

You're right. The guys need to own-up for their stupidity too. Oh that's right, they never got the chance. She didn't confront them. She snapped a picture and tweeted.

And I agree about their employer. In fact, I'd love to know who the employer was?
A 'nerf war' might be something acceptable as long as:

1. the work environment allows it

2. the participants agree to it

3. it's done in at the appropiate time (during a break, for example)

Games and childish behaviour are different things and, according to one of my professors, not being able to distinguish between them is a sign of immaturity.
Coke plain tastes better. They spend millions on research getting the taste just right. Most store brand colas have one overpowering flavor that ruins the experience.
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It's really nice being able to trace into the guts of hibernate, spring, etc to see what the heck is actually going on and fix it if it's broken. When I used to do Microsoft stuff, I'd run into bugs in the stack that I couldn't fix. This was enormously frustrating and time wasting. The typical advice given out by support was re-install or buy the latest upgrade. There were also a lot of deliberately imposed architectural limitations to prevent you from working around lack of "enterprise" features in the basic versions which were incredibly frustrating and the enterprise version pricing was astronomical.
Why not take the 'nuclear launch' method? Every time someone's about to de-list [large number] of pages, a second human has to confirm it.

(This is presuming humans were involved at all)
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You mean personal conversation. Their conversation wasn't private, it was in the middle of a conference hall.
Reporting on something we've directly experienced isn't hearsay and they weren't her co-workers. As women we need to be able to speak in public forums about our experiences without this sort of extreme harassment as the result.
This gives a lot of context and was very helpful, thank you.
In light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 I'd be interested to hear why you are pretty sure she fabricated the forking joke. I'm not agreeing with taking offense to what was said, but she didn't make up that someone said "I would fork that guys repo"
Just because a woman is to blame does not prove sexism. It is quite reasonable to say that she holds most of the responsibility in this situation by not reacting to the comments in a professional way. The jokes were hardly sexist and more anatomical and if that bothers he she could have dealt with it in a different way. But I guess I am sexist too for having the opinion that she handled the situation incorrectly right?
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The problem is that people have difficulty in recognizing sexism when it isn't pointed at them.
There's some awfully strange stuff in this particular post, though I generally agree that startups tend to lowball people on offers.

For instance:

> I turned them down because they were preparing to make me a below-market offer in exchange for what I expected to be an insulting amount of equity, and a non-existant benefits package.

There are three possible answers to an offer: yes, no, counter. It's really odd to focus this much on salary + benefits without even taking the time to counter. We're not-entirely-dissimilar from the YC company he was describing, and the simple truth is that we lack many on paper benefits because we haven't taken the time to formalize many of them. Which means there's lots of leeway to ask for stuff. There's no strict "3 conferences per year" but I'm pretty sure everyone in the company goes to any conference they want to (including Velocity, and ChefConf ... you might see them there).

> The YCombinator company probably didn't care enough to have their lawyer draw up the paperwork so that their employees can execute on their stock options from the first day to avoid AMT.

Really? I'm pretty sure the standard docs nearly all YC companies use are pretty solid, and they'll usually even have their lawyers help with an 83b election. There's a lot of math and snark based on a "probably" that's probably wrong.

> Both companies offer the same, worthless stock options of 0.50% of the company, before an expected dilution.

If they just raised at a $40mm valuation, 0.5% equity is literally worth $200k to them right now (in the sense that they could exchanged another 0.5% of the company for $200k). If they're anything like us, they don't want to give up equity anyway. We would happily give a higher salary with no equity to new hires.

Equity is really a chance to trade some salary for a large check if things go incredibly well. It's not the rational choice at early employee levels, but it's a chance to get a little of the risk/reward action. The reality is that higher equity levels (ie: founder levels) come with a huge amount of risk, which often isn't feasible for people that can pull large salaries.
Not what people are angry about, yes they were wrong but she blew it up. She didn't need to publicly attack them on Twitter without even asking them to stop. She was also making jokes just like them on Twitter.
I personally find it more confounding that grown men or women are actually finding what they said privately (the fact that you can overhear a private conversation does not make it public, saying it at the podium would) offensive enough to think her reaction was anything but an overreaction.
> In that role, your twitter account is very much an extension of your job.

I'm not sure I agree with you, but I think this is an interesting point in the debate and wanted to acknowledge that even though I don't have a snappy response for you at the present time. Hopefully other people engage this point. It seems worth talking about.
I would definitely agree that a single instance of these jokes would not and should not constitute harassment. The joker should not have been fired. I said as much in my first post.
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They taught me this in primary school; when you're in public wearing the school uniform, you are representing the school. As such, any misbehaviour (i.e. smoking in the nearby underpass) will be punished by the school.
Their code of conduct also states that you may not take pictures of people without their express consent. I don't know why people concentrate on the issue of "who said what", that is such an extremely slippery slope I wouldn't dare going into it as a conference organizer.

But taking pictures (and then spreading them to your followers) is a very, very clear no go.
One nice thing about defcon is that people WILL get kicked out for taking pictures of others without permission.
On the one hand, I think email addresses are FAR more understandable as "identity" to an average user than URLs are, which to me is the fatal flaw with OpenID. To an "ordinary" user, URLs are websites, not people.

On the other hand people do change identifiers. They change usernames (jsmith gets married and now wants to be jadams) and they change emails (for the same reason, or because they change ISPs or mobile carriers or whatever). ANY authentication process you use should allow the user to change his identifier (or any other personal attribute even gender) at will.

Internally you deal with this by connecting the identifier to an other token that is the real "permanent" identity for the user in your system. But it's one that's never exposed to the actual user. It sounds like your system was using the email address in the order records to identify the customer. That is what your real problem is, not that people change email addresses.
An immature penis joke is not "harassment". You shouldn't throw that word around like it's meaningless. Harassment is a serious thing, and this joke most certainly is not.
So we need to remain eternally vigilant of the thousands of years of sexism during our day-to-day dealings? We need to be constantly thinking of the women and minorities in the room before we say anything? How is this being gender-neutral?
I agree entirely. In the case of TED the thing they are "selling" is their curatorial expertise. Nice stage, website, etc, but some of the talks would be great filmed in a shed. In that case, if we doubt their curation the value vanishes.

It's not clear to me why an enterprise like TED would feel growth offered any upside at all (and yes, I read the article). Smallness and exclusivity are virtues, and thanks to that great website the world certainly is not lacking for ways to access their ideas.

If they really only care about motivating and inspiring people then why not offer small grants for others to start their own independent, unaffiliated TED-like events. These events might even thrive without the scarlet letter X -- denoting second-class citizenship in the World of Ideas.
It's nice but I expected more from Google. If a new startup launched this product it wouldn't get any press. Why should I use this when there are already similar options (Simple Note) and ones which have many more features (Evernote)?
It’s only been a year or so…
edent was talking about DC pensions and not DB so DC is afordable.

And the Uk has some nice tax breaks for pensions tax relief at your highest rate of tax plus over $20k capita gains tax allowance per year. and you can shelter £12k every year from tax in ISA's

Even the basic share save is very tax efficient I know people who made $50k from a sing years share save at a big uk company - and thats the one everyone from the lowest clerical assistant gets.
> Men have the same amount of gender equality issues (maybe even more) than women in Western countries.

FYI, when you stay stuff like that, you seem totally unhinged to people who have actual contact with the real world. That may sound harsh, but I ain't in this internet arguin' business to baby folks.

The "facts" you link to are pretty laughable. You seriously found a reputable source that says men are more likely to be raped than women? Amazing.

> Meanwhile in history men have been forced to fight bloody wars, work to death in horrible conditions etc.

I hate how women are always forcing men to go fight wars. Also, ugh, hard work sucks! The United Nations Development Programme tells us that

"Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 percent of the food, but earn only 10 percent of the income and own only one percent of the property." (http://tinyurl.com/cy2dtzs)

You can argue with these facts and figures, question them--how they were compiled, what they really mean, etc.--but the vast preponderance of evidence, gathered by scholars and researchers (male and female) from many fields over many years, is going to contest your assertions.

And the worst part is...you probably have a handful of really good points buried in amongst all the nonsense. Like about how courts automatically seem to favor mothers in custody cases, like about the draft exempting women, etc. But how seriously is anyone going to take those genuine concerns when they can't be seen through the morass of much sillier claims?
If you look at the takedown notice there is an ellipsis by the list of URLs. There may have been several pages "infringing" according to GoPro but by excluding those and only sharing the review URL is more likely to go "viral"
But you really shouldn't have to make politically incorrect jokes and references to make yourself fit in because of your gender. People who feel like they can't be themselves around you because of your gender have other hangups that are unrelated to you. If they truly believe that they can't joke around women, that's a failing of social understanding.

