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Well at least your priorities are in the right place, defending the right people.

You piece of fucking shit.
I've found a dealer who has a late-2012 mac mini display piece. This particular machine can be upgraded to 16Gb. Im probably going to go with this config.
Rape is a colloquial term for a range of specific crimes with technical legal definitions. In NZ, for example, the former would be the crime of "Sexual conduct with consent induced by certain threats" (penalty of up to 14 years in prison), whereas the latter would be the crime of "sexual violation" (penalty of up to 20 years in prison).

Other countries might lump them together, or call them different names. If you're trying to discuss the actual crimes, you'd want to 1) mention what jurisdiction you're talking about and 2) use the actual names of the crimes as per the statute book. But as a practical matter, it's all rape.
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"A second colleague at a different institution held me against a wall against my objections and struggles and hit me with objects for his own amusement."

Now this sounds rather as an assault, a sick power play, but I would accept it called rape when it involved was sexual amusement but probably sexual assault would be a better term as it would not dilute the meanings confusingly.

Nonetheless this kind of behaviour is sickening and not acceptable by any means but it would explain why it was possible to tolerate it multiple times and how hard it was to do anything to prove that it happened.

Edit:

I think that it would be much easier to fight with such behaviour by calling it by actual names.

For example "Stop sexual assaults at work" would be in my opinion much more convincing and believable slogan than the exaggerated wording.

This would make the fight with the problem easier as it would not create that much confusion and opposition from it.

Using strong words creates opposition as people would find it by their own experience rather not believable but perhaps they have seen, heard something that would fit sexual assault definition or sexual harassment definition.

I believe that it would be much easier to define and establish the definition of sexual assault in peoples minds and educate them to see it than trying to redefine the established definition of rape in the society.

For clarification, I consider here acts that are described by

"A second colleague at a different institution held me against a wall against my objections and struggles and hit me with objects for his own amusement."

Now again, we should not tolerate this kind of behaviour and we should fight against it but I think it would be easier when we do not call it by too strong names as it would be then easier to establish this as wrongful and not acceptable behaviour in peoples minds.

I think that it is easier to fight with concrete problems individually rather than stretching the definitions.
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That makes more sense.

I can see how announcing every time, "I need a man!" would be grating, instead of just asking a guy to move the stuff without the fanfare.
Yes, and their apologists often sound like you. True fact: "We always say shit like this, it doesn't mean anything" is not justification for acting like an ass.
That's not a half bad idea. Perhaps fast and slow lines

The difficulty they are having suggests that their "loyalists" aren't simply identified by locale or financial status, if that was the case then maybe you spin up a new brand to cater to the wealthier folks or something, it seems like people of all backgrounds and statuses like them in some capacity. That is interesting to me.
Well it "ends" the game but play can resume. Plus, there's the crazy hypothetical play in the way-over-complicated Japanese rules. I think, in theory, you can play multiple almost-compete games after the game is "over". Each hypothetical play is just to resolve one group, as I understand.
If you look through the comments here and in other similar threads you'll see numerous variations on the "what wait? just leave." It's an understandable but wrong response to these situations. It shifts the problem from the perpetrator to the victim. It's similar to asking women to be covered from head to toe so that they can't somehow tempt males. The onus isn't on the male to control his desires it's on the female to ensure that his desires are not aroused. So if rape and sexual harassment is happening at a workplace don't blame the victim for not leaving blame the perpetrator for bringing that into the workplace.
I guess no one understands sarcasm.
It is indeed sad; I think history has shown that most people who benefit from a system of advantage just reflexively don't like when others talk about how it works, but that's just how I see it.

I'm playing OlliOlli (edited the name in since a user asked), a really awesome and successful game right now from a small (ish?) company (they're even making a sequel) where you only get one character to play as, and he is definitely male -- you couldn't even spin him as possibly being female. I'm male too and I'm afraid to point this out to the company, because of the backlash that usually happens, and I think the company is pretty much all male staff. It's not a huge deal but if the sequel is just as limited I'll express my disappointment, as it's a great game otherwise.
Emphasis on tens of trillions and decades (not merely a few trillion).

Batteries are not a $30 trillion and 30 year problem, not even remotely close. Batteries are an order of a magnitude smaller of a problem.

We can build the Tesla S already. Musk is going to spend $5 billion building a plant that can produce 500,000+ car battery systems. We can already make effective battery systems for mainstream electric cars, the challenge now is to make them better and scale up manufacturing (which has already begun).

It costs $5 billion in the US just to build one major nuclear power plant.

