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This seems to have been either a complete, sensationalistic fabrication, or at best, a totally negligent misread. See for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.c
by raldi 7y ago
This seems to have been either a complete, sensationalistic fabrication, or at best, a totally negligent misread.
See for yourself:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086
The thread began, "If Katie was a man do you think people would be going through git histories and their published papers trying to determine if she is being over-credited for her achievements?"
And it's not referring to others on HN; as the replies make clear, it's about people elsewhere.
- minimaxir 7y agoScroll down to the very bottom of that discussion thread and unfurl the flagged threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632301
- raldi 7y agoThe comments on that story were nothing like the impression any reader would get from the reporter's description. Again: "users combed through her code on GitHub" Reality: One user, in a detached, downvoted, flagged, dead comment invisible to 99% of visitors to the site posted a link to an image analyzing her GH contributions, and was immediately and widely rebuked.
- minimaxir 7y agoI was in that thread while it was active: it took awhile for those discussions to become "detached, downvoted, flagged, dead".
- raldi 7y agoThat's not what the capture at the Internet Archive appears to show: http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 http://web.archive.org/web/20190411122008/https://news.ycomb...