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When I was ~17, I was cast out of an online community that I had been working in/with for around 3-4 years. Overnight I lost my hobby, my so-called friends, and my entire personal life was examined in detail and revealed to the public for mocking/the enjoyment of the perpetrators.

Anyway, the scope of the backlash was not the same as it would be these days (because of the availability of Internet access for one) but my entire life was turned upside down for several years. I had to go into virtual hiding for a while. I'm 29 and I still feel shame thinking about it, even though I'm not entirely sure what it was I did "wrong".

So, I think that I have a tiny smidgen of an idea of what it's like (maybe?) and I still don't get Adria's anger.

I totally agree with you otherwise.
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I remember this episode well.

Adria is more immature than the jokes that she supposedly got offended by.

Let's ennumerate:

- She overheard a conversation that wasn't directed at her. In the middle of a conference she was hopefully not coerced at attending and should be paying attention to the speaker
- She took a picture of two people, without asking for permission
- She twitted said picture with negative comments
- She followed up(!) the tweet with a blog post
- She called one of the guy's employers (!!!)

And that interview, my god. I really have nothing good to say about it.

The reactions afterwards from supporters of both sides aren't an example of maturity either. But that's what you get when you invoke an angry mob to do a job that could be handled in a civil manner.
> Of course, I don't know what kind of employee protection people have

It's the US, and it's tech. So "none whatsoever" is about right.
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i would wager that most people feel a private conversation at a convention is less a professional context than getting on the twitter megaphone, i certainly do.
I've deleted what I wrote because of the scary number of upvotes it was gaining. I don't feel like spending the rest of the night trying to defend something about something that is so devisive even if I am on the "popular" side in this particular forum. I didn't write anything profound and it began to feel like cheap point scoring.
After reading this I don't like Adria Richards very much. She seems very self involved with a persecution context. However, she is still very much a victim of sexist online culture. Bad people can be victims too.

A man makes a mildly sexist unfunny joke and the result is a woman is unemployed for six months and fears for her safety. That is 'not cool', and ironically only reinforces her and other women's belief that there is a patriarchy out to get them.
The world is replete with examples of why you should never use your real name with your online identity in any way (although in this case, the guy's employer found out over a photograph; which is even more troubling.)

If there's anyone worse than Adria in this story, it's both Hank's and Adria's former employers. You don't destroy a person's life over a comment or a blackmail threat. But as they say, if corporations are people, then they are clearly sociopaths.

That said, there was this excerpt: "I know you didn’t call for him to be fired. But you must have felt pretty bad." "Not too bad, he's a white male. I'm a black Jewish female."

Followed by this later on, in the same interview: SendGrid, her employer, was told the attacks would stop if Adria was fired. Hours later, she was publicly let go. "I cried a lot, journaled and escaped by watching movies,"

Her lack of empathy is absolutely staggering. And, "if I had kids, I wouldn't tell jokes"? Seriously?
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So she overhears a private conversation between friends [none of the talk was directed to or being about anybody in particular], tweets a "summary" without context, adds a photo of the people involved, all in order to publicly shame them, while they did nothing wrong.

No sympathy for her.
I get that, and I empathise for Adria, but Hank isn't the perpetrator of the abuse. It's the direction of Adria's anger that shocked me, not that she's angry.
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I also think for society to evolve older generations need to die off. Peoples worldview becomes partially fixed in their youth, and for some it is entirely fixed in their youth. I wouldn't want to live with a bunch of geriatrics from the 1800's.
I occasionally joke that I know the perfect diet: my wife and I went on a hard two week hike a few years ago. We both lost 10-15 lbs and neither of us had the weight to lose at the start. I make sure people know I am joking when I recommend it though: it would be a very bad idea for most people to try it, and that probably includes me.

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sounds like a major difference, if a labour law only protects rich people, it is not really in the spirit of an actual "labour law"

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Was the joke even sexist at all or was it just sexual in nature? Inappropriate sure, but that's a pretty big difference in my book.
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"Hours after encountering its first video game, and without any human coaching, the A.I. has not only become better than any human player but has also discovered a way to win that its creator never imagined." this is where I stopped. A 12Y old could find this trick, and most of us have used it when we played.
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my point is rather badly explained, i mean to say that you need quite a lot of money on either continent to fight these type of battles.
What makes me laugh is where she says she's not to blame for what happened to Hank yet she then blames HIM for what happened to her.

If she didn't send the tweet, he wouldn't have got fired. If he didn't get fired, he wouldn't have posted on HN about being fired. If he didn't post on HN then none of this would've happened.

Basically it all stems from her original tweet..

I'm not condoning any of the behaviour but it could've quite easily been handled more maturely. If, instead of turning round, taking a photo and tweeting she'd approached him like an adult (maybe with the conference organisers if she was scared) and said "That's not cool" to him so he could actually apologised to her and none of this would've happened.
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And by making more and more communication channels "corporate" the government can wash their hands...
I don't see how I've even suggested otherwise.
> With enough money in the fired party's bank account, it would be.

Most of the US is at-will, employees can be fired for no reason or any reason as long as there's no breach of relevant federal statutes (Equal Pay Act, Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disability Act, …) — the latter being why employees are generally fired with absolutely no reason provided just to avoid any possibility of status breach.

That means for most firings there is no legal recourse, because there is no legal labour protection.

Most of Europe is very different on that point, you can't fire somebody just because you feel like it, and there are a number of labour-focused courts which tend to have a very bad view of companies trying to break or skirt labour laws.

It's not a question of money, it's a question of laws, or the lack thereof.
As a wannabe-kiwi, I'm hardly surprised. PM Key has been 'cooperative' with the US in most things so it's not surprising Five Eyes are being used to its/their fullest potential. Good thing GCSB has been talked about a lot even before this revelation... And about TPPA.
can you provide any supporting facts that Jon Ronson lied? I mean you say he lied about hsi reasons for interviewing her, i.e. said it was about sexism. However he has not lied about what she said or what actually happened. You do not deny that he has quoted her faithfully.

To me it seems that she was expecting that her minority status would protect her, she goes to lengths to point out she is black, female and jewish. who cares? And then the article has a huge backstory on why her life was so tough. you know what so were many peoples, the only reason to make an issue of how hard you had it as a kid is to try and engineer some sympathy. either what she did was right or it was wrong but her upbringing has nothing to do with that.
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Yeah, but it's absolutely apples and oranges. Petraeus didn't just break this rule, he broke others too and became a bit of an embarrassment.

With your run-of-the-mill service member, it's more a culture of indoctrination - you train people to never make moves that could be perceived as exfiltrating data so that then if anyone makes them you have better evidence that they're exfiltrating data.

I think that when there are allegations being applied of a double standard, it's important to ask why the double standard is being applied.

In this case, I think it's pretty fair to assume that a Secretary of State might well have a good reason for a double standard to be applied. It could be that a staffer gave bad advice, or that she'd received advice from security people.

Certainly I could believe that she'd be better able to vet her people than the state department.

This seems to be a bit of a political crushing, though.
that's very sad, but I understand why you are doing it.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, in what freezing hell is a remark about forking a guy's repo or something sexist?

Rather unprofessional, yeah, maybe -- which is why it wasn't spoken aloud on stage, but whispered between two colleagues. But sexist? Can someone draw me a diagram about how that conveys any form of discrimination, prejudice, violence, dislike or oppression of women?

This sounds like completely selfish bullshit to me. It's a bloody overheard remark. And better yet, it was handled in a very childish way: there are laws against discrimination. If someone feels they were subjected to any kind of -ism, there are courts of law that decide that, you just have to go to the police. But sure, why not settle it the cutthroat way, involving employers and family on the way.
I initially had a similar reaction but then forced myself to take a step back. I think I can sympathise with Adria regarding her initial reaction.

She's a minority surrounded by men who are happy to make these sorts of jokes within earshot. It sounds harmless to us, but I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black Jewish woman.

