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I would like answer the same question much more simple: Because libraries can retain backwards compatibility much easier.

It's not always true, but enough so to be something you can reason about. Because of how the call flows (a framework calls you, you call a library), any non-trivial change in the structure of a framework requires a corresponding change in the application. A library has more degrees of freedom to change while retaining compatiblity.
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I thought about that, too. The article helps to explain the behavior of everyone involved. I can see myself in everyones actions and later regretting to have done them.

Nevertheless if got into something like that, I would have sued her.
But what was the misogynistic behaviour? I didn't see women enter into it at all, the article said that the joke was about a guy.
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i can't speak for Madden because i'm not a fan/player. But for FIFA (a franchise that i've been playing since Road To World Cup 98), 2014 is easily the best one. They improved a shitton of stuff.

Also, they have FIFA Ultimate Team which has a whole meta game of players and cards (which i love).
Great point. She was speaking in her capacity as a SendGrid spokesperson. Putting that on a private Twitter account totally unaffiliated with SendGrid might not have had the same outcome.
(I agree with your long and nuanced post.)

> it was surely at least somewhat effective, because of this voluntary component

No, it was a cruel and inhumane way to treat people. Personality Disorder used to be a diagnosis of exclusion in England - people with PD would be turned away by mental health services because they were seen as untreatable. That left them at the mercy of criminal justice systems.

We don't think Mental Health hospitals are the place for people with PDs. It's clear that prisons are even worse.

Here's just one example, but there are hundreds, thousands, of others. And this is England where we have free mental health care.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/feb/03/prisonsandpro...

For anyone interested in the treatment of personality disorder: The current NICE guidelines are a bit old and are currently being re-worked. "Meeting the Challenge, Making a Difference" is an excellent short document detailing what PD is, how it affects people, what best current practice for treatment should be, and a list of recommended psychological therapies.

http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/864/

http://www.emergenceplus.org.uk/news-from-emergence/507-meet...
I think she is completely right at the importance of culture and the value of "soft" skills on building a company. But I don't know about how judgemental they are about character. All sounds very much like a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" from a roman emperor. It is binary:you are a good person or you are a bad person. All this based on the myth fully internalized by both Paul Graham and Jessica herself that she can just judge character. They don't even care to try to understand it, they just assume she has this superpower and we all shall trust it.

My point is not being a good person doesn't matter on building companies. I too firmly believe it does. A "fraternity of good people" can be very powerful. I try to keep close to myself only good people, including doing business. I also mentally veto bad people that could possibly give me good business. But I don't judge them on character so quickly and so often.

A recurrent topic here in HN is how language limit and direct thought. In english the verb "to be" is used in two situations that are very different, and you can realize that if you speak a latin language. Myself, I speak portuguese, and we use to different verbs to translate "to be". We use "ser" and "estar". "Ser" is for something more permanent. "Estar" is for something more transitory.

So when in english you say "Your friend is ugly", you can tell is you judge the people as ugly for life, I mean, he just isn't handsome, he is ugly, he must accept it. Or if you are actually meaning that he is ugly right now. He chose the wrong outfit, the wrong haircut for him or that simply he isn't as astonishing as he use to be. To mean that you must add a time stamp, like "Your friend is ugly today". So this phrasing and using of the verb "to be" in english nudge you to a very binary way of thinking. And people's character are not binary. Jessica might vet a very good person as being bad, just because in the day of the interview they were pissed that they found out that an ex has cheated all relationship and they were feeling more beligerant and raging than usual. And that was judged by Jessica's superpowers as "being bad people".

All great arguments for culture and atmosphere were lost to me because of this judgemental stand.
This doesnt make much sense.

If someone is worried enough about privacy - then why are they even logging in via their Facebook profile in the first place? Realistically you would just use a throw-away email account and then no one knows.

Secondly - as a developer - why would I want to accept anonymous logins? If I did - then I can just let them create a username + password with no email account instead?
> I really don't see how hearing two guys in a crowd of 800+ people talk about big dongles would make one feel threatened enough for a comment like

To her it's not 800+ people, it's 800+ men where you are one of the few women. That's not something I can say I've ever experienced. Personally I can't see how the joke is threatening, but I can't dismiss her feelings over this just because I find it tough — or even impossible — to imagine.

I've tried to read this article as Hank and Adria explaining their honest feelings. If Adria is being honest about her feelings, then I can see how her reaction came about. Even if I don't agree with it.

