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The law doesn't define what freedom of speech is, the law only tells what is legal in that particular country. The law in my country has different opinion from my own, and in fact it restricts freedom of speech. You can have a discussion about freedom of speech which is separate from any legislation.
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Also, would this apply to the large, ridiculously buff guys, very obviously gay guys in my gym (Fitness SF Soma) who regularly leer at me and occasionally hit on me? In my experience all that happens is that when they figure out I'm not interested, they are quite friendly and I get to know more people in my new neighborhood.
It's also part of her branding. She consults and her primary web site is "butyoureagirl.com". It's completely appropriate for her to tweet her opinion.

The thing I took from the photo (which I agree was a bit much) was that this woman of color was surrounded by a bunch of white dudes with corrective lenses. There was a man of color farther back, but diversity was not on display.

One of the guys even had a weak smile as if he was thinking,"ohmanagirlislookingatmeandtakingmypictureimayloveher." But I'm assuming he's straight, which is my own lens on the moment.

I hope that her goal was to portray that lack of diversity rather than to shame the two participants in the conversation.
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She had a problem with what the men said. A personal problem. Hers alone. So she should have addressed the problem on her own behalf. Had she stood up and said something TO the perpetrators, one of two things would have happened: they would have stopped the offensive behavior, or they would have ignored her and continued. If the former, she wins because the behavior that offends her stops; if the latter, she wins because she can take her complaint to conference organizers and have them kicked out, ending her problem. The latter case has the extra benefit of making the guys look like complete assholes for ignoring her, and would likely gain her sympathy from lookers-on.

Instead we have her comparing herself to Joan of Arc and claiming to have started this passive-aggressive witch hunt in the name of All Future Girl/Female Programmers Ever. It is hard to describe how much this kind of thing sets back tech culture. One step forward...
> If you happen to work in California, you should know that this kind of remark, if repeated and unwelcome, would constitute harassment.

True, but unwelcome is key. How do you know if a remark is unwelcome? Someone tells you so -- either the offended or HR (whom the offended told). They don't post it on Twitter or blog about it, they talk about it with people in a position to correct the problem.

I know plenty of women who wouldn't feel the least bit offended by a dongle joke -- point being, you can't say "well there's a woman in earshot, better turn on the woman filter."

Personally I believe you should make an honest effort to behave professionally, especially in the presence of folks you don't know, but different folks have different yardsticks for this. That's why you communicate.
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> I don't think it's ok to just say "she's a woman so she automatically will be crucified if she speaks up"

That is in fact not what I said. What I said was more along the lines that you're in a bad position to be giving advice on what women should do when they encounter this situation.

(And for what it's worth, if you were a woman (which I made the assumption from your username that you weren't, feel free to correct me) I would write the same thing except I would say "other women". I don't think it's terribly productive for anyone to spend a lot of time telling someone else how to raise a point in a situation they weren't a party to.)

> I believe that you're perpetuating the idea that women aren't on a level playing field by repeating that point.

I happen to know that women are not on a level playing field in tech and I happen to chose not to pretend like the world is a different place than it is.

> what would you say should've been done if being loud or being quiet have negative consequences?

I think it's important to respect an individual's choice in terms of how they react to dealing with a situation they find problematic.

Which isn't to say someone's actions can't be questioned, but engaging in a discussion of how you think someone that isn't you and who was in a situation you weren't in should have gone about raising a point seems a lot less useful than actually addressing the point they were trying to raise.
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Just going to chime in a bit as someone who has worked a lot in the past doing freelance design work -

This is bad advice for anyone who expects a great designer who you can communicate with easily and will understand your product and customer. This is great advice only for somebody who knows EXACTLY what they want, why they want it, and how it should be done.

$20-$25/hr will (very likely) get you either:

* A highly skilled designer in a foreign country without a firm grasp on English, American culture, or software (or whatever your industry might be). They will not be familiar with the ideals, customs, culture, or values of your customers. There will be hours wasted in communication and scheduling.

