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any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers in the near future?

googlryas 4y ago
Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.
- notwhereyouare 4y ago
  I'll admit, every time I hear of repl.it mentioned, I think of the time the CEO threatened the intern. The CEO did a huge disservice to himself and the company that day in my mind
  - googlryas 4y ago
    You're allowed to think that. My point is really about littering unrelated posts regarding repl.it with snipes about it.
  - still_grokking 4y ago
    Oh, internet drama. I love internet drama! So I looked it up as I never heard this story before. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ Looks like this CEO isn't of good character after all. He looks almost like a jerk when looking at the end of the story. Even in his last email he tried to get his (obviously wrong) point. He never apologized for the things that mattered most, only tried to extinguish the social media fire all in all. Also he doesn't look very smart, imho: https://amasad.me/meta https://amasad.me/meta Big LOL here! The abstract things are the simplest, yeah! That's why progress in something like math or theoretical physics is made by the dumbest people, in contrast to something like sociology where you need genius level of intelligence to come up with some new ideas. Sure, sure. But that's of course not everything this dude got completely backwards. Would explain why replit is the most useless of all the online IDEs: It has no direction, no true value proposition. It's not a good cloud coding environment. It never was a good code snippet playground (actually one of the worsts). Now they even require accounts, so the quick code snippet aspect is also gone. Also they badly positioned in the education space… Of course I wish them luck! But I guess they have no chance against something like Gitpod, Github, or OpenShift codespaces, which are light-years ahead. OK, maybe the exit-strategy is "just" to be visible enough that at some point they get bought by one of the above. (Which doesn't look like the most ethical thing to do ;-)).
- selykg 4y ago
  This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.
  - ChrisKnott 4y ago
    It doesn't seem healthy to care more about this than the people actually involved
    - selykg 4y ago
      The CEO's actions are a reflection of the company. I'm not sure I "care more about it" than I am simply aware of their past actions when making decisions on whether to use their product or not.
  - googlryas 4y ago
    Ok, sounds good about it taking time - assuming perfect behavior, how long will it be before you stop referencing the affair whenever an unrelated repl.it story comes up?
    - selykg 4y ago
      Can I ask why you're so defensive about it? I feel like, if there's ANYTHING we have learned in the past decade or two it's that people who defend a company tend to be doing so for the wrong reasons. See Sony or Microsoft, or Apple or Android, etc. Defending a company is just weird. I look at replit as a tool, run by people. The tool might be cool, but the CEO made a bad decision and now I judge the product on that CEOs actions. There's no definitive time frame or action that just magically makes it better. But in general, I'll stop thinking about the stupid actions of the CEO when my brain stops reminding me "Oh, no matter how cool this is, the actions of the CEO were incredibly poor." When will that be? No idea, but maybe sometime down the road he does enough good things that I will suddenly stop and think "cool, looking back, he's done enough good that I can probably forget about the poor decision he made and start looking at this again, because he's proven he isn't that one stupid action." Goodwill is earned, it's not simply given. It's often hard won, but incredibly easy to lose.
- mr_cyborg 4y ago
  To be fair, since then I’ve heard of them ghosting people after final round interviews and meeting with the CEO. It’s a pattern at this point.
cercatrova 4y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.

notwhereyouare 4y ago
I'll admit, every time I hear of repl.it mentioned, I think of the time the CEO threatened the intern. The CEO did a huge disservice to himself and the company that day in my mind
- googlryas 4y ago
  You're allowed to think that. My point is really about littering unrelated posts regarding repl.it with snipes about it.
- still_grokking 4y ago
  Oh, internet drama. I love internet drama! So I looked it up as I never heard this story before. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/ Looks like this CEO isn't of good character after all. He looks almost like a jerk when looking at the end of the story. Even in his last email he tried to get his (obviously wrong) point. He never apologized for the things that mattered most, only tried to extinguish the social media fire all in all. Also he doesn't look very smart, imho: https://amasad.me/meta https://amasad.me/meta Big LOL here! The abstract things are the simplest, yeah! That's why progress in something like math or theoretical physics is made by the dumbest people, in contrast to something like sociology where you need genius level of intelligence to come up with some new ideas. Sure, sure. But that's of course not everything this dude got completely backwards. Would explain why replit is the most useless of all the online IDEs: It has no direction, no true value proposition. It's not a good cloud coding environment. It never was a good code snippet playground (actually one of the worsts). Now they even require accounts, so the quick code snippet aspect is also gone. Also they badly positioned in the education space… Of course I wish them luck! But I guess they have no chance against something like Gitpod, Github, or OpenShift codespaces, which are light-years ahead. OK, maybe the exit-strategy is "just" to be visible enough that at some point they get bought by one of the above. (Which doesn't look like the most ethical thing to do ;-)).
selykg 4y ago
This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.
- ChrisKnott 4y ago
  It doesn't seem healthy to care more about this than the people actually involved
  - selykg 4y ago
    The CEO's actions are a reflection of the company. I'm not sure I "care more about it" than I am simply aware of their past actions when making decisions on whether to use their product or not.
- googlryas 4y ago
  Ok, sounds good about it taking time - assuming perfect behavior, how long will it be before you stop referencing the affair whenever an unrelated repl.it story comes up?
  - selykg 4y ago
    Can I ask why you're so defensive about it? I feel like, if there's ANYTHING we have learned in the past decade or two it's that people who defend a company tend to be doing so for the wrong reasons. See Sony or Microsoft, or Apple or Android, etc. Defending a company is just weird. I look at replit as a tool, run by people. The tool might be cool, but the CEO made a bad decision and now I judge the product on that CEOs actions. There's no definitive time frame or action that just magically makes it better. But in general, I'll stop thinking about the stupid actions of the CEO when my brain stops reminding me "Oh, no matter how cool this is, the actions of the CEO were incredibly poor." When will that be? No idea, but maybe sometime down the road he does enough good things that I will suddenly stop and think "cool, looking back, he's done enough good that I can probably forget about the poor decision he made and start looking at this again, because he's proven he isn't that one stupid action." Goodwill is earned, it's not simply given. It's often hard won, but incredibly easy to lose.
mr_cyborg 4y ago
To be fair, since then I’ve heard of them ghosting people after final round interviews and meeting with the CEO. It’s a pattern at this point.

cercatrova 4y ago

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195