I rarely see anybody discussing where the trillions of dollars in new spending is going to come from to boost energy supply and grid to handle 100 million electric cars in the US. It'll cost trillions just to maintain what we already have now over that time.
rule of thumb: "*" means "look up the area of memory this value points to". "&" means the reverse - "give me a reference to this area of memory".

The problem with randomly trying things with pointers is that sometimes you can accidentally fix the issue but introduce a subtle bug that's dependent on the data being stored.
Do you understand the difference between robbery, armed robbery, violent robbery, and robbery leading to death (i.e. murder)? OK, now you're ready to reassess your archaic (and frankly offensive) misunderstanding of rape.
I was on the interviewer side of the developer interview equation once. This guy came in, mid-40s, claimed to have a long and storied career designing radar imaging systems and the like. Even claimed to have a patent to his name.

He was a fucking idiot.

We gave him our standard simple programming task, which requires a trivial amount of quasi-low-level byte-banging in C(++). But even a fresh-out-of-college kid who only knew Java could get it with a bit of prompting and a few hints.

This guy came nowhere near a workable solution, but he could generate mountains of chatter and BS about what pattern to use and such.

I had never encountered such a flagrant BS artist trying to land a developer role wver in my life. I doubt that most "secretly terrible engineers" even approach his level. But the experience was a teachable one.
Why do you choose to do it that way? If you really wanted to use an IDE you could just keep it on a github repo or even dropbox, or if it's a local or very fast connection it could even be reasonable to use X11 tunneling. But, if the CLI environment is the most convenient or efficient for whatever's being done then it's a better choice.
There are sure some things I haven't covered. The major one is components, which make a big deal in factor, reuse and composition. But the post started to be too long and loosing point so I skipped it.

There are also ideas beyond React I left aside. I will probably write some follow up post later.
It was all written by humans. computers just do what humans want them to do. period.
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Coercion includes force or threats. The nature of the threat matters in this discussion.
exactly, spatial symmetries occupy a vanishingly small proportion of the state space that its not worth the added complexity and runtime cost (unlike the color symmetry).
In the US, if she was at Biglaw, then my impression is that leaving is basically unheard of. You're intended to work for a firm for 2-4 years and move on, or stay at the firm on a partner track.

Once you're out, it's very hard to get back in. So in practice firms have quite a bit of leverage to demand things like work 100 hours in a week, staying until 2am, cancel plans with family on short notice, etc.

Edit: I mean unheard of to leave with no new job and try to get another one in Biglaw.
But I'm not asking for an authoritative proposal to fix rape. That would be great, and take years. I just want to understand the specific scenario that led to a series of repeat rapes by a colleague over several month, also experienced by another female colleague. Isn't there a way to describe it generically without revealing any identities?

For example, is it after work parties involving alcohol? Does it involve professional blackmail? If so, was there no way to gather evidence that could be used for prosecution, such as a clandestine recording?

It seems to me like there could be an opportunity to speak to the startup community here and now and implement a policy that targets these specific circumstances, and make a difference in the near term.
It'd be cool to be the owner/agent of a house being listed here, and seeing how many more calls/inquiries were received as a result.
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Focusing on the distinction between "violent" and "nonviolent" rape is dangerous and harmful.

The practical result of this is that it puts the onus onto the victim: "You didn't resist enough. Therefore your rape was nonviolent; therefore it was a lesser crime."

Rape is sex against one's consent. Your consent is just as violated whether you resisted a little, a lot, or not at all (perhaps you were incapacitated by the attacker.)

In many scenarios the most prudent thing for a victim to do is not to physically resist; as rape is largely a male-on-female crime the victim is frequently at a physical disadvantage.

My wife is a small woman. If God forbid this ever happens to her, I certainly hope that the situation remains nonviolent. But I certainly don't see how that would make it less of a crime.
Using framework has its cost, so you can be better of if you understand clearly what you are doing. OTOH, framework brings structure so it's less probable you skrew up your design.
Liberal arts majors (especially art majors) probably work harder than CS majors in many cases. I still think they would wash out of a STEM major. Not for lack of intelligence, but just because they're not wired that way. They'd be miserable in higher level classes.
Not OP, but did write the article. I think everything you've said makes a lot of sense given the data set you seem to be working with, and that most people in the tech industry are very good.

The incident in question was my talk at DEFCON 19 right before the camera started rolling. I want to reiterate that THEY MADE GOOD ON THIS and I am NOT MAD. I feel like everybody learned a lot and things will be better now.

But yeah, there were over 1000 people in the room for that talk, I'm sure if it comes down to a "did it happen" or "did it not happen" we can pull up enough witnesses. That one is pretty cut and dry.

