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> I would never attempt to deny that there is a systemic patriarchy in place

I would.

There are a couple of counter-arguments. One, claiming that there is a "patriarchy" sounds a whole lot like a conspiracy theory. Replace "patriarchy" with "zionism" in typical statements to see what I mean. This makes me very wary of any hand-waving claims of "patriarchy".

The second is this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15491274

Women have in-group preference. Men don't. The assumption that there's a "patriarchal" preference by white men for other white men is projection. What do I mean by this?

Most people believe that other people think like them. "I'm a reasonable person. So if I did X, it would be for reason Y. Therefore if other people are doing X, it's for reason Y."

i.e. Rich white men prefer to support other rich white men.

That just isn't true. There is no evidence for "in-group" preference of men. There is plenty of evidence that no such preference exists.

There is evidence for preference of power. If you can make Bill Gates money, he'll help you so long as it's in his favor. The second you can't help him, he'll cut your throat (metaphorically speaking), and leave you for dead.

The men who have such behavior tend to get ahead of people who aren't that ruthless. This isn't "in-group men" preference. It's cut-throat back-stabbing competition.

> Making her displeasure known to conference organisers was absolutely within her remit but turning herself into some sort of 'crusader' for a vague idea of 'rights and justice' in a public forum is problematic for me.

I agree. That's the crux of the matter. I suspect if she had only complained to the conference organizers, none of the rest would have happened. But she was clearly operating outside of the bounds of the conference herself.

And from the other links posted here, that wasn't the first time she did something like this.
Maybe some day our driver licenses will be tokens on our phones. Insurance cards too. And maybe the car's registration will be a token on the car's dashboard.

So when you're pulled over the cop will just scan your devices. Win win! /s
Look for an incubator. Here, we have a large incubator specifically for technology startups. They have a website that lists all of the companies that are members and the jobs they are currently looking to fill.
Having all fancy Javascript enabled I found the navigation of the page cumbersome. The only way I found to progress to the next slide (of what is essentially a fancy slideshow) was to click on the three lines to open the menu and then click on the next menu item. That's not fun at all.
Karma's a bitch. Backwards male-hating feminist gets what she dishes out, and she cannot take it "like a man". Pity.
I don't trust Facebook or the random app/website asking for my data.

I'd rather not be someone's product.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2488440/search/mozilla-...
Is the responsive part of the site garbage for anyone else?
You're right, but the bike needs a max speed of something like 100 in order to hit 70 within a second or so. If 70 is the max, it will take forever to get there. Headroom. I never want to actually go 100, let alone 70.
I think that for the people that do use facebook this actually does have a decent value. Useless for people that are actually worried about their privacy though.
> I can't imagine what it is like to crave for a cigeratte. If our industry were full of nonsmokers, would we then have to go out of our way to accommodate people who want to smoke in their offices?

In this case, the metaphor would be more accurate the other way around. If the industry were full of smokers, would it make sense for them to accommodate people who don't smoke? We definitely should, and we do, because secondhand smoke is damaging.

The person in the minority is the one that was being hurt. Restraining yourself from telling silly jokes won't hurt anyone; feeling threatened in an unsafe environment does, and this is how it is perceived an industry where women are in the minority. "Grow a thicker skin" is a legitimate reply up to the point where you accept them to tell you: "Right, but tone down your behavior". You can't expect the other party to be the only one to agree with everything you do, if you are not willing to concede something as well in return.

You can and should be able to set up as many private venues where you can behave in as rude ways as you want, as long as all people participating in them have accepted those norms. But at public places, open for all, it's good to know that there are expectations of polite behavior, and people should respect those limits.

> The joke wasn't directed at her. Her response was directed at him.

Quite right. That's why her behavior is not acceptable either, because the expected conduct between adults is to handle personal grievances in private. But the way she handled the situation doesn't make her concerns invalid, and we should not conflate the first with the second.
I do not in any way condone what happened to her (It's sad I even have to say that), that said, I feel equal sympathy for her and she does for Hank which appears to be none. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons that what she did was wrong, I'm just going to call it like I see it: she fucked over Hank and didn't care the price he paid but then felt it was unfair when she was made to pay the same price.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You have the right to free speech and your employer, peers, friends, etc have the right to react to your use of "free speech" it is not some suit of armor you can protect yourself in. I think (In terms of her losing her job NOT the backlash, death threats, etc) she got exactly what she deserved and her statement "if I had kids, I wouldn't tell jokes" (Really.... WTF) only confirms and cements my opinion. No remorse at all for her actions and "poor old me" routine stinks of BS.

