1) The woman is the cream in your typical Oreo display of "diversity".
2) The men are in business casual attire (i.e. a button down shirts/polos), the woman is wearing a fair amount of makeup and jewelry, and what appears to be a dress blouse. Could be easily explained away as this particular founder's usual method of dress (or the nature of her business), but it's a notable exception in the three photos.
3) They couldn't have picked someone who qualified as an "immigrant" who looked more stereotypically "native". This is not directly related to the sexism argument, but as a result she seems to have been carefully picked to fit in the image and give a point of reference.
It does appear that she might have submitted this picture for professional publication and at which point, I'm sure the magazine would have to honor it.
Anyway - yes, the reason I made that comment was that the female founder's attire seemed inconsistent with what is generally considered to be business casual, which is what the other two male entrepreneurs in the picture are wearing. While it may be so that in her line of work her style of dressing is commonplace - for a professional article such as this, the authors could have done better in deliberately avoiding a picture like that.
I personally blame human nature. Jacques is a known/respected name around HN, so since the OP was downvoted at least once (enough to make the text harder to read), and a HN personality posted a "are you crazy" response, the typical action taken is a quick "downvote OP, upvote personality".
The problem with downvotes in HN is the side effects. An early downvote can mean nothing more significant than "I disagree with you", but it has the effect of making a post significantly harder to read. When a post is hard to read, fewer people will read the post, yet they are willing to accept and re-enforce the judgement of their peers (especially HN personalities) without critically reviewing it for themselves.
I wouldn't personally blame Jacques for this, but his dismissal (and possibly the early downvote as well) has had a net negative effect on the OP, regardless of the OP's correctness.
EDIT: And our sin appears to be getting too meta. Cardinal sin, that.
That's also not a memory leak. A memory leak is a chunk of memory that is allocated and never freed when it should have been.
So let's say this 'terrible' javascript page allocates 2G of RAM. If you refresh the page and the memory stays allocated that is a memory leak. But if it frees it and then reallocates it then it is not a memory leak but just working as designed to (as is your example above).
Memory leaks are not properties of websites but properties (or rather hopefully not) of browsers indicating a bug in the browsers code, no website should be able to cause a browser to leak memory and if such websites can be found bugs should be logged against those browsers that can be reproducibly caused to lose track of their memory allocation.
Because Silicon Valley has a high level of entrepreneurial immigrants it means that it reflects the US as a whole, right? This considering it's in the state with the highest level of immigration and the probably has more H1Bs than anywhere else in the US. This has got to be the truth.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 42.3 ms ] thread1) The woman is the cream in your typical Oreo display of "diversity".
2) The men are in business casual attire (i.e. a button down shirts/polos), the woman is wearing a fair amount of makeup and jewelry, and what appears to be a dress blouse. Could be easily explained away as this particular founder's usual method of dress (or the nature of her business), but it's a notable exception in the three photos.
3) They couldn't have picked someone who qualified as an "immigrant" who looked more stereotypically "native". This is not directly related to the sexism argument, but as a result she seems to have been carefully picked to fit in the image and give a point of reference.
Anyway - yes, the reason I made that comment was that the female founder's attire seemed inconsistent with what is generally considered to be business casual, which is what the other two male entrepreneurs in the picture are wearing. While it may be so that in her line of work her style of dressing is commonplace - for a professional article such as this, the authors could have done better in deliberately avoiding a picture like that.
Just my 2c.
Garbage collection != memory leak proof
The problem with downvotes in HN is the side effects. An early downvote can mean nothing more significant than "I disagree with you", but it has the effect of making a post significantly harder to read. When a post is hard to read, fewer people will read the post, yet they are willing to accept and re-enforce the judgement of their peers (especially HN personalities) without critically reviewing it for themselves.
I wouldn't personally blame Jacques for this, but his dismissal (and possibly the early downvote as well) has had a net negative effect on the OP, regardless of the OP's correctness.
EDIT: And our sin appears to be getting too meta. Cardinal sin, that.
So let's say this 'terrible' javascript page allocates 2G of RAM. If you refresh the page and the memory stays allocated that is a memory leak. But if it frees it and then reallocates it then it is not a memory leak but just working as designed to (as is your example above).
Memory leaks are not properties of websites but properties (or rather hopefully not) of browsers indicating a bug in the browsers code, no website should be able to cause a browser to leak memory and if such websites can be found bugs should be logged against those browsers that can be reproducibly caused to lose track of their memory allocation.
It's not all that hard.