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well free legal aid is worth what you pay for it in mine and other's experience. hopefully you won't have to rely on it someday. being rich certainly does help.
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I'm not seeing any overt or implicit sexism either. Not even when she provides context, really:

> She explained the background – how she was a “developer evangelist at a successful start-up” and that while the men had been giggling about big dongles the presenter on stage was talking about initiatives to bring more women into the industry. In fact, he’d just projected onto the screen a photograph of a little girl at a tech workshop.

> “…I stood up slowly, turned around and took three, clear photos. There is something about crushing a little kid’s dream that gets me really angry. It takes three words to make a difference: “That’s not cool.” Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard.”

So "Hank" made a couple of suggestive jokes unrelated to the topic at hand, and just because the talk was about women in tech he's sexist and crushing a little kid's dream? Would that have made him a climate change denier had it been on global warming?

Maybe I'm missing something, because Adria's actions and reactions make very little sense to me.
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My guess is to make upgrades easier.

You can upgrade to the 3.0 binary without needing to migrate data to the new storage engine, which takes time.

It wouldn't make sense from an ops standpoint to make an engine-migration mandatory.
One important point here is that Adria's role was that of developer evangelist - a role that requires good community engagement. It's then not such a stretch to imagine that her ability to do this job well might be compromised in the aftermath of such an event.

It's thus not totally unreasonable for her to be let go for this, even if it's not her fault.

Having said that, I find both sides really depressing. The brogrammer/franerdity approach does alienate women, which is why it should as much as possible be suppressed (although it's a culture which itself is frequently hated on, so it'd be really easily to just end up with high school again). Meanwhile public shaming is also not desirable, especially when the act can easily be argued to be the product of a culture, not of an individual.

Both were at fault, but the guy involved shouldn't have lost his job over it, and Adria probably shouldn't have lost her job over it.

One thing that people don't mention is that the employers of both might have wanted to get rid of them for other reasons.
> Say what you like, but Hank didn't do anything wrong here.

I think he did: there seems to be no discussion that he violated the conference's code of conduct. If we want to reduce the sexism in tech, I think reporting these instances is perfectly fine, and even commendable.

However.

She could have asked them politely to stop. If she didn't feel safe doing that, she could have talked in private to the conference's organizers. An e-mail would do. But she took it to Twitter instead, so everyone can point at them. I think she was in the wrong in doing that, and they both ended up suffering from it.

If there were a lesson to get from here, I'd say it would be "have you considered talking?". Or perhaps "do you really want to bring the Internet into our discussion?".
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Oh. Thank goodness for that.

Now I can resist every publisher that wants me to write a book on Go, and tell myself that was OK to do because I'd never write as good a book as those two.
> "I believe that our biggest mistake was to think that being able to develop such an extraordinary product could somehow give us an advantage against the thousand of other ideas presented at Y Combinator."

Sorry, you don't get to call your product 'extraordinary' among a crowd of developers. Users may apply that label, and it's your job to try to convince them to do it.
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It's not about giving up.

It is about looking at mortality as some kind of disease and not a common thing that happens to all living beings.

As a human, I am afraid of death as the most of us. I like to toy with the idea living forever, or at least hundreds of years...

But looking at our society now. As the average lifespan getting higher, more people stay in jobs longer as usual. The young wont have any jobs, because their parent will stay in the positions. In the end the old would have to sustain the young and soon after that, no one would want to have a child, because who needs another hungry mouth.

Of course as the 1st world country citizens will afford living a longer life, 2nd and 3rd ones wont.
This will create a massive gap between nations. Like we didn't have that already.

And we don't know how the human mind could handle this anyway. Maybe you would go actually mad after 200 years of living.

And as I said. The extra years always add up to the end. Maybe you live 200 years, but 2/3 of that is spent being old and useless.

As highly appreciated and acknowledged people warn us about the ramifications of A.I., so we should be extremely cautious about banning death.

