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by sverige 8y ago
Accusations of sexual harassment are commonplace at many work places. False accusations are disturbingly common. Don't ask me if you don't believe me -- it's obvious already that you don't anyway. Rather, go make friends
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by sverige 8y ago
I treated the men on my teams exactly the same way. There was no discrimination. They were all treated equally. It's a little weird that you think you have all the information you need to pass judgment on my career from a few short com
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by sverige 8y ago
That's one of the weaker attempts at shaming someone into doing something foolish and unnecessary that I've encountered. Contrary to popular belief and widespread practice, 1:1s are not essential to developing employees. There a
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by sverige 8y ago
No, I cannot be sued for admitting this, because in my current position no one reports to me. And ironically, the bogeyman of being sued is not that scary. I have been falsely accused three times over the years, and completely exonerated
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by sverige 8y ago
I said my defensive stance on this "probably" hindered the careers of "some" of them. I never said I intentionally hindered the careers of any of them. When facing a choice of going above and beyond to help develop a
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by sverige 8y ago
Three accusations in thirty years hardly qualifies as a "regular occurrence." Having spent part of my career in HR, it is not nearly as rare as you would like to think for people (both men and women) to be accused of sexual harass
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by sverige 8y ago
I never said I hindered their careers. I have promoted and supported quite a few women over the years. In fact, one of them is now a senior VP at a Fortune 100. I take no credit for that. She was extremely talented. OTOH, I certainly could
548.
by sverige 8y ago
Yes, I'll admit that the consequences are occurring further up the ladder in some cases. Still, the point stands that the vast majority of people have had to live under these rules for two or three decades. It's nothing new, exc
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by sverige 8y ago
Just don't do it. That is the safest position to take.
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by sverige 8y ago
I've had that rule my entire career. I also avoid ever being alone with women at work so that there is no question that I could have done something untoward without a witness. That has prevented a lot of problems for me. It has also pr
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by sverige 8y ago
TL;DR The dinosaurs at The Atlantic take another stab at guessing what teenagers are doing instead of reading their publication.
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by sverige 8y ago
It is far from the first time men have suffered consequences for sexual misconduct at work. MeToo is really just Hollywood and the media being held to the same standard that most of corporate America has had since the late 70s or early 80s.
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by sverige 8y ago
It's definitely past the mid-point right now. I'm fortunate to have begun my career just as the excesses of the second wave reached their peak, so I've spent my entire worklife assiduously avoiding any appearance of improprie
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by sverige 8y ago
Humungous what!? Are you harassing me!?
555.
by sverige 8y ago
Interesting that the name of the House of Orange had nothing to do with the fruit or the color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3cHzFQsqI
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by sverige 8y ago
Yes, compelling people to buy things that ought to be a personal and private decision is a very popular policy position for governments to take in recent years.
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by sverige 8y ago
I'm totally with you in not wanting to spend free time fiddling with a system for a laptop that is used for really basic stuff. The interesting thing is that in the last couple of years, some of the Linux distros are now pain-free to
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by sverige 8y ago
I'll never forget the hilarity I felt when I heard about the gigantic political fights happening at a big convention of anarchists in Minneapolis in the 80s. I was a college student working on a history degree and remember thinking, &q
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by sverige 8y ago
Exactly. There is survival bias precisely because flat organizations have never survived long enough to become the dominant form.
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by sverige 8y ago
Your comment above didn't come off as negative to me fwiw. I had the same reaction. The error in thought is limiting his perspective to people he knows personally, which of course can make it seem unlikely or impossible. For example, I
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by sverige 8y ago
While I have had some problems running OpenBSD on random hardware, I have not had any trouble running certain recent Linux distros on a wider variety of hardware, including various laptops from Dell, Compaq, Lenovo, and HP. (Let me hasten t
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by sverige 8y ago
It really kills me every time I see a Windows hint like this. Ten or fifteen or maybe even twenty years ago, one of Windows' arguments against Linux was that configuring simple things (like, say, preventing automatic updates from inter
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by sverige 8y ago
> Just because it's a lot of hard work doesn't mean people weren't willing to do it. Especially willing to do it if the choice was made by a slave who knew it was literally do it or die.
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by sverige 8y ago
It's funny because I started hearing about "post punk" in the early 80s. Sonic Youth, fIREHOSE, et al.
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by sverige 8y ago
Yeah, that was the media's name for it. I never heard people call it that until the magazines and tv used the term. That lumped in a bunch of stuff, from Queensryche to Soundgarden to Nirvana to Mudhoney.
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by sverige 8y ago
Well, it has a lot of definitions. I still think of it as a reaction to overproduced rock and disco from the 70s, but it has evolved a lot since then. Surely someone has put together an introductory listening list that is searchable. No ide
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by sverige 8y ago
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock tha
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by sverige 8y ago
> It's not like the typical driver's ed is some expensive defensive driving course taught by an ex race car driver. This is a common misunderstanding of what is really needed in driver education to improve the average driver. T
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by sverige 8y ago
"Millions" is an overstatement. Annual deaths worldwide are around 1.25 million. And deaths in the U.S. have declined significantly from their peak in the '70s. All of that begs the question of whether autonomous cars will sa
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by sverige 8y ago
Sorry, but I don't see how it is his responsibility to choose a successor or create leaders. There are obviously a lot of devs on the project who were resistant to his direction, which contributed to his exhaustion. I think it's

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