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I think organisations have good intentions (reduce racism, sexism, etc) but in general unless they're very careful with their message they can do more harm than good.

They try to raise women up but often times manage to do so in such a way (special treatment, privilege) which eats away at the respectability of not only the women they're trying to raise up but other women who got there on their own merits.

I think we should do all we can to remove obstacles for women getting into tech', and that includes bad attitudes/sexism, however I think many of these organisations and "positive discrimination" are an obstacles that women unfortunately will need to overcome...
Let your lawyer dictate the legal strategy. Any good lawyer knows exactly what pressure points to leverage for the specific situation.
If you read the PyCon public release, they did. She complained to the organizers, who did the right thing. They privately brought the two sides (don't know if in the same room, same time, etc) to address the issue. They privately resolved it and decided no further action was needed. It was taken to a whole new level when she decided to publicly publish the picture and one side of the story.

She has no class in my opinion. You scold in private and praise in public. Sociopaths get this reversed.
It looks like they haven't found another solution yet. FTA:

> For that reason, we wanted to let you guys, loyal Cutting Edge readers and Knife Depot fans, know that you might not being seeing Knife Depot ads peppered across the Internet.
Me. I don't think I've ever made one in a public setting. If I did it was long enough ago that I don't remember.

Call me a prude if you want but it does mean that I will likely never be in the position of the two men who achieved infamy at pycon. I may achieve infamy for other reasons but not that one.
It might help. What would really remove the problem is to have knowledgeable women as well as men because that would be much more appropriate for an industry event. At least advertise the women as something helpful first, and ready to party second.
This is likely a graph of languages ranked by CDD usage (Copypasta Driven Development).
That's certainly a possibility in some cases and communities (perhaps at a sub-language level or for very niche languages), but I find it rather unlikely on a global level considering the trends across many languages and language classes that you can see here.
Coffeescript, I find, is more apt to force you into a more cohesive pattern for structuring your code which could help avoid large refactoring stints.
Are you using the r.js optimiser though? We definitely couldn't use a local non-AMD version with other CDN libraries when using the optimiser to build our js out for production.
I don't know Lynn Root, but I don't see anything here for any mature man to be upset about. If Lynn Root complains or does or doesn't give a lightning talk (on the basis of her feeling bad that day, or not having prepared or whatever) that might be some kind of faux pas but honestly, who gives a shit. People cancel lightning talks. It harms nobody. It certainly doesn't make everyone involved with PyLadies (e.g. Hynek Schlawack) into an Adria Richards feminist monster ruining your life.

Tweet from your first link:
"Sucked the marrow out of my osso bucco at dinner at #EuroPython. The waiter told me that I "will have very good orgasm." #Pyladies?"

Please explain why it is not offensive for this guy to call upon PyLadies for an orgasm...
I agree, for all the time he spends on his results, as far as I can tell he never really defends the idea that commit size is in any way a good proxy for "expressiveness." It would be nice if he could explain why he chose commit size over somthing like rosetta code size or some other metric.
Why do we need Python when we have PHP?
Different people like different things. Would you prefer if the was only one library for every purpose?
There was a time, not all that long ago, when you could smoke cigarettes at your desk in a professional office context. Now, out of respect for the comfort of others in a shared environment, the general consensus is that you should take that toxic shit outside where we don't all have to endure it.
The dude who runs Reddit is just now noticing there's a huge crossover between geeks and creeps?
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Nobody in tech would bat an eye, although I would find it a bit ridiculous to try and get more men to be active in the Python community when the majority of the python community is men.
This change will hurt small players in web advertising, but I suspect they are more likely to use shady tracking tactics than the big players. So fewer players consolidates user information, but I hope it makes those advertisers easier to track and regulate.
Nasty gal is such an amazing story, and definitely a great example.
I wouldn't be screaming. I love to see Python groups. KKKPython might have trouble getting funding from PSF, but nobody should care if you want to get together to talk about Clojure only with gay dentists.
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Are you referring to the programming language for calculators? Wikipedia doesn't make it seem that expressive, and I can't find much else associated with the acronym RPL.
Mostly, yes. Of course inviting only scantily-clad women makes women attendees feel a little less welcomed/catered to/pandered to than the men.
That's probably because it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia :P
Good advice. Wish it was a little less condescending. I'm a marketing type who can code (more) now.