Here's the point series I tried to make in the article: bad things happen, when they happen nobody knows what to do about them, and we won't make systems which handle these problems properly until enough people give enough fucks so that they are actually properly made.
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Not according to the California penal code. Duress suffices, and duress is not limited to physical force.

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/PEN/3/1/9/1/s261

"(b) As used in this section, "duress" means a direct or implied threat of force, violence, danger, or retribution sufficient to coerce a reasonable person of ordinary susceptibilities to perform an act which otherwise would not have been performed, or acquiesce in an act to which one otherwise would not have submitted. The total circumstances, including the age of the victim, and his or her relationship to the defendant, are factors to consider in appraising the existence of duress."
Interestingly, the author of that book also wrote the top comment on the TechCrunch story, disagreeing pretty strongly with me about hiring processes. I got to talk to her a bit about it on Twitter:

http://www.conweets.com/tqbf/gayle/

(I'm having a pretty bad day, which I hope doesn't show through too much in that summary).
As a customer, I think that Carl's Jr (aka Hardies?) has done a much better job at being what McDonald's is talking about.

They seem to have better tasting burgers, and offer their Thickburger, as well as a Natural burger (with actual cheese). I've never noticed an excessive wait, and appreciate that they'll "low-carb style" pretty much anything on the menu.

Through all the industrialization of McD's through the 90's they lost me... I think they could very well turn things around by just reverting to more of their core menu... toasting at least the buns to order, and not trying to be everything to everyone. They mention the McMuffin is real/whole eggs.. but don't mention that the pancakes are pre-cooked, and the scrambled/folded eggs come from a pre-mixed carton. Hell, they could go back to the 70's standards and they'd probably do better... In-And-Out kicks their ass with a product lineup that pretty much mirrors what McD's started out with.
That is true. Also step increases are fairly regular.
What makes complexity "false"? Is it "complexity I don't find interesting"?
For the same reason characters in your apps don't look like Icelandic sea birds: you aren't the one making the purchase. It's your parents. Your app's fictional characters that don't actually exist will look like whoever your parents are willing to associate with.

And your parents don't associate with you. They do, however, associate with people they've never met, exotic archetypes, and victims-of-the-day. Whatever pixel helps them forget their own loss of childhood they'll buy. And you don't help them remember that. In fact, you are the living breathing symbol of their loss of childhood.

Sorry, kid, life's tough. Don't let the existential loneliness bother you too much, it's actually healthy for you in controlled doses.

Besides, fuck the previous generations. The sooner you throw away their bullshit moral systems, the sooner you can start doing things that actual matter.
I think it's unnecessary because the version of maven used is just one of many things that should be handled by configuration management. I don't think we need to have a separate tool to do this for every app out there. In my case, I'm using chef, so it comes from these attributes: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/maven/blob/master/attri...
If it happens at an equal rate, then that means perhaps we shouldn't be focusing on tech companies specifically but in the legal framework that allows this to slip through the cracks. Morality can be on our side all we like, but companies of any decent size are way more interested in the law than morality.
You could just Skype your friend while having a robot cut your hair.
>Which systems have you seen that have Secure Boot enabled by default and don't provide any mechanism for key management?

All I've come across so far. Dells, Toshibas, a Lenovo, etc. I literally haven't seen a UI for key management at all. Ever.

MAYBE that's because it's too well hidden or maybe those machines I've looked at simply didn't have it.

>And let's say that, hypothetically, hardware vendors refused to add a physical switch that would cost a few cents extra per board

I'd say that non-hypothetically speaking, they were trying to stay on Microsoft's good side and coming up with a lame fucking excuse to do so.

That is, unless they came up with an equally good UI that didn't require a button, which is possible.

Someone on this thread mentioned that chromebooks have a button. When pretty much the lowest-cost point in the market can do it....

>Microsoft don't have enough leverage over the firmware vendors

Yes they do. If they have enough to mandate that it's written they have enough to mandate that it's written coherently. They just have every incentive to ensure that it isn't, and with a nod and a wink they can get their way.

>The number of lawyers I've found who, after having had all aspects of this explained to them, thought that Microsoft's behaviour here was anti-competitive is zero.

I wonder how many of those lawyers have ever tried to install linux with secure boot turned on.

Maybe they all thought that if the spec was kosher that's all that matters.

>I'm doing pretty well out of it.

That certainly explains the apologetics.
I think what horrifies me the most in these stories is that, once someone is in a situation where he/she is coerced in a position to have sex, there is basically nothing stopping an escalation in abuse.

