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I'm curious to see which companies were examined - if any were investigated and were found to be meeting regulations, or could be held up as exemplary.

The paper details 30 companies investigated and found lacking, but no mention of how extensive the survey was. Was every single company they looked at in violation? Did they check out 100 companies and find 30 that didn't comply?

I've never had that experience, but I've been turned down on a couple of home rental applications when past arrests have turned up when running a background check. I'd assume the type of business that cared enough to run background checks would certainly catch any arrest on someone's record.

This is a really nice idea. I was working on a similar project a few years, audioname.com. The trick is in networking with larger social service and building integrations so that people can share their name's pronunciation everywhere that their name is shared, which is unfortunately fragmented across the web at the moment.

It would be nice to be able to highlight a name, search for it in this database, and play an audio file from a browser extension, for example. Or from an email client, or a linkedin profile, or wherever. Having to visit this site to look up a name is enough of a barrier that once the novelty wears off, I can't see it being too well used.

>> I [was] not contacted during my investigation either.

ie, not necessarily related to the exact situation at github, but referring to a situation at another company.

The analog to that goes something like: all participants in a hand of blackjack can win. And even the house doesn't ”lose”: it makes an expected payout, which incentivizes the players to continue in the game, which over time will enrich the casino more.

I don't know about anyone else, but I still go looking for an expert when I need any of my Windows machines fixed: whereas when any of my Ubuntu machines have issues, I'm comfortable and motivated to look up the answers myself. Partly that's an issue with documentation quality - you're a lot less likely to catch a drive-by download or follow maliciously bad advice on Linux forums - but I also find the workings of Linux much easier to understand.

I don't know if i'm missing something, but I've seen very little introspection in the responses to the situation. The guy who was called out's apology notwithstanding, out seems like there's just been a mass venting of anti-feminist attitudes all around.

Ha! By far the worst of the stackexchange network sites I've seen. My wife and I sometimes read it for laughs.... Funny that people who can come up with a dozen ways to solve a trivial programming problem, when confronted with a parenting issue, invariably offer some useless brute-force based advice like ”show the kid who's boss”, or ”keep them in line”...

That's a good word for it.

There was a short-lived trend in design a few years back that used the term ”maximalism” to mean something similar - covering every surface, layering metaphors on top of metaphors, mixing traditions from all over.

As part of the 99% of developers who work for other people, I resent troll-bait comments like this.

Twitter, in addition to being a genuinely interesting social phenomenon, has always posed technical challenges that were sufficiently interesting to attract some top-notch people. Give them the respect of judging them by their technical work, and not their employer's latest unpopular business decision.

What I actually found most interesting reading back over the book lately was the very 90's take on ethnic balkanization. I don't think that ever really came to pass in the way it was always assumed it was happening at the time, and I think a primary reason for that is the kind of rapidly-changing tech economythat was the backdrop for the story.

I'd be really curious to see how a present day retelling if the story would handle this disconnect.

Yes, since each ” pixel” is just an additional box shadow. Very clever. I've never experimented with the number of box shadows that can realistically be drawn on modern browsers, winner what that limit is?

This technique could be used for evil very easily.