johnbm

Criticizing a woman, even calling her a bitch, is not misogyny. Misogyny is hating women because they are women. What OP described is just heckling.

And what OP did is white knighting, i.e. a man defending a woman, because she's a woman, in order to appear virtuous. Like posting about it on HackerNews.

Funny, "Dog-whistle" is the loudest dog-whistle I know, for strawmanning. "We all know what you really mean, wink wink, nod nod, and therefor you are a bigot / racist / etc."

I wonder how much of this regrexit sentiment is actually present and how much of it is just isolated incidents being held up as if they are representative. By the same media that predicted the outcome entirely wrong.

Far worse.

You, like many others, miss the most important part of DongleGate. She shamed the supposed dongle-joke offender on Twitter with their picture, which was unambiguously against the Code of Conduct, for it bans harassing photography. She did not only fail to see the hypocrisy, her actions were deemed heroic and she compared herself to Joan of Arc.

This was a clear sign to anyone paying attention that Codes of Conduct were never about policing behavior objectively, but instead were to be wielded as a weapon to shame and attack particular groups of people based on a political ideology of victimhood.

TLDR: Mr Tyson pissed off the wrong people on Twitter (guess who) so now it's open season.

being unable to get anyone to hold a private conversation with them

Are you really surprised, right after that "Glass wall" story was posted here about one woman's terrible tragedy of having to deal with a male executive who briefly talked to her in an office stairwell? Convincing herself the entire office was about to think they were having an affair?

And you're surprised men are less eager to approach women than men in tech?

"I'm worried people might think something's going on between me and So and So. So I'm going to act in the most suspicious way possible around them and assume nobody has my superior observation skills, especially not those men who keep perpetuating the glass ceiling by treating women differently."

Logic.

So that's reason to treat employees like lepers and impose your paranoia on them? You weren't taking his feelings into a count, you simply declared them as something to be managed, and you as the authority. Did it ever occur to you that you might've been wrong?

See, the problem is that the people who complain about this are also the ones who say it's valuable to add women to a group of men (or indeed the reverse), because it results in more balanced decision making.

It can't be both. Either men or women are (as groups, i.e. averages) innately differ on the social vs analytical axis, and diversity is a net plus, or gender is entirely socially constructed, and adding women to a group shouldn't do anything in aggregate.

Studies point to the former rather than the latter.

I can criticize the way she's handling this without having to believe she's guilty.

"Victim blaming" implies you know for sure who the victim is. Given that this is nothing but one big he-said-she-said, I will instead reserve judgement.

We have someone who's been accused of being unable to take criticism and being vindictive. She responds by throwing a public tantrum and blaming all of Github for it. If the shoe fits... Why is she so convinced that post is about her anyway? Unless there was some truth to it.

The tech feminists never seem interested in taking the high road, and instead optimize for maximum drama. Don't complain about being a public figure when you broadcast your life on Twitter.

It absolutely can be an attack on a much larger movement because those statistics are cited over and over and over again in said movement. Similarly, the Duluth model has directly shaped domestic violence policy and support despite being contradicted by any study that asked the same questions of women and men.

When said movement further has an absolute monopoly on the gender discussion and has been known to politically pressure the media to suppress dissent (see: Warren Farrell), I'm pretty happy in just stating the actual facts and letting someone else do the googling for a change.

Claiming to be about equality while advocating for privileged treatment for years. Like NOW opposing default shared custody, pushing the lie that domestic violence is overwhelmingly men hitting women, denying men support and services, promoting the moral panic of "rape culture" at colleges, giving mothers choice while denying fathers any say (under the guise of "the child's interests"), ... It's a self contradictory ideology that claims women are equal and that's why they have no agency, cannot be held responsible for their actions and need hand outs.

"1 in 4 women is raped" was a fabrication by Mary Koss. "Only 2% of all rape accusations are false" was an anecdote from a Susan Brownmiller book.

"Unreal Engine 4" is marketing buzzspeak. WebGL is modelled after OpenGL ES 2. Its GLSL support is massively outdated. It lacks features like multiple render targets (used by any deferred renderer in the XB360 era, e.g. Unreal Engine 3), geometry shaders, multisampled reads (for HDR MSAA and hybrid spatial/temporal AA techniques), and tons of other common techniques.

