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So, guy who wrote GitHub and a ton of open source stuff is ousted from his own company and sacrificed for a person whos biggest accomplishment in open source is

by vpv 13y ago

So, guy who wrote GitHub and a ton of open source stuff is ousted from his own company and sacrificed for a person whos biggest accomplishment in open source is JavaScript for Cats? https://github.com/nrrrdcore/javascript-for-cats https://github.com/nrrrdcore/javascript-for-cats

sergiotapia 13y ago
What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party? These tumblr-twats warriors only break communities.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party? Because you can do your job badly and be unsuitable to continue in it by exