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DHH is incapable of expressing regret in general.
by spion 5y ago
DHH is incapable of expressing regret in general.
- klelatti 5y agoMaybe the whole "we're the small guy being oppressed by Apple" thing has slightly clouded his judgement.
- spion 5y agoNo, its just the way he is and has always been. Its really sad. He misunderstood a comment about a pyramid and instead of investigating a bit more about the meaning he decided to assert managerial power. When he finally gets to the point where he realizes his mistake, I wonder how he'll spin it (subconciously) into a rant about how awesome he is that he realized his mistake.
- heartbreak 5y agoI wonder how much of this could have been avoided if he hadn’t confused the pyramid of hate with a flow chart.
- lupire 5y agoThe pyramid of hate is horrible PowerPoint-atyle information presentation; we should take a lesson from that.
- lupire 5y agoWhat pyramid comment?
- spion 5y agoThe one with genocide at the top. Nobody was implying actual genocide. In fact the ground level of the pyramid, where you do absolutely nothing wrong, is still necessary to build it. (i.e. to make any sort of mistakes you first need humans). If he understood it he could've just said "Yep you're right, we have to make sure we're not building the foundation for worse things" and be done with it. In fact he already agreed with that. I have no idea what he was thinking.
- solipsism 5y agoThe pyramid is a depiction of the fact that genocides can't happen without insensitive jokes. Of course it would be silly to read it as saying insensitive jokes necessarily lead to genocide. But why bring it into the conversation?? If you're not implying any link from jokes to genocides, why is it relevant? I agree that bringing the concept of genocide up in a conversation about insensitive jokes is absolutely escalating. We can talk about the direct harm of insensitive jokes. That conversation can stand alone.
- pseudalopex 5y agoThe pyramid says belittling jokes are acts of bias. It says they're as bad as slurs. It says they help prop up systemic discrimination. And it shows it isn't just 1 non expert's opinion. Those are debatable points. But they're relevant if someone else says belittling jokes are harmless. Did the employee say anything about genocide actually? Or did they just expect people to focus on the relevant parts?
- spion 5y agoIt looked to me like they all basically agreed with each other. I have no idea how its possible to escalate that.
- res0nat0r 5y agoLikely started when he got really successful from Rails then the ego just took over.
- rodgerd 5y agoIt only took him a decade to acknowledge that calling for porn in business presentations was a bad idea, so perhaps he'll have changed his opinion in the 2030s.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoUm, is there some context that's missing here? That's quite an odd statement.
- filleduchaos 5y agoThis is the context: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a-ghetto/comment-page-1/ http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a... Basically a bit over a decade ago, DHH was aware of and explicitly condoned a NSFW image in a Ruby conference talk's slides.
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