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The founder’s wife discussed in the media reports has never had hiring or firing power at GitHub and will no longer be permitted in the office.

The fact that she was married to someone who did have hiring or firing power and WAS permitted in the office means she DID have (defacto) hiring or firing power.

I wonder what the ramifications are, legal-wise? Obviously the founder could be sued, especially if he was allowing someone who wasn't an employee to harass. I suspect A16Z will waste no time putting distance between themselves and the (allegedly) guilty founder. In the end, this wife's jealousy could end up costing her family 10s or 100s of millions of dollars.
I would like to add a couple of filters to the OP (for personal use): The project is mainly in JavaScript, preferably uses Node.js
Feminism is a cultural Marxist ideology which tries to explain the world through the lens of class conflict - an overclass (male) which is oppressive and therefore evil and an underclass (female) which is oppressed and therefore good. This is why it is not considered oppression when men die young or go to prison more often than women and it is not a problem when men are underrepresented in higher ed - men can't be oppressed by definition.

In a perfectly fair world, men and women would behave differently due to comparative advantage and specialization based on sexual dimorphism. Feminism, in seeking an equal world, denies reality and quite a bit of science. Also, like most Marx-derived groups, feminists are humorless killjoys
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What is wrong with hula hoops?

I have (adult) friends who dance for fun, play with hula hoops, play with poi balls and lots of other things. There is nothing wrong with these things.

No clear management of any kind is a big problem, but the rest of what you say is, as you put it, pretty ridiculous.
People make mistakes, but as far as it appears, this was a colossal failure of leadership.
The farmers' suicides in India caused by GMO has been debunked.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/05/gmcrops-i...
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So... you don't see sexism in the way she behaved?
Yeah... that's one of the things I was referencing. I wouldn't consider 0.5 BTC a whole lot for something that got that much attention. I made more off of a little domain search tool I posted on here that only got 67 points.
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No but the apology says a lot...
> This narrows down the choices: the "founder" who is the cause for all this drama is either PJ Hyett or Tom Preston-Werner.

Julie Horvath follows both Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett on Twitter, but not Tom Preston-Werner (at least as shown by Twitter's "Followed by people you follow" banner). Of course, this could just be a coincidence.
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FWIW, without an easy way to browse the code online or report bugs, I'd currently consider that a poor experience compared to GitHub. Of course that would no longer apply if more functionality gets added...
Agreed. CentOS 3 will be supported forever, b*tches.
Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

This is a terrible assumption to make. This line is basically saying "we're taking this seriously", because if they said anything less, then regardless of the truth of the matter, they'd be skinned alive.

Ironically, it's knee-jerk black and white comments like yours that create this kind of press release. You've already convicted them in your mind and are looking for any excuse to execute them. I mean fuck, you expect an HR person to come on board and within a month "not have let any of that get as far as it got"? Are they supposed to have invented a time-machine?
Another plane like MH370 vanished with GPS tracking
I also have never heard of a founder being put on leave. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say it is an admission that the allegations are true. But it is certainly an admission that they have merit and are not so far from reality as to be easily dismissed. I am pleased that Github is taking this seriously, and very sorry for Julie's experiences. This should never happen to anyone in our industry.
OpenBSD doesn't support UEFI, and will never boot from it.

UEFI (better called Restricted Boot) takes away the user's freedom.

I want to own my hardware. I don't want the manufacturer to own it. I don't truly own it unless I can run whatever software I want on it. I don't own it if it prevents me from doing anything I want to do -- no matter what that is.
It looks like HR was involved in this case and the issue with the wife seemed have been raised. That should have been an immediate red flag to this "experienced" individual before they even got down to business of addressing any other concerns. It was a major screw-up.
I would venture to guess Tom. I certainly don't know for sure, but he has a wife (don't know about PJ's marital status) who is herself a founder/CEO and wouldn't raise eyebrows spending time working at the Github offices.
I would have to assume that at some point the cost of two dozen countries looking in between every nook and cranny of 1/3 of the planet exceeds the cost of a two-way position updating system, not to mention the value of being able to avoid even one disaster like this and whatever potential related disasters we have yet to see.
"I would like to personally apologize to Julie" certainly sounds like an admission that the company wronged her.

And don't lawyers frequently tell their clients not to apologize (even if they feel they ought to), since that may be construed as an admission of wrongdoing in a subsequent legal proceeding?
> Similarly: buying Tesla (TSLA) stock when it was cheap because you couldn't afford the Model S....and now you can afford it.