* A designer either currently in college or high school in the U.S. (I charged $20/hr when I was in 11th grade many years ago). This person will likely be O.K. at design, and have a good grasp on the customer. They will likely not know what they are doing with billing and time management, in addition to having other priorities, so your project has an alarmingly high change of being under-quoted and be delivered past deadline.

* On a rare occasion you get lucky - you might for example find a designer who just got laid off and doesn't know how much to charge and under-quoted the project. Or maybe you found a recent grad who just needs money to live while they search for a job. Either way - don't expect this.

Most customers are looking for somebody to work with them for 15+ hours planning the project, giving relevant insight (like what designs work well for what demographic etc.), and estimating costs/schedule. That is why designers don't normally bill hourly. Many of my customers when I freelanced were billed more for time spent in meetings with them than for actual work, mostly on $2,000+ projects.

My recommendation is this: If you want a good designer, stop trying to do the work yourself and pay somebody who really knows what they are doing to do what they do. The 8-10 hours of your own time spent looking for a deal on a designer is likely more expensive to your company than the $500 extra it would cost you to hire an awesome designer.
It would be nice to see actual user studies rather than quoting TechCrunch. Tech journalists are not everyone's target market.
Cheez and bherms: neither of you guys understand the legal system very well, do you?
This situation is packed with a lot of cross-talk, strawpeople [1], and derailing exaggeration. I don't know how to unravel it when everyone is so primed to get up on soapboxes and opine about things they don't understand.

[1] I used this word back when I thought feminists were a bunch of idiots. It sounds better to me. Get off your soapbox.
Quit what you're doing professionally, go out and forge a path elsewhere. Maybe, not in the western world. Go to India, South Pacific, South America. Find a need there, and start filling that need & see what can come about from making a different kind of positive change in a persons life.

Maybe, it's digging a well. I don't know, but, what you're doing now doesn't seem like its gratifying for you. If all of that is a bit extreme, go help out at a homeless shelter, or food bank.
If they just raised at a $40mm valuation, 0.5% equity is literally worth $200k to them right now

True for a stock grant, but these are stock options.
It does say in the code of conduct that you shouldn't handle it yourself. Also, due to "offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces" I'd agree that what these men were doing was against the code of conduct.

However, she did report it to pycon. She tweeted about: "Can someone talk to these guys about their conduct? I'm in lightning talks, top right near stage, 10 rows back". She also says that she "began to contacting the PyCon staff via text message".

What she didn't have to do is take pictures of them without their permission and post their pictures on her public twitter feed. That is the part that steps over the line in my opinion.
> Now, in the light of the Reader abandonment, it's more like a feeling of joy that Google will educate the world about how great an idea this is, and then abandon it just about when I have something that other people might actually want to use.

Drive, while also available for free, part of the core of the paid Google Apps offering, and its (as the parallel to OneNote) a key part of Google Apps being an alternative to Microsoft Office (and, consequently, to ChromeOS with Google Apps being an alternative to Windows with Microsoft Office).

Its hardly positioned similarly to Reader which, however popular it may have been with a segment that is overrepresented among active participants of online forums focussed on technology, was pretty distant from any core strategic focus for Google.

So, I wouldn't bank on Google canceling this any time soon (or even in 8 years, as happened with Reader.)
Didn't she violate the spirit of the PyCon 2013 Code of Conduct? Here's the relevant quote from the CoC: "Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect."

We're trying to build a strong community here.

I personally think she handled this poorly and should be dealt with by the PSF for live tweeting images of attendees and shaming them. She too violated the Code of Conduct. I don't think she should be allowed to attend next year. I'm concerned I will see her next year and she'll misunderstand or misrepresent a comment of mine!
I am not a therapist, but if nothing seems to work (pills, medical attention, diet), I would suggest doing something else totally drastic - sell everything you can, take a long deserved break from the digital world and go on an amazing year long adventure. Find some country to volunteer in for a year - could be nature conservation related, assisting the poor, whatever. Don't over think it (but do enough to be safe) and just GO. I might get down-voted, but shit, that is what I would do.
It has nothing to do with the code of conduct considering that very code says that you are not supposed to take a picture of someone without their express permission.
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They changed that specific article's rendering. When I and others looked earlier today, it was a real mess.

