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Do we really need to judge the quality of her code in order to evaluate her point of view? One doesn't have to agree with how she continues to handle things, or take offense at the joke oneself, in order to perceive that another might have different thoughts about it. I think that the whole ordeal is/was overblown, but to come away from this article merely thinking that she's racist and sanctimonious (I'll agree a bit with the latter) is missing an opportunity for critical self-evaluation. Getting riled up at her reaction ("bet money", "pain in the ass") does nothing to deepen mutual understanding in the workplace. Seeking out and lambasting those that make it their mission to get back at the "man" is an "eye for and eye" -- I think we've come a bit further than that in 4000 years.

Also, for one that says "I can't speak for her" and "I don't know her," you seem quite willing to go all out to discredit her as being the stereotypical irrational woman. [1] She herself isn't necessarily present in the discussion. What is the point in eviscerating her as you've done? Playing armchair psychologist does nothing to make workplace interactions better. This whole situation seems like a great place, at the unfortunate expense of Hank and Adria, for the tech industry to meet in the middle between "making dongle jokes is cool, get over it" and "the white-male hegemony needs to be dismantled."

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HystericalWoman
Farmer's markets have them.
I think the Dunning-Kruger thing is a nice idea but it's immediately ruined once you become aware of it, like a Heisenberg uncertainty sort of thing.

I used to think I was crap, but Dunning-Kruger, so I must be great.

I used to think I was great, but Dunning-Kruger, so I must be crap.

It just seems a bit trite to base any real world conclusions or behaviour off of.

I agree that the interview process is broken. The reason I wouldn't apply to Google/Facebook/Fog Creek is personal and nothing to do with their interview process.
In this case, only his employees. Because this is the issue, not general deliverability.
Definitely. I'd think that as MySQL wasn't born for this, it has to be somewhat slower..?

The interesting thing in my opinion is however that you don't have to mess with server stuff, you just include a PHP file and you're good to go.
I remember Mike. I went to RIT too. We weren't friends but he was friends with a lot of my friends. This is a shock.
At the moment it's much safer than most other CMS's, as there is no admin backend to hack into. A hacker would need access to your actual server to change a Baun site. So hopefully there should be no headaches.
This seems more like a bug than something intentional. What I find more interesting (and am somewhat saddened by) is that a bug such as this causes people to leap to the conclusion that it is part of a malicious, anti-competitive plot.
Thank you for pointing this out! It's good to have that kind of feedback, so I can check it and fix it :)
I and probably everyone who has ever talked to investors/VCs had a similar experience to yours. And from an Investors standpoint it does make sense to basically ignore the product. Even though that can be frustrating. I think the pitfalls and traps that came with the interviewers questions have been discussed already. You know what they want to hear so naturally you are going to do better next time.

Anyway by all means there was good advice on here but don't get discouraged if you are passionate about your product. Because that, beside product and Team and everything else, is still the most important factor in a startup imo.
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> but the more important thing to HN is that she was a black woman challenging a white man, and that simply cannot be allowed to stand.

Oh get off the racism/sexism card already.

If Hank were the black woman and Adria were the white male, then I swear on my honor I would feel exactly the same way toward both parties here.
There is essentially a wiki for the major English-speaking countries to share intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Amazon mail works fine for me.

But there is a white list, if you add the sender to your contact list it is white listed.
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I wonder, are all these leaks actually still from Snowden himself or is the name being used as a cover/branding for other sources now?
I am curious how much this venue impacts attendance.

South Africa is one of the more challenging places to get to from Asia or North America. And costly.

Worse, There is not a single flight on the planet from North America or Asia to Cape Town, you'd have to fly in to Johannesburg (and there are only 2 flights from the East Coast that even go there).

I'm not suggesting conferences have to pick a venue in North America or Europe for an event, but open source conferences often have more budget-conscious attendees and I imagine picking a venue with many more travel options and less hours in the air would be far more cost effective to reach. :-)
I wrote a little post on how we're doing A/B testing at Revaluate.
It's funny, but now that i've used golang, i can't help that think that async/await or any concurrency primitive isn't the kind of thing you add to a language in an update, but rather the things you build the language around.

Edit : of course that comment applies to server-side oriented languages. For client-side code running in a browser, this is less of an issue. Actually, dart-to-js on the client + golang for the api could be a good combo...
> claiming that there is a "patriarchy" sounds a whole lot like a conspiracy theory. Replace "patriarchy" with "zionism" in typical statements to see what I mean.

