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> The founder's wife story also reminds me of episodes I've heard involving the wife cabal. It's nothing as sinister as the GitHub story, but I see a lot of the same structural issues reflected in these telling anecdotes.

If you are male and a founder, one of your most valuable business resources is your wife. People will call me sexist for saying this, I expect, but women think socially with a level of complexity that I think most men never approach. If you are a man, chances are your wife does more to build the business than you ever do.

I see nothing wrong with the involvement of founders' wives in the business.

> The lack of an overt chain of command means that power asserts itself covertly.

Thats the whole point of bossless environments and both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness.

> In both cases the companies also boast a level of success that makes it hard for them to evaluate whether elements of their company culture is detrimental to their continued development at this stage of their existence.

I don't think any company can evaluate that. Culture arises from the grass roots and that means that the floor employees are the ones who ultimately decide company culture.

> I'm waiting for a hip rebranding of the term 'management' once these no-management companies realize they have issues that cannot be resolved by hiring supposedly perfect people.

What do you think of WL Gore and Associates?
Regarding that article, it's a few entries down on HN's front page (March 16th): http://www.bhorowitz.com/how_to_minimize_politics_in_your_co... lol
You might as well have said "World comes with the fastest electric car".
I think the idea is, G+ is cluttering up the api for everything else. When in fact it gets used not at all, by almost everybody. So that's definitely worse, for almost everybody, doing almost anything with Google products.

So, that's worse.
Site is currently down for me, presumably deluged by traffic. A Google cache exists, but at least on Chrome it still needs to load something from pvk.ca before it displays any portion of the webpage. Therefore, here is the page source with most of the markup removed; you can get from it some idea of what the page is about.

http://pastebin.com/JL7aRcpn
They say in the FAQ you'd have to add plumbing etc. to the cost. This was just a test build.
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No one promised her a job (as in, no actual employer told her "I've got that job here, as soon as you show me your diploma you come and work for us"), but she did promise to pay the loans.

Ok, it's easy for me (or for any non-US) to look down on her because of the ridiculous loans that go with US education, but she still is in the wrong to me.
Maybe what this prototypical child needs is assistance with social skills, fitness, anxiety, etc. (the problems that we so frequently hear the smart ones struggle with).
It's a good thing for hackers/programmers/engineers to be stubborn.... up to a point, but the one thing an architect should not be is stubborn.

And yet architects usually originate from promoted engineers. And that means they are stubborn, and the result is all kinds pointless conflicts with all the other developers.
Looks like that Schneier article made a dent...
If she is his wife then she co-owns part of the company with him (assuming they do the "everything that is mine is yours" thing). So she is not an uninvolved outsider, she is an investor.
"PC, overprotective upbringing, and I'm offended by that" are not some new horrible plague - they are attempts to let underprivileged voices and opinions survive.

When a black person says that they are proud to be black, they are expressing that they feel a certain pride in their race, which exists in this country thus far as a marginalized and underprivileged set of humanity. Saying you are "Proud to be white" kind of makes you sound like an asshole, because white people have crafted a society to let them have more advantage. True, any given white person might not be some sort of evil society architect, but white people are clearly those who most benefit from this society. Blaming this on political correctness is a cowardly and conservative move that stems from a false sense of equality between people.

As progressive and bottom-up our community can be, we are not a meritocracy, and everyone is not equal.
I'm amazed the guy still has his listing online. It's here if anyone is interested:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1058615
The most likely explanation is probably that they're wealthy and want to donate some of it while having some fun. They're probably not a thief.
You do remember they were hula hooping, right?

That is not a typical example of office decorum. If they were spinning plates they'd probably gather a few looks as well.
Putin might see this as an added bonus, since many of the "oligarchs" are not on friendly terms with the Kremlin.
I believe it's
1) Would you like to join Russia
2) Would you like to stay in Ukraine.

No?
A very easy way to contribute is to help keep jsDelivr updated. People can submit new libraries they find and update older ones (at least until auto-update will be ready) https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr
I guess that you stop the meeting on the spot ("we'll continue this conversation once the other executive is here to discuse this with us"), if possible call the other executive right away, if not, do a new meeting with both asap, and don't talk about it before the meeting.
This way only people with serious objections will dare to start a complain, also the resolution of the complain must be fair, if not the CEO will be the one loosing the team trust.
I approach it differently. I pay no attention to the plans, the memberships, the cards and the programs. I buy the best deal I can get on the spot.

It costs some more, but honestly I'm not talking about buying a car or a house so its 'petty cash' purchases we're talking about.

And I get my dignity back. No more struggling to satisfy some program requirements; no getting 2nd-rate tickets because of the 'miles' I think I need. I just buy what I want, and I pay for it.