This is how I'm funding my Model S purchase.
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> ... putting these people on leave seems to be too nice. It's clear that these two people obey ethics that are in direct oppposition to the healthy growth of the company. Surely they don't want them back?

Man, talk about CSI justice. Sadly, I think this episode is a two-parter. You'll have to tune in next time, sorry!
I'm similarly blown away that this comment is at the top. What a dangerous conclusion to jump to.
> Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

It reads more like an admission that at least some of what Julie said is not immediately known to be untrue and that they have to check it out. Hence the, y'know, investigation.
IANAC [1], but here's my Wikipedia-level 2 cents:

(Warning: leaky metaphors ahead!)

We stayed ahead of the primordial gravitational waves [2] for so long because the expanding universe went through an "inflation" period: in a very short time - immediately after the Big Bang - spacetime expanded at a rate that was many orders of magnitude too big for phenomena like light or gravitational waves to catch up to.

It leveled off quickly to a more gentle rate of expansion [3], but in the meantime the universe has gotten so big that even its current age of 13.7 billion years isn't enough for us to be able to observe every object. Many objects are so far from us that it will take much more than 13.7 billion years for their photons to reach us. And no matter how distant the objects that will 'come into view' in the future, the light that appears the most distant to us will always be the cosmic microwave background radiation.

So here we find ourselves, Earthly observers, sitting in the center of a sphere with an apparent radius of 13.7 billion lightyears - called the observable universe - at the edge of which we can see the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang. No one knows how much bigger the total universe is w.r.t. to the observable universe. It's hard to find out because we have no causal relation to anything outside the observable universe. A safe bet IMHO (given past experiences in the history of cosmology) is this: the entire universe is way, way, way bigger than the observable universe.

[1] I Am Not A Cosmologist

[2] and also of the cosmic microwave background radiation

[3] sub light speed, at least for distances within the observable universe
I don't see the sexism here. If you changed her sex to male, people would be just as negative on him/her. A spouse who is not an employee, swinging their proverbial dick around (no pun intended), meddling with the company's employees, and harassing them?

I think people would hate the spouse just the same if it were a man, so I disagree with you on this.
Sacrifice does not buy one a free pass to treat people like shit. Condescension is not an award. (otherwise I agree with your sentiment and post)
Indeed, but it takes time to clean up a culture (if it's at all possible). This response suggests that their HR hire is doing his or her job well, at least now.
I'm guessing that at the time (whilst the issue was still internal) they didn't think what was happening was a big enough deal. As a result they're now having to perform damage control.
Also, I don't get the impression Chromebooks are much easier to install your own linux distro on.
Julie was banging a co-worker so why is she acting surprised when drama happened ? I don't get it.
The one who sabotaged her work based on personal pettiness.
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That makes total sense. Somehow I forgot about him, and assumed it was her partner. I was like "OK, i guess they have to boot everyone who was even remotely involved until they can sort it all out and decide on next steps."

But no, your guess makes a lot more sense.
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xbmc + xbmctorrent plugin is way better than either popcorn app.
What was up with Pythagoras?
Is gang rape really only one step removed from hula hooping or is that the only meaning of "unsafe" behaviour you can think of? Having a safe work environment can simply mean being treated professionally and equally. I mean, sexual harassment has a wide scope from "she knew she wanted it," to "it was uncomfortable or rude," and unsafe should cover all of the above. Really, the unsafe refers to a perception that safety features aren't present -- in this case that there was no other avenue to report or discourage this behaviour before it became a cultural norm. Is it wrong or harmful? Maybe not physically, but obviously emotionally, to at least one person. This is why having a neutral second opinion and ... process, can sometimes be a good thing. At the very least, it provides distance to look at things more objectively.
> If that is indeed the case I think it would be tremendously important to fix that.

You can't "fix" people to stop them from talking out of their ass.
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It's completely OK to have such a rule, your behavior is much more disturbing. It doesn't really matter if you use UK or US english, but you should use one and that must be pressured from above. If project standard is UK you use UK, not what you like.