That's a false analogy. Zionism and similar conspiracy theories are predicated upon the notion that there organizations and people consciously manipulating things behind the scenes.

When most people discuss the patriarchy, they're not referring to conscious, willful agents. They're talking about systemic sexism.
Why don't you setup the reverse? That is, let their GMail act as a user agent to receive and send emails on behalf of the company account.
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There are no "farms" in NYC. They ship it do a garden in Red Hook. And let us hope this apparent "farm" doesn't use the polluted soil of that region. I've seen enthusiastic people growing vegetables in open fields in Williamsburg. That is a super fund site!

Farming is hard, thankless work that entails high risk. What they do in Brooklyn is not farming. It is gardening.
> However I personally believe, and would have thought, that most people dont trust Facebook with the linked data, since they are learning more about you?

I think most people in the real world, outside our cozy tech bubble, trust Facebook pretty deeply. They give them their thoughts, their photos, their schedule, and their private messages to people. I'm not sure their really that concerned about Facebook also knowing that they signed into Candy Crush Saga XIV
In the US I still have to sign things daily. Even the cafeteria where I work (Well under $10 for every purchase). Fast food you don't have to sign (or at least you don't have to sign under some limit which I've never hit) but every store I go to I have to sign (more and more on digital signing pads).
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Thanks for so eloquently describing what I've been trying to articulate about these sorts of situations. People can react in ways that appear hypocritical, irrational or plain malicious when they're put in circumstances that make them feel unsafe, uncomfortable or unwelcome. This can happen to any of us.

Those actions shouldn't be praised, but they also shouldn't be judged outside of their context. It's really hard for people like us in a position of relative privilege* to empathise because we're put in these situations so much less often, if ever.

It's so important for us to recognise our internal biases and confront them. Until I read these comments I didn't realise just how much better I'd empathised with Hank just because he's way more similar to me than Adria is.

* I hate to use the p-word because of its stigma but I really can't think of a better word
You might be right on point 1, but it doesn't offer an alternative. If you state that you take mediocre developers, better developers won't want to work there either.

Point 2 is also sort of moot; if people can make it on their own in the contract world, then it doesn't really matter what hyperbolized interview process (5-days? What?) stands between them and employment. I'm in the same boat, I work contract now and don't want to go back. The interview process has nothing to do with it.

I think you're far from concluding that the process is broken, though. Some companies may want to hire top CS grads straight out of college. In fact, a small company could probably fill their ranks through that alone.
It's tough though, because when you are a small company that expects developers to jump in and be productive, you do need some kind of process. That process can be referral based, in which case testing isn't as necessary because you can rely on past shared experience, but that obviously limits your talent pool.

When you are interacting with an unknown (or a less known) person, you have to have some kind of vetting process. And with a small company culture, typically false negatives are far less harmful than false positives.
Can you tell us more about you and about the user experience? how are you planning to evaluate a participants current progress? who is going to write the content? (best practices and exercises)

Disclaimer: I've created CardForest.com (in-progress), which is possibly targeting a similar audience.
> I avoid running near men (particularly groups of men) because of a fear that I'll come to harm

It's not irrational. I'm a man and I avoid groups of people at night, too. It's an absolutely reasonable precaution. I avoid other men because I don't want to put my life in danger unnecessarily, and I avoid women mostly because I don't want them to be alarmed by my presence.

These are what I would call rational fears, because they're about minimizing risk. It's also very clear that, say, if I required sudden medical assistance, I would probably trust any stranger I come across in the city at night to do the right thing 99.9% of the time. These are the mechanics of false negatives vs. false positives.

> I don't expect other people to cater towards my fear

Exactly. This is an important point because being afraid of something another person might do doesn't necessarily mean it's an accurate reflection of that person's intent.

And this is the fundamental breaking point where I think reasonable people start to feel a disconnect in the flow of the dongle story, because Richards is asserting both now and then that her life was in danger, and while it's easy to at least consider this feeling was real, the main question becomes did those guys do anything to cause that fear?

Because if they did not, it's unreasonable to blame them for causing this fear. I don't think a lot of people would say this fear itself is unjustified, but using it to attack someone who apparently did nothing to cause it is, and this whole disaster is a missed opportunity to talk about the factors that cause it.

