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Context from when this showed up last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239259 The CEO, _jayy, posted

Context from when this showed up last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239259 The CEO, _jayy, posted a number of comments, then deleted all but one. The deleted comments were preserved by yegortimoshenko. Links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241694

serf 8y ago
"the manager", personified. Sheesh. "Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.) I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."
- arcturus17 8y ago
  There are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified. The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact. If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.
  - dzamo_norton 8y ago
    He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".
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axlprose 8y ago
There's even more context about how this CEO managed the business in a reddit thread in response to those tweets as well, which includes some detailed and revealing comments from the developer: https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_future_questions_and_concerns_from_a_customer/e06a4cr https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_fu... https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_future_questions_and_concerns_from_a_customer/e0drnyv https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_fu...
- nailer 8y ago
  That's the most detailed explanation of things I can find in this thread. Thanks.
yegortimoshenko 8y ago
CEO also blocks everyone who supports Daniel on their IRC channel. I've been repeatedly asked to take down these links and documents, and CEO even told me "they would come after me" if not for the fact that I live in Russia. See IRC logs: https://view.matrix.org/room/!VxEwjfmZAypdXzZfUp:matrix.org/ https://view.matrix.org/room/!VxEwjfmZAypdXzZfUp:matrix.org/
- yegortimoshenko 8y ago
  Mirror: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover CEO has sent DMCA takedown request on my GitLab repo, which clearly abuses copyright law. To use the mirrored pages, replace "yegortimoshenko.gitlab.io" in URLs with "yegortimoshenko.github.io".

serf 8y ago

"the manager", personified. Sheesh. "Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.) I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."

arcturus17 8y ago
There are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified. The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact. If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.
- dzamo_norton 8y ago
  He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".

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axlprose 8y ago

There's even more context about how this CEO managed the business in a reddit thread in response to those tweets as well, which includes some detailed and revealing comments from the developer: https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_future_questions_and_concerns_from_a_customer/e06a4cr https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_fu... https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_future_questions_and_concerns_from_a_customer/e0drnyv https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8oq1l3/cos_fu...

nailer 8y ago
That's the most detailed explanation of things I can find in this thread. Thanks.

yegortimoshenko 8y ago

CEO also blocks everyone who supports Daniel on their IRC channel. I've been repeatedly asked to take down these links and documents, and CEO even told me "they would come after me" if not for the fact that I live in Russia. See IRC logs: https://view.matrix.org/room/!VxEwjfmZAypdXzZfUp:matrix.org/ https://view.matrix.org/room/!VxEwjfmZAypdXzZfUp:matrix.org/

yegortimoshenko 8y ago
Mirror: https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover CEO has sent DMCA takedown request on my GitLab repo, which clearly abuses copyright law. To use the mirrored pages, replace "yegortimoshenko.gitlab.io" in URLs with "yegortimoshenko.github.io".