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I'm not sure the (frequent) comparison you are making to a company. In a real company, he would have received a salary for his work and equity. On the "firing" day, he would have received "severance". So if you are comparing it with a company and a termination, every termination involves some level of "severance" - unless you are firing him for cause (I'm keeping the company-firing analogy). I doubt this would be a termination for cause (I don't like you/it's not a good fit) is not a termination for cause.

I think the problem you have experienced is that you started a project with someone else in a team of 2. You managed him as an "employee" but he felt (right or wrong) to be a cofounder. It seems you haven't discusses this prior of the project, so somehow you got stuck with a co-founder (and everything else that followed is just that).

I've been in similar situations, where cofounders have to split. It's never easy and there's always intensity involved. I'd not call them harassment though. Following again your company analogy, when you fire an employee, there is (often) drama - especially if you try to fire an employee without severance (well, in that case often there are legal problems).

Anyway, if you point out he was a volunteer at a startup weekend, do not mention the company analogy. In the company analogy - regardless if he was a cofounder or an employee - he would not walk away empty handed.

Let's also not forget that it was a conference. A very laid back-camping kind of conference, but a conference. In today's standards - where you can't join a project or visit/talk to a conference without accepting a CoC - this would still be considered an extension of the workplace, or at least be classified as a "professional setting". We are not talking rocket science: if you are in a professional setting, getting overly drunk, make out in public and then proceeding to random groping - is NOT ok. You can have him redefine the narrative however he wants, he still a serial sexual offender.

If you are the keynote speaker of a conference, DO NOT flirt with other attendees or other coworkers, regardless of the line of report. There are code of conduct left and right for a reason. Saying "they were not my employees" does not excuse you from using your influence, in a work-related setting, to approach someone else for sex matters.

The problem is, he is one of the MOST influential people in the tech ecosystem. Yes, he is a "blogger", but in many cases he could make or break a product, a startup or a career. A friend of mine startup was noticed (and acquired) by Facebook because Scoble started blogging about it and that came to the attention of Zuckerberg.

This guy leaves and breathes in tech conferences, as he is a regular invited speaker/guest. I'm sure he had to see, read a million of "code of conducts". The fact he claims "I have no employees... I have no power" is...disgusting.

I think Robert left UploadVR before the scandal broke in the news (his linkedin says he left in March) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scobleizer/

Things evolve. The scale of problems evolve. A data structure that was handling hundred of transactions, crumbles on hundred of thousands. Premature optimizations (and premature abstractions) are the root of all evil.

Their logo [1] is pretty much a copy + 45 degree rotation of Feedly's logo [2]

[1] https://www.appsunveiled.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Floc...

[2] https://s3.feedly.com/img/partnerapp-description-feedly.png

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/

Brendan Eich was fired for things he did outside of work. There are plenty of cases of request for retaliation on the professional environment for things done outside of the professional environment (for example, the OpalGate).

The way to read it is, there is a report, Benchmark (the board) was not aware of it. It's an acknowledgement of the report - as it is from the court case - but not about its content.

Indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...

us-east-1 pricing (for EC2, S3, etc.) is usually lower than other regions

Political assassination has been a thing for the US gov for a while https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-his...

The type of data being discussed here (factual data about people) cannot be copyrighted - i.e. the fact John Doe is a Software Engineer for ACME Inc is not copyrightable.

Related discussion to "Can a jury in China indict me here in the US?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861925

The question for me is: why US? He is a Russian citizen, the company is based in Bulgaria, servers in Russia, legal HQ in Cyprus and all the services operated from Seychelles - arrested in Greece. The MtGox hack affected a Japanese company. I'm not debating the nature of the crimes, etc - I am just wondering, when does it become a US case?

I can get the "there were US customers" - but why not Europe? Or Japan? Or Russia? Or Australia? I'm sure BTC-e had customers from all over the world (and money laundry is pretty much a crime everywhere).

So, when does it become "you have broken the US law and you are under arrest"?. Does it work the other way around too? If you start a gay social network in US, can Russia come in (the first time you are flying in one of the Russia's partners territories) and say "you are breaking Russian gay laws, you are under arrest"?

I bought a 2 letter domain on a .vg and a .mg TLD. It's amazing how many websites refuse my l@up.vg email address on signup as "not a valid email address".