It doesn't really matter if the joke was lewd or offensive or if your social group wouldn't have batted an eye. That's a non-sequitur. She thought it was personally offensive and did something to stop it. It might have been possible to deal with it without identifying them, but that's just a guess at the situation.
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" All start-ups today are about supporting
advertising in one way or another." Ouch. It must suck to be in an ecosystem where that's true.
"The results of two experiments supported the hypothesis that, for sexist men, exposure to sexist humour can promote the behavioural release of prejudice against women."

http://psp.sagepub.com/content/34/2/159.abstract

Women are tangibly harmed by sexist jokes.
Wow, this is probably the first thread I've read on HN where the phase "Ok, what the heck just happened?" seems apropos.

The cognitive dissonance of the actions and the outcomes and the timeline just boggles the mind.
If women sitting behind me makes a period joke I'd be totally fine with it. People attend Professional conferences and people have personality. I'd rather to go to professional conference and meet people for who they are and not their professional facade.
This is Jesse Knoller's [Pycon organizer] wife's blog post.
This sounds... familiar.

Precisely this sort of experience with Ember led me to write a Getting Started tutorial: https://github.com/regularfry/website/blob/master/source/gui...
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> The decision to ban someone for smoking pot really cracked me up, given who I smoked pot with at PyCon 2012.

I've said this elsewhere, but:

The pot smoker was a few feet from me in an informal conference late one evening. I don't think anyone complained that pot was smoked at all. They complained that it was smoked inside a crowded room.

I would've been as personally annoyed if someone lit a tobacco cigarette in the same close quarters. It stunk. Badly. I also imagine that PyCon _had_ to say and do _something_ lest they get a reputation for condoning illegal substance abuse in the middle of open sessions.

Note: I'm just a bystander, a regular attendee like everyone else. I didn't report or complain about the pot smoker even though it reeked. The reaction of everyone around me wasn't anger, but sheer disbelief that someone would be that stupid.
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I personally read every single issue and comment filed against rails/rails. I often don't comment if it's not a part of the codebase I'm not familiar with, and it's the same with merging.

Can you point me to the specific ones so I can look at them again?
> While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking. My friends and I had decided forking someone's repo is a new form of flattery (the highest form being implementation) and we were excited about one of the presenters projects; a friend said "I would fork that guys repo" The sexual context was applied by Adria, and not us.
I'm surprised more people don't see this. Releasing your music for free is only an advantage if you already have a built-in audience, or if you're something of a first-mover and can benefit from the novelty factor.

But then fast-forward a couple of years and find yourself in a situation where everyone is releasing free music, and you don't get any kind of visibility boost for releasing it for free. What you do have is a bunch of people who feel more entitled in acquiring your product for free.
Just wanted to share how I came to use Google Alerts, because out of any software I have ever used it is the strangest introduction. In 2010 I started V-BLOOD, LLC and began distributing a blood red, vampire themed energy drink in small glass dram vials. V-Blood was doing well so I wanted to expand the product line with glass vials full of sour candy called "sour fairy dust". The supplier of the sour candy happened to be the creator of Jelly Belly. As it turned out we both had backgrounds in law and I was lucky enough to gain a mentor for V-Blood. In addition to the million other insights he gave me into the candy/convection industry, he insisted I use Google Alerts for energy drinks, candy, vampires, ect...

If Google lets Alerts go to the wayside it is a major opportunity in search for start-ups. Maybe most would disagree but I see Alerts as a stand alone product and not simply a feature for Google.
Exactly. We need to be able to call out bad practices. People deny doing this stuff, they say we should report it, they say we should report it non-anonymously. Sadly every time we do... the same thing happens as a result.
> This is not about her being a woman.

Of course it isn't, but the dynamics at play that happen in these cases are relevant and erasing them as if they don't exist is some kind of "well those don't make my argument stronger so I'm going to ignore them" nonsense.
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I believe in glitch monsters. They prey on start-up websites, especially when they launch.

Simply no matter how many times we all double and triple check, glitch monsters, sharing the same bloodlines as vultures, are far too ambitious to break or tear apart your prime opportunity.

This time it wasn't the glitch monsters, it was me.

My glitch is called underestimating.

I hosted a launch party to celebrate the launch of www.neverfold.com (a closet solution where you never need to fold your laundry).

People were tweeting and facebooking about the launch party. I proceed to hit the 'launch' button only to find myself totally embarrassed while everybody watched my website go from live to nothing but errors.

Turns out I picked a database with 20-max connections. Stupid. Fortunately, I am using Heroku so upgrading from 20 to 500 was a breeze!