This is not to detract from the stupidity of genital jokes in general, which amazingly both parties appear to be fond of.
As a younger male about to finish his software engineering degree and start applying I agree with these points. I am intimidated at the rigorous testing some companies use. I don't have the confidence that others might have in there ability.

I am ultimately looking for a mentoring workplace ( just to start) where I can build my confidence quickly and start producing for the company.
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And of course some men are also afraid to be killed or physically hurted by some women. Because, well... this happen, also.

I personally remember for example the case of a woman stabbing the belly of her partner (a men) with scissors. A very small and deep cut. You don't really need to be much strong to be able to kill another human.

In a country when everybody can carry a firearm with them legally, why women should be specially concerned by assaulting men, or more afraid to be killed by men than to be killed by another women?. In a lot of cases when a men kills someone the victim is another men.
At least Google puts the email in Spam.

With office 365 and hotmail email just goes into the abyss. We have SPF and DKIM yet some mail just never arrives when sent to hotmail. The server responds with "250 queued for delivery" but the mail never arrives and doesn't go into spam either.

Very annoying when order confirmations don't arrive.
Take a look at that again. There's one queue per type. One queue for graphics, one queue for compute, and one queue for DMA. Note that multiple threads are all feeding the single graphics queue.
We take a lot of pride in how much we get out of each piece of hardware. You don't need to have 1000 servers to run a large site, just the mindset of performance first.
This is not a general issue with delivering mail to Gmail users. This is not even a mailing list. He is using Gmail as a backend to his own mail setup.

His employees want to receive mail sent to @dnalounge.com in their Gmail inboxes. It's a non-standard configuration and brittle. You can't really expect them to support it for free.

Google offers a couple of supported ways to do it. Most prominently: pay for Google Apps. But you can also use Gmail like a regular mail client and retrieve mail using POP3.
It's a provocative thesis that Fog Creek hires mediocre developers. The evidence of their products suggests otherwise.

Of course as Atwood's friend Scott says, "We're all amateurs," so perhaps Fog Creek just hires the less mediocre on an absolute rather than relative scale.
On the other hand they can't go around claiming to have a deep seating sensitivity to offenses -- the image she was trying to portray. That she was just shaking in fear of being murdered because of a dongle joke.

She is misrepresenting her character and manipulates the public image of herself to stir controversy, drama, and in turns she actually hurting the cause she claims to champion. If anything that is the thing I don't like about what she did the most.
* Tokenization (Little to no chance of fraud)

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* No signing (In the US we still have to sign for nearly everything)

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Why don't they want to be there though?

There's gender imbalances in lots of places now between executives, teachers, prison, the military, some of those are positive places to have a gender balance in.

I've seen lots of discrimination against females in the places I have worked, behind their back for the most part. I have also seen examples of positive discrimination in their favour, but not as much.

Personally, I think it's a manufacturing line of institutions that lead to a hireable tech worker - and if you go back each step along the assembly line, the female involvement is higher percentage wise.

So I think the lower representation is a product of women opting out of maths and science based subjects at an early stage, and later choosing the medical profession over engineering.

It would be interesting to get some statistics over the span of a career, do a higher percentage of women change career away from tech once they start?
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>>it's small enough to keep in your head

This. And the additional effect is that you can keep more of the problem domain in your head as well. I've been in this game a long time, and my experience has been that the simpler the dev tools, the more likely the programmers working on a particular domain will be SME's in that domain.
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Not all taxes have this effect. A land value tax, a poll tax, a value added tax, or a wealth tax do nothing of the sort.

Income tax, corporate tax, capital gain taxes are some of the worst, most distortive taxation schemes. But taxation isn't just about raising revenue, it needs to have some popular support, and so it caters to a strange vision of fairness.

To get an idea of how distortive an income tax can be consider the following scenario.

You do your own housework and cooking, but while you're a great cook you suck at cleaning up. Your neighbor is the opposite, terrible cook, but great with a mop.

So you'd like to hire your neighbor as house cleaner, and they hire you as a cook, but now, both of you are paying taxes.

In this specific example, you could probably find an arrangement where money doesn't change hands, and the transaction would be small enough for the IRS not to really care. However, scale that up to an entire economy, and you see the gigantic friction that it introduces in exchanging labor.
This is the first time I've seen the Blub Paradox [1] portrayed as ignorance from the other direction!

