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I have an Asus PQ321Q (4k @ 32") and it's what I've always wanted in a monitor. It fills my field of view and text is both legible and crisp at its native resolution. I can drive it with my retina MacBook Pro at 60Hz in Windows, and going back to my old Dell 30" monitors is painful. My only wish is that OS X would get its act together and support DisplayPort MST (and 60Hz). Windows on the same hardware in BootCamp does.

8k for the same price would be fine, but it's not needed at all.
Oh god, shut up already. You start the service and keep it going indefinitely then.
What? The sexist part of this isn't the Founder's Wife's behavior(that sounds standard crazy), it's everyone at Github's behavior.

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Let me preface this by saying we have only seen half the story at this point, so I wouldn't make absolute judgements yet and the below is based on the hypothetical situation in which the linked article is 100% factual.
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If my founder was female and her husband was coming into work regularly to harass employees(or even at work at all...?)he would be dealt with _fast_. It seems that in this case(if the situation was anything close to as described) the founders wife was sitting next to a programmer for long periods of time and it wasn't dealt with.

So yeah, while this does appear to be more of a, "damn that founder and his wife be crazy" situation, we shouldn't forget that societal perceptions of gender are always influencing how these situations are handled. Creating an environment where situations like this are handled differently between genders is definitely to be avoided.
It's sort of analogous to a quantum mechanical measurement - you don't know it was unwanted until you try it.

This is why it's better to make an early advance with some plausible deniability, so you can back off if there's no mutual interest (e.g. backing away: "Ha, just kidding ... what, you thought I wanted to date you for real? That's crazy talk ... we're co-workers, and it would never work out, we're so different.")
In what way? Something you don't like? How should it be improved?
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I mean, while technically true, the interoperability between the gendered nouns isn't complete.

Man / Woman

Boy / Girl

Guy / ???

Some people would say ??? = Gal, but most would find that very informal, especially when writing. The usual female equivalent to guy is girl, which is not referring to a younger age but merely a less formal sex descriptor.

Secondly, I STILL don't see how that changes the point any. If the guy is talking about girls, it makes sense, if he's talking about about women, it doesn't? I'm still lost there.
You are encouraged to have relationships within the community, but not necessarily at the same agency or within the same directorate.

In a division the size of GitHub (in terms of total employees), a relationship would be frowned upon and one of you would likely be transferred.
> keeping his wife in line.

I have never cringed so hard in my life.
More important than #1 or #2 (and probably easier to verify based on the tendency of version control systems to retain logs/history): he deleted a co-worker's code based on grudge.
He never so much as implied that he was talking about this specific instance.
Hey begriffs!

I'm a volunteer with OpenHatch, which egor83 mentions below -- a non-profit to help people get involved in open source. At our Open Source Comes to Campus events, we aim to find great projects to connect newcomers with. (More info on the event series here -- http://campus.openhatch.org/ )

Your question struck a chord with me, since I think your curriculum and the curriculum we use for our weekend-long events would have some overlap: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curri...

But the hard part is helping find great open source projects to contribute to.

To help with that, we wrote a guide for projects: http://opensource-events.com/

and are trying to reach out to project maintainers to help projects become "OpenHatch affiliated"; https://openhatch.org/wiki/OpenHatch_affiliated_projects -- maybe one great next step is to take this list of goals for projects, and work together in reaching out to projects to become OpenHatch Affiliated. Then you can have your students join the collection of people reaching out to those projects.

We find that having a specific person in the project care about the newcomer experience matters more than what we could find algorithmically. We still have the automated tool here: https://openhatch.org/search/ , in case you're interested.

Semi-sorry that this is a long comment, but I wanted to fill you in on a bunch of things, and I'm about to go to bed, so this has a higher chance than usual of being rambly.

OpenHatch-y people who care about outreach like this convene on the "Events" mailing list <http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events/> and I hope you'll join us there and say hi! And/or reply with your thoughts here.

I'd love to collaborate on this, as it's something that we're always interested in improving for our students, too. I'm based in SF, in case you want to meet up for coffee etc.

P.S. The OpenHatch web app is itself is an open source project, in Django & Javascript, and we are always welcoming contributors. (-: Also, oppia is the project that we're furthest-along with in terms of OpenHatch affiliation.
That's why I qualified it with "out of vengeance". There are many legitimate reasons why you would revert somebody else's code, but doing so out of interpersonal conflict is not one of them.

Note that I'm not commenting on the authenticity of the accusations laid out in this specific instance. My point is that messing with people's code because you don't get along with them - whether it happened here or elsewhere, and whether the perpetrator is male or female - is entirely unprofessional and unacceptable. It cannot be attributed to social awkwardness.