"At least it was a good problem to have." said my friends at the party.

Morale of the story: Go big and downgrade as needed!
I wonder how confusing for the user it is to subscribe to site A and receive a confirmation email from Person instead of that site.
This write up is ridiculously biased. If you read Adria's write up, which includes the photo, you can see that there's absolutely nothing private about the conversation.

Look at the photos in http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont...

You can see that the two guys are in very crowded presentation room surrounded by other people. Their conversation, unless whispered, would be clearly audible by many people around them.

Given that context, I think the outrage in this (bravely) anonymous pastebin posting is way over the top. Maybe Adria could've handled this better, but her disgust and frustration are entirely reasonable.
Because anything you post that might remotely be labeled as politically incorrect, you know, might get you fired.
The office I work in is entirely male, myself included, and just because don how I was raised, these types of jokes make me uncomfortable. However, after I said something about the issue, my coworkers, like most human beings, made an effort to check themselves. However, until you say something, they can't do anything about it.

I agree its a decency issue and not a sexism one.
Why are you apologizing? This woman ruined your life because you made a fucking "dongle" joke! Grow a set man. I would be pissed off to no end
I may get downvoted to hell for saying this but I need to say it.

First of all, the forking one, according to the guy who said it and considering he is not lying (why would he, his explanation makes sense) it was simply refering to a code repo fork nothing wrong with that or am I the only one who thinks that?

The "dongle" joke may not be the most correct thing to say I will agree on that, but seriously I can't see a problem with it considering it was not directed at anyone just a "private" conversation, I even know women who could laugh at some kind of joke like that, what is wrong with it? I fail to see any kind of sexism in it, (sexual innuendo yes, I can see that).

Now here comes what bothers me most, adria actions, taking the picture and posting it online I seriously have a problem with that (public attack is definately NOT the right way to handle the issue), and even worse for me is her attitude, "being a hero" "feeling like joan of arc" (not exact quotes im writing it from memory) and even more hypocritical is claiming others can't do any kind of sexual joke because if offender her, and then tweeting this https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

Before I continue I want to say that I am in favor of gender equality. But this reaction does not help at all, makes me think twice before adding a female member to my team, no matter how skilled she may be (and I think like me more will think about it) so as you can see its not helping at all with equality.

And more unrelated to the specific post but something that can be related to the feminist movement, I can't really understand why but some women only claim equality when it is useful to them, when its not they claim to be weaker than men, that does not sound right. One simple example from my country (cant really speak for others) in the army men have to cut their hair, women don't, if asked those women will say they want to be treated equal, but when asked to cut their hair like men they will refuse.

One last thought why are the olympics separated in female and male, why are sports like football (soccer for americans) separated too? Are we not supposed to be equal?
They were being idiots and violating the code of conduct of pycon, and YES, it does apply to private conversations that others can't avoid hearing since they're in a public place. She shamed them rightly. As for them being fired, that was the company's call - who employed them. Now an anonymous guy posts this, she explains the whole sequence and in the end it's her fault. No, the responsability lies with who made the inappropriate comments in the first place and with who employs/employed them.
Imagine this situation:

You are walking down the street. It starts to rain, so you duck into the nearest business, a bar. You order a beer, and realize that you have stepped into a gay bar. The table behind you starts making jokes about how virgin anuses are the best. They are pretty big guys, leather daddies. You worry they're talking about you, about your anus. You worry.

That feeling of discomfort? The way your heart speeds up as you start wondering if you're safe? Women feel that a lot.

The jokes aren't what's offensive. It's when jokes sexualize a professional context in a way that makes women feel unsafe.
That's a terrible analogy. But if we must stick with your analogy it's more akin to an indian guy making a private joke to another indian guy about how indian people speak or act, and a mexican person in the row in front taking offense and reporting them.

But even then that would be ignoring the fact that their joke was not targeted at any single person, or any group of people.
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Probably because she is engaging in hypocritical behavior that lead to a significantly negative impact on another member of the community?
Ah grow the fuck up already. You idiots make the "wider world" look at us and laugh.

So what if some dude made a joke of a sexual nature behind you. Just because you in a room full of dudes doesn't mean it's all about you.

And if you made that joke with her in mind, you're a dumb fuckwit who needs to grow up.

Are we all in grade 5 here?
You just pointed out why your argument fails - it's a poor indicator. A company that doesn't offer lots of benefits may or may not respect its employees. Likewise an employee willing to accept a below-market offer may or may not be committed to the vision.