SO no not a 'member' of anything. This is a 1st-world solution I know. But if you can afford it, well I recommend it.
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> It really surprises me that somebody can get away with such destructive behaviour as reverting someone else's commits without reasonable cause. What justification is there for not firing on the spot anybody who puts their own personal vendettas over the good of the project?

And yet it happens everywhere. The question is what narratives can be told about it more than what actually happened.
This again. Every time someone speaks out about sexism there seems to be a need for some to defend the predators (directly or by declaring that "this is not sexism"). Why do you feel obligated to do so?
> 1. Google views software engineering skills as fungible. If you can learn domain X, you can equally well learn domain Y. Hire smart people, and put them on something they find interesting, and you'll get high quality work out of them. Computer science / problem solving then becomes a sort of proxy for whatever skills are ultimately necessary. If you can learn that, you can learn anything.

I get the impression from your post that you view this as a positive attribute. I actually think it is a negative. I feel that, like other engineering disciplines, software engineering is so broad (and getting broader every year) that skills are not truly fungible and that a certain level engineers must specialize. The result is that companies like Google either test for a breadth that fewer and fewer engineers can actually achieve, or they trick themselves into thinking their evaluation covers everything when it does not. It might (a big might) work when you are only a couple years removed from your undergraduate degree, but its a lousy way to hire experienced people.
Meh, you knew exactly what I meant, as did most people that read that discussion I'm sure.
Plus all the finishes. What do those cost in a standard house?
Electric supercars do help in public acceptance though, if its good enough for a car that costs a million bucks...
Hear my fucked up story of UEFI, Secure Boot and Windows 8:

I have a Windows 8 laptop. It had 2 HDDs, so I easily installed Ubuntu 13.04 to second HDD. However, during a Win8 update process, it hanged for hours and I force closed. Then even my recovery partition was corrupted. So, I wiped my first HDD, and since the OEMs don't give DVDs anymore, I could not install it. I live in Turkey, and there is a special version of Win8 Single Language, not found on internet. You cannot confirm checksum of them because it is not widely used, and depends on the region I think (maybe wrong). Therefore, even If I found a iso on Turkish forum I could not verify it, but tried to install Single Language version anyways. But It could not verify my key, that is burried in my motherboard. I tried to install Windows 8 Pro from MSDNAA, and it said it cannot because of the internal license on my pc. I tried dozens of way to disable it. When I got Windows 8.1 Pro from MSDNAA as well, It installed without problems. That is really f*cked up. I did not like flatness of even windows, I disabled Secure Boot, removed my partioning from GPT to MBR, installed my Ubuntu with Windows 7 as it is used to be, before these dark times.

Now I'm a teaching assitant of operating systems course, students need to use Linux for assignments, and almost all of them uses VirtualBox, which is not a very good replacement for native experience. It is fast, but not fast enough.
Holy cow, how are we just now finding out about this? So Microsoft is forcing you to buy yet another Windows license, after you already paid for the one included with the laptop, if you want to dual-boot?

This should been a scandal when Windows 8 launched.
It looks like he (accidentally?) included a gigantic scanned image in the post. However most of the comments on the last pvk.ca post submitted here were also about how it's down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286655), so the blog config/hosting might just be borked.

Google Cache seems to always try to load the images and hang for a while if the site is unreachable (not sure why, since if the site were reachable I wouldn't be on Google Cache in the first place). You can click "text-only version" in the top-right to stop that.
It's as easy as the wife grabbing the husbands laptop and scanning the Hipchat logs.
How much is the living cost there?
More pics at the official site:

http://www.rimac-automobili.com
There's no public source for the claim, it's what an AMD engineer told me via private e-mail (and I don't want to publish private mails for obvious reasons).

That said, there's a "fast" path on AMD GPUs for shader code which only requires 24 bits of integer precision. Those are actually exactly enough for GameCube/Wii GPU emulation, however I'm not sure if their shader compiler properly optimizes our code to use that path.
Of course it could happen in a hotel! I agree completely. One reason we regulate hotels differently from single family housing is that this sort of thing is more likely to happen in a hotel.

This is why there isn't a hotel right in the middle of my single family block in a relatively dense neighborhood in SF. If someone wants to open up a hotel, they have to go through the process of obtaining the proper licenses and permits. Then don't get to just create an account on a website and hit the "create hotel" button.
Write tests.

Tests are a way to delegate trust. Instead of trusting the developer, you trust the code. It's a huge huge relief. If you can remove that burden from the shoulders of the maintainers, I guarantee you will be welcomed with open arms.

