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How is it not relevant? The title is "Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment". Github ENGINEER. If she's not an engineer, she's not
by EC1 13y ago
How is it not relevant? The title is "Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment".
Github ENGINEER. If she's not an engineer, she's not an engineer, it's pretty simple.
- matthewmacleod 13y agoIt's also totally irrelevant.
- gte910h 13y agoI think people often look at distinctions like that to find out of they're "one of his tribe", aka, another programmer. It shouldn't matter, but it does to many people.
- EC1 13y agoIf the author couldn't make this distinction, I wonder what else they missed? Integrity is required all across the board, and it reflects poorly on you as a writer if you mess up something so central and easy in the title of your article.
- devnonymous 13y ago"Prominent GitHub Employee Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment" ...there fixed, now is it relevant ? Let's just add the title to all the other shoddy inaccuracies in the article. So, now do you agree ?? >> What job she did there has no relevance to whether or not harassment is worth investigating.
- EC1 13y agoYou're right, but as a writer, if you mess up something so simple as somebodies job title, then your integrity takes a hit. I want a solid piece, that includes getting minutia like this right.
- wetmore 13y agoRelevant to the article title but not that actual issue. How she was treated is not made better or worse depending on whether or not she's an engineer. Splitting hairs about her position distracts from the actual issue at hand.
- MetaCosm 13y agoYes. But it also addresses the quality of the journalism, which in this case is disgustingly poor. The link to random open source repos hosted on github, the inability to nail down a title... just poor journalism.