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Not a single line of apology to a man's career she ruined, his family's welfare, and damaging influence she's had on female developers and developers in general

by jsnk 14y ago

Not a single line of apology to a man's career she ruined, his family's welfare, and damaging influence she's had on female developers and developers in general. This reads like she's making martyr out of herself fighting for some greater cause. I cringe of deceit and sheer lack of conscientiousness.

bhb916 14y ago
I make no judgment of her personally by saying this, but I'm pretty sure this is the moment she's been waiting for.
legitsource 14y ago
In her twitter she said she felt like Joan of Arc.
seivan 14y ago
She was just trying to increase her branding, something to blog about, something to attract page views, create a name for herself (and by proxy for Sendgrid). She doesn't care whose (or is it who's?) toes she steps on. That was her goal from the beginning, people like that don't really care, for them it's a hustle. This person was jaded to begin with. With her blog domain "butyoureagirl". She's gonna cash in heavy on the whole ordeal of sexism in our field. She was prepared. It's odd, though, as a developer evangelist you'd assume she would have her Github on "Connect with me" widget on the site. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube. But no Github. "... she work to promote inclusivity within the developer community" Yeah people like that aren't here for the code, they're here to cash in. Branding baby. The term conference hoe' comes to mind, you know, all gender neutral and shit.
- seivan 14y ago
  Seriously though, I can't find her Github even if I try.
  - irahul 14y ago
    Here you go(first result for "adria richards github") https://github.com/adriarichards https://github.com/adriarichards
    - seivan 14y ago
      Thank you. My mistake was adria got autocompleted to adrian. I own that mistake :)
duncanmcdowell 14y ago
Playing the race and gender cards is particularly cowardly. Appologize, move on, and become a better person.
mylons 14y ago
what's worse is that once you cut through all the politically correct bullshit that is being spewed on this subject you find that this was caused by a joke.
larrys 14y ago
"Not a single line of apology to a man's career she ruined, his family's welfare" Agree. But would like to point out that most likely the developer I will assume admitted to readily (and honestly) what he had actually said.[1] He may not have thought it was so bad -or- he simply underestimated the reaction of his employer. Hard to believe that if he had hemmned and hawed a bit and put off saying anything (giving himself a chance to think it through) that the employer would have fired him a) based on what a friend or third party reported or b) based on what Adria Richards did. [1] Remind me of the scene in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" where Judge Reinhold (the fast food clerk in the particular scene) admitted being surly with a customer and was fired by the manager on the spot.

by jsnk 14y ago

bhb916 14y ago

I make no judgment of her personally by saying this, but I'm pretty sure this is the moment she's been waiting for.

legitsource 14y ago

In her twitter she said she felt like Joan of Arc.

seivan 14y ago

She was just trying to increase her branding, something to blog about, something to attract page views, create a name for herself (and by proxy for Sendgrid). She doesn't care whose (or is it who's?) toes she steps on. That was her goal from the beginning, people like that don't really care, for them it's a hustle. This person was jaded to begin with. With her blog domain "butyoureagirl". She's gonna cash in heavy on the whole ordeal of sexism in our field. She was prepared. It's odd, though, as a developer evangelist you'd assume she would have her Github on "Connect with me" widget on the site. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube. But no Github. "... she work to promote inclusivity within the developer community" Yeah people like that aren't here for the code, they're here to cash in. Branding baby. The term conference hoe' comes to mind, you know, all gender neutral and shit.

seivan 14y ago
Seriously though, I can't find her Github even if I try.
- irahul 14y ago
  Here you go(first result for "adria richards github") https://github.com/adriarichards https://github.com/adriarichards
  - seivan 14y ago
    Thank you. My mistake was adria got autocompleted to adrian. I own that mistake :)

duncanmcdowell 14y ago

Playing the race and gender cards is particularly cowardly. Appologize, move on, and become a better person.

mylons 14y ago

what's worse is that once you cut through all the politically correct bullshit that is being spewed on this subject you find that this was caused by a joke.

larrys 14y ago

"Not a single line of apology to a man's career she ruined, his family's welfare" Agree. But would like to point out that most likely the developer I will assume admitted to readily (and honestly) what he had actually said.[1] He may not have thought it was so bad -or- he simply underestimated the reaction of his employer. Hard to believe that if he had hemmned and hawed a bit and put off saying anything (giving himself a chance to think it through) that the employer would have fired him a) based on what a friend or third party reported or b) based on what Adria Richards did. [1] Remind me of the scene in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" where Judge Reinhold (the fast food clerk in the particular scene) admitted being surly with a customer and was fired by the manager on the spot.