To be honest I would be less afraid of A.I. as the consequences of immortality.
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This needs to be the top comment. Can you imagine a person who claims their fight-or-flight response gets triggered by sexual jokes (jokes that were actually more homosexual in content than degrading towards women), but then actually has no empathy for people outside of themselves whatsoever?

People like this deserve no platforms of power whatsoever.
SimCity probably changed my life. I grew up with SimCity on DOS and then Super Nintendo, and then SimCity 2000. Then The Sims came out when I was a teenager and blew my mind all over again.

As an adult, I consider myself to be very strategic and analytical. I believe I can attribute some of my refinement in this sense to games like SimCity and Civilization. It's sad to see such a storied label gutted.
The summary of the article says his book is about "fake indignation." Who gets to decide what indignation is "fake" and what is "real?"
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as you say, I assumed that eating your own blood would be fine for a vegan.
> how in the world can Wall Street be the villain in this story?

Two replies up, you'll find your answer there, as you probably jumped over it.
A good writeup with some more background information here:

https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

I found it interesting that apparently, Adria has done similar things in the past.
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I think what throwawayaway was saying was that if a company wants to lay you off in a way that contravenes some employee protection laws they'll first offer you a sum of money on condition that it doesn't go to court (more than the amount they legally have to).
Not at all, in Europe this kind of justice is accessible to most people (and most likely you will win the costs as well). OK, I am speaking for Spain but I guess it is the same thing in all of the EU.
Due to the new steam machines running on linux there's a high probability for the games to work for os x as well. I think (can't find the reference right now) that gabe newell really want games to be able to run on all major pc os's.
If you're a member of some sort of union (and many more people are) then they'll often provide you with a legal team for free if they believe your case is 'worthy'.
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Well, now'd be a good time.

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
I pay 22 pounds(~$28)/month for my home insurance and it also provides up to half a million pounds for legal costs in case I wanted to sue my employer on the grounds of unfair dismissal. In general, I wouldn't think twice about going to court about anything, most things you can do without a lawyer or with a court-appointed one.
There's a real reason why society stopped doing public shaming as punishment. It brings out the worst in everyone.
> Finding the courage to stand up and directly address someone who is making you feel uncomfortable [...]

She didn't. Instead of directly addressing them and giving them a chance to explain and apologize, she instead proceeded to put them in a public pillory. That's the opposite of courageous, it's malicious, sneaky, and underhanded.
I don't think it's a lack of empathy. It feels like anger at a system that caters to men in a field she very much enjoys and wants to be included in. Unfortunately Hank happens to be a fairly good guy who is defended by this system and oblivious to it. He's an unintended casualty of her anger at something bigger.

I had many of the same reactions as you when I read her words. 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. While the emotional image of a little girl wanting to get into your field is up on screen.

And then to have everyone defend that person and behave like you're the one that fired him just because you voiced your discomfort publicly.

I don't agree with Adria's public tweet, and Hank got way more than he deserved (as did Adria) over it. But I can totally see how she could have been driven to do it, and I can even see how she would feel now — after all she's gone through — that she should not have to apologise for it.

From that article it sounds like she came out of this worse than Hank, who got another job almost immediately. And you have to wonder — did Hank get another job so fast because our field is dominated by men, and they are likely to feel for him and have the same initial reactions as we do when reading this article? Unfortunately there are not many people who will feel for Adria. I'm sure she knows it.
Do you really think that conferences' code of conduct should regulate what two friends are saying to each other privately?
The chances of this sort of thing happening to any given person are astronomically small. The Internet has a fairly finite capacity for outrage. There's only so many memes that can grab attention at any one time. And the amount of that attention that has to be focused in order to achieve something like removing you from your job is just immense. And even then, you can rebuild. Eventually.