The side-effect is that you don't need to _add_ content/functionality, so the maintainers don't have to think about your new shiny feature. And if you fix something that was supposed to work in their own view of the project, then you start being noticed.
There's another insane thing I've recently heard about - that Intel intends to lock the OS to their own (new) chips, and you can't dual-boot or install another OS. If they do this, yes I expect them to say that "the OEM has the choice" to allow for dual-booting or whatever, but I bet you 90 percent of PCs will be locked to Windows, when this arrives on Windows machines:

https://plus.google.com/+GuidoStepken/posts/bD2VHB4LcEU
Heh, you've basically avoided fully answering this question twice, possibly because it wasn't properly phrased. Let me give it one more shot.

What was _your_ reasoning for losing a job over a completely semantic argument?

Did the illogicality of it all really irk you so much that you couldn't stand to change it? What do you mean by saying that you couldn't 'comprehend' why variables should be written in UK English? It seems pretty clear that they should be in UK English because that's what you were told to write them in... at your job...

If this happened as described then I would have loved to be a coworker watching this hilariously petty feud unfold.
agree, their choices are plain stupid.

fantasy island construction, but it might
make a good shed if you ditch the lvl's on grade
Its a double standard. Its allowed to assume the worst motives in male behavior, always gets a pass. Its forbidden to call out despicable behavior in females.

And now, it seems its forbidden to explain male behavior as anything but evil. Because they are 'predators' by default.

Resorting to these "PC rules of engagement" ends rational discussion. Reducing this to the choir preaching to one another.
given that the complaint is how inflexible the senior tech was on the issue, why were you just as inflexible?"

Software engineers are a stubborn bunch. It's kind of necessary given the nature of programming. However, if promoted to an architect, stubbornness is a real problem, with little to no upside.

Architects will usually stick mostly to design and not do a lot of debugging. So that stubbornness is not useful. But it sure can rear its ugly head when it comes to pointless conflicts like this one. And the problem is, all the junior developers are also stubborn.

Welcome to software development. What you want in in a software architect is primarily a diplomat. Not someone who is stubborn.
After reading the article I assumed that she didn't go to a lawyer because she believed there was nothing there that would merit a lawsuit. The fact that she didn't mention what her initial grievance was, leads me to believe it wasn't such a big deal as to rise to the level of a lawsuit.

Or possibly she just believes that going public like this is the best way to bring about change.
Made a handle: mistersanfrancisco

Honestly, don't really understand the use case here. What is the benefit that something like HN doesn't already provide? Everyone on HN knows my handle is thrush, so can comment at me, or dm me using any contact info I've provided. On anonyfish, I can't even use the service unless I have someone in mind. In fact, the only names I have to contact are the ones provided in this thread, and it's a pretty short list.

- angersock
- CaptainBananaPants

EDIT:

Omegle (http://www.omegle.com/) seems way better. Allows anonymity (or so it claims), can match people based on interests, and can even match people in the same university based on their .edu email address.
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This isn't about UEFI, I've had no issues with it. Primarily because I don't use Windows on it. Microsoft is up to it's old tricks here. Then again, try to run OSX on a Dell. I just wish all these guys would get their heads out of there asses.
There's a readable copy on http://planet.lisp.org/
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I thought boat as well, maybe it's a feature.
If you haven't contacted them yet, archive.org might be interested in hosting a copy.
FWIW, the linkedin interview process is eerily identical, same multi phone calls filtering, travel arrangements, meeting with 5 or 6 SREs for interviews, range of topics, trainee interviewers, friendly lunch, even the rejection process.
I didn't recall the toast overlap! That is quite a bit cooler than my personal “flying toasters“ memory. Thanks for posting that clip.
Quote from their tutorial: Whipping or clamming on a %weed simply ignores the sample and reproduces the example - as does bunting, of course. However, %weed remains quite useful. Clearly free thinking people.
Where did this happen? I'm curious.
Does it matter? Secret is quite popular in the Valley and among women in particular (right?) so it's not implausible that she had an account herself.
I wonder if we'll see public service ads about etiquette for Google Glass. ("Google Glass -- wear it in your home, not in the street.") That Penny Arcade cartoon did make a good point. What if you walked out your front door, and every single person on your street had a video camera hoisted onto their shoulder?

They're still showing reminders to turn off your cellphone when you're in a movie theatre. (In fact, they're also still sorting out all the ramifications of cellphones and drivers.) The technology arrives, and then our society fumbles around over how we'll use it...and often over many years. The best argument for the importance of Google Glass is that its potential is disturbing enough to provoke this conversation....
The 14 million Dogecoin (~$12,000) tweet:

https://twitter.com/savethemhood/status/445007386323853312
No, it's not. That's the joke about the "referendum". The options are: Split from Ukraine and become part of Russia - or just split from Ukraine.
Fair enough assessment. This problem applies mostly to people not in a relationship.

