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Another brogrammer removed from the industry. Hopefully the debacle at TC Disrupt over the weekend removed a few more as well. Let's keep this train rolling.

by meritt 13y ago

samstave 13y ago
What was the debacle at Disrupt?
- meritt 13y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OhpES4L7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OhpES4L7g Titstare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88eb8LUIdU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88eb8LUIdU Circle Shake Not only the sheer audacity of these idiots with their "apps" but also on the shoulders of TechCrunch who apparently do not employ any sort of pre-screening toward applicants.
- untog 13y ago
  You wouldn't have heard about it if you only read Hacker News - users systematically flagged any reference to it off the site. The 21st Century equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "la la la la" Worth pointing out that the exact same thing has now happened to this thread.
  - cstejerean 13y ago
    After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.
    - minimaxir 13y ago
      There was discussion, but it was flagged off the front page immediately. http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-new-low-1279276737 http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-ne...
    - untog 13y ago
      It happens any/every time gender is discussed on Hacker News. There was a hackathon planned last year that boasted "women, booze & massages". Numerous threads about it were immediately flagged off the site. Same the Geeklist issue with a promo video that had a woman in her underwear. It would be one thing if the HN community was capable of looking at these issues and having a reasoned discussion about them. But no, flagged immediately. Heroic hackers jumping on the gender grenade so the rest of us don't even have to think about it.
  - samstave 13y ago
    I tried to watch some of disrupt - but the live-stream crashed FF every single time, so I gave up.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    GP didn't ask why he hadn't heard about it, he asked what it was.
  - crapshoot101 13y ago
    That was incredibly depressing - the story gets flagged because its not newsworthy to someone.
rjknight 13y ago
He hasn't been removed from the industry, just from this job. If he's any good (which I have absolutely zero knowledge of) then he'll be back somewhere else before long. Hopefully with a new attitude.
- meritt 13y ago
  Fair enough but when top-level executives are being removed for their inappropriate behavior hopefully people will start to notice that "hey, maybe I shouldn't act this way!" and our industry can actually be respectable once again. This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen with a very vivid history. No company is going to place themselves at risk hiring this guy again. There's plenty of other respectable talent out there.
  - kmeritt 13y ago
    A) "This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen." Yep. As in... Either assign an intern to make my twitter updates for me or expect to get sued for wrongful termination and for me to finally set precedent about the limits of corporate policy with a goddamn federal lawsuit. B) "There's plenty of other respectable talent out there." No there isn't. There are plenty of people who read hacker news and know what's trending today, but very few who can pinpoint what's going to be trending tomorrow or what a company can do to position themselves to be on the front page tomorrow.
    - gaadd33 13y ago
      Wrongful termination in an at-will state without violating any protected classes or protected speech? That would be an interesting precedent to set, how would you go about that?
  - newnewnew 13y ago
    Respectable == toeing the Marxist/feminist line. You can have political opinions in public, as long as its left. Meanwhile, this guy is still employed: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200 https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200 Also, "the economic catastrophe facing the global marketplace is a result of a failure of white culture in America."[2] Because, hey!, we all know white people are crazy. Good thing businesses never have to hire white people. [2] http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-business.html http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-busine...

Another brogrammer removed from the industry. Hopefully the debacle at TC Disrupt over the weekend removed a few more as well. Let's keep this train rolling.

by meritt 13y ago

Another brogrammer removed from the industry. Hopefully the debacle at TC Disrupt over the weekend removed a few more as well. Let's keep this train rolling.

samstave 13y ago

What was the debacle at Disrupt?

meritt 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OhpES4L7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OhpES4L7g Titstare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88eb8LUIdU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88eb8LUIdU Circle Shake Not only the sheer audacity of these idiots with their "apps" but also on the shoulders of TechCrunch who apparently do not employ any sort of pre-screening toward applicants.
untog 13y ago
You wouldn't have heard about it if you only read Hacker News - users systematically flagged any reference to it off the site. The 21st Century equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "la la la la" Worth pointing out that the exact same thing has now happened to this thread.
- cstejerean 13y ago
  After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.
  - minimaxir 13y ago
    There was discussion, but it was flagged off the front page immediately. http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-new-low-1279276737 http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-ne...
  - untog 13y ago
    It happens any/every time gender is discussed on Hacker News. There was a hackathon planned last year that boasted "women, booze & massages". Numerous threads about it were immediately flagged off the site. Same the Geeklist issue with a promo video that had a woman in her underwear. It would be one thing if the HN community was capable of looking at these issues and having a reasoned discussion about them. But no, flagged immediately. Heroic hackers jumping on the gender grenade so the rest of us don't even have to think about it.
- samstave 13y ago
  I tried to watch some of disrupt - but the live-stream crashed FF every single time, so I gave up.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  GP didn't ask why he hadn't heard about it, he asked what it was.
- crapshoot101 13y ago
  That was incredibly depressing - the story gets flagged because its not newsworthy to someone.

rjknight 13y ago

He hasn't been removed from the industry, just from this job. If he's any good (which I have absolutely zero knowledge of) then he'll be back somewhere else before long. Hopefully with a new attitude.

meritt 13y ago
Fair enough but when top-level executives are being removed for their inappropriate behavior hopefully people will start to notice that "hey, maybe I shouldn't act this way!" and our industry can actually be respectable once again. This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen with a very vivid history. No company is going to place themselves at risk hiring this guy again. There's plenty of other respectable talent out there.
- kmeritt 13y ago
  A) "This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen." Yep. As in... Either assign an intern to make my twitter updates for me or expect to get sued for wrongful termination and for me to finally set precedent about the limits of corporate policy with a goddamn federal lawsuit. B) "There's plenty of other respectable talent out there." No there isn't. There are plenty of people who read hacker news and know what's trending today, but very few who can pinpoint what's going to be trending tomorrow or what a company can do to position themselves to be on the front page tomorrow.
  - gaadd33 13y ago
    Wrongful termination in an at-will state without violating any protected classes or protected speech? That would be an interesting precedent to set, how would you go about that?
- newnewnew 13y ago
  Respectable == toeing the Marxist/feminist line. You can have political opinions in public, as long as its left. Meanwhile, this guy is still employed: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200 https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200 Also, "the economic catastrophe facing the global marketplace is a result of a failure of white culture in America."[2] Because, hey!, we all know white people are crazy. Good thing businesses never have to hire white people. [2] http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-business.html http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-busine...