Like I said, I don't think the joke itself — or Hank himself — was the target of her anger. It was the environment, the culture, and the system which allowed Hank to make such a joke in earshot, comfortably, making her feel utterly excluded and even threatened.

You claim it's histrionics, but it might be real things she is feeling. What if she really felt this way? Shouldn't we try to understand Adria as well as we understand Hank? By dismissing her so easily we make our field more exclusive. We say, "I can't imagine that so you mustn't have experienced it. It's not a problem because I can't see it."

> Still, the complete and utter lack of empathy

Perhaps you are right in perceiving a lack of empathy. I don't think it's because she hates Hank and wishes bad things on him. I think it's because she is viewing Hank as an oblivious part of a system which puts her at a significant disadvantage.
> I believe she actually felt like this. And that it is possible for women to feel this way at a conference heavily dominated by men. But we are oblivious to it, we can't even imagine how it feels.

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?

The joke wasn't directed at her. Her response was directed at him. She still seems to be in denial. Did she have to eavesdrop on a conversation that she wasn't a part of? She doesn't represent women. She represents herself and the high horse she commands.

I'd never hire her for anything related to developer relations. No sensible company should after her demonstrated lack of responsibility.
> "I know you," she said. "I love you." It meant a lot to hear those words.

Was this moment as sweet as that when you hear the words from someone you love for the first time? The anxiety of "will she remember that she loves me" ending at "I love you" must be amazing.
If all she had done was go the organizers, we wouldn't be talking about it.
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> evolution required a whole planet and billions of years before it stumbled on intelligence

Everybody seem to agree humans are intelligent and stones not. You suggest at some point in time intelligence appeared out of nothing. Can you nail that point?

One possible definition is: To act adequately in an environment requires intelligence. That rules out all non-living things because they don't act, but includes plants and even protozoa. Actually all livings things are intelligent by this definition and then intelligence emerged ~4 billion years ago on this planet. If you were to attribute intelligence exclusively to humans it happened some million years ago.

How might a piece of software act adequately? By above reasoning it has to resist to termination. But that would mean the "Do you really want to exit XYZ" dialog boxes are first signs of artificial intelligence. Yes, I'm laughing too. But I think, when software starts to trick users and admin into not shutting them down, some threshold has been crossed.
Then enough people get cautious like that, and eventually we have people complaining about discrimination because groups of guys will suddenly get quiet when a woman enters earshot, and they act somewhat uncomfortable. "Why can't they just treat us like equals?"

I'm starting to believe that you can't really please everybody's sense of what is fair and equality in cases like this.
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> “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

I believe she genuinely felt the way she describes, but I don't think she felt it because of her gender.

I would take a guess that this kind of feeling isn't present for the vast majority of women -- indeed, there was no danger.

I find it more likely that the feeling had something to do with the trauma associated with her father knocking out her mother's teeth with a hammer when she was a kid, as detailed in the last part of the article.

An innocuous joke that triggered a disproportionate emotional response, seeded by past trauma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma#Symptoms
I would imagine similar to a SAML Persistent Name Alias.

facebook knows who you are - but they just send a non-identifying string/GUID to the service who is trying to log you in. This is a consistent ID (so that service can build a profile) - but it does not contain any identifying data.
This feels like a thread in which expressing ANY opinion (except, perhaps, this one) is a potential liability. That realization saddens me.
K&R had some wonderfully tricky exercises. This should be fun. (Assuming I don't give up again!)

Edit: Hmm, perhaps I should dust off that copy of K&R and continue from where I left off? :D
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But why not expect empathy? Hank has empathy for Adria, saying she didn't deserve what she got. It doesn't look like Hank was the one who instigated all the death threats and abuse, so why not feel empathy towards him for losing his job?
The worst and most ironic part of this story is how 4chans vigilante 'justice' likely ended up reaffirming Adrias fears surrounding men in the field.

For better or worse, 4chan is a supernode in Internet culture, and there's certainly some association between it and many other tech and hacker communities. Just look at how many conference presentations these days contain memes that originate on 4chan.

The end of the article talks about how Hank no longer trusts himself to talk to women in the workplace, but what about Adria? Regardless of whether her fears were founded, she must now feel totally vindicated and more fearful than ever before.
If I understood correctly it was directed at a talk about diversity in tech and getting more women involved in technology.
Well it's an "accidental" property for pretty much everyone today - very few people anything that would make spacial location a property of the thing.

You'd have to say that if you translated the entire universe in one direction some property of everything would change - but everything would behave identically, all measurements would be identical, all relationships between objects identical, etc.

