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I think they're saying the author should be fired because they're openly creating a hostile workplace for other groups.

And historically, women are underrepresented in tech, and are not in a position of power. Conservative men are. One of the reasons why stuff like this gets such a much more negative response is because it's seen as "punching down."

It's very much not trivial, though. Given two solutions to a coding problem, how do you objectively determine which one is better? More importantly, how do you objectively tell if either of them is good enough? Or if they're poor?

He can be both charming and intelligent, and a complete douchebag at the same time.

It's just a really old version.

"Not that it's worth wading too far into this, but there is no good reason to believe those people were there specifically for harassment."

Yes, their is. Their behavior, both at the event and their prior behavior online towards her both suggest that is the entire reason for them being there.

It is very much not a lie. They sat in the first three rows, and they were all pointing cameras at her. Hell, some of those people even went on youtube after to brag about what they did.

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/6/27/15880582/anita-sa...

I'm sorry, but your examples are quite out of context. Read the story about Sarkeesian's thing. Those people were there specifically for harassment. I cannot be upset at her for calling him out, and I cannot be upset that he was banned.

As for the other one, you're gonna have to provide proof.

The "if you acknowledge racism exists, then you're the real racist!" argument has never held water before.

Right, but you don't get that pair of shoes unless you pay. We've tried with doing things like, "You won't get to watch that video or read that article unless you pay." It doesn't work.

Maybe Free Speech wouldn't be under such an assault if people weren't saying that you have to allow everything, including harassment and doxxing, to not be "assaulting free speech".

Not to mention that doxxing and harassment are not free speech in the first place.

Sure there is. Free speech doesn't give you an excuse to behave terribly, such as doxxing and the like.

They never put enough effort behind anything to get it to stick. And you can only do that so many times before people are just not interested in what you have to offer because, no matter how good it might be, they're thinking that you're just going to move onto the next thing in a year or so.

Except that's not true in the least. They're not paid according to their worth; they're paid according to what they can negotiate. These are two entirely separate things. I guarantee you that at least half the people on this board have a story of someone at one of their jobs who was paid quite handsomely, but was extremely incompetent. TheDailyWTF is filled of stories of "Highly Paid Consultants" who write some of the most WTF-worthy code ever seen.

This blind, religious-like faith in the "free market" you exhibit doesn't serve to help anyone.

"plus it's incongruent to diss a community while you're participating in it."

No. Your attitude here is the crappy one. Without being called out, a community will never grow. It's entirely appropriate to call out a community for the issues it has. And yes, the HN community has a HUGE problem with not recognizing sexism and racism in the industry. Far too many are willing to take the, "I don't see it, so it doesn't exist" point of view, which not only means that things won't improve, but means that they will likely get worse, as those who are doing the bad things are noticing that they can get away with it.

If you don't want people to take snipes at your community, maybe you should look at why people are taking snipes at it, and work to be better.

You still have to sell that output. And until you do, you have to store that output. And if you can't sell that output, then you have to get rid of it in a fire sale.

Cause that's Socialism(TM)!

Maybe. Although I'd think a consumer friendly policy would tend to drive scammers out, but the lure of Amazon may be too big for them to resist.

I'd say the wave of scammers operating on Amazon is worse for consumers.

It's still no excuse for Coinbase to hold onto something that is not theirs.

And yet, the consumers have still all lost.

Wouldn't these guys get enough low rankings because of that to be kicked off the platform?

"It works much better than you think"

It still doesn't work as well as a native app.

If an organization isn't taking the time and effort to make sure their app isn't bloated full of stuff, what makes you think they'll do that?

I have to imagine the vast majority either don't care, or have other reasons for not having the app on there (like the company itself, for one).

90% of the time, the organizations that say stuff like this just don't have any discipline. You can move plenty fast with a well engineered product.

However, they usually are designed around a target size. And it's quite possible that, scaled too small, much of the detail is lost. Hence why you'd still want different vector files for different resolutions.

I highly doubt that. Few people actually know how big any given app is. Plus, there are more compelling things keeping people on their platform of choice, like iMessage or the sunken cost of apps that they've already purchased.

Except they have been working on it, by repackaging apps to strip out unneeded assets.

And it is in Apple's interest to have smaller apps, because then people will be able to download more apps. They'll be willing to try more apps, because there will be less of a barrier between seeing the download button and being up and running.

Homebrew I believe goes through GitHub. Many of the Vim plugin managers also do, or at least have the option. I think CocoaPods and Carthage, both for iOS development, do as well.

I think it's somewhat common for a new package manager to use Github as a kind of CDN for a while, until they get big enough they can do their own.

A lot of package manager tools download their packages from Github. If you happened to be refreshing your dependencies at the time, or doing a clean build, then you'd be SOL.