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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There's a big difference between guilty and "Google found it credible". The latter could mean almost anything, but presumably as he denied it there wasn't actual film of it happening or any other hard evidence. Bear in m
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yes. Presumably whoever was reading out those notes is high up in Google HR, as I guess they are not exactly widely distributed internally. Google HR personnel deliberately leaking what appears to be little more than gossip in order to caus
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yeah, but I've worked in software in Europe for years and my experience has been that if a developer is female, it's a solid bet that she's from eastern Europe or Russia. This is an incredibly strong and noticeable correlatio
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
So can you show me evidence of this? Because a few of the obvious Google searches to try just throw up lots of western news stories saying that no such thing ever happened.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
December's arrests came shortly after the United States accused Russia of trying to influence its presidential election through computer hacking, an accusation Moscow denies They're referring to the Clinton campaign leaks here,
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Either the courts would apply the law and Pike/Google would receive the punishment, or they wouldn't and the clear written intent of the law would have been subverted. If Congress wanted to systematically disadvantage men in favou
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There seem to be far more female programmers in India and former Soviet bloc countries. Poverty is the obvious link. When you want a well paid job, niceties like role models or what your friends think are less important, and gender ratios b
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
This sort of post comes up in every HN discussion of feminism or sexism in programming: someone says "just listen to women" followed by "this entire discussion is embarrassing". I virtually never downvote on this site, b
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I think my representation was accurate and the sections you quoted rather support that. So some women felt like they got assigned sucky roles in group projects. But so what? Men get assigned sucky roles in group projects too. Every group pr
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's the exact opposite of what Pike is saying.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
And was it men who made your daughter feel like computing wasn't socially acceptable? Or was it her female friends in the cheerleading squad?
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Only with an absurd definition of "merit". Yes, if you define "merit" as including particular genes in your DNA, then you can get away with Pike's attitude and still claim to be merit-based. But hello, reality check
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Meritocracy paradoxically seems to lead to worse results overall An extreme opinion stated as if it's a fact. Can you show me the phalanx of companies systematically beating their competition by deliberately hiring incompetent but ge
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
But why would we start from that assumption? Developer hiring is pretty rigorous compared to a lot of fields where the process boils down to "turn up, is the candidate presentable and interested, do they avoid saying anything dumb in t
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
There have been plenty of such studies. There is no "exodus", the industry has been dominated by men for a long time. It doesn't change because at each stage of the educational pipeline where women could make a choice that ta
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Pike is arguing the opposite - that computing should become less meritocratic. Hence promoting women "just because". I think I'll continue to promote people who seem to do good work, regardless of their gender. If some women
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It looks like you didn't read my post, as you missed the first sentence where I explicitly reference that.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
No offence intended, and I realise the detail at the end about picking up the photo seals it for you, but you do realise that sometimes women lie, right? Unless there was written evidence or some other mitigating detail that was unmentioned
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
> No comrades of mine Ouch. Was that choice of word deliberate?
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The guy was targeted because he was a man who they saw a chance to attack, in order to intimidate people with similar political views. CoC violations are called "cock violations" for a reason.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
The Daily Mail is simply a somewhat (but not very) right wing paper, which attracts a lot of bile because it's successful. I routinely read far more extreme, nasty and divisive stuff in the Guardian these days. The headline in question
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
In France at least, attempts to liberalise labor laws tend to cause riots. I don't know about Spain or Italy but they have famously sclerotic labor markets that never seem to get reformed. It's just not a priority of the voters. N
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
No, it's not the same. Laws that are different for "temporary workers" normally require those workers to genuinely be temporary. That means you get laid off when your time is up regardless of whether you are doing a good job
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It's a mix, actually.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I wrote more on this above, so I won't repeat myself in this comment, but yes WebAssembly is a "virtual machine byte code". It is literally a bytecode language that doesn't target physical machines. It bears no resemblen
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
And Java was designed with the web in mind too. You could access the DOM from applets back in the day, it's not fundamentally so different. I feel like "designed for the web" doesn't really mean much when you zoom out. W
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
I wouldn't say that's "cool", that's just what browsers could do 20 years ago with Java applets and ActiveX. Lots of languages target the JVM and you can compile C to it as well if you're willing to treat memor
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
It depends a lot on things like how long the program runs for, and whether you consider spare cores on the machine to be "taking up CPU" or not. Profile-guided optimisations win you about 20% in most industrial Java, apparently. S
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
Avian can compile AOT to a single executable.
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by zigzigzag 10y ago
You aren't comparing the same program written in two languages. Seastar stuff is written by C++ performance experts who are fanatical about tuning, and does all kinds of unusual far-out things that Cassandra doesn't do to get high

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