[...] For my first few pull requests, I was getting feedback from literally dozens of engineers (all of whom were male) on other teams, nitpicking the code I had written. [...] Shortly after this happened to me, the code review feature was prioritized. This functionality was rolled out internally pretty quickly. From that point on I didn't get dogpiled anymore [...]

Re: who cares if they were all male? If I open a PR and I get dozens of feedback, either they are legit feedback or not. Or maybe they are all sexist comments, that you should absolutely report. But it sounds like the "all of who were male" wants to imply a specific subtext, but the accusation is neither explicit nor provides any justifications. Saying it in other words: if a colleague would say "I am getting feedback from literally dozens of engineers (all of who were black women)", wouldn't that raise an eyebrow or more?

Reading the full article, it strikes me how you can be "inclusive" if you are constantly highlighting the differences. The fact, for example, she dismisses PRs or code reviews because made by white males. Or the blog post on her first deliverable, rewritten by a white male. I don't see what could be the benefit to point that out in every sentence: that all of that is made in malice because of gender and race?

If I had a white male colleague who would constantly point out - in a work environment - that a PR should be dismissed because made by a woman or that a deliverable sucks because made by a black guy, I would not tolerate that behavior for a second. I don't get why the opposite should be considered "inclusion and safety".

It happened to us too - acquired by a Finance company, no more alcohol in the office when we had weekly "beer-o-clock" on Friday. I honestly fail to understand why that would be a big deal for people. We still re-group on Friday at 5pm and we all go down to a local bar. I believe company culture is bigger than alcohol and ping pong in the office. As a group, we have maintained our "identity" (and culture) even though our toolchain has changed and we can't have a beer at the desk.

These are (monthly/daily) active users, not total number of profiles.

If it is true, what is fascinating is that it means Comcast has no way to know who is a legitimate customer and who is not - if they have to rely on the customer to make the call and verify to be a legitimate user. How can they run a business like that?

They should hire Marissa Mayer. Awesome track record at Yahoo. /s

Just a few years ago, Uber was the place to be, the startup to imitate. How many Uber for X pitches did we see? The entire story makes me sad (not the resignation, that was kind of expected) - Uber was an icon of "disruption" and of challenging the status quo. Now, it's just a sad story and people prefer to not be associated with it.

Is it safe to assume Instacart will soon lose one of its strategic partners?

I think the actual money laundering should be illegal. What bothers me is that, in chasing money laundering cases, it makes what is supposed simple things, very painful. I'm US lawful permanent resident, but European citizen too. Now, because of US regulations, pretty much ALL European banks do not want anything to do with me. If I ask to open a bank account, they'd rather not to. If I want to open an investment account in EU, they pretty much say "we do not want your business". If I transfer money from MY account in EU into MY account in US, I most likely have to JUSTIFY it. If I ask for a wire transfer, some foreign financial institution respond "oh, you are a US person, we don't want to deal with the reporting requirements". It's like the fight of terrorists: I think we all agree we should prevent the next 9/11. But when you have to pass through TSA, you cannot bring your laptop, you need to handover all your passwords, etc - even though terrorism is "illegal", you wonder if we are fighting it right.

You can run Tails on a supercheap chromebook. It seems a right product compromise.

As someone who has done this a few times (worked for large enterprise / found a problem worth to solve / started a company solving that problem / being acquired by other enterprise that wanted our solution exclusively): don't look for "ideas", but explore "problems". Working in an enterprise is great, because you are exposed - every day - to things that do not work in enterprise. For each problem you meet, ask yourself "would someone pay enough $$$ to get this problem solved once and for all?". If the answer is yes (and the problem is inspiring enough for you to dedicate 5+ years on that) the next phase is: what the distribution channel for a solution would be? Is the market too fragmented? How I would reach out to customers? What would be the cost to attract/retain customers? If you figure it out (and it seems a problem/distribution channel that works) - the next step is to think about a generic solution. Now you can test the "let's try to attract customers, for this problem, on my prototype/landing page". If the cycle starts to work, now it's time to figure out whether you want to quit and build the company/product/solution for real. The good of this process is that is 100% compatible with whatever NDA/NC/IP you might have signed, because you haven't written any lines of code up to this point. And when you leave, you have a solid framework of what you'll be doing next.