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Reminds me of how when a female singer produces her own music and has limited assistance from a man, reviewers attribute the entire thing to the man:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/01/21/bjork_pitchfo...

It's not even some malicious, deliberate assumption. People have been raised to expect that it is men who do the "real work", and pass over women without thinking about it.
Minor nitpick - it isn't mild (which is why it looks so damn amazing :-)
What you just said only applies to the pink slides comment. Excess fidgeting and uptalk are gender-neutral and make a presentation weaker whether you're male or female.
Why did you drop it (and what do you use now)? I used to use conkeror too, but dropped in favour of firefox + keysnail. As an emacs user, I just loved the conkeror ui. I left it because it lacked some firefox features, can't remember them all but one was on-demand loading of tabs when starting the browser.
There are a lot of valid points in the article and I enjoyed it. These 'gender-specific' points are of course not gender specific at all though.

I've done a huge amount of presenting and briefing and so has my wife. We have both received feedback like this. Personal appearance, bearing, manner, speech patterns, intonation, inflection and even breathing noise let alone a million other things have come up in feedback for both of us.

The underlying point is it's possible to be an annoying presenter as a male AND as a female.

Thinking about it, I suppose much of what this article says also applies simply to 'those who don't look like they fit', regardless of their gender, such that if the article was about 'age' it would still be entirely valid.

I'll sign off by saying that if you really want prejudice, try raising kids as a full time Dad. If you think men can be bad with 'those that don't fit' then you are in for a shock compared to what women can be like!
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I think the objection was that it was feedback about how it was presented, not about what has been presented. It may be valid feedback, but not necessarily the most relevant one.

And I think she finds it problematic because women are more often openly judged by how they look rather than what they do, and this fits the pattern.
Like the rest of the things in the world, as programming knowledge and competency continues to become democratized and ubiquitous, these tendencies will change.

The incredibly competent men who run the show in authoritarian ways that appeal only to men just like themselves will slowly give way to communities built on negotiation, respect, and compromise -- humans will be humans.

Those who mutter the word feminism only in derisive tones will complain loudly as their world mutates, even as their own standards of normality and fairness change.

This world of computers has been the domain of such men for a long time, for a lot of reasons, but the days of this sort of thing are numbered. Computers are too important.
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The layout that allows comments by paragraph is really interesting, first time I've seen that.
You can say what you want, and studies can say what they do, but but vocal fry is annoying. It literally makes me cringe and it grates my ears to hear it.
I don't understand what's missing. It was updated March 6th.
Completely agreed. A hundred years ago, this would have been some sort of local affect, but thanks to the internet, nationwide TV, radio, etc, today it's a plague.
That's when you're SUPPOSED to end your sentence by going up. That is the natural pattern. Doing it at the end of everything else is the annoying part.
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Those are not “exceptions” to Ruby’s primitives, those are Ruby’s primitives. Things that desugar to methods aren’t primitives.

The thing is, they’re rare in practice for cultural reasons.
Very long answer.

I have no clue who you are. So my impression is just from your words.

I would not hire you. It seems you had problems with several managers, then call a former employer a 'total moron' on a discussion board and a teamlead 'stupid'. "Losing that job early was better for me" - a lot of the comments is about you.

Two long comments and everyone was wrong but you. To me this signals no introspection and being a finger pointer. Sorry to sound harsh.
I found this the most interesting:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/1/1/e1400005...

The top institutions producing CS professors:

MIT

Berkeley

Stanford

Caltech

Harvard

Cornell

CMU

Princeton

Yale

Washington

You have to click through a bunch of links to find the actual study:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005.figures-...
We actually had to let go the only person to have come to our interview in a suit and tie that we actually hired...there is not a good track record.
The headlines are there, but the statement that they have not been served any warrants isn't.
Sorry, this makes no sense.

Here's the archive from December 2014: http://web.archive.org/web/20141226030217/https://canary.sil...

I don't see the problem.
Are you serious? Just because it's more common with females doesn't make it discrimination. Just because poor black people are more likely to commit crimes doesn't mean that criticizing criminals makes you racist and classist. Come on now, this is basic logic.
> its social status.

Link?

I've found dislike for dialects spoken by poorer people (chavs for example), richer people (valley talk) and completely normal average people of a wide range (bavarian) in myself. In my experience how much i dislike a dialect has always been about how difficult it makes it for me to understand it, in both english and german, and there's literally no pattern to the social status in it.
> Consumers who aren't that sophisticated probably don't care, and (gasp!) simply enjoy the way it tastes.

