'Saturday night special' is what came to mind for me too. Is it only law enforcement that concerns themselves with gun crime, while the ATF is tasked with issues regarding the guns themselves?
Maybe a public apology -- "I was wrong", "I made a mistake", "I'm sorry", "I made incorrect assumptions about my company's support", "I will not make this mistake again, and this is why", maybe even "I wronged these two people".
Something like that owning up to her behavior, followed by a credible explanation that she changed as a result of the experience, and that her behavior was not to be interpreted as reflective of the company's values. Then followed by how she plans to make amends.
You're right about her mistake being public, so publicly trying to fix it seems an obvious option.
What I wanted to add was that it seems odd that a company would produce such a detailed public statement on specific internal decisions on an employee's behavior. Even more so since it seems like it was predicated on what sounded like an explicable, rectifiable employee mistake.
What we do not support was how she reported the conduct....
A SendGrid developer evangelist’s responsibility is to build and strengthen our Developer Community across the globe. In light of the events over the last 48+ hours, it has become obvious that her actions have strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite. As a result, she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid.
And then gun the engine?
In the end, the consequences that resulted from how she reported the conduct put our business in danger. Our commitment to our 130 employees, their families, our community members and our more than 130,000 valued customers is our primary concern.
Maybe I don't understand how company policies are written, but this sounds like public advertisement of a private company decision. Even accepting that these would be the facts, I assumed that in many cases, people are given the option to leave with something noncommittal like, 'mutual parting of the ways'.
But broadcasting to the public that:
Sendgrid is positively stating a lack of support for her actions,
her own actions make her ineffective at her chosen job,
she acts in a way whose consequences can put a business in danger
is unusually specific and, particularly with the last item, nothing short of damning. This comes from the CEO, too.
And most of us are trying to figure out who should be shouting, 'If you don't stop this, I'm going to turn this car around RIGHT NOW!', and why they haven't yet.
When there's a clearly described and readily available more-optimal alternative, that alone could be a sufficient nerd reason to at least learn the underlying principles behind [x], for any [x].
The problem is that it re-enforces the stereotype and actually does cause certain behaviour. If you constantly tell one group they are a bunch of criminals and just assume they are probably up to no good then you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out they are.
Can you clarify what behavior you're referring to here? I don't understand what you mean by someone simultaneously:
Semi-offtopic, but is there any blog software capable of publishing entries with dates prior to 1900? If someone wanted to publish something like a diary with dates marked accurately in a blog format, can that be done? It seems that this would be an interesting medium, at least in concept, to present items of historical relevance.
Say, if Hitler were still alive, or the internet existed and these proposals were in effect at the time, what could he legitimately request under these proposals? It's a little hazy understanding what the implications of these proposals are; does the benefit of hindsight and a well-known example make it any clearer what rights are provided and what's feasible under these circumstances?
If I understand his paper on 'the cruelty of really teaching computer science', at least Edsger Dijkstra would have said "no". I'm not sure that applies to the scale and type of software projects since his time, though.
It's in one of the comments, and a pointer from that linked page shows some exercises his instructor had him perform -- singing at different speeds and pitches. I myself wonder why software engineering never tries to teach solving the same problem in a variety of paradigms or languages; 99 bottles is the closest example I can find.
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Classic obligatory column on Kopi Luwak. Definitely a memorable description of his experience with it.
Maybe in European languages the connotation is more from 'ware' , usable in the singular (?) sense?
Source: Google Translate
That's not cheating, right?
Sounds to me like they don't care about crime
'Saturday night special' is what came to mind for me too. Is it only law enforcement that concerns themselves with gun crime, while the ATF is tasked with issues regarding the guns themselves?
SendGrid simply read Blum's email as past behavior and fired Richards rather than taking Blum's constructive advice.
They also made a public statement about an employee termination in a way I thought was unusually descriptive.