None of this is meant to remove guilt from the company that fired Hank, that was a BS move on their part and they should have stood behind him or at least spent some time looking into it instead of firing him on the spot. That said, SendGrid was well within their rights, and I'd argue morally obligated, to kick her ass to curb. You can't fuck over developers (and don't think that the greater development community didn't see this as a near-personal attack on them as a whole) and expect to keep your job as developer evangelist. I know I'd never want to work with her or watch her speak at a conference.
It is now about 4 years that I signed a payment receipt last time. In Europe. What card was you using? Even the AmEx cards have a chip now.
This was happening to me as well. I was trying to get an email from a known individual, but after being sent 4-7 emails, none came through.
I checked the email service which the emails were being sent to and they were no longer there (forwarded already), and also not in my gmail inbox yet.

They're still no where to be found, might be in limbo, but email forwarding definitely took a hit yesterday
I look forward to the time when Go adds generics and all the people who told me that you don't need generics in Go start telling me how awesome and super-duper useful generics are.
That's true, but it also doesn't mean BASIC wasn't an accomplishment!
and to have someone sitting in earshot comfortably make jokes that make me feel threatened

I can understand angry, but not threatened. None of the comments I heard come close to a threat and everyone involved admits they weren't directed at her.
First, I very much agree with your point. The demo results could easily be randomly assigned per view instead and Bitlean should fix this.

But, let's not be too harsh. For much of the tech industry, 1/4 women is good representation. It is positive that they made some effort towards inclusiveness and diversity (at least in their marketing material).
People must be responsible for their actions. Without that society breaks down. Today the Internet is an amplifier of consequences, good or bad. A professional working in the industry isn't a professional if they are not in tune with this effect to guide their decision making.

It used to be:

"Don't write anything you would not want the world to see."

For many years this has expanded to:

"Don't write, say or do anything you would not want the world to see."

The side of the argument is inconsequential. Both parties chose to ignore the potential consequences of the Internet as an amplifier. We are not talking about grandma and grandpa here. We are talking about two Internet pro's.

Were the consequences fair?

Who knows? That is the nature of a positive feedback amplifier: It might not stop until something is destroyed. Ignoring it's existence could have one suffer disproportionate consequences. Don't ignore it.
You claim it's histrionics, but it might be real things she is feeling. What if she really felt this way?

Her feelings being real don't make them acceptable or reasonable. Take the below example.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/19/male-student-banned-from-c...
>These laments are a bit overblown.

Not to mention, a lot of these studios would have ended up bought by someone because, at the end of the day, they are investments geared and designed for an acquisition. Its not like EA came in there with machine guns and enslaved everyone. The point of these businesses is to make money first and make games second. There is no utopia where they aren't seeking buyers and a big paycheck. Its a rare shop that turns down "fuck you" money. Even indie-cred neckbeard hero Notch sold out to the "evil" MS empire.

Enjoy your games, but don't expect everything to last. I kinda like the way the system works in some ways. It means the talented and the risk-takers who do a good job get paid. It also means there's going to be new blood soon in the space the Sims and Sim City lived in. The same way the zombie and world-builder genre, which was just expensive and milquetoast AAA titles, is now the darling of smaller and indie shops with excellent results. I'd love a new company to take on the Sims market. The Sims product is good but the lack of a real co-op or multiplayer is inexcusable. The managerial and creative fuck ups at Maxis are legendary at this point. Its best to put this cow out to pasture. Shame the entire Maxis team didn't fold. This not the Maxis of old and whoever is left over now failed to contemporize long ago.
Nah. Probably better to just send your invite to me. ;)
Of course Harry Potter would be Python - He's a parselmouth!
It has been a long time since I bought a hardcopy programming book. Alternate forms of documentation and a Safari subscription have replaced these semi-frequent purchases. And although I can't argue against the practicality and economics of this new way, it certainly evokes none of the excitement of getting the new language book home, cracking the binding, and spending the rest of the evening curled up on the couch.

Go has been my most used new language and the timing of this book is good. I'm looking forward to adding it to my (real) bookshelf.
I just want to say that, although I don't fully agree with you, I really appreciate you chiming in with your thoughts on this. It's given me plenty to think about.

In the event that you are right, and she's really being sincere, then I hope she gets help to work through her issues. Especially over the parts about her childhood at the end.

> I think it's because she is viewing Hank as an oblivious part of a system which puts her at a significant disadvantage

Yes, but the "system" isn't in any way Hank's doing, nor Hank's fault, and is no justification for a dismissal of empathy.
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Have you tried go gen? It looks clearer to me than some of the hoops I've seen set up, jumped through, etc for heavy STL generics: http://clipperhouse.github.io/gen/

It just creates the code for you, then you commit it. Easy enough.
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What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural language in the world that could be said to be the Scheme of natural languages?
Oh. So she's actually racist. Great.
Best part of Spore is the cellular life stage. The farther along you get in the game the less enjoyable it gets.
Aren't we granting too much power to minorities?