Is that helpful? Lots of people are not in a relationship. Most of them would like that not to be the case.

Also, you can't tell just when meeting people whether or not they're in a relationship, so it's a problem regardless.
omegle with persistant usernames?
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I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. The idea that a company (we're not talking politics) hires people based only on them being the best at what they do strikes me as sensible, and, no, not the 'status quo'. Here in Italy it's still "who you know" that counts in many cases, so the idea of trying to be more merit-based strikes me as positive, even if, no, no one should think they're 100% there.

I think it's also distracting from the issue at hand, which I think is very real and important.
This post really bothers me somehow.

Edit: Figured out why.

I don't understand why saying, "people will call me sexist for this" immediately validates your statement as "not intended to be sexist".

>"If you are male and a founder, one of your most valuable business resources is your wife. People will call me sexist for saying this, I expect, but women think socially with a level of complexity that I think most men never approach."

It's pretty clearly a sexist statement is it not? Am I confused about what makes a statement sexist?

Does that entire paragraph not just objectify the wife and establish differences between the sexes based on anecdotal experience?

>"If you are a man, chances are your wife does more to build the business than you ever do."

And this one doesn't even really make sense(as in where are you pulling this random ass statement from), not to mention stating it as, "If you are a founder, chances are your spouse does more to build the business than you ever do." feels literally 10x better to me(even if it still sounds false). Even the punctuation in that sentence makes the word man stand out when it could have easily been written without said punctuation.(well without the comma at least :-p ).

I realize this is super overly sensitive by the way. I normally wouldn't comment, I had already posted "this post really bothers me somehow" though, and felt an explanation was warranted. Definitely curious if anyone else felt the same.

Lastly, I'm a 21 year old white male; the only adversity I've ever faced is being called a ginger, so don't think this is coming from a longstanding feminist, just a human.
No financial incentive for turning off your machines. While there is a financial incentive to donate to spread the good will of Dogecoin.
It does away with the need for a separate matrix type.

When you are using numpy (most imported non stdlib library according to the pep!) and you have two arrays a and b, a * b is elementwise multiplication.

numpy currently has a matrix type. When a and b are both matrices, a * b is matrix multiplication.

The @ operator would do away with the need for a matrix type. Then, a * b is element wise and a @ b is matrix wise, and a and b are always the same type. This would simplify numpy and lots of things that are based on it.
On the other hand, the ruby community just seems to have more women in it than a lot of other programming communities. Many technical communities simply don't have as many opportunities for these sorts of situations to arise.

Other communities may also have less opportunities for truly great pro-women-in-coding projects to emerge. Last year the 3 people who started Rails Girls were honoured with Ruby Hero awards at Railsconf. There was near-universal support and genuinely excitement that something like this emerged within the community and had made such a strong impact in bringing women into the field.

http://railsgirls.com/
You oversell the government. Government regulations is ultimately just a promise backed by reputation. Some agencies follow through, some don't.
Both. Her career has taken her from cleaning, via marketing, to design and then front-end development. Quite a trajectory. (Not all at GitHub.)
Their bike looks interesting http://www.greyp-bikes.com/
No, the coal beds are far older and far thicker than the bit of end-cretaceaous soot that paper is talking about. The K-Pg boundary sediments are thin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cretaceous_Paleogene_clay_...

Your typical coal bed is quite a bit thicker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_mine_Wyoming.jpg
I disagree. Before I went back to academia, I had both job titles at various times. The whole point of having someone in one of these "architect" roles is that they're supposed to be there to exercise judgment they have demonstrated to you as a company to be reliable.

If there's a disagreement that can't be resolved between the two of them, the architect is the one whose stubbornness I value more. You have managers to be diplomats. You have technical leadership to say, "they pay me more than you because they trust my judgment more than yours. I've heard your argument; I found it not compelling enough to overrule my own experience and judgment, and the decision has been made."

Ideally you have more than one such person to help surface the cases where the architect was wrong, but if you're routinely treating them as though they're no more reliable than junior developers, why are you paying them so much?
Or Croatia, where it's produced.
The Google logo at the top appears misaligned for me. Also when I click it, it redirects to a 404. Nonetheless very cool archive.
Good. Tesla, you know where to focus next.
Oh_sigh's comment is long and makes a number of points, all of which could be verified. I'm inclined to believe it.
Sorry, when I implement language negotiation I interpret "en-US" as lack of preference.

The problem is that en-US is the default and I can't tell difference between user not setting language and user choosing en-US.

Add "en" or even "en-GB" to your Accept-Language header.
AirBnB happily collects fees from illegal customers, but can't very well pay out insurance to them. That would be a dstectable violation of the law.