If all those who cared already knew, then the manufacturers wouldn't have had to obfuscate it (as it wouldn't make a difference). So if we go with that assumption, they should just put their name on the bottles, experience no difference in sales and thus make everyone happy.
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Black and yellow, beloved combination of many Star Wars fans, also known as "death of readable presentations" (yes, I got that comment and I've learned to never do this again)
Suit and tie. You will be viewed with mistrust as a business type until you prove otherwise.
The story I got from the article is (a) feminine presenters are more likely to get that kind of feedback, and (b) masculine presenters are more likely to get feedback on the content of the presentation.
Any screenshot of the browser conveys very clearly that "That looks like it would intelligently employ keybindings similar to Emacs!". See the screenshot on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Conkeror_web_browser.png

The lack of buttons and address bar tells you exactly what kind of browser it is and that you should expect it to share many features with things like uzbl and vimperator.

In addition a screenshot like http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjour... shows you a lot about the navigation tools they have provided.

A browser is a visual tool and many of its distinguishing features are thus much more difficult to explain with words.
According to the Wayback Machine, it's lacked a declaration (as opposed to a statement that it's supposed to contain a declaration) at least since December 2014, the earliest version that was archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20141226030217/https://canary.sil...
i really thought it would be a project using chromium engine with a port of the konqueror UI
I think there are two distinct issues here. The first is that it seems like university students select schools and classes based on the academic background of their professors (having a professor from Harvard seems to be more prestigious than having one from most state schools). For many students (especially before they ever take a class), they don't know enough about most of the professors to evaluate them (so the educational background of their professors is the de facto proxy for quality). As long as that continues to be the case, and students (and prospective students) back those decisions with dollars (choosing to attend classes/universities based on their faculty), schools are going to continue to value (and possibly over value) that. That's straightforward market economics.

The second issue is more complex. The author argues that higher education isn't a meritocracy (that privileged students have a much easier change of getting in and staying in to a prestigious school). That's likely true to some degree, but the author over-simplifies things (there are certainly people attending those universities who are there based solely on merit).

It's clear that the job market for professors values educational background, because that's what students are voting for with their wallets. As long as that continues to be the case, those who have more money, and whose families value education, will continue to have an advantage. I don't know that we ever escape that.
The actual declaration seems to be missing. Although it does not appear to have been there in December, either: http://web.archive.org/web/20141226030217/https://canary.sil...
I have seen multiple cases where shitty or ill-informed managers tried to pressure salaried employees into "committing"—commit to another project cycle, another quarter, another year, whatever. "We're trying to do strategic planning, I need to know if you intend to stay... yada yada yada."

As part of HR, part of my job was to remind managers and employees that that's all bullshit. As at-will, you can "commit" to staying and then quit the very next day. If you're a good manager, you very likely have some sense of your staff's intent to stay without needing passive-aggressive conversations about commitment/engagement. If you do not have a contract and you're under at-will employment, use it to your advantage whenever the fuck you can.

(That said, I do agree with maxsilver that at-will employment is still tilted to the employer's benefit overall.)
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Downvotes, really? As this is misleading or offensive or something? I've lived in Singapore for 3 years on and off, perhaps those downvoting know better?

Check here for information too, if you don't believe me:

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-think-it-is-illeg...
what would be a stereotypically masculine presentation? not trying to bait or anything, I'm just curious what that would be? Some kind of bro-ish stuff included?
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Please, use Dialyzer for Erlang.

BTW, I don't know Go, but Erlang has per-process GC, so there won't be a large heap to scan.
Too formal. It's pretty well known that dev/nerd culture is very pro-casual and anti-formal. The reason for this, in my opinion, is because we are very much a "function over form" culture. People who might be trying to compensate for lackluster ability by impressing with their overly nice dress are usually initially viewed with mistrust.
> Is the point to minimize or trivialize X because Y, Z, and W also happen?

It may simply acknowledge that some imperfection will always be present and the cost (not necessarily monetary) of changing that may outstrip the benefits.

For example an extreme divide between the rich and the poor is an issue that many people dislike and would like to see addressed.
But at the same time it's a necessary part of capitalism to let people accumulate some wealth. If you couldn't accumulate wealth there would be no incentive to provide better products or services than others. There would be no way of winning the game.