There's no rebuilding from the kinds of public shaming that went on through history or even right now in the rest of the world. Imagine being a pariah in the only small village you've ever known in a world where every other village won't accept you at all. Even what Adria went through was tame compared to that.
Well... I do agree it's not the most empathic response, but if you read the article again is that the weirdest lack of appropriate emotion you see?

I must say I'm more concerned about the combination of her father beating her mother to pieces with a hammer, and her writing an upbeat and loving letter to him some 20 years later... To me that's the heartbreaking story here.

UPDATE: Edited to clarify that I think there's room to empathize with Adria.
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Handling it personally makes a lot of sense. I have children, I don't teach them to immediately run to authority the minute they are offended. You should be able to confront/request somebody behave appropriately without them "giving back a mouthful of abuse". And therein lies the key, if they give you back a mouthful of abuse, then take it higher up. There are absolutely situations where going directly to conf organizers and staff is appropriate, but this doesn't seem like one to me.
> Your argument that that has never happened and can never happen is much harder to make convincingly.

No, my argument is that the vast majority of firings in the US are not covered by any labour protection laws or agreements. It's not a question of money when there's no law or contract to build your case on.
He should fake it until he make's it. At least pretend not to be culture shocked.
> but I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black Jewish woman.

Is this a joke?
>while it would be incredibly difficult to go through this, it would be harder if she woke up the next morning and didn't want to acknowledge or know about what had happened the night before

It's not that bad. Once you go through the exercise a few times, you have strategies that work, and it's about on par with having a sick child, where you might be slightly frustrated that you have to take a day off of work or make other arrangements, but you know the steps to take and get on with the day.
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But if she was scared, why would she tweet using her real account.
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I think the feeling of entitlement to be never offended isn't a right (mainly because anything can offend some people). Adria is seriously comparing the situation caused by people making silly jokes to feeling as if she's going to be murdered? Er?

I feel very bad for Hank in this and also don't think that she should be hounded by 4chan et al. I will also avoid using SendGrid - her company in my life. Who is Hank's previous employer? I intend to boycott that completely spineless company too (name and shame!).

Also I really fucking dislike the pop psychology about her Dad in the article. No. I believe your past is not your future and you are responsible for your choices.

Finally, it's ironic that Adria implies she thinks hank deserves what he got. If Adria were being judged by her own standards about public discourse...
There are differences between Hank in Adria.

* Hank did a private joke while Adria took the issue to the public (tweeted to her 10,000 followers)
* Hank was a developer while Adria was a developer evangelist, so she officially represents the company publicly. It's important to note that a lof of her Twitter followers probably followed her because of her position at Sendgrid.

Which is why I can understand Sendgrid's decision, but less Hank's employer's decision. Not based on the blackmail, but because it became hard for such a dividing personality to assume a position that involves public communication with a developer community that may or may not agree with everything you think.
i disagree, free legal aid is very good, it just depends on your experience. i assume you are in the US and free legal aid there is the public defender where they are underfunded, overworked and probably not motivated by the system. In the UK where legal aid has been a part of the system for so long there is little difference between the quality of advice and representation. Some of the top firms for employment rights do both private and legal aid funded work and the same people work on both. Yes there are corporate law employment lawyers who dont do legal aid but I would bet dollars to donuts that most of them cut their teeth doing legal aid funed work and it is that work that gave them the experience and knowledge to move onto private paying work.
Could you explain why you think the recursive strategy is a bad one for working out criss-cross merges?
Also, her own words are showing signs of insecurity in her side which leads to near destruction of two peoples lives. (her own included).

Also, both companies' responses to these events are overreactions.
Everyone can be offended by anything. If your response involve real harmful ramifications for the other person, you're the one being a dick.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is nothing but a political agreement of the powers that dominated at the time of its publication. My thought (and I admit I may be wrong about it) is that the only state of matters worth having is one that contributes to a system's preservation and prosperity. Having such agreements on what constraints or freedoms to be set on human's irrational beliefs, social convictions on sexual behavior, or one's favorite color, may prevent some conflicts of spurious nature that would be otherwise expensive to deal with, but have nothing to do with the real, objective challenges that we have to face as humans.
As a developer evangelist you would think she could have handled it better.
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> The way I figure it, when value is being knowingly and unnecessarily destroyed, someone somewhere in the chain is being irrational.