Beyond the specifics of this complaint, we cannot keep falling back on the "hurr we're all aspies" excuse to explain away our shitty conduct. It is not only inaccurate, it is damaging and infantilizing to tech workers in general.
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"3) hotels have insurance for when things go badly wrong"

Yes, and the reason they can buy insurance (or risk self-insuring) is that they have processes designed to limit the frequency and severity of these incidents.

I'm curious how much AirBnb pays for insurance. How much would you charge for an insurance policy if someone said they were going to let random strangers stay in their apartment, based on a few semi-anonymous comments on the internet?
No way in hell should it be the top comment. I can't find any victim blaming at all in a quick skim, so if it's here it's not by any means a plurality opinion. bitops is being even worse and reactionary than they claim HN to be.
> Their job is to protect the company.

As a general rule, if you are not paying for their time, they don't have primarily your best interest in mind. The interest of those that they work for could temporarily align with your interests, but don't rely on getting a signal when that changes.
You suffer from egotistical self-righteousness. Someday, perhaps, you will no longer need to assuage your ego with delusional palliatives of moral superiority. Today a child died after a long and painful battle with cancer. Another died suddenly in a car crash after a heated argument, leaving loved ones in agony and self-doubt. Are you sure this is your battle? Perhaps you are only sick of the burden of your own unexamined piety and belief the universe must obey your whims.
Updated it to follow the original better. You try the updated version here:

http://johan-nordberg.com/2048/

(or if you're in the future the js1k crew might have updated my submission already, in that case, forget you read this, it was perfect from the start, whoa i need a break, my brain is trying to find ways to write this comment using fewer characters, commas are nice, sleep)
"Dropped the ball" ?!?!!??!?!?!

This is so far beyond inappropriate. If it is even 10% true then there are serious organisational problems at that company.

I am gobsmacked that people are leaping to downplay these accusations, without knowing anything about it.
Well, not in the offensive sense of "bitch, you better behave or ima smack you", but at least something modern like "honey, when you talk to my employees and act really strange and intimidating around them, it makes things very difficult for me at work".

The wife's behavior seems to be the catalyst for nearly all the drama described here.
As she described it, there were at least 4 problems. 1. Its generally polite to only make advances on unattached people. 2. Going to her home to ask makes it awkward to say no. 3. Not leaving immediately compounded 2. 4. Subsequent behaviour was bad, thus showing bad faith all along.
socially inept

Good to see we're staying classy. Next time you might like to work in a zinger about autism, neckbeards and/or fedora ownership.
> Wait, what does the noun change?

Are you still a boy? Yes or no? How about a black man? Is he appropriately described as a "boy" or do you value your life?
>"Sorry, I wasn't interested in writing a paper with you, I wanted to touch your boobies." "We can totally work together, but lets be realistic - under other circumstances we'd totally be doing it."

>Or perhaps not continue, in the case that I want to make out and she wants me to prove theorems. Everyone's feelings might be a little hurt ("she doesn't think I'm hot?", "he doesn't think I'm smart?") but that can be solved by growing a pair.

I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say here, assuming it's not tongue-in-cheek. Your way of dealing with with the opposite sex in a professional setting is to:

1. Affirm an absence of a professional relationship
2. Presume sexual attraction, because that's just "realistic"
3. Implicitly suggest that working together is some sort of unbalanced arrangement, rather than just cooperation
4. Justify this all by the need to "grow a pair" (a great cross-gender term, btw)

Honestly, if I was one of a few men in an office and had to work with a bunch of women who operated under these assumptions, I might go tweeting about it.
Agree 100% - see edit.
Doesn't matter. Even if such a general product existed it would be easy for an insurer to decline payout in an instance such as this. I'm guessing AirBNB will be reluctant to pay out here for similar reasons, unless it emerges that the party organized have a history of this sort of thing and AirBNB knew about prior complaints at the time they brokered the booking.
It's very sad that she had to struggle through this sort of mental anguish. May you find brighter shores, Julie.
An interesting analogy, so I upvoted you. But I would argue that foreign language and math are in some sense opposites.

If I forget that the quadratic formula is the string of symbols "(-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a)", I can hack around that gap in any number of ways. Re-deriving the formula, or solving a specific quadratic equation by completing the square, factoring, or graphical/numerical methods would all be viable solutions.

If I forget the word for "take", or I don't remember the sequence of characters that turns the base word for "take" into "you (plural) took", there's no way I can reconstruct that information from other knowledge.

It's easy to learn things in math because the new things are a natural extension of what you learn.

Foreign languages are memorizing a lot of words and conjugations which don't fit together in any meaningful way.