Asm.js is limited by having no 32-bit float type, no 64-bit int type, no SIMD, no dynamic memory allocation and the fact that they had to extend the language from day 1 just to be able to multiply a 32-bit integer by another quickly.

You may want to actually inform yourself.

Eh? "Git undo" should restore the state of the repository to what it was before I typed the last command. How is this not the simplest and most intuitive implementation of this feature?

Unix geeks, you make my head hurt with your stockholm syndrome.

WebGL is a deliberately limited but secure sandbox based on a spec for mobile devices that is two major releases out of date and makes an Xbox 360 look like science fiction.

Asm.js is an enormous hack where we limit the computational expressiveness of performance critical code by the semantics and standard library of a language notoriously shit at it.

Isn't it a problem then that Git does not expose or visualize its internal model in any comprehensible way to its end users? That and the lack of instant undo seem ridiculous for a program designed to manage change.

The scam only works for those scared into removing themselves. Since the scammers have already admitted they gave away info anyway... there is no reason to trust them or give them money.

No. This is like if I witnessed the police commissioner bludgeoning someone to death with a diamond-encrusted poker, took the bloodied murder weapon as evidence to show to media, and was then accused of being a jewel thief who should face his crime.

This is such a nerdy comment, and I love it.

I spent my entire university career skipping out on lectures because I would never get much out of them. The spoken word is too slow when paced to the dumbest student, the linear straightjacket of slides goes against my natural inclination to imagine and experiment on tangents, and most professors insisted on telling rather than showing anyway, which is horribly inefficient.

If I'd had videos, I could have watched them at 2x, paused when I needed to to go do some sketching or googling, and learned more in the same amount of time because I was directing my own learning and not limited to somebody else's linear encoding of ideas into words.

And this is why anyone sane who doesn't live there hates your smug filter bubble, and why Android is still a pain to use once you go out of signal range.

Because it is near impossible to open 98 doors at random and not reveal the car.

They make all their money from Google ads. Millions.

Nah, Monty Hall is trivial to demonstrate. Just do it with 100 doors instead of 3. Problem solved, intuition remains.

Yes, what happened was that people are now more free to choose their occupation, which is shown to increase the stereotypical occupation choices of both men and women in practically every country in the world:

http://psych.fullerton.edu/rlippa/abstracts_2009.htm

Don't tell the feminists.

Except of course, those two things have actually happened, multiple times.

When Adria Richards tweeted that guy's picture in DongleGate, he got fired, and she got called a hero and fashioned herself Joan of Arc (no really). When Feminist Software Foundation appeared on Github, Ashe Dryden tweeted the list of people who starred the repo and suggested their employers should be told. Shanley Kane's medium.com posts are full of blaming "white men", "privilege" and "patriarchy" for this or that, with usually nothing to back it but anger and indignation.

To me, the phrases "twitter witch hunts" and "being branded patriarchal bullshit" seem entirely accurate.

Or would you call that being interested in a "constructive discussion"?

"Her advice to Dropbox? “Founders are looking for ‘objective’ measures such as school ranking, GPAs, SAT scores, but fail to recognize that these are biased. Dropbox and other start-ups should pioneer new ways to identify people who can succeed on the core set of job responsibilities."

Yes, they're biased towards girls, who excel in school over boys from a young age.

"Indeed, the trend is getting worse. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science undergraduate degree recipients were women. By 2011 this proportion had dropped to 18 percent."

In 1985, the gender ratio in colleges was 1:1. Today, it is 3:2 in favor of women. So that means that not only did the percentage get chopped in half, but it did so completely against the larger trend.

The actual explanation can be found in the Norwegian Gender Paradox: the more men and women are free to choose their occupation, the more they choose stereotypical gender occupations. When men and women actually choose what they want to do, they don't choose equally.

To the great chagrin of feminists.

See also: the engineering dance. When two engineers meet and shit test each other on their knowledge, until both are satisfied they are better than the other guy.

A broken system more like, where nothing can change until a critical mass of people is sufficiently pissed off. Proportional representation or GTFO.