It must be very difficult to attend such a conference and then hear a joke like that — made with all the ease and comfort of someone who has no trouble fitting in. It could push you to do something rash like tweet a photo stating how upset it makes you.

Hank did something stupid and insensitive. His actions made a woman feel excluded, even during a talk about being more inclusive to women. But Hank also seems like a good guy who made a mistake that anyone could make.

The overreactions here seem to be on the part of their employers. It fuelled the fire that hurt them both and made the public angry.
> The takeaway that YC is only interested in money may be at the same time true and misleading.

Indeed. There are people who consider mentioning the money aspect to be indicative something lacking. Passion? Innovation?

Then there are those who know that buying your product is the true evidence of sincerity.
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If WT engine is better why they haven't at least made it default ? Is it for backward compatibility ?
That may be true however, you have to cut the poster a little slack. He did post this on Hacker News which is run by the YCombinator, possibly the most prestigious startup incubator out there.
Totally agree with your first 3 sentences, can't agree with the last. Finding the courage to stand up and directly address someone who is making you feel uncomfortable - especially if you're a minority in a certain environment - takes a lot of courage and absolute certainty that you're not going to get a mouthful of abuse back.

(I think talking directly to the conf organisers/staff would have been the preferred route, personally.)
It often happens in US to fire executives because of bad PR, undepending on their work. It doesn't have to be - How do they do on other continents? And this kind of be-perfect-or-be-banned rule doesn't have to extend to LTEs or even contractors.
You are probably referring to this paragraph:

> I did not get the guy fired; his own behaviour, which his employer considered another strike on his already written-up employee file, caused his employer to make the decision to fire him.

I'd like to quote Wikipedia when I say "citation needed". Even though it's an interesting post and raises good questions, I don't think it backs your TL;DR.
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I wasn't bothered by this inaccuracy. It's close enough to the truth so that the joke makes sense. (Well, as much as the joke can be considered to make sense.)
that doesnt mean it is not an interesting read on a similar situation.
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It goes on:

> “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

> “Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?” she said.

Remind me when someone was last killed at a tech conference like she says? Very rarely, if ever.

Did she feel bad about him being fired? Nope.

> “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me

Read that last sentence again. In poker terms, that's a "tell". She doesn't say "I was offended".

I've known people like this in real life. They are to be avoided. The "tells" above are:

* claiming people do nefarious things to get ahead (he seeded the hate groups)

* claiming they're always the victim

* lack of empathy for people who get hurt

* claimed desperate fear in every day situations

She's saying she's in fear of her life. That the guy making the joke is evil and powerful. That she's small and helpless. And thus she thinks that anything she does to protect herself is by definition OK.

Very, very, scary.

And yes, before the downvoters come in, the torrent of abuse she got was wrong. Very wrong. Those people should be punished. But make no mistake here, Adria Richards is not Hanks victim.
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The business guys need short buzz words. They can't comprehend "online distributed virtual machine on-demand hosting", but they can comprehend "cloud computing" and "data science".
Sexual != sexist. I feel like this concept needs more attention. Anecdotally, I hear just as many sexual jokes from females as I do males - the concept that "they feel comfortable" and happen to be surrounded by similar people (while/male) does not make it sexist, or even threatening.
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no you dont, in Europe there is a lot of legal aid and support available to bring these to employment tribunals. you dont have to be rich to get justice over here (but as with everywhere it does help).
Well, if it's worth adding a whole new layer to my stack to deal with this kind of stuff, surely it's even more worth extending an existing layer to deal with it; as a corollary, if I know enough about the problems I'm having to know what I need Templar to do for me, then I know enough about them to know what I need nginx to do for me, too.

Again, though, maybe I'm just missing the point here. Perhaps it would help to know what use case prompted Templar's development.
Wow, sounds like the good old days of Thought Police. See someone who don't respect the ideology en vogue, report them, and bam, they will be taken care of. Nice job Adria. Setting the good example for the kids.
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I'm sure proceedings have been successfully made in such states, at great financial expense, to prove that even though no reason was given "federal statutes" were breached. Your argument that that has never happened and can never happen is much harder to make convincingly.
"Not too bad, he's a white male. I'm a black Jewish female."

