jerrya

If you want to sell me on increasing surveillance, don't bother selling me all the upside based on fear. Any random salesjerk can do that.

Instead, let me know what sort of information you consider needs to be made public, what sort you do agree should be kept private, and what safeguards you think should be put in place to guarantee that information is safeguarded.

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many have replaced it with texting.

Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.

Interesting how she characterizes it throughout her piece as a very violent gender war, but at the end claims it to be a class war at then end.

I think that's the crux of many of the problematic perspectives of contemporary feminism, that what are class differences are jammed into the square box of gender war.

Can anyone provide any support for this claim?

That colleges pump out X% women STEM grads and Y% men and that companies hire X' women and Y' percent men where X/Y is less than X'/Y' ??

And ideally that would be followed up with the studies of the men and women STEM graduates that did not find jobs in STEM that tracked where they did find jobs, and if those jobs were second choices to a STEM job?

Is there any data for koltkorivera's claim?

I mean, come on, 8, 10, 12 hours per day, 5 days a week, 50ish weeks a year. Soon it adds up to a real lifetime.

Find yourself something to do that you find interesting, young facebook dweebs.

Give up the damn money programming pointless apps, it seems to be sucking your souls away.

You may wish to consult the urban dictionary or other sources for feminist shaming tactics http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Feminist%20Sh...

And here is an article by a feminist at xojane discussing why she will never use the word "mansplain" http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-you-ll-never-hear-me-use-te... I do appreciate your femsplaining why all the men here have been wrong to disagree even mildly with rachelbythebay

I also would highly recommend you read Feynman's Cargo Cult Science. You may find it insightful. http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm

So I've said this in meetings, hasn't everyone?

(And I bet I would say something like "Put down the crack pipe")

I can certainly believe there would be managers (and companies) that might take exception to this, but it would be justified only if their meetings were exceedingly well run. I'd hate to work for a manager or a company that took exception to that though to the point of dinging me on a performance review.

Most people work at their company's location 8, 10, 12 hours per day. It's one thing to ask employees to not harass other employees. It another thing to demand of all employees they act like robots or be accused of unprofessional behavior.

I suspect the Payphone Project's mailbox locator was one of the first crowdsourcing web applications and predated the USPS effort.

http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/

It seems unlikely that at this stage a productive discussion is to be had at Hacker News.

There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals."

"Yes, but what about the firemen, then?" asked Montag.

"Ah." Beatty leaned forward in the faint mist of smoke from his pipe. "What more easily explained and natural? With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word `intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes. They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors. That's you, Montag, and that's me."

The door to the parlour opened and Mildred stood there looking in at them, looking at Beatty and then at Montag. Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap-drums, tom-toms, and cymbals. Her mouth moved and she was saying something but the sound covered it.

Beatty knocked his pipe into the palm of his pink hand, studied the ashes as if they were a symbol to be diagnosed and searched for meaning.

"You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."

"Yes."

Because of the subsidies, we actually don't know what the real price of that piece of electronics is. There's a very good chance the subsidies themselves are there to increase the price out the door of that piece of electronics.

In a no subsidy free market, who knows, while MSRP of a cellphone might be $600, the real price might turn out to be $450 or so.

If people take offense to you or your writing regardless of the content of your writing and make assumptions on you based on their perceptions of your sex and gender identification, well, we have a word to describe such prejudice, don't we?

Have you really had a problem with the behavior of your participants that requires this formal code of conduct as a solution?

Your code of conduct on its face seems innocuous, but there seems to be an elephant that you are trying not to discuss.

As illustrated by great-grandparent, there seem to be many eager to take your code of conduct and wielding it like a shield use it to bludgeon others with behavior contrary to your intentions.

Excellently written answer to deal with the torrent of complaints spewed by man-children at the requirement they be considerate of others. "My free speeches!" and "How dare you censor me?" and "But what about my get-back-in-the-kitchen and make-me-a-sandwich jokes?! You've killed comedy!"

If I had a suggestion, it would be to take from the Wikipedia and assume good faith which is a principle that your Speak Up! source also dances around, in that it seems a person can "assume bad faith" and still comply with each principle in your code of conduct.

Don't be a dick. Do unto others.... Assume good faith.

Each of these seem to concisely cover the issues you have without leading to their abuse, or tyranny of the (majority, minority).

With some fava beans.

Like can me and my buds set up a fantasy football league and see how our team scores against other teams (or against women teams??)

Because gamification, social media, that's money in the bank right there.

(http://blog.playhaven.com/addressing-pycon/)

Given that link that Valerie Aurora attributes to this, Aurora's characterization is just wrong at best, and is an out and out lie of Aurora's at worst.

There is absolutely nothing in PlayHaven's statement "hinting at multiple contributing factors beyond the jokes."

In Silicon Valley today it's not possible to hire more women simply by recruiting them. Good engineers today have their pick of jobs, and good female engineers are being stalked like the last antelope on the African veldt.

Etsy's solution doesn't seem to be to stop sexism, Etsy's solution appears to be train more engineers, take a risk on junior women engineers out of Hacker School, and let their risk taking and boots on the ground approach serve as a signal to senior women engineers.

None of this is evidence of sexism in CS and engineering, it was a winning strategy to defeat scarcity.

1. States known facts incorrectly showing poor research (Alex Reid was not the PlayHaven developer fired and so this statement is almost certainly not what he wanted to be saying The event I'm referring to is the fiasco at PyCon involving Adria Richards, Alex Reid, Playhaven, and SendGrid.(http://blog.playhaven.com/addressing-pycon/)

2. Recommends placing women on pedestal

3. Recommends taking women off pedestal

4. Ends by recommending women be placed back on pedestal Perhaps the reason we've had so much trouble maturing is that we don't have enough women to help us make the transition from child to adult. Their attitudes, their ways of thinking, different from ours, may be the very things we need to complete us as an industry, and a profession, and as a craft. It seems to me we need these women in order for our profession to become a profession.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/03/22/was-it-appropri...

I take issue with this:

"One thing we can agree on, there is a massive lack of maturity in this business."

While true, the more general truth is that humans are human, fallible, full of mirth and wit and a need to socialize, laughing like chimps (and vice versa). Primates.

Zero tolerance is for robot species. Allowances must be made for errorful humans. This is why I dislike the firing of both of the people, though I agree that Richards' firing is much more justifiable. (The two CEOs had an opportunity to earn their pay and take a leadership stance that day.)

I do applaud Richards for one small thing in this. She tweeted those pictures using her name.

There are sites out there like the ihollaback sites that encourage the same exact behavior that Richards did, but allow their users to do this completely anonymously, and the people so shown and maligned no recourse.

Because of the cause ihollaback purports to advance, ihollaback drew a lot of acclaim when it launched, and still does. We should consider that.

As a blogger it worked fine.

As a developer it was terribly supported. The API was fine, but the implementations were often terribly flawed. Tags could not be deleted. Posts entered with markup could not be retrieved as markup. It was almost impossible to connect to an engineer at Posterous who cared.

I do hope Posthaven succeeds. I encourage you to have an API. I encourage you to treat your external developers with the respect Posterous was unable to show.