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Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub

40 points by geuis 9y ago

woofyman 9y ago
That's a horrible story. I'm sorry that happened to you.
dijit 9y ago
This is one side of a certain perspective. From _my_ personal perspective githubs "inclusivity" has caused me to run a personal gitlab server. I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code. I wrote a very poorly edited piece on why I thought this way: https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github I freely admit that this is not a popular opinion on hackernews. But as a very disadvantaged and underprivileged person I am rather uninspired by the equality of outcome movements that are wofting over silicone valley, and I highly doubt that the actions described in TFA are accurate.
- mcphage 9y ago
  > I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code. If all you're there to do is write code, then why even have an opinion on master/slave vs. primary/replica? Caring which is chosen is the opposite of "just coding", so if people prefer primary/replica—which many people do—just change it and get on with the coding. Fighting against it is a complete waste of time. If you spend your time arguing about it, then your claims of "I just write code" are suspect.
  - dijit 9y ago
    I shouldn't have to go and change code based on political crap- they come for slave now, what do they come for next. the goalposts are ever moving. Fuck all that. Also, despite the downvotes I think these kinds of dissent against popular opinion need to be shared. I'm sick of pandering to the liberal agenda. I'm not right wing and I respect everybody but there's far too much focus on women and minorities. -- like I said before nobody gave a fuck when I was from a white trash background. I got a job because I was the best that applied for the position, I worked hard for that, damn hard.- I certainly didn't get any help because I was white. I didn't even get a job in my country to begin with- so I was just as disadvantaged as any other migrant at the time.
methodover 9y ago
I'm so sorry that this happened to the author. I'm also very surprised (and a bit suspicious) that this post was "dead" -- I was about to post the article myself before googling it, and discovering it here. I don't understand why this has been flag-brigaded. This article is absolutely on-topic for Hacker News.
- thescribe 9y ago
  This is just a single side of an employment dispute, why does it belong here?
- DrScump 9y ago
  A duplicate submission (just 7 hours after the original) was dead (presumably flagged as a dupe). The original submission is alive and well (530+ points, 360+ comments, and made immune to flagging by dang, per his comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661 Nothing suspicious at all, to my eye.
  - methodover 9y ago
    Oh, gosh, my bad. My google-fu failed me. Thanks!
carsongross 9y ago
I have bipolar depression and was already in a bad place mentally, so I found myself feeling crushed and hopeless My sense is that, in this post, we are getting one of many, many sides of this story.
codezero 9y ago
Before saying this is just one side of the story, ask yourself why nobody questioned Zach Holman's post that narrated his firing from GitHub. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310

40 points by geuis 9y ago

That's a horrible story. I'm sorry that happened to you.

This is one side of a certain perspective. From _my_ personal perspective githubs "inclusivity" has caused me to run a personal gitlab server. I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code. I wrote a very poorly edited piece on why I thought this way: https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github I freely admit that this is not a popular opinion on hackernews. But as a very disadvantaged and underprivileged person I am rather uninspired by the equality of outcome movements that are wofting over silicone valley, and I highly doubt that the actions described in TFA are accurate.

mcphage 9y ago
> I don't write code to get harassed about my use of master/slave vs primary/replica. I just write code. If all you're there to do is write code, then why even have an opinion on master/slave vs. primary/replica? Caring which is chosen is the opposite of "just coding", so if people prefer primary/replica—which many people do—just change it and get on with the coding. Fighting against it is a complete waste of time. If you spend your time arguing about it, then your claims of "I just write code" are suspect.
- dijit 9y ago
  I shouldn't have to go and change code based on political crap- they come for slave now, what do they come for next. the goalposts are ever moving. Fuck all that. Also, despite the downvotes I think these kinds of dissent against popular opinion need to be shared. I'm sick of pandering to the liberal agenda. I'm not right wing and I respect everybody but there's far too much focus on women and minorities. -- like I said before nobody gave a fuck when I was from a white trash background. I got a job because I was the best that applied for the position, I worked hard for that, damn hard.- I certainly didn't get any help because I was white. I didn't even get a job in my country to begin with- so I was just as disadvantaged as any other migrant at the time.

methodover 9y ago

I'm so sorry that this happened to the author. I'm also very surprised (and a bit suspicious) that this post was "dead" -- I was about to post the article myself before googling it, and discovering it here. I don't understand why this has been flag-brigaded. This article is absolutely on-topic for Hacker News.

thescribe 9y ago
This is just a single side of an employment dispute, why does it belong here?
DrScump 9y ago
A duplicate submission (just 7 hours after the original) was dead (presumably flagged as a dupe). The original submission is alive and well (530+ points, 360+ comments, and made immune to flagging by dang, per his comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661 Nothing suspicious at all, to my eye.
- methodover 9y ago
  Oh, gosh, my bad. My google-fu failed me. Thanks!

carsongross 9y ago

I have bipolar depression and was already in a bad place mentally, so I found myself feeling crushed and hopeless My sense is that, in this post, we are getting one of many, many sides of this story.

codezero 9y ago

Before saying this is just one side of the story, ask yourself why nobody questioned Zach Holman's post that narrated his firing from GitHub. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310