There is a vast amount of knowledge one needs to learn just to be a beginner. I don't blame so many idea people for trying to find shortcuts.
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I'd say it's a byproduct of the fact that only in-the-know developers are using CoffeeScript, while JavaScript is being written by every rank-and-file amateur web dev in the world. There is likely an inverse correlation between language popularity and median code quality.
Interesting. Isn't the website just telling to load the script from a Google server (which could count as 3rd party) and execute it?
This assumes that languages are used to solve similar classes of problems, or that, in aggregate, those different classes result in similarly-sized "feature" chunks.

I think it's fair to say that nobody's ever written a forum in puppet, and that few people are working on micro-[web]frameworks in Fortran.

Interesting data, just need to be careful about what conclusions are drawn from it.
That's the ideal way to do it, and certainly the first option.

However, if neither the team nor Ted himself brings up the fact that Ted's underperformance is the root cause (and there are uncountable ways of having a seemingly open discussion and still avoid addressing individual issues), you're going to have to step up.

In the end, if it is truly "about Ted", you cannot continue avoiding that and keeping it private if you want your team to hold each other accountable. That is what the author is talking about.

If Ted keeps coming to you in private with his doubts, that may make you feel important, but you're just making yourself unmissable. If your team can't do this without you, you're not empowering your team.
So true. I would normally have trouble believing that assembly is more expressive than C, but maybe the people who write assembly tend to be excellent at what they do? And JS is more expressive than Java, no? Maybe some of these are skewed by the sort of programmers that use them.
ITT: We bust an organization's balls because of what someone not even in it did and then focus on one woman actually in the group to diminish the good intentions of the entire thing.

Newsflash: you can't make judgement calls on entire groups because of a single person.
Going off what soneca is saying (and soneca is right), the problem is that you don't actually have the market, the business model, and the validation. What you mean is you have written down on a piece of paper (or in your head) a market you're thinking about targeting, a business model you think works, and the validation which you think is actually valid.

The problem is that you'll get a lot of people who'll say "sounds interesting," but unless you have people signed up and actively engaging with your product, or people actually giving you money, that doesn't tell you much. Even getting people to sign up for an invite list is a good step (albeit only the first step of many in validation).

I would seriously consider outsourcing your MVP. There are some really good developers out there who work in countries where $10-20 / hour is a really good wage; typically Eastern European, South American, or SE Asian countries. Yes, many of them suck. The way to go about finding the "gems" is to have a very small "test" project which you test against several (5 or more) developers simultaneously. Then see the results and either pick the best or try running the same experiment again. Learn the basics of coding so that you can look through their code and judge for yourself.

Once you have an MVP with traction it'll be a lot easier to get a technical co-founder or even a technical "founding employee."
> let the results speak for themselves

The difference between Fortran Free Format and Fortran Fixed Format should be enough to tell us that lines of code per commit is all about how much stuff you put on a line!

(Is `nl` significant in the language syntax? Were readable wide screen displays available when the code was written?)
Loved this article - non-technical people should learn how to SELL. There's no point in building something unless you have money in your hand first.
I hate being in team meetings where we're discussing a failure and avoid talking about individual actions/responsibilities leading up to the issue. Don't make it personal, but do make clear what went wrong and who made mistakes.

If everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.

Principle #15 here weighs in on this:
http://www.greenwichharborpartners.com/uploads/Principles_by...
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On the other hand, I couldn’t help thinking, while watching the video, why should my terminal load web pages and images?

I’ve done the same thing both in Linux and now on OS X, by using various 'open' commands or – on OS X – 'qlmanage -p', which opens a QuickLook window for a file, just like the video is showing, but it’s system wide and not in my terminal.

And this is not a “OS X had this before” post, it’s just that the feature seems more fit to an external program to me. I’m trying not to type unix philosophy here, but it’s going right against it.
No, 16", as in 16"/50 caliber.
I'm in favor of banning porn ads (generally), since those tend to be offensive to a lot of people and also are highly correlated with spammy behavior, but I'd be tempted to boycott a vendor who prohibited weapons ads for any reason other than legal compliance.

Amazon is pretty reasonable (knives are fine, firearms accessories are fine, but firearms and ammunition are out due to compliance issues). Google has no excuse.
Yes, I disabled display so that wouldn't get into the benchmark. The numbers are times in milliseconds.
'Microaggression' is, in this context, simply being misused as another device to justify disproportionate behavior. You've done further rhetorical gymnastics to tie together immature 'dongle' jokes with sexual and racial violence, ultimately with the seeming intent of redefining the entire event to absolve one party of their responsibility to act with maturity and responsibility, solely in furtherance of a culturally damaging, distracting, and virulent ideology.

