shadowspar

I keep paying my electricity bill every month, but those a-holes at the utility company never make my electricity any better either!

Genocide jokes aren't funny. No, not even yours.

> Yes, rape culture is real. Yes, drunk people are more dangerous, on average, than sober people. > No, this does not mean you should start skipping events where people are drinking because some of them might hurt you.

This isn't really your judgement call to make on behalf of somebody else, is it?

I'm a fairly big guy with some martial arts training, so when it comes to being around a bunch of people who are inebriated, I assess the level of risk to me as being pretty low. If I were a woman, and someone who's less physically imposing than almost everyone at the party, my assessed level of risk would doubtless be higher. Too, if I've been raped or subjected to other sexual violence previously -- as a significant number of women have -- I can't imagine my risk tolerance being very high at all.

Nascent awareness of sexism and corresponding initiatives to deal with it aren't something that's limited to software at all. Science, academia, and the skeptic/atheist community are all in the midst of similar changes right now as well.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

Fill your boots.

Clearly, folks who complain about the locker-room mentality of the tech industry don't have a leg to stand on. >_<

What next, a blog post about fart jokes?

This. If some guy cornered me at the bar and punched me in the face, damn straight I'd name him on my blog if I recognized who he was.

Somehow I doubt anyone would accuse me of starting a witch hunt, or tell me that I needed to take better precautions for my own safety, too.

Same with the Canadian Swiss Steak IMP shown -- it's one of the least popular meals in the rotation, though it doesn't hold a candle to the universally reviled Ham Omelet (affectionately nicknamed the "Human Lung" and now thankfully long gone). The Macaroni & Cheese, however, is better than any such that ever came off a store shelf and makes a fantastic hearty breakfast (if you can imagine).

We were always told that you were supposed to be supplemented with fresh fruit & veg every so often to deal with the lack of fiber, but you can guess how often that happened in the field.

"conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person."

You've got to be kidding me. "Conventional wisdom" says that you need to co-locate everybody from the CEO to the mailroom staff in a big cube farm.

One thing I'll concede -- distributed teams need to work a hell of a lot harder at communication than co-located teams. You have to explicitly make a point of saying a lot of the things that practically get conveyed "for free" when you're in the same physical space.

I completely agree that companies -- teams -- need a shared culture and sense of purpose to gel. If you're undergoing the startup experience and communicating with others like they're humans (which you need to do to make telecommuting work) you'll quickly find you have close friends instead of coworkers, regardless of the distance between you.

Seconded on this, plus the ability to sort/filter on these criteria. For me, the ability to search for "only telecommute jobs" is the make or break factor on whether or not a job board is worth my while.