Quitting because of that is just stupid. In my company CS rules are almost opposite to my preferences (and to common style for that language community of course). I use every opportunity to grumble about it, but it would be much worse if everybody (me included) shaped the code based on personal preferences, not style guide.
To put it another way, there may be two sides (or N sides), but some sides' perspective are often more worthy than others. Not to Godwin the thread, but, yeah. Both sides' perspectives are not always equally valid. (I dutifully acknowledge that the offenses are not the same magnitude, and all the caveats that go with referencing The Big G.)
It's disgusting that the courts--especially the Supreme Court --in this country constantly choose to side against the interests of the people it claims to serve, against all reason. Over and over again in the last sixty years, from civil rights to patent law to copyright law, decisions have been inexplicably targeted at making life worse in exchange for corporate and political profit. I don't blame corporations like Monsanto as much, since they are expected to act towards their monetary and financial interests. Yet the interpretation of law consistently fails even the most rudimentary test of logic. If I didn't know any better (and I don't), I'd say the court's justices are gaining either financially or otherwise from the parties the rule for.
Asus does not support disabling Restricted Boot for their model 1015E.
Bigloo Scheme (among others) generates C code. I've used it on a few projects to process, reformat, and visualize some meteorology data and was pleased with the result. I know some other people that used it for other scientific application development (including 3D graphics) and it performed beautifully. One of my friends used Chicken Scheme to write some interesting web scraping tools. It also has the ability to compile to C.
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> I'm surprised nobody sees sexism in the way that the wife has been stigmatized.

Y'know, I hope I'm wrong, but there's a good chance you're surprised because you don't know what sexism is. An awful lot of men seem to have this notion that "sexism" means "something happened to a woman that she didn't like." It doesn't. Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender, if you'll forgive me quoting Wikipedia. Calling out a woman for doing something shitty is not sexist. Saying "well, what can you expect from a woman" would be.
I don't recall anyone having a spouse when I was playing in schoolyards.
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Obviously - so thanks for being defeatist.
The feds tore apart his life. They forced his girlfriend to speak out against him. He couldn't trust anyone, his coworkers, the school. They were out for blood, his blood. You want a felony on your record? Say goodbye to financial aid, and look forward to explaining it to everyone that runs a background check on you - if you even get the chance to explain.
As a rule of thumb, the typical stick-framed Midwestern home (so, 3-4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, vinyl siding, asphalt shingled roof, drywall interior, mid-range cabinets/flooring/trim) will typically cost around $100 per finished square foot.

Of that number, roughly 1/3 of it is for framing the shell. The rest is all plumbing/HVAC/electrical/trim.

There's a lot of easily-invalidated assumptions built into that number, so take it with a grain of salt.
> Then the developers get angry and throw out the people in charge.

I'm talking about small everyday people, not rich Silicon Valley rock stars bitching to their Twitter followers to trigger a social wave of justice.

> Users don't know enough about computers to distrust malicious software.

I'm not arguing against secure defaults, I'm arguing against removing the option for power users to use their computing devices as they see fit.
If you look into them, common sense will tell you Greenpeace and the modern environment movement in general are full of shit. So you don't need to take the word of internet commenters on that one.
Maybe, but it could also be calculated: "If we don't apologize, the mob will cry for our blood even more, and we obviously can't do a non-apology apology, because they'd hate us for that too. Just be humble and supplicate to them so we can keep our IPO--I mean reputation intact."
My (and others') packages being stolen is not my opinion--it is a verifiable fact.
There are always two sides. But people who use "two sides" tend to overlook that one of them may very well be "Yeah, we failed hard on this one".
Let's just make sure not to call the wife bossy.
Thanks, Mari0 works perfectly.

http://i.imgur.com/LWKpLz1.png
That's ok, as long as you seed for enough time until you have at least 1:1 ratio which is what the developers should worry about: how do you keep seeding even if the movie is over?
Fair enough about the HR person (who probably acted in fear for their job), but how often does the co-founder of a very successful start up get put on leave within 24 hours of an article published on Techcrunch?
I do appreciate your effort. Unfortunately I only have like half an hour a day to devote to this kind of stuff. So I have to keep this short.

> the size of the LIF is much, much smaller than the predicted distance, extrapolated from within the LIF, that it will take for the horizon to catch the probe.

I'm discussing the simple picture in the blog and its caption. Not a more complex puzzle, or Laws J & K. The cloud of particles is demanded by GR to be splitting in two along the horizon, when all the particles above the horizon are let to be escaping. This "splitting in two" contradicts the equivalence principle and occurs in every arbitrarily short period of time in the life of frame X. There is always an arbitrarily short duration of time available in any LIF, so frame X's size in spacetime is not an issue.