If her boss found her attractive enough to want a blowjob, why won't he progressively try to get as much as he can get away with ?

She was not in position to refuse the first step, she won't be in a better position to refuse further abuse.

At the first threat, I have the feeling she already has to choose between her career and getting abused for years.
12% of rapes lead to a conviction
In Dota for example the false complexity is what allows someone with not so great analytical thinking but great knowledge of the complexity (items and hero combinations) to fare pretty well. It helps level the field. Although comparing go to RTS is extremely misleading. RTS's have pretty deep of what I call 'continuous tactics' where you need to plan an optimal control of your character with a continuum rather than discrete set of plays. It presents incredibly rich situations which you cannot explain with the kind of strategy you see in go or chess, for instance. The same goes for games like counter-strike, once you take into account limited aiming capability. I think it's beautiful how those games can hide this richness into a very fun game at low levels, and how they don't seem so hard just because we're so good at spatial reasoning and planning.

Here's an illustration:

http://youtu.be/5e8HZqF3cyk?t=2m1s

I also like this quote by von Neumann:

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

I confess I do wonder what would be the equivalent 'go of RTS games', where the minimal, essential dynamics are captured without all the bling.
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Other people have made this comment but I'll repeat it. Have you ever talked about this with female colleagues? It's scary what they tell you. I would say 95% of males get through their entire working career without ever feeling sexually uncomfortable or worse from another colleague at least once. I'd say about 10% of females would say that was true. Seriously, go talk with them.
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Yea it all depends on how you define moderate amount of training. Elite qualification for females would probably be achievable for the average untrained male in the same weight class in a few years of focused training.

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/1793
1) Why is this rape? Because coercion doesn't just take the form of physical violence.

The definition of rape in California says nothing about "coercion":

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&gr...

It does mention "duress" which implies a threat of violence. If your friend's boss was not threatening violence then it's wrong to call it rape.
It took a year for management to figure it out. It took much less time for his coworkers to figure it out. You're definitely right. "Blame" for the damage done falls mainly on management inaction.

I definitely learned a ton from that job.
This is a prevalent meme on Hacker News but it's nothing more than the tech version of Old Man Yells At Cloud.
The SSD is still a good option with Xcode and Mac OS X.
I can't imagine working on a HDD machine ever again.
It seems to work reasonably well for the two non-toy apps I've worked on that use a single state object. There are two key rules required to make this work, however:

1. For each domain, state can be modified in one place (in React, a store).

2. For each domain, state can be read in once place (a Presenter).

This preserves data-hiding for the most part, and keeps you from having to play hunt-the-wumpus when you need to change the data structure.
You said it, not me :-)
A troll you can argue with isn't a troll. Its just too easy to exclude people because of there non-conformism ...
You haven't used the word "female" anywhere that I can see. :)
> In one game, “Survival Run with Bear Grylls,” you can put the character in a Santa Claus suit for $1.98, but there is no girl to be had at any price. Does this mean that girls aren’t capable of escaping a bear, but Santa is?

Another classic example of girls that are capable of escaping bears being unrepresented in tech. I kid, by seriously the cause of this isn't game devs being sexest against girls, it's (IMO) society being sexist in general. Boys (not men) will not play games that look like they may be made for girls because of what society might think of them. The fear of being bullied for enjoying anything pink or featuring women is very real for most boys growing up, especially (but not only) if the boy is already feeling confused and ashamed of what his sexuality might be. Since the mobile game market is dominated by children, having the main character be female can potentially scare away a large percentage of the market. Unless the game is already clearly "girly", then the risk just isn't worth it.

TL;DR: Boys playing girls = gay, girls playing boys = normal.
But it's not "rape" unless the coercion involved threats of violence, cf http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&gr...

It is sexual harassment though.
I clicked on comments and were absolutely shocked that noone mentioned Anita Sarkeesian. In case you didn't hear, she Kickstarted a Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series of videos about gender representation in video games. Got a lot of harassment in return for those videos and when GamerGate came about that intensified enough to make her leave her home and cancel a speaking arrangement. In turn, she was interviewed on The Colbert Report.

Now a 12 year old have reached the same conclusion and if that's her real name on the article... alas I must say that was a dangerous thing to do.
You made pixels, therefore, you lose your job.

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The semantic value of that punctuation is primarily for readibility and comprehensibility, then, where human bandwidth is way more limited. Achieving this goal is much more critical than reducing keystrokes, IMO. "Code is for humans to read, execution is an afterthought" or whatever the famous quote is. This isn't simply included to achieve a "modern feel".