Olivia Wilde also received some similarly horrid threats after insulting Justin Bieber on Twitter, but I can only hope and assume that you won't be attempting to tie that event to sexism in technology, and instead recognize that it reflects a real, but very different problem.
Thought experiment: what about Saudi women who want to learn Python? Starting a Python group for women only would be a legal necessity to serve those women in Saudi Arabia. It would not be discrimination at all.

Now suppose we are in London, and there are women who want to learn Python but due to religion or upbringing would not be comfortable in mixed company.

Neither of these cases is "discrimination" against anyone. It's not any kind of aggression at all.

It's also not discrimination when there are women who feel intimidated by the main groups and want a group that is more explicitly friendly to women.
I agree. I really don't see the value beyond a few talented search engineers. They lost a lot of people with similar skills in the last few years. Nonetheless, this is a massive premium and I am not sure where the return on this investment will come from.
It's the basis for Tizen, Samsung's new mobile operating system.
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It's backed by Samsung.
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I know, but what called my attention is that the poster is European.

Part of my family lives in Austria, and what they consider a "small car" is more along the lines of a Volkswagen Golf, which is a little under 4 meters.

According to Wikipedia itself, the Impreza wold be a "Compact" (what North Americans consider a small car)

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

while the Golf would be a "subcompact" (what I thought Europeans considered a small car)

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

and the Maruti would be a "city car" (what we Uruguayans consider a small car)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_car
I don't think the referer info is ever really essential but here are some possibilities:

1) If you came from a social media site, maybe I'd highlight that particular social sharing option in a share bar, or hide others.

2) In an e-commerce store, maybe Google sent you to some page on my site that isn't really the best for your search term (product discontinued, other better matching product), I can give you a link to that other page. Google isn't necessarily magical in its ability to pick the best page on a site for a specific term. Maybe if you come from a competitor I can highlight some content that compares my product to the competitor's.

3) I've never derived a ton of benefit from it, but some sites will highlight your search term for you on a page. It could possibly also automatically scroll you to a relevant section if it's a long page and what you searched for is an exact match for some subsection.

In general it can be a valuable data point sites can use to improve the end-user experience. That being said, I can't think of anything where the value really outweighs the potential for abuse, but I think saying that it has no value to the user is short-sighted.
While I agree with you, that's not what he said in his comment :)
My point was that people shouldn't be shocked, shocked when they get busted for breaking the law.

Of course the fellow wouldn't complain while he was employed. People who live in illegal apartments tend not to complain either, until something goes seriously wrong.
> So it would be fine if the scarcely dressed participants in the show were of the same gender as the main characters?

It would be less sexist, but it would remain stupid.

Anyway, let's return to the main point of the argument: employing "party girls" to sell services and software at trade shows is a practice that reinforces a particular culture of discrimination that is actively creating difficulties for professional women in our field.

Do you disagree?
Talk to his investors, believe it or not they will be very interested if you do not go public with this.
The introduction to the book tells you it's not for beginners but experienced programmers. So complaining that it's not a good first book is like complaining coffee makes for a terrible cup of tea.

For someone who has programmed in C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby etc., it's the perfect book: it succinctly explains the good and unique parts of JS. It's actually a bit too long in my opinion, the railroad diagrams and syntax parts can be skipped by the target audience.
0) LAWYER. Get one. Do whatever she says, including ignore this comment (except for this line).

1) Do not "meet" with the the party suing you or the lawfirm representing them on your own. Do not sign anything they extend to you to "make it go away." Send all communications from them to your LAWYER first, never respond on your own.

2) LAWYER

Now, it seems that the party suing you is not in it for your money as they know you can't pay; besides, the lawsuit itself costs money, possibly more money than any judge or jury would reasonably award. Instead they're probably looking to:

I) Hurt you

II) Sue your current, previous, future, etc... employers who might actually have money.

III) Both

If you sign something admitting guilt (even if you don't realize it), there is a chance (depending on what they've accused you of, probably not the case for breach of contract but I am not a lawyer) they might use it to start a criminal trial against you (which meets goal I). It is highly unlikely that this trial will happen or that you'll serve any jail time if it does, but it will be absolutely painful.

You've now also opened up the potential for your current employer to be sued (meeting goal II). In turn, your current employer, has the right to sue you (again, helping meet I) and in this case probably for good reason: either you're honest in having caused damage or you've given false testimony.