When you talk about "global coordinate chart" and a "lightlike curve" you're being unnecessarily complex, I say. We're talking a simple inertial frame of special relativity here, plus one basic prediction of GR as it relates to the horizon, namely that everything below the horizon moves inexorably inward toward the singularity. This discussion can be much simpler than you're making it. After reading your explanation I shouldn't be left wondering which sentence in the blog is incorrect or doesn't follow from its premises.

The cloud splits in two and that's a "bug". To prove the blog wrong you need to show that the cloud doesn't split in two, that all the cloud's particles can in fact move outward in formation. Can you do that in a way that clearly shows which sentence in the picture's caption is incorrect?
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And yet they say "Current Google Share Price : 495.01 USD".

They're not even consistent.
>because if they said anything less, then regardless of the truth of the matter, they'd be skinned alive.

I am amazed at how many people don't recognize this. Even if the entire thing were completely made up, this would still be the only acceptable response github could give.
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment expressed by the introduction to this article. We really do seem to have got stuck in a deep rut, where we can make progress laterally but can't seem to come up with anything truly novel to move the state of the art dramatically forward.

I have some issues with the style of the rest of the article, though. It consists of a lot of very interesting and thesis-supporting facts, but they are couched in a lot of arbitrary statements ("only 8 software innovations...") of dubious facts that don't seem very well supported on their own.

I mean, yes, you say there are eight and then list eight, but I am not left convinced that those are the ONLY eight. You say that all languages (aside from a bit of backpedaling in the footnotes) are descended from FORTRAN, which is a pretty bold claim to make, but the justification you provide seems to reduce "descended from" to a mostly meaningless "probably borrowed some ideas from" that is hard to base any value judgement on. Surely not all ideas in FORTRAN were misguided!

The whole rest of the article continues in this pattern, distracting from basically good points with brash and sometimes bizarre (from my perspective, at least) statements that seem to belie a wide but very spotty understanding of computing history. Granted, it's been chaotic and not terribly well-documented, but that ought to give one second thoughts about writing with such a definitive and dismissive tone.

I want to repeat that I agree with the general premise, and I think that it's unfortunate that I came away from the article feeling like I disagreed with it due to the problems noted above. I had to re-read the intro to remember the intent. Hopefully this criticism is accepted in the constructive sense in which I offer it, as I think that there's some great insight there that could be more effectively conveyed.
CEO will hold more power than CTO. It just does, no matter how informal it is at that stage. It is the traditional leader's name. If that person makes it a routine of calling him/herself CEO, they will appear more powerful than you, even if you have equal equity and you write "CTO" on all of your stuff and in every conversation.
Nor should they.

Don't try to abstract away the experience of going to a live concert. That's the whole point.
> For me, two adult individual can do whatever the hack they want to do, if it is legal and they are both consent of doing it.

You may think so, but people are not allowed to have 'fun' however they please in an office environment, nor is 'Is this illegal' the end-all, be-all of being an incredibly toxic work environment.
1. All computers running Windows XP will be vulnerable after April 8th

2. Everyone has known about this for more than 6 years.

3. Microsoft already extended it once.

4. To the person who said this: "For all the money we collectively give Microsoft, they were not too receptive to extending the deadline. There was some grumbling that they were not willing to extend." ... A) See 1 through 3. B) You suck at your job.
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If what she said is half true, the engineer in question should absolutely be fired. I would fire him.
It's possible for Julie to be oversensitive about such matters, and still have the abuse and sexism claimed to be rampant at Github be absolutely true.

The fact that she might not be perfect does not therefore invalidate her story about everything else.
Very good point in the case of Snowden, but this doesn't change that Gates pushed against breaking the law.
PJ Hyett has been married for many years: https://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/89064336454201346
Needy customers. That's the problem. Some of your customers literally just want to chat. They want to feel close to your brand and give feedback directly to the CEO. It's problematic. Easier to keep them at arm's length with email.
Someone did an article on HN recently where they were taking back their branding back from various social media outlets. They essentially just added some redirect urls. So domain.dom/plus went to their Google+ page, and domain.dom/fb went to their Facebook page. These URLs would be on their business cards or any place they would put up a link.

Similarly, with something like github, you can still continue to use your domain. You check your web page into a branch "gh-pages" but people access that by visiting projectname.dotname.dom and won't really know they're hitting github (unless they're checking dns records). You can put your `git clone` instructions on your pages, as well as direct download links for releases.

The only thing you might direct people to github for would be issues, but all the description, documents, download links, etc would be under your domain.
Yes: https://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/89064336454201346