My original comment was near the top when "jpilcher" showed up (based on his responses, it was roughly 1-2 hours after I saw the article) and I suspect he read the comments and changed that specific page.

Other articles still show the old format: http://thefinancialbrand.com/28313/cool-vehicle-designs-from...

(Notice the size of the ad on the right side as well as the interstitial ads)

http://i.imgur.com/RekSTWf.jpg
> Speaking up to the individuals or to PyCon staff would have been very appropriate.

Speaking up to the individuals isn't always the easiest in a situation like that. It's easy to make that suggestion sitting behind a computer screen. So, she spoke up in the best way she knew how.

In the end, the result between the 3 parties (the 2 guys, PyCon, and her) ended amicably.

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

> Public shaming given the circumstances was not.

Well, neither was their actions. More so, in fact. That she reacted poorly is indicative of the seriousness of their actions. Sitting comfortably at home in our chairs it's easy to dismiss this as nothing. But it's not.
Someone with a platform should take this and run with it. Pretty disgusting. This kind of hypocrisy can't be allowed to stand, especially not from a "developer advocate" who supposedly works to further the state of our industry.
Which is all well and good if the council replenishes their stock of council housing. I.e. if they use the sale money to buy or build more, so having it be a permanent mechanism to help people lift themselves out of poverty.

But they didn't. What they did instead was sell them off without getting any more, and used the money to cut taxes. Which is fine for the generation who benefited from that round, but means the safety net is no longer there for future generations.
You spent an amount of money equivalent to what De Beers charges for a diamond ring because of the advertising campaign De Beers started about a century ago. You felt like you had to match that expenditure, perhaps subconsciously. If the diamond cartel and diamond advertising and diamond pricing didn't exist, you wouldn't have that specific financial figure to aspire to.
Totally agree. Didn't see this as we posted at the same time ;)
That is not what he was asking. SendGrid is not a party to this issue.
What is this? Posterus again?

this reminds me, I need to get all my crap out of docs/drive whatever before that gets shut down
She's encouraging an internet lynch mob, and that's a culture most communities actively discourage.
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Really, firing the individual makes sense to me. Pycon does have a code of conduct, which includes avoiding sexualised language. I'm not into the whole big brother idea, but there is such a thing as "time and place" :) and the wrong time and place to make sexualised jokes, is when you are sat in public at a conference with a policy against such things...

Reputationally, the company has a right to be both disappointed and concerned.

I don't really support Adria's approach to this (especially how she now appears to be dismissing even fair criticism as "trolling"). But the company has a reasonable argument for dismissal, whether this had splashed across the net or not.
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Actually I'd be interested in hearing about these so called "tangible" benefits of being an employee (not a founder) at a YC funded start-up vs working at any other company, all else being equal (your quality of prior work, strength of your references etc.) ?

Personally, a potential hire's having been at a yc vs a non-yc company has no bearing on my decision either way.
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I am by no means an expert but here's my two cents in the hopes that it helps:

1) Stop invalidating how you feel. Just because you feel like other people have it harder then you doesn't mean that you're not allowed to feel sad or down. Personally I find one of the most demoralizing things is feeling like your emotions are invalid, and feeling guilty for feeling bad only makes things worse. It may not seem obvious but everyone has their freak outs and times where things are rough and that is ok.

2) It may sound weird but try exploring how the emotions feel. Do they feel different in different situations? Is it more pronounced in certain situations? Does the feeling have triggers or feel connected to any aspect of your life? I find simply thinking about how it feels can help me determine the source.

3) Find things to look forward to. It doesn't have to be big but it's important to plan things to look forward to, it helps a lot with getting through the rough times. Even something as simple as a nice dinner every once and a while, going out with friends, or even a cold beer after a days work.