Well, the model I see people using to describe EA basically amounts to buying studios with good long-term revenue prospects (known brands that, if consistently executed at a slightly below-average level, should maintain decent sales because the fans know what they're getting every time), and deciding to extract all of that future revenue all at once, by hyping up the latest incarnation of the series to extreme degrees while not bothering to execute at all. More sales now, less work now, no sales later.

If you want to stand by describing this as irrational, I wouldn't say the obvious candidate is EA shareholders. I'd say the obvious candidate is the studios who can't manage their brand well enough that it's worth more than the EA strip-mining approach. If you think that the long-term revenue stream has more "inherent worth", the studios are the ones squandering it.

(postscript -- I'm pretty sure I accidentally downvoted you when selecting a quote from your comment. I wish I could undo that.)
I love Jon Ronson's work. He manages to make people appear human. Here, though, Adria comes across really poorly. She blames "Hank" for the (totally unacceptable) abuse she receives, even when she's told that he was not in anyway responsible for it.

If you get the chance to see his documentaries or listen to his radio shows you should - they're good.
The problem is that, in this case, "erudite" means "directly serializing the writer's complex and nuanced thoughts without being able to serialize the writer's previous context that allowed him/her to hold all those thoughts in a single structure." We tend to break things down further when trying to communicate because we no longer assume a precise educational background common to All Educated People, but instead a diverse range of backgrounds. We still know the reader can handle complex, nuanced thoughts, but we need to break them down into smaller pieces that the reader can assemble according to their own framework of previous knowledge.
You're missing the point. They don't think about how to maximise profit. They think about how to hit their sales target, how to run successful marketing and how to perform their accounting function.

Assuming they even do that. Their daily thoughts are more likely to be : How can I make sure my superiors notice I perform my role. How can I make sure I don't fuck this up. What do I need to do to get a promotion. I don't feel fulfilled, I think I'll go find a job elsewhere, I wonder where I should start looking. etc. etc.

When you posted these comments were you thinking : how does posting on HN maximise my profit ?
Secure web browsing corrupted by corporations and the NSA? Fix it by replacing certificates with a blockchain! I'm sure the NSA can't possibly amass more hashing power than anyone else who would care.

Whoever else that would be; presumably the incentive is an altcoin. Bitcoin is working out badly enough, with consolidation of mining and miners hovering around equilibrium.

In what way is this not a terrible idea and an excuse to use the buzzword "blockchain"?
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There's only one way to reach peace: By not attacking the other party and by giving up past debts, altogether at a country level.

Example: The current way we deal with respect for women in IT is to raise those problems, get people fired, give women the promotion preference, and shame reluctant minds. If those actions leave scars in the sentiments of males, we won't be any closer to peace, confidence and safety between the two genders.

After WWII, the German people started to learn French and the French people started to learn German, among a lot of similar things. We need to find what will lead us to work together and acknowledge each other's qualities, more than attacking each other on legal grounds.
IMHO the discussion should not about these 3 people involved in this particular incident.

It should be about everybody just brain farting directly to the internet without realizing there's no delete button...
I know what she did. I didn't say I agreed with her approach (quite the opposite, in fact).
> A man makes a mildly sexist unfunny joke and the result is a woman is unemployed for six months and fears for her safety.

No, the reason for her unemployment and harassment was not the private joke between two friends, but her handling of the situation (i.e., the public shaming via Twitter).
JR is a journalist with no agenda whatsoever. If you knew anything about him you would know he is probably the most passive voice left in modern media
It was already discussed here five days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9125480