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Some of the critics in the thread are… odious. I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some
by port11 10mo ago
Some of the critics in the thread are… odious. I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks.
I don’t understand how someone can display such contempt towards the maintainer of a thing they’ve used for free.
- typeofhuman 10mo ago[flagged]
- port11 10mo agounemployed (dot) com. Specifically thanks to equity takeover. I’m human, so yes, I can be prejudiced. People who succumb to mob mentality to hate F/LOSS maintainers fall under such prejudice. I don’t want to sound harsh and didn’t mean to offend you.
- digitalPhonix 10mo ago> pejudice: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge (Or some such variation of “making an opinion before having information”) It might be unfair but port11 made the opinion of not wanting to work with people after observing their behaviours so it is not prejudice.
- latexr 10mo ago> I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks. You can block accounts on GitHub and add a note as to why. Might be simpler and more accessible later on than a random TXT (plus, it probably updates if they change their username). Note that blocking also means they can’t contribute to your repos. Which you may not care about anyway.
- port11 10mo agoThank you, that’s indeed much cleverer. Unfortunately I’ve closed my account this year, trying to put my money where my mouth is and not furthering the goals of GitHub or Microsoft.
- windowshopping 10mo agoWhat's wrong with microsoft and github? I can't lie, between this comment and the "writing down people's github handles out of spite just in case" you are coming off as someone with a lot of grievances.
- pluralmonad 10mo ago> What's wrong with microsoft and github? Pull up a chair. This is going to take while...
- hackable_sand 10mo agoI deleted my GitHub for the same reasons.
- port11 10mo agoUnderstandable, but I’m definitely a lot less bitter than it seems. Well, Microsoft is vile. I won’t expand because there’s plenty online on the topic. And I don’t like their acquisition of GitHub, which has turned into an ecosystem for laundering open-source code through LLMs.
- waffletower 10mo agoI am one of those critics, but I never used Tailwind. A layoff of that magnitude is horrific, but if what they are describing as their business model is true, they really really need to rethink it. I wonder what the size of their marketing team is like, and if they were involved in the layoffs. Seems like they need some help there. I found the "downvote" spam in that thread, for reasonable posts, to be quite off-putting, and that led me to my remarks.
- slig 10mo agoTailwind, not Tailscale.
- waffletower 10mo agothanks :D
- stephenson 10mo agoThe 75% of the team is 3 out of 4 developers. There are no marketing. Left are the three owners of tailwind, one engineer and one ops+customer service + partner sails person.
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- bitbasher 10mo agoinsert "First time?" meme
- 7bit 10mo agoI wrote down your handle, so if you are ever hiring, I will be able to skip your toxic place.
- altmanaltman 10mo ago"Sorry, we cannot give you the job because even though you're qualified and passed our interviews, you were such a meano to Adam! That is a no-go at this organization" Who trusted you with hiring
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- laacz 10mo agoThat's part of a personality fit.
- naasking 10mo agoNot wanting to hire a dick who can't keep a cool head and give constructive feedback is perfectly reasonable.
- 306bobby 10mo agoHalf the people in that thread have this mentality that just using tailwind is enough contribution, so therefore GiVe mY oPuS MoRe InFo I thought we learned years ago that exposure doesn't keep the lights on. That mentality is nothing but entitlement One comment stated that "it's not our fault the founder was unable to manage his finances to pay his people" well if open source worked the way people try to act like it does, he shouldn't have to pay anyone, right? But here we are
- altmanaltman 10mo agoSo you're going to make a list and ensure they don't find employment? That's really an overreaction. Most people say "personality fit" is a thing, but I feel you're downright disgusting if you're tracking people like this and actively ensuring they don't get a chance because of a difference of opinion. It's vindictive and in poor taste and not objective at all.
- DirkH 10mo agoPeople get rejected from companies based on nothing but vibes of personality fit every day.
- mpeg 10mo agoYou can use a product and still be critical, especially when layoffs happen, truth is there are a lot of things we don't know about their finances – tailwind definitely is successful by any metrics, they have corporate sponsors that alone give them a healthy MRR (I count at least $100k/month from the sponsors page alone) I sympathise that it sucks having to fire people, been there. But it sucks more to get fired.
- jmtame 10mo agoNice, nothing like a little personal bias to inject into an interview process. If you can't handle criticism and you're just looking for sycophants, you're probably not the type of employer or hiring manager most people want to work for anyway.
- port11 10mo agoOh, it’s not the criticism. It’s the hatred, the vile attacks on open-source maintainers. I wouldn’t want to work with people like that, would you?
- jmtame 10mo agoFair enough, I tend to avoid overly negative people. Criticism can come from a good place to suggest improvements (radical candor), but agreed that some of the comments are just personal attacks. I think we're both in agreement that those aren't people we'd want to work with.