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I love github, but toxic cultures can happen anywhere. Github employees have been involved in commit abuse since the beginning https://web.archive.org/web/20130
by glibgil 13y ago
I love github, but toxic cultures can happen anywhere. Github employees have been involved in commit abuse since the beginning https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1306816425.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbi...
- quotemstr 13y agoYet people wonder, mouth agape, why I prefer staying up in Seattle.
- aspleenic 13y agoLocation really has little to do with. While SF is a bit of a hipster enclave, so are a lot of places with plenty of tech companies.
- Bahamut 13y agoWow...I hope that toxic github employee was fired for that.
- rrouse 13y agoI believe it was just a user of Github and not an employee that did that nonsense.
- Bahamut 13y agoThis quote suggests more than one GitHub employee was in on it at the least: 'They purposefully allow this glaringly obvious mechanism for insulting and annoying their members and are actually involved in the joke. Until I broke their server they were all laughing at my "testing", then they were pissed when they had to fix the bug I found. If you don't believe me, look at the HackerNewsTips twitter account, which I know is astroturfed by a github employee.' In one of the first few paragraphs, there's this block: "The other piece of information you need to understand is that there's a sort of running hidden gag among the Ruby Iluminati (aka Rubynati) within San Francisco. Employees from Engine Yard, PowerSet, and ... github love this joke where they create code that generates ASCII art penis pictures and then force other people onto their project without permission. Here's another one called dicks by Martin Emde." It's a shame that companies doing some useful things have to encourage a culture of brutish behavior.
- rrouse 13y agoI think it was just a user of Github and not an employee that did that nonsense
- drawkbox 13y agoYou've gotta love Zed A. Shaw, he is an entertaining truth cannon (and a great programmer).