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Comment · 12 years ago
People who belong in tech don't need to be spoon fed. The barriers to entry are some of the lowest for any professional field in history.
Comment · 12 years ago
It is quite common for Christians in the United States claim that they are oppressed [1]. Shouldn't we try to fix these problems too?
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/christians-pers...
Comment · 12 years ago
Good, a necessary pruning from the board of people who are more interested in politics than product.
Comment · 12 years ago
The problem with the founder's wife sounds like a very one sided account of your standard interpersonal conflict. Everyone who has ever been in one of those has at some point claimed themselves to be a saint and their opponent a demon.
The alleged sexism seems to be primarily imaginary.
The anonymous posting that so upset her and precipitated all of this said:
> has a history of RAGINING against any professional criticism. Leadership has stood idly by while she lied about contributions and threw hardworking coworkers under the bus (again and again)[1]
To be honest, it seems to me that such could very well be true.
[1] https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444646082857820160/phot...
Comment · 12 years ago
You might want to see a counselor about your crippling interpersonal inadequacy. I think after you clear up your mental health issues you might be less insanely fixated on shoehorning meaningless occurrences into the framework of your delusions.
Comment · 12 years ago
This shows why it is best to ignore women's complaining from the start.
Github has bent over backwards for Horvath, and it only fueled and enabled her delusions.
This "gender based harassment" was most likely someone disagreeing with her that Github did not need to be feminism 24x7.
Comment · 12 years ago
> I think it is more likely that their outreach programs (through CS AP teacher training etc.) that encouraged the best and brightest women to apply were successful, so that the pool of women were significantly more qualified.
That is entirely implausible. Those straws are miles away, dude.
That could perhaps explain a 20% difference, not a 330% difference.
Comment · 12 years ago
Um, how CMU:SCS has a gender ratio higher than average is because they accept more women. In 2000 the acceptance rate for women was 39%, for men it was 9% [1].
This is completely boring, MIT could make it so its CS class was 100% women if it wanted to, and because loads of very intelligent people apply to MIT I am sure that class of 100% women would do well. But, this is not a tactic that your average school who struggles to get qualified applicants at all can utilize.
[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lblum/PAPERS/women_in_computer_scien...
Comment · 12 years ago
I think most answers here are over thinking it; I do not think he wants a website that can defeat the NSA, just one where the service provider could get subpoenaed and not lead them to him.
So, just buy webhosting with Bitcoin at somewhere that does not require contact details.
e.g.
Sign up at the local library to cloak that IP then use tor after that if you think you will have a dedicated adversary.
Comment · 12 years ago
The amount of spoon feeding women in tech require is staggering.
Comment · 12 years ago
That women of lose more than expected when they play against men of equivalent rating is entirely consistent with regression towards the mean [1].
Because elo ratings contain error and men are on average better at chess [2], the average true value that elo ratings are trying to measure will be lower for women than men at equivalent elo ratings.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
[2] About 1 SD, http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/277/1692/2269...
Comment · 12 years ago
Encouraging women's complaining might be the last thing they actually need. This is kind of like throwing a kegger for alcoholics.
Comment · 12 years ago
No. No one is threatened by women, just perhaps annoyed by their endless complaining.
> To use an analogy, I can't imagine Olympic athletes being happy for the best competitors from another country being sidelined due to their sexual preference. No, that's not happening. because world class athletes know their victories are hollow unless they're truly competing against the very best in the world.
But you can probably see how male Olympians would be annoyed if they had to put up with 24/7 accusations that their superior performance in comparison to female Olympians was only because how much they hated them.