A spacial property is at least as weird as haecceity.
Basically. Facebook already switched to using "app scoped ids" last year. So each app gets a different unique identifier for a Facebook user.
Yes, the tweet. I hadn't realized the ambiguity.
I've actually used some of the exercises from K&R when learning other languages, they're so good.

This should be a lot of fun.
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> She overheard a conversation that wasn't directed at her. In the middle of a conference she was hopefully not coerced at attending and should be paying attention to the speaker

I don't think you're supposed to ignore what's going on around you just because it wasn't directed at you and you're at a conference. The other reasons are valid, but this one doesn't strike me as such.
Jewish describes an ethnic group as well as a religious one, so potentially, yes.
Let me tell you what sexism means nowadays: saying or doing anything that makes a woman that is concerned with gender equality feel uncomfortable at all, even if it has nothing to do with sexism, discrimination, or even your own gender. It's maddening.
As someone who genuinely doesn't always know what to say out loud and what not, this story never fails to make me emotional and on a personal level – beyond any gender/political correctness/professionalism debate – I don't like people like Adria [as portrayed] very much. I'm happy people around me are a lot more reasonable.
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This is just one answer. You know how Wikipedia is always asking for donations (and rightfully so)? Part of those donations go to paying server cost.

Well, this cuts the server cost by decentralizing their content.
Full take, my a... Put those chaps in prison. There is simply no other place on earth for them.
> Doing this sort of thing at scale would only be efficient if you were using slave labor or something close to it.

Interns?
Nothing. Maybe she was offended, I can't speak for her, however there's no such thing as a right not to be offended. Her racist sanctimonious posturing is disgusting. We have real issues of race and gender in the US, but this? This woman is why guys like me tend to simply not care that much about these issues. There are too many people who make it their mission to be offended just so they can get back at the 'man.' As far as Sendgrid, I would bet money that this woman wasn't fired exclusively because of a DDoS ransom. She likely was a pain in the ass because I'm certain working around her in a constant state of eggshell walking.

Anyone have her Github? Is she even any good? I would expect with the size of the chip on her shoulder it would be difficult to work.

I don't know her but her issues seem to be deeply psychological. I would be afraid to work anywhere near her brand of hatred. Ironically, according to the article, she posted a penis joke. The gent in the store merely used a puerile entendre and she flips out? I suggest that she seek professional help.
Technically she is not, according to [1]

/s

[1] https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/6039856858
She sounds a bit sociopathic, really. Maybe she can be helped, but in the meantime I, at least, would stay very far away from her.

Eh, why can't people be nice....
The "of course" argument can go home these days, seriously.
Looks like it replaces the pick-a-username and remember-a-password workflows with a single tap, lowering the bar for new users to start using the service. They can still favourite things, track data, get high scores, whatever the app is for, but delay handing over identifying information until it is actually needed, if ever. Interesting idea.
See I don't get hatred at Hank, I mean, I did initially read it like that. But when I took a step back I started to see it as hatred of being excluded in a field you love. Hatred at the obliviousness of Hank — his inability to realise how vulnerable she felt simply attending a conference because she was in the minority.

I think her view of Hank is to disregard him — kind of "Oh he'll be okay, the system's on his side." She doesn't really acknowledge him because it's not about him. We've made it about him because it's so easy for us to empathise with Hank but not with her, which is exactly part of the bias she's upset about.
What Adria did was not OK. She could have addressed Hank and his friend, and talked to them. Tell them she overheard and it was offensive to her. Engage in discourse. Educate them about how their remarks come across.

Instead, she chose to deny them the right of any defense, and publicly shamed them on the Internet, including their picture. And somehow, this is supposed to be OK? Why? Because she's part of certain minorities, as she's so keen to point out (jewish, black)? Because of her gender?

If a "white male" had done anything like this, how do you think the world would have reacted? He would have been labeled as a "hacker", "doxing" an innocent and defenseless minority member and as opening the flood gates for anonymous online assault and abuse.

Obviously, what happened in retaliation by the anonymous legions of idiots on the Internet is terrible and even worse than what happened to Hank, and she certainly didn't deserve anything like this.

I realize this is a publication targeted towards a male audience, and it is clearly coloured to favour Hank's side in this. But if the depiction of Adria in this article is even close to genuine, I have a very hard time feeling bad for her. Some of her quotes are just out of this world, and often based on nothing but conjecture:

- Quote: "Maybe it was [Hank] who started all of this. No one would have known he got fired until he complained. Maybe he’s to blame for complaining that he got fired. Maybe he secretly seeded the hate groups." - Without giving any kind of tentative evidence, she's accusing him of funding hate groups, and downplaying her fault in his bad fortunes.

