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by fatjokes 14y ago
> And Adria had the right to tweet. Adria as an individual, yes. Adria as a developer evangelist? No. Her role is to speak for the company, and no company should resort to public shaming and cyber bullying.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> Right now it looks like SendGrid fired her because of the DDoS they suffered a few hours ago. Do you have evidence for this? If it were me, I'd fire her because she caused a huge wave of negativity toward the company. I don't know wha
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by fatjokes 14y ago
If she sues the shit out of them (successfully or otherwise), it would be one of the worst things for women in tech. Companies would become very wary of hiring women, as they would risk a lawsuit / backlash if they ever fired her for anythi
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> People make mistakes. Couldn't SendGrid have offered the guy a job and apologized profusely. That sounds like it'd be really awkward for both Adria and the guy and eventually make it worse for SendGrid. If you've followed Adria's comm
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I think she'd certainly be wrong. I made the assumption based on her responses to comments on her blog (in which she denies any hint of wrongdoing even when confronted by a polite, rational comment by someone who appears to be a friend/acqu
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Given the popularity of "perp walks", this doesn't even hold true for actual crimes anymore, let alone this case.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> just be superficial and PC in public This sounds like a frightening world. Eh, freedom in America has had a good run.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Oh yeah? Well they have a black woman on the team, so they can't be sexist or racist! /s
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> If I hire five white people in preference to five black people, that means I'm racist. Only if the five black people were at least as competent as the five white people.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
My money is that she'll just use these criticisms as "proof" that tech is sexist.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I would love this if I could make it my Chrome start screen.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Articles like this are bullshit. Not in the sense that they're untrue, but in the sense it won't change a thing. Men buy diamonds because women want them. Women want them to show off to other women.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Bravo, Professor. He emphasizes two points very clearly: 1) depression is nothing shameful, and 2) he is Texan.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Probably what somebody said about Reader, when all the Google services were listed.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Might I ask what exactly is the naive approach? Is it simply searching for keywords like "lose", "lost", etc?
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by fatjokes 14y ago
You have a very lenient advisor.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
you have freedom after you receive tenure, but virtually no freedom before that. during your phd and postdoc, and certainly while you're tenure-track, you want to be pursuing projects that will nearly guarantee you publications at top-tier
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Within a day of launching, it has now exceeded its goal of $2M.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
japanese porn is popular in india?
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I imagine the data is accurate. It's the same for a lot of conservative countries. I imagine they have less of an outlet to express their sexuality, so they search for porn. (E.g., people in New York wouldn't need as much gay porn---they ha
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by fatjokes 14y ago
I imagine it's related to the infamous gang rape tape---a sort of morbid curiosity.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
japanese porn is dominant in asia, largely because production of porn is illegal in china and korea.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
What's going on with his grandson?
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Huge glut of lawyers, yes, but not doctors.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Oh... yay? Now I know I'm not alone! It happens quite frequently.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Nope, google-chrome. I found a fix shortly after I posted this comment. They fixed in v24 (but mine isn't upgrading automatically, even after restart from v22). So instead, I followed this: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/PEgE
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Is anybody else's Chrome on Mac crashing frequently? I'd like them to fix that first. Also, the whole no Flash on Linux thing.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX
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by fatjokes 14y ago
> Insulting the French doesn’t seem to be rewarded by the stock market, and Titan is down about 1% so far today. Journalists should be forced to say "correlation is not causation" ten times before writing each article.
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by fatjokes 14y ago
Next article: Tesla tracks and publishes consumer's driving data!

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