For me, it seems like math is much easier to learn because the connectedness of everything means the entropy content of new material is very low, and any particular hole in your memory is of little consequence since you can easily fill it back in. But I can see where other people whose minds work differently might be scared by the nearly infinite rabbit hole you can get into in mathematics by starting somewhere and going related places, and might do much better with memorization of lists of words and conjugations.

I've also heard that foreign language gets a little easier and more connected once you have some critical mass of vocabulary and grammar, but I've never been able to stand the pain of the early stage long enough to get to that point.
Unwanted advance is ok in my opinion. Retaliation after rejection is not. To add complexity, proposing to someone in long term relationship does not make you look good.
A founders wife felt that a female employee puts the company at risk, so she try to control the employee to avoid harm to the company. This then turned into bullying, stalking, and unhealthy work environment.

This is why affirmative action and other "let treat women specially" crap is bad. It makes for a self-fulfilling prophesy of more sexism. The more we focus on "balancing the scales" rather than eliminating special treatment of women, the faster we can reach a place where everyone is treated the same regardless of gender.

The rest of the story is not about sexism. The guy who got rejected is the prime example why some companies (and government, and armies) have anti-fraternization policies. The positive and negative aspects of office romances are old, well established and equal by both genders. At best, it is gender equal sexism.

The dancing event however sound purely made up in her mind. As a species, we a interested in what others are interested in, and when people laugh or is having fun, it attracts attention. It has nothing to do with sexism.
Hey, shoot me an email and I'll add you to two very active communities on FB for teen programmers like yourselves :)
> I STILL don't see how that changes the point any.

Okay, fair enough. Nest time you see a black man over 20 and under 50 years of age, try calling him "boy". See how he reacts. But before you do, write that last will and testament you've been meaning to finish.
I poured myself a glass of wine and sat back to read these comments. This is exactly what I wanted to say myself. Facilitating breaking the law and the social compact of residential neighborhoods, that is their business model. It is because of this argument that I will be happy the day I see AirBnB go down in flames, though to be honest, I doubt I'll have that pleasure.

Edited to add: I would change "don't care" to "have consciously decided that limiting their business to places where it is legal, while feasible, would limit their profits and their relevancy in ways they do not want to do."
It isn't directly stated, but my take is that what set the founder's wife off in the first place must have been that she got wind, through her husband, that Horvath was unhappy with the "boys' club" culture. This account doesn't detail what happened early on in Horvath's time there, but makes it sound like there were numerous relatively minor incidents and a general pattern of behavior. Maybe Horvath said something to the founder, or to someone else who passed it on to the founder, he discussed with his wife, and she decided to make sure it wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's why sexism is a key part of this story.
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I've found that some of the folks I took to lunch interviews were reluctant to ask certain questions because despite assurances that the lunch has no feedback, they didn't quite believe me (natural cynicism, I suppose). It was a shame.
Please, just delete this comment. Yeah oh my god that sentence could be interpreted wrong. We don't need a tangent about it. The real meaning has absolutely nothing to do with subordination. It's a simple matter of keeping your friends/relatives/partners out of your job. They don't work there, they shouldn't be interfering.

Also, shame on anyone that upvotes such a derail just because they agree with the words.
No, I'm not familiar with the history of Google and Facebook, hence why I was asking for data regarding what proportion of their business was funded by government money. As in, a percentage.
> You presume too much about other people.

Really, do I?

I hope I never take a loan in my life, doesn't mean I can't comprehend that the vast majority of Americans with an income greater than 50K a year rely on loans for their cars/housing.

A bad credit score also affects future jobs/utilities/cellphone/etc...

>If 7 years is less than it'd take to pay back the loan without being broke the entire time, default is a viable option.

Explain this logic please.

>Not everyone is material.

Ok

>Many don't, many like to live within their means and shun such material excess or attempts to keep up with the Jone's. Many laugh at the ignorance of wasting money on shiny rocks and expensive habits and life events.

Read:Not everyone's material
> What's inherently wrong with an unwanted advance?

I don't want to be hit on at work. It is totally inappropriate and unprofessional. And if I were a minority in my office I would find it very hard to deal with.

From the article, he did not say "Want to get a drink some time?"

> [He] asked himself over to “talk,” and then professed his love, and “hesitated” when asked to leave.
To me, it seems like this sort of problem occurs more in start-ups because the boundaries between professional and personal lives are blurred.

I've heard similar stories from people working at Facebook as well. This sort of forced camaraderie to fit into the clique isn't healthy at all. When I worked at Microsoft, we had quite a few talented female engineers on our team. I don't think at any point their gender was brought into question or discussion. We'd just solve problems, write code and have the occasional team lunch where we'd talk about the latest software paradigms, competition etc and go home.
That explains the hoola-hooping incident I suppose.
> Why are you making excuses for these people?