Why should we be the ones who have the ability to grant power?
Agreed. I don't know how many times where I've had a very specific Google query return a helpful discussion on Metafilter from many years ago. Here's hoping they can keep the lights on.
Obviously good email (deep in a conversation) being declared "spam" has been a problem with my business for some time also.

I figure Google takes all email in a 2 step process (either intentional or accidental)

1: get a good fraction of the world on GMail

2: intermittently declare any non GMail mail spam (
greatly lowering the utility of non GMail).

This isn't about any mass mailings or even mailing lists. This is about directly replies from me to people I have been emailing for months all of a sudden ending up in their Google Spam folder. Combining that with Google's good reputation and it comes off like "my dog ate my reply" (even though the mail is in their spam folder, the point is it is easier to convince a Yahoo user something is wrong on their side, than to convince GMail user something is wrong on their side). And it isn't that I all of a sudden decide to include a lot of links, attachments or zip files.

And for the "I don't like conspiracy theories crowds." From the first this said "either intentional or accidental". It would be enough for this to be a fortuitous bug for the effect to hurt non GMail users disproportionately. Google could even fail a fraction of GMail and the overall image would still be "email is flakey in general, we'd better all switch to the service provider for safety."

I known spam filtering is hard- but GMail has some really strong signals that I would think could dominate here (like incoming email contains text unique to a recent outgoing email). Or email is from a sender you clearly have a relation with.

(note: "Google takes all email" is a possible outcome, not a plot/conspiracy. A bug like this on a system of this size can have a big impact. Of course that does mean somebody running a system of this size might have an extra responsibility to look out for such things.)
> But I've been trying very hard to imagine what it's like to go to PyCon as a minority, and to have someone sitting in earshot comfortably make jokes that make me feel threatened all while watching a talk on inclusiveness.

There are tons of cases where people have been made to feel uncomfortable by their peers in the software industry because of their race and/or sex. Racism and sexism are definitely problems in the software industry.

But this specific case is just ridiculous. Look at the actual jokes involved. "That hardware has a really big dongle"? "I would fork that guy's repo"? The butts of these jokes were a fictional piece of hardware and a (probably white) male, respectively. There's nothing in those jokes that could logically lead a woman to believe that the jokers would cause her harm. Just because a joke is sexual doesn't mean it's sexist. This wasn't even an overreaction: it was a reaction to something that wasn't sexist.

Internet feminism is a particularly poor representation of modern feminist thought. Most modern feminists say that women are just as sexual as men, and that women don't express their sexuality because of social pressure--an assertion which is gaining some scientific evidence. Ironically, Adria is enforcing a stereotype that anything sexual is anti-female. From that perspective, Adria's actions are the sexist ones, not Hank's.

I agree that both Adria and Hank got worse than they deserved in this situation. Certainly losing their jobs is too much, and nobody should ever have to experience death threats. But I find it a lot harder to be sympathetic to Adria in this case. If I were her employer I'd definitely be having doubts. If my engineers are making sexist comments I will fire them, but someone who accuses people of making sexist comments when they aren't making sexist comments is a liability.

Of course, there may be more to this story we don't know. Maybe Hank made some other jokes that were actually sexist.
What wasn't cool? Making a joke about a human body part to a friend that was accidentally overheard? Didn't she make a similar joke on a far more public forum than Hank did?
It's probable enough that NASA made them go through days of testing in space before they let them get anywhere near the ISS.
Hey, I am sorry for you bad experience, but I guess you have seen the site through mobile. Unfortunately, our intention is for it to be seen on desktop (the system, when ready will be used on desktop as well).
I'm 90% sure recurring payments still work. I can't imagine them going to market with something like this without considering recurring payments.
deserved is maybe not the right word for it, but I certainly feel no empathy for her. She made her decision, she went on her crusade and she got the obvious result. Not the result she wanted, but the obvious result regardless.
These guys.. is it just me, that think that Google miss some serious traction? Fundamental things like Email Forwarding not working now? Is everything just hit and miss there at Google HQ?
> Even when the syntax is simple, the conceptual complexity of the language is quite big.

Lisp is a very simple language conceptually. The problem is that it allows you to build insane amounts of complexity in a very "free for all" way. No "one sane default way to do it".

The problem is now how complex a language is, but how much needless complexity it allows you to build yourself.

Go seems great because it doesn't easily allow you to build needless complexity. Though I've never coded anything meaningful in it, so my praise for it would be armchair thinking...
This looks interesting -- do you have a demo up someplace that I can look at? (I'm not in a position to set it up myself for the next couple of weeks...)