Another example would be the freedom of speech. Defending free speech also means defending some levels of speech you find morally objectionable. Even hate speech to some point. The cost of preventing that hate speech would be payable in freedom.

Similarly some low levels of discrimination will always exist, simply because preventing that would amount to mandating how people must think and how to make decisions. I.e. it would make discrimination a thoughtcrime.

Of course the question is where to draw the line
This makes me wonder if raising the cost of domain registration would see less domain parking.
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Really, that is surprising, because it is disallowed. Stanford, like all UC's where I am at, have salary minimums. Stanford's minimum is higher than the NIH levels [1]. It would be hard to pay someone under the table, so I don't see how this is really occurring.

[1] http://postdocs.stanford.edu/handbook/salary.html
Taking from the author's paragraph:

- Emacs - Java IDEs may look better, but this doesn't seem to be an issue for author. Also other tools are very mature for such youn language as Go.

- Goroutines - Java has no built-in equivalent or one opinionated way of green-threading, only frameworks requiring months of expertise. From perspective of person, who need to switch language quickly this is very discouraging.

- No inheritance - Java design patterns are clearly no-no in the described context (they were presented as anti-pattern).

- Built-in, effective templating - again one easy path to start with, also powerfull enough to write your own tools if needed.

Go is simply easier/faster to start with and most of the performance problems were not GC-bound, so JVMs maturity wasn't such an advantage.
That's really the core issue: too many people believe that they can evaluate a person's technical knowledge based on physical appearance, which ends up including gender, race/ethnicity, sometimes even religion (if the person is wearing religious attire).

It's just easier to get to know people instead of assuming.

Also: environments that are unpleasant/hostile/uncomfortable for "people outside the norm" make it difficult for such people to distinguish between sexism/racism/discrimination and legitimate feedback.

For example, playing with one's hair during a presentation is often a sign of nervousness, but it is also a signal that conveys that nervousness to the audience. Is it distracting to some degree? Maybe, but more importantly, it detracts from her authority. Still, I can see why she responded as she did--if you are constantly undermined, under fire or criticized for no good reason, it becomes difficult to filter out which criticism/feedback is actually useful.

Edited to add: Loved the artwork in that article.
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Its also interesting to note Carlsen's, who is also frequently called the Mozart of chess, opinion on being called genius.

"Those were kind words, but I’m not so generous with the use of the word genius myself."

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/kramnik-calls-carlsen-a-gen...
If it wasn't there before, it is now.
The other way to look at it is as technology improves so does energy efficiency. What is the cost saving of taking older more power-hungry hardware off the grid? Planned obsolescence encourages timely upgrading so end users can take advantage of recent innovations. Similar to how a rolling release delivers bug fixes more expediently than a code-rush major releases interspersed with occasional patches.

(I'm not saying definitively that one is better than the other, only offering both perspectives.)
Someone should build a repository of these canaries to keep track...
Yeah, those are the ideal. A lot of us are already learning different things during our down-time. An enterprising company could take that drive to learn new things to find potentially good employees by 'tricking' them into learning something new from them.
Rather, wrong/non-ideal image. There is more than one dimension, especially when it comes to women's clothes.
There's a support center question and answer here which might be related to the missing declaration:

https://support.silentcircle.com/customer/portal/questions/9...
Any else reminded of PG's article on how showmanship is more important than logic in a talk?

http://paulgraham.com/speak.html
That's what the canary is there for; safe to assume that they have been served a warrant.
So, as far as we know, they have been served long ago, or the wording is ambiguous. In either case, this canary is useless.
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Is there any field with a greater supply/demand imbalance than biology/biomedical?

There seemed to be a big imbalance in the late 1970s and through the 1980s (sic), and I gather it's only gotten worse as the big and successful push for cheaper science labor began in the '80s.
Something is twisted in all these discussions of gender in tech, it really seems like we're just going around in circles over and over again. I've never read anything that felt like a particularly insightful explication of the cause here.