Nice quote here. As you say, it really does make Richards look empathetic. /s

But seriously, this is not good for her image.
Another unfortunate death that this brings to mind is that of Gunpei Yokoi, creator of Nintendo's Virtual Boy. He too was killed after a car hit him.
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So is it mostly about French territories ? I don't think that the Vanuatu or the Fiji are a huge threat on the global scale.
4chan behavior is well documented and not surprising in this case. Easily condemned, but I don't think it helps this discussion to be emotionally swayed by the reaction of such a group.
Having worked in Europe and seen the process at work, lawyers are cheap. Employees sue and succeed in their suits for surprisingly simple things.

Europeans take employee protection very seriously.
Why?
Specifically - why would I choose to browse this way over just accessing wikipedia?
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> If there's anyone worse than Adria in this story, it's both Hank's and Adria's former employers.

Worse? One (presumably) could've had a ruined business due to DDoS which could've led to much more layoffs than just one-I'm-very-sorry-for Adria. Hanks' employer could've had much more troubles than simply loosing money - by having a "black-jewish-feminist-hater" in his staff.
Imagine if today, someone walked up to you and started telling you who you really were. They even have pictures to prove what they are saying is true. You have no memory of any of it. Are you going to believe them?

My wife has these episodes. Evidence-based and logic-based approaches are very ineffective. If I can convince her to go for a ride in the car, and we drive around the city she has lived in her entire life, and drive by the house she grew up in, schools she went to, and get some food from a drive through she's been to hundreds of times, it will reduce her time-to-return by 24-48 hours usually. We can look through several thick photo albums, and at the end she just shrugs and says, "I don't know who any of these people are".
I used to experience same things after I lose consciousness (happened a lot when I was a teenager). I remember one case, when upon gaining consciousness I was pondering for a whole minute what kind of strange metal columns I see on a horizon. After what felt like a mountain of memories falling onto me, I realized that I'm lying on a floor of a lecture hall, and these columns are just chair legs.
I don't think tech workers in the EU would find it prohibitively expensive to take an employer to court, though. Plus, legal insurance is pretty affordable at this income bracket.
I don't really understand how you can be "pushed" to tweet a picture and then make a blog post about it, without feeling to be in a vengeful holy war.

Reporting a bad behavior to the conference organizer is ok. But, I don't see how -in the reality we live in- making a blog post about it will make the world a better place.
so we agree, it's cheaper in europe to get justice, but not free.
The irony is, such delusional behaviour does nothing but foster more doubt and double standards. If I were Hank, I would react exactly as he wrote:

> I asked Hank if he found himself behaving differently since the incident. Had it altered how he lived his life?

> “I distance myself from female developers a little bit now,” he replied. “I’m not as friendly. There’s humour, but it’s very mundane. You just don’t know. I can’t afford another Donglegate.”
> In one scenario I am stuck behind them and potentially having to deal with the results of any sort of screwup on their part,

If this is a concern, you are following too closely. You should always be far enough from the vehicle in front of you that you have ample time to stop without hitting them if they stop abruptly or hit something.
What angers me most about that conference incident is the indiscriminate public shaming of two people, one of whom was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Imagine being all over the internet because your company sent you to a conference with the wrong guy.
I don't see any reason to believe the YC side were playing n-dimensional startup chess here.

Occam's razor suggests they simply didn't read the info, and were asking dumb shoot-from-the-hip technical questions.

Having said that, the 'Do you have any users and have you actually built an app with this?' questions were entirely apt, and Team Creo should have had better answers.

Basically the product is nowhere close to being developed enough for a funding round. It has potential, maybe, but so far it's a programming exercise, not a potential business.

The experience highlights the continuing mismatch between developer expectations and funder expectations.

1. Write lots of code
2. I have no idea what happens here
3. PROFIT!

If you haven't thought seriously about step 2 you're going to have a hard time with funding - or even just turning your code into a viable business.