Also, how is it different from Pico? Since Pico looks very similar and is also your project, is it just a "re-branding"?
Aside: Did you just manage to combine references to Star Wars and Serenity/Firely there?
Google has always had issues with legitimate e-mail the spambox, but then again, I have yet to see a spam filter with no false positives. Google just errors a lot more on the side of classifying email as spam compared to most email services (more false positives, but less spam in the inbox). What makes this even more annoying is that they hide the spam folder so that users don't even know that it exists anymore. I always have to give directions where to find it and invariably get reactions like "Oh, I didn't know GMail had a spam box!" or "Ah thanks, I would never have found that."

I did consider setting up a route in my mailserver to GMail using my Google account credentials for their SMTP server, but then decided they should better get their own shit straight. It wouldn't scale to do this for everyone.
I don't even think this is like a thing to debate about. They're not the same thing.

I've been a developer for near 10 years. In that time I've worked on a heck of a lot of different applications. The funny thing, is in that time I've written the same code time and time again. A bit different each time, but none the less similar function.

That code though, it's not something that can be replaced by a library. That's because it IS the code calling the library. If a library is a water heater, the framework is the duct work.

So frameworks to me give me a way to write a lot less of that code, and to write a lot more of the code that makes my application useful.

I've been brewing my own framework, for doing a very particular type of application that I tend to somehow write quite often. I wouldn't tell people to use it for everything. But for the things I use it for, it is perfect. The speed that I can iterate at has given me a name at my various employers.
>facebook

>anonymous

Very funny.

"Sure it's anonymous, just trust us..."
I think it's important to repeat that Adria herself does not identify as feminist.
> Card: Get out wallet, put card in machine, wait 10 seconds for authorization (I'm in Switzerland - their terminals take longer), sign receipt. I hate signing.

For me in the UK, assuming the payment is under £25 my process is

* Get out card

* Press card against machine

That's it.

If it's more, I need to put the card in the machine and type my PIN in.
Yahoo also broke it, none of our customers get @coinkite.com emails for over 2 years now.

We simple prohibit @yahoo emails to be added as contact and use Mailgun.
Why not that they don't trust either?
High school. I was running a web development business at the time, so the teachers that didn't have this policy very rarely saw any homework from me.

My US Government class was awful. I passed all the tests with a > 90% grade, but homework was such a big portion of the grade that I had to do some of it (mostly crossword puzzles and word finds and things like that - very time consuming and of minimal value). I passed the class with a 60.001%.
Not entirely sure if it's a fair assessment to say that it was released for free in order to compete with Unreal and Unity.

The general rumblings with Source 2, especially in context of the recent Dota 2 mod tools, was that it would be free. Valve probably made their minds up a long time ago, and GDC is when everyone let it out.
I like the idea, it looks promising. I think seeing all the different possible solutions also helps a lot to open eyes about the possible approaches to a problem.
Twitter is way worse, it is a public forum, with thousands of followers and she used her account as an official representative of her company. (in a PR kind of capacity even.)

The dongle comment was a conversation between two people, it was not private, but it's audience was intended to be limited to two individuals.

The CAH game could offend someone that passed by (it was played in a hallway), what would have happened if someone took a picture of her playing CAH and tweeted "Not Cool Guys/Gals"and made a blog post about feeling treated at PyCon?

https://instagram.com/p/W_A1xlAacg/
It's understandable. They love their product. It's on their mind all day every day. At 7am, they're fixing bugs they discovered the previous day. Haven't looked up from it to see "you (the user)" yet.
>> having the intelligence to call her ex as a substitute was a brilliant move on the author's part.

I still don't understand why he didn't have her look for HIM in her phone. Like dude, you know me, look in your phone I'm so-and-so. Look at texts between us. There should be a picture of him too. And why TF was there a picture of her ex in her appartment, but not this guy? This aspect of the story made it seem fake to me, but OK maybe it was very stressful to him and he honestly figured the ex would be more familiar than himself. IDK.
Why do people consistently say "my country" when it's just as easy to say "Denmark" or "Croatia" or what have you.
I wonder if it is related to a change I recently noticed in how email address suggestion and autocomplete, i.e., suggestions, work that behaves differently than before. It's almost like they deemphasized frequent user or maybe domain accounts or something. The effect is that the first suggestion is no the address you are most likely looking to use, and thus risking erroneously addressed emails. So take care.
Already downvoted below zero (about 2 seconds). I'll stand by what I said/implied: it is hard to co-exist with Google systems (and apparently also with pro-Google shills/apologists). I know this post violates HN standards, but I didn't think the parent did.
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