What the party suing you is counting on is for you to NOT get a LAWYER and to prevail against you in a system that is adversarial. I'm a big fan of the adversarial legal system: it works great for criminal cases where you're guaranteed many rights, most important presumption of evidence, and a defender. However the way it's currently practiced in civil cases is flawed: the goal is for attorney on the either side to win, rather than for both parties to work diligent towards uncovering the truth, but most people don't realize it.

On the other hand, if you do get a LAWYER and are found innocent, the other party will cover your legal fees. If you and your LAWYER settle without going to trial, the legal fees will also be much lower (and you will not have to pay damages).

If you lose, the lawyer can make the loss hurt less: e.g., lessen the damages, avoid a situation that opens you to a criminal trial, etc...

So: LAWYER.

Disclaimer: have never been sued personally, know entrepreneurs who have. Not a lawyer but curious about law. Everyone should also read every comment by grellas and rayiner. If anything said in this comment contradicts the advice of a reputable lawyer you've hired, follow her advice instead.
"We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community."

"PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women"

"Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate," toward the goals described above. The goals described above are discriminatory in a way with which I do not agree, hence my lack of support.
In Boston they started putting advertisements on the sides of the machines...any other cities seen this? I wonder how much additional revenue it drives.
Never heard of this one, and it looks really good. I'll try it right now. But will it still be useful with the new Firefox updates?
I have been thinking about cookie sandboxing for a while:

The idea is to have a separate cookie store for each 2nd level domain I am visiting.

So the Facebook cookie on some site I am visiting that has a Facebook "Like" button on it is different from the actual Facebook cookie I would get from visiting Facebook.

This would make cookie tracking across sites unusable, since each site would have it's own version of a cookie.
Thanks. I'm liking what I'm hearing. I hear functional programmers say state is evil, but it seems like a necessary evil. What I agree with more -- and they say this a lot it seems -- is that complexity is evil. I like the focus on building something large from smaller, easily understood parts.
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>One proxy for this is how many lines of code change in each commit

This premise is complete rubbish.
So.... there is no problem then. The PyLadies are exactly the type of organization that you support. No special treatment, no privilege. As a male member of the PyLadies I thank you for your support!

Please consider coming by one of the events!
it is a book. http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Programmer-Should-Know/dp...
Thumbnails for filelists seems somewhat useful. And another use for inline image display is that you could be modifying the image and then scroll back and forth to see the results and intermediates.
Being an AdWords veteran (having managed campaigns for several clients) all I could do was nod my head grumble under my breath about how this is "business as usual" for Google.

One of my clients who was selling in the health market had this and other seemingly "unfair" treatments happen again and again over the years. All the while Google was taking money from Canadian "pharmacies" and allowing big brand competitors to violate the same rules they were coming down on my clients for.

The kick is that sometimes you just luck out. Your ads are reviewed by another (anonymous) staffer who doesn't interpret the rules in the same way.

We found the best way to avoid issues like this was: never edit an existing approved ad. Seems silly but we cringed each time we had to edit or submit a new ad knowing that some random reviewer would roll the dice and deliver a verdict.

Finally however Google banned most of our most effective keywords, while at the same time allowing our competitors (both larger and smaller) to continue on without interruption.
There is no creation of cookies in the snippet you have to copy/paste on your website. So if some cookies are created they are not first party.
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I'm not looking for anything. Just defining how one might determine if PyLadies was actually discriminating instead of just making claims that were unrelated to discrimination.

Even admitted that I don't how they work. Reading their page and seeing them in action are two very different things. I have not had any direct interaction and therefor made no judgement of them. If they are in fact that open then they are not discriminating.
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Thanks for your reply. Going on a vipassana retreat and participating in a shamanic ceremony are definitely things I'd like to do at some point. All of my investigations have been solitary, for the most part, so I am ignorant of the collective side of things. (as a nerd, I am generally ignorant of the collective aspects of life anyway!)

I think if meditators were to study continental philosophy in particular, they would find many fruitful parallels to concepts in Eastern thought. Phenomenology involves examination of arising phenomena in a similar fashion to mindfulness, though I don't think it is ever as clearly explained. There is within it an attempt to overcome the subject-object distinction, and to re-frame the relationship between scientific objectivity and the lived experience of the human life-world. Unfortunately it is also some of the most impenetrable stuff ever written!

>>I've also found that " they have to rely on the cognitive, social and philosophical resources of their time and place." is not as big of an influence as you think it is.

I will take you up on that, but it might take me a few years. :)
20-30 minutes every morning, as part of a daily routine. If I don't do it I notice less composure that day.