OK, not a big believer of the "Blub" theory, personally - every language has its place in a continuum of dimensions that are more than just technical, and I actually like Go overall. But "lack of generics" is definitely not the same as "simplicity. Not in the decade we live in.

1. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox
My point was that in the context of the conference, her religion didn't visibly distinguish her from the rest of the audience, so there's no reason to write

"[...] I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black Jewish woman"

just like there wouldn't be a reason to say

"[...] I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black vegetarian woman"

or

"[...] I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black stamp-collecting woman"

Note: I'm aware that the "black Jewish woman" argument was her own statement.
Thanks, signed up! :-)
fwiw, I found sesteel's comment useful and informative.

(by the way, you might have misread it. I think he didn't mean "generation of masters" as "old smart people" but probably specifically the creators of Go, since they happen to include Rob Pike and Ken Thompson - two people who had separately created the B programming language (immediate predecessor of C), co-created Unix at Bell Labs in the 70's, co-authored a famous Unix book with Kernighan (of Kernighan and Ritchie fame), authored UTF-8 together, etc. They happen to be actual old masters.

They created Go in 2007, from what I heard cleaning up a lot of their old mistakes along the way.)
So andybak, congratulations on clinging to a sweet sounding one-liner, but let's think a little more about it. So anytime something bad happens to a person (their wallet or phone is stolen, or their family dog is killed), and the victim believes the perpetrator acted maliciously, would you tell them that "smacks of conspiracy thinking" (whatever that means to you)?

Another educational moment for you would be to look up the word "conspiracy" to learn what it means. I understand that you were hoping to use it as a dismissive term, but you would have been better off using a universally dismissive term like "crazy", as there are a lot of rational people that understand the factual meaning of "conspiracy" and don't interpret it in the same way you do.
Heh, I always thought Harry Potter was a bit slow.

All hail You Know Who!

(Just kidding I love Python as well, I wish I could have the best of both worlds)
I've got email forwarding set up for a domain on 1&1.co.uk and don't have any problems on gmail. Others who have mail forwarded from the domain don't have any problems on hotmail or yahoo either.

Maybe Google gives extra trust to 1&1; or maybe there is some other thing that they check for.
> DPR did everything he could to conceal his identity while running SR and he still screwed up.

DPR screwed up by running the largest drug trafficking system in the world. I make software to play old video games. While I'd love to flatter myself into thinking I were that important, I doubt I'm going to get the force of the entire US government trying to link my identity over my perfectly legal online actions.

But yes, anyone can eventually screw up. The nice part is that my real name is also really common. I can just make a new pseudonym if I have to. Changing your real name, still doable, but not quite as easy.
They could put Steve Buscemi at the top to stop people from interpreting contrived examples.
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Well, yes you are right about that. I did not know/missed her position at the company. If you are an evangelist you are a frontend of your company, an institution's face where ever publicly speaking.
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You'd be surprised how small the tech industry is once you get down to national level in Europe.
But it's just recently hit 1.0

As an alpha only. It's still much too unstable to be able to do anything serious with it.
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Go here: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=eu-court-rules-e-books-ar...

Click on the first link that leads to wsj.
for folks who don't know it (yet), here is the toc: http://www.informit.com/store/go-programming-language-978013...
IIRC for recurring they can use the same token or they get a slightly different token. Either way it's like using a different card with each merchant so you can easily track back who got hacked.
Fear and avoidance of half of humanity. I've never before heard that described as "the wisest stance". :D I'll have to think about it... ;)
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Seems like bittorrent foundation has been doing a lot of closed work source ever since bittorrent has been used across the world and they got very little money out of it.

Just my drive by judgement.
How would you monetize a resource that's more valuable when it's accessible to everyone?
Is it, strictly speaking, possible to pirate a service?
Yeah that's definitely in excusable. But what makes me even more curious is the care the author took to explain that it was only the unclassified system. So what about the classified network? SIPR? CENTRIXS? Are we to assume that HRC didn't send/receive any classified email? That just seems odd. So I'm starting to think that a) she did, in fact, have a government email to handle the classified material and b) chose to have her unclassified email off the network for other reasons that remain to be disclosed.

Edit: I suppose there are other options. She could have used a staffer's email to send messages on the classified networks.