I did appreciate Amanda Blum's take on this -- it was clear, almost wholly fact-oriented, and very informative.
And finally we have the argument for Google Glass.
Something like that owning up to her behavior, followed by a credible explanation that she changed as a result of the experience, and that her behavior was not to be interpreted as reflective of the company's values. Then followed by how she plans to make amends.
You're right about her mistake being public, so publicly trying to fix it seems an obvious option.
What I wanted to add was that it seems odd that a company would produce such a detailed public statement on specific internal decisions on an employee's behavior. Even more so since it seems like it was predicated on what sounded like an explicable, rectifiable employee mistake.
I wasn't sure I wanted to submit this and accidentally hit Submit instead of Continue Editing ... ugh.
What we do not support was how she reported the conduct. ...
A SendGrid developer evangelist’s responsibility is to build and strengthen our Developer Community across the globe. In light of the events over the last 48+ hours, it has become obvious that her actions have strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite. As a result, she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid.
And then gun the engine?
In the end, the consequences that resulted from how she reported the conduct put our business in danger. Our commitment to our 130 employees, their families, our community members and our more than 130,000 valued customers is our primary concern.
Maybe I don't understand how company policies are written, but this sounds like public advertisement of a private company decision. Even accepting that these would be the facts, I assumed that in many cases, people are given the option to leave with something noncommittal like, 'mutual parting of the ways'.
But broadcasting to the public that:
is unusually specific and, particularly with the last item, nothing short of damning. This comes from the CEO, too.
The tech/geek realm is primarily male to the point it is virtually male.
Funny you should say that, as one of the keynotes mentioned that Pycon 2013 was 20% women (attendees?).
Can someone clarify whether this applies to any debt, or just ones involving a initial loan of money?
And most of us are trying to figure out who should be shouting, 'If you don't stop this, I'm going to turn this car around RIGHT NOW!', and why they haven't yet.
Those would be cool, or if the new Pope looked like this one.
... you're choosing to make your [x] suboptimal.
When there's a clearly described and readily available more-optimal alternative, that alone could be a sufficient nerd reason to at least learn the underlying principles behind [x], for any [x].
... He: "Big deal. All the royalties I've gotten from you wouldn't even take me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant."
I haven't been able to bring myself to read his stuff since, and the formerly-complete collection became pulp fiction.
... As I said, separating the artist from the art sounds simple but isn't.
It sounds like his publisher was able to at least separate the artist from the money, if not the art, pretty easily.
much less the BSDs and Minix.
OSX is mainstream on the desktop, is that close enough?
The problem is that it re-enforces the stereotype and actually does cause certain behaviour. If you constantly tell one group they are a bunch of criminals and just assume they are probably up to no good then you shouldn't be surprised when it turns out they are.
Can you clarify what behavior you're referring to here? I don't understand what you mean by someone simultaneously:
Semi-offtopic, but is there any blog software capable of publishing entries with dates prior to 1900? If someone wanted to publish something like a diary with dates marked accurately in a blog format, can that be done? It seems that this would be an interesting medium, at least in concept, to present items of historical relevance.
Like in this story, a good read.
Sorry, to clarify -- assuming he was no longer in power.
Say, if Hitler were still alive, or the internet existed and these proposals were in effect at the time, what could he legitimately request under these proposals? It's a little hazy understanding what the implications of these proposals are; does the benefit of hindsight and a well-known example make it any clearer what rights are provided and what's feasible under these circumstances?
The link is near the end of the article. This is great, because now other entities can solicit opinions similarly.
If I understand his paper on 'the cruelty of really teaching computer science', at least Edsger Dijkstra would have said "no". I'm not sure that applies to the scale and type of software projects since his time, though.
It's in one of the comments, and a pointer from that linked page shows some exercises his instructor had him perform -- singing at different speeds and pitches. I myself wonder why software engineering never tries to teach solving the same problem in a variety of paradigms or languages; 99 bottles is the closest example I can find.