4) Seriously think about what makes you happy and what you want to do. Don't let other people define happiness or success for you because ultimately they are not the ones who have to live your life.

Hopefully that helped. Feel free to send me an email (in my profile) if you want, I'll try and help out if I can.
Not having been in your shoes I feel that my suggestions may not actually be helpful. But I do want you to know that I and I'm sure many others are reading your post and we care and want to help.

Looking back through your life, what experiences and activities have been most comforting or enjoyable? Try to focus on the things that you've enjoyed and valued.

Here's a crazy idea for you: hike the Appalachian Trail. It's an opportunity to disconnect and reflect. It's not for everybody but maybe you would enjoy it.

I also encourage you to seek new professional help. Work with someone new. Try a new approach. It sounds like current support mechanisms are not working.
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Wow, you give tech a bad name both by your massively offensive accusation, as well as your completely wrong use of the word "terrorist" thereby reducing its significance. The thing showing a sad state of affairs here is you.
We all know that you can't provide any evidence to back this up. What is your agenda? Why do you think we are stupid?
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Well, Adria's posting of the picture without consent was itself a violation of PyCon's code of conduct. Frankly, it's hard to understand her position when she made the same kind of dick joke on Twitter in public to a friend where everyone could see it.

As it is, we have a situation where someone who makes dick jokes to her friends overheard someone else making a dick joke to a friend and intentionally shamed them by posting their picture on the internet. Clearly, this action was the catalyst for one of them getting fired; it was her goal to make an example out of these two and embarrass them on an internet scale.

Her self-righteousness belies the utter insignificance of what actually occurred. Comparing herself to Joan of Arc and claiming she "did it for future generations" doesn't help. On top of angering a lot of men and women alike, her behavior struck a nerve and has the potential to leave a bruise on gender equality in tech.

One can be in favor of equality and yet have the intellectual capacity to examine situations on a case-by-case basis and determine that this was a contradictory overreaction on her part that had undeserved consequences for one of the men.
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> The point is why cant we expect the women to adjust to the realities of the world?

Why can't you adjust to the realities of the world where the view that women should just deal with whatever crap that exists in tech seems like a pretty terrible idea? Why can't you adjust to the reality that this means tech loses out on a lot of talent? Why can't you adjust to the reality that if you want to hire good talent, you need to provide an environment where they'll actually feel comfortable instead of demanding/expecting them to "adjust"?

> I expect Sendgrid to say something about the conduct of their employee.

For a bunch of reasons, I don't and I'm fine with that.
You smiled while you took the photo you planned to shame them with.

Enjoy your notoriety.
Changing your life is one thing. leaving behind everyone this guy knows personally and potentially could help sounds like a big mistake... especially with anxiety attacks and severe depression.
>I think if she was found to be lying, the backlash would have been on here.

I believe you are wrong. The majority reponse would have been that she was telling the truth and nobody else overheard it.
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Pretty sure Chris is talking about: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/8856
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Hmm this is interesting.

This post is only 2 hours old with 535 points, yet it is ranked below "You just went to the Google homepage. What actually happened?" with 488 points at 7 hours old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408597

Is there some weighted voting going on?
My reading of stephen's comment was that he probably recognises that it's a matter of cultural difference, rather than absolute truth. In some cultures, for a woman to tell those kinds of jokes would be debasing. In ours, not so much I guess.
The risk also needs to be considered separately, though. For example, which of these is better compensation?

$100,000/year

or

Each year, there is a 0.1% chance that you will be paid $1 billion.

Simple math tells us that the second one has a 10x higher expected financial outcome. But few people would actually consider that to be better compensation. Lower risk is better, to an extent that can outweigh a higher expected financial outcome.

If you get both a better expected outcome and lower risk, that's two benefits, not just one.
I don't think it's quite that simple. The employer certainly bears some responsibility, but making a public accusation to thousands of twitter followers can quickly create a lot of pressure on the company to visibly punish the joker.

PyCon's code of conduct specifically says "Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community."