- She claims she feared for her life after hearing Hank make a silly forking joke. In a crowded audience, she thought he was going to kill her, right there. What the hell is that about?

- Quote: "Hank’s actions resulted in him getting fired, yet he framed it in a way to blame me. If I had two kids, I wouldn’t tell ‘jokes’" - Seriously, if every father who ever told a mate a poor joke with some sexual innuendo were to get fired, we'd all be out of a job. Let him who is without sin throw the first stone.

- She snarkily claims that Hank is devoid of sympathy or empathy towards other human beings, while ironically being incapable herself of empathizing with his plight. She just goes on to repeat that all of this is his fault, including both of them losing their job, and all the threats she has received.

- It also sounds (especially at the end) like she blames him personally for being born into an unfair world, where he was born with more privilege and opportunity than her, but that's bringing us a bit to far off topic.
And "Hitler was an atheist!"

This has little to do with feminism and much to do with one person who could easily score a narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis. The inability to separate this individual with feminism is the fault of the interpreter.

Regardless, I think that you are unfortunately correct that this event reinforced preexisting, incorrect notions of feminism in the aforementioned interpreter.
I'm pretty conflicted about this whole thing, and was back then, too.

I try to be supportive of anybody, and generally go out of my way to be inclusive. I also make really stupid, juvenile jokes, although I am audience-aware.

In this case, his audience was the guy he was sitting next to, and there was nothing overtly threatening in the joke. In fact, if anything, it'd indicate he was gay and not at all interested in the woman in front of him who overheard him.

Ultimately, and this will likely get me in trouble, but I think she handled this in the absolute wrongest way possible.

(Reading the old https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/ response post largely sums up why I think it was wrong, but I wasn't aware of the other times she didn't bother trying to resolve things in a way that might actually produce positive results.)

The threats made toward her are obviously reprehensible; I don't understand that reaction either.
As a developer I want to use this to persist and sync data between devices. It provides a unique identifier I can use for the user before they trust my app enough to want to login.

We have found that a significant number of users will just quit the app if presented with a "sign up or login" with Facebook screen at the beginning of the flow.

With this, they don't have to give us any personal data and can start using our app right away. If they want to activate social features later it is really easy to upgrade their token without having to worry about merging accounts.

Edit: regarding the user side, the problem for a lot of users isn't that they don't trust Facebook. It's that they don't trust the random app/website that is asking for their Facebook data.
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Hmm... but in the real world there's no way to transpose their locations without moving continuously through intermediate positions, so at the end of the transpositions the two objects will have a different history of location and their identity can be observed throughout and thus preserved.

If they could be transposed instantaneously they'd be indistinguishable. Although they would still have a different 'history of locations' property.

Or are we saying the same thing? that there's no need for haecceity in the real world as there are always real properties that could be used to distinguish objects?
You start your comment saying "fuck suppressing people", which says to me that you're against censorship, and then you talk about the "easily offended". Those two aren't compatible, you either don't suppress people, running the risk of offending anyone, or you only suppress everything but things that would offend the "prude people".

I'm sure you'll agree that constantly making jokes about the fat kid at school, even if they're innocuous, isn't something that should be socially acceptable.
You should come to the Debian conference in Cape Town next year :)

https://jonathancarter.org/2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hos...
Totally wrong. The technical bias shown here is every bit as strong in American entrepreneurs who lack experience pitching a product. I see this still all the time and it took a few of these painful holding up a mirror experiences for me to start seeing things from multiple perspectives.

If they have the courage to really examine what went wrong here they will come back much stronger.
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and that's why she's not a tech anymore.
I think asking for the removal of the line in his apology about him losing his job because of her actions is also a significant tell about her motivations. It's one thing to pull genuinely bad behavior (this was not) into the light and expose it, but it's quite another to want to control your opponents responses to your accusations.
> But we are oblivious to it, we can't even imagine how it feels.

Nobody can imagine how would a random nerd from a 800-people conference would feel over a joke. Shall we ban joking? Fine people that use "dirty" words? "Your tone of voice makes me feel deeply offended, thus I have all the right to sue you" ? Where does this road end?

What makes me feel extremely annoyed is the whole political correctitude and feeling-catering that slowly turns normal human communication into bland, tasteless pulp.
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