Is it possible there's something more fundamental in society that this phenomenon is merely a symptom of, and that the fix is not going to be something like "just challenge yourself to detect and resist unconscious bias"? Could there be something inherent in the structure of our framework of social interaction that incentivizes this kind of behavior?
RTM has been around for a long time. In fact, the screenshot shown in this post is dated 2007. You'd think if they were making a conscious attempt to rebuild this brand, they'd have at least updated that.
Yes, but there are no copies shown of the checks done. Last check 4 days ago.
The gender issues in wider society are the same as those in tech, except tech has a toxic culture and a horrifically skewed gender ratio
I'd like to see earlier versions of the canary. Because December 2014 is when they (supposedly accidentally) stopped updating their canary for a bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796307

(Also: hey CanaryWatch peeps, https://canarywatch.org/, I know you're brand new and the archive would not have gone back far enough, but note that keeping a database of earlier canaries would be a very neat feature, for this exact situation.)
I didn't write that comment very well. I mean, when the voice goes up at the end of a sentence making it sound like a question when the sentence is not a question.
Hmmm. Unless Stanford and the NIH turn a blind eye to it---this is trivial to audit---this could not be happening without the faculty getting kickbacks.
The biggest takeway for me here is, that I have no chance to verify that the canaray looked always like it looked today or if that is the intended state of it.
I'm not sure that it makes sense to optimize a service to be as effective as possible under roaming situations. They were obviously spending a lot of engineering resources dealing with SMS edge cases.

They even justified focusing on their own open protocol over data as being useable by more people in the world. Any time you make a change, your going to impact usability for some people. But it sounds to me that they're going in the direction that increases global adoption and mind-share of encrypted communication. It's way too early, and adoption is way too low to sacrifice broad adoption (by not focusing enough) in favor of supporting current edge use cases.
Well, considering the 'waifu' meme... probably. It will be a long time before AI is intelligent enough to be worth falling in love with, though.
Also has implications for the social safety net in the US: if you resign or are fired, you can't collect unemployment checks; if you are laid off, you can. A lay-off also means the company can't immediately turn around and hire for that position because, supposedly, the position is not needed, or is needed but can't be funded (as you said). Companies can easily circumnavigate this by creating a new position with a slightly different title and slightly different responsibilities, then just hire for that.
Much easier - just send it round robin amongst various friends in various parts of the country via FedEx ground. That should keep them busy for awhile.
Bright colors in slides, whether pink, blue, purple, or orange, is distracting in a presentation. It takes attention off the information being presented and puts it on the design choices.

Visual ticks - wringing your hands, messing with your hair, licking your lips - make you appear less confident, and has nothing to do with gender.

The vocal tick - making every sentence sound like a question - is distracting no matter who presents it.

These aren't gender specific criticisms in any way. Regardless, unless you're addressing a gender specific topic, why bring your gender into it in the first place? I'm interested not in the person presenting about algorithms, but the algorithms themselves.

A man would be rightly chastised for presenting a de-duplicaton talk with bright pastel blue slides, pictures of beer, and rubbing his forehead while presenting, why shouldn't a woman?
Why do so many articles about the Kernel culture assert Linux has a contributor problem? Whenever Greg K-H does his contributor report, it looks like the largest collaborative software project ever shows no signs of slowing down. Are there reports or complaints from the Kernel maintainers that I've overlooked? Are the main barriers to entry no longer the technical skillset, intimidating problem domain and desire to work on kernels? I honestly don't know. If anything I think that the kernels contributor problem is that it's too attractive compared to chopping wood next door in the userland libraries and core processes.

Note: For this post I'm not trying to say anything one way or another about the complaints towards the social environment of the Kernel community, I find this a particularly poor point to use when arguing that message.
Except people who aren't the best aren't idiotic rubes who can't spot talent. I'm terrible at basketball but I can see that Lebron James is good.
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I remember hearing this episode on the radio some time back.

I am blessed to have worked in places where I haven't been exposed to many people who speak this way. I am surrounded by women, to be sure, but they are worried more about doing a good job than by trying to sound like it by deepening their voices.

It's funny, my mom is a non-native english speaker, having been in the US for 30 years. She heard a few women talking the other day using a well practiced combination of up-talk and vocal fry. She later turned to my wife and asked "Why are they talking like that?".

I do think that you will find that different demographics are more likely to speak this way. It's not the blanket category of "WOMEN". It's likely, from my experience, to be white, younger, professional women, and then, as knock-on effect, women from other backgrounds who work with them. They are probably plugged into the monoculture, have a common vocabulary, and use their vocal affects and vocabulary to filter out people who are not of a similar mind.

It's like when the newscasters all started speaking the same way, emphasizing certain words, movements of the head, a unique cadence that would, in conversation, be considered bizarre.

Nowadays, you are likely to dismiss any newscaster who doesn't speak that way as an amateur or charlatan who is not to be trusted.

Just my two cents. Feel free to give back change.