Probably because there are ample reasons why someone may revert someone's code for legitimate reasons.
Without trying to start a debate, it's well-established that women talk about personal things more readily than men do, and at greater length, and express emotion more readily than men do. This real difference between men and women is often described as a character flaw in men by women, and in women by men (if that wasn't too hard to unravel).
I think the host in that case owned their appartment.
Average student debt load for college graduates with a BA/BS is approximately $25,000, so the math works out perfectly.
503.

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Edit:

Back as me, angersock. Message me if you're feeling like a chat now in the wee hours of the morning.

EDIT2:

Man, I really wish we could have this update in real time... :|

EDIT3:

So far, two people with racist names, one person quoting batman. I'm not impressed so far with the level of discourse.

EDIT4:

Alright, we seem to be doing better.
> 1. the default quality value is being parsed wrong, and English is being assigned q=0 instead of q=1 or

> 2. en-US doesn't match en and is being bypassed

Or: 3. They are simply checking your IP address and not looking at your header at all.
Right or wrong, the story has blown up and the problem actors have to be dealt with. There is too much at stake.

That the wife, a non-employee, was in a position to be a main character in this story seems to be a blunder by the founder. If I'm an employee there, would my wife be able to put herself in that same situation? Probably not.

Would the wife make a good employee? Would she get hired to be in a position of such influence? Probably not.

Yet, there she was and here is our story.

Personally, I have been in relationships which were okay in my personal life, but I would have been horrified if my significant other would have anything to do with my business other than attend outside work functions with me always present. Bull in a china shop.
It's not necessarily a loophole given that her credit score is dinged. It's like fouling in soccer, she broke the rules got a yellow card, was it worth it?
There seem to be a lot of "it's not the organization, just some bad apples", but if individuals do shitty things and the organization (HR, the other founders, colleagues) can't do much about it, it's a company culture problem.

The simple fact that a non employee (founder's wife) can boast influence on the decisions, stay at will on the work floor and just gets moved to another floor after proven problematic behavior feels horribly fucked up from an organizational perspective.

And then every other aspects of this story are so shitty, and these happen so much in companies where indivuals wield so much more power that what their job title says.

Of course, it's assuming the fact of the article are true.
I'm a huge burger lover, but 500 burgers can't be healthy for you unless you spread this out over several years.
> I've certainly never heard feminists advocate greater freedom for men to clearly say "sorry, you aren't smart enough for me to work with. But damn girl what an ass - wanna go out?"

I hope they wouldn't advocate for that. I wouldn't even consider that flattering or honest if a woman were to say that to me. It would just be condescending.
I think that is one benefit remote offices have is there are less chances for events like this to take place.

Being confined to one space everyday with people for years will lead to dust ups, cultural clashes, personality clashes etc. How they are handled is important, it doesn't appear it was handled correctly here.

High school politics are in effect at every office and I see this as more that than sexism. We live free but the office can turn into a strange authoritarian empire with banana republic like alliances. Growth at companies can also cause cultural clashes and problems similar to this with people getting wronged. Disappointed to hear it also goes on in github.
You know some of us don't care about having retina density display. I just want tons of big ass text. I'm mid thirties and still have very good vision but I'd rather have super easy reading of large text on a gigantic ass monitor with tons of pixels than super crisp anti-aliased fonts on my normal sized monitor. Hell, i've considered one of the 50" tvs for my desktop and just standing slightly further back.

In general with these monitors I can stand back in a more comfortable position than lean forward like I did when I was 24 with my ~2500x???? 30" crt I had back then. Sure I could get tons of stuff on that screen but I can get more on a bigger one here.

In fact I remember what I really wanted back then was that same resolution on my 12' projector image. That would have been amazing.
Well according to some graphs I found on Google, malaria mortality rates have reduced significantly in the past few decades [1], as have AIDS death rates [2]. Diabetes rates and mortality have however been continuously increasing.

1. http://www.umich.edu/~csfound/545/1995/land05.jpg

2. http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/images/colorbox...
Motion blur is an artifact caused by fast motion recoreded with a slow shutter speed on camera equipment or a full screen shader effect found in modern games. A monitor or tv will not be the cause of motion blur. Whilst your correct that there is a perceiveable difference between 30 and 60 hz whilst gaming it would be negligible and the most likely cause of the "this isn't right" feeling due to latency.
All sides hopefully will state their case publicly, unfair to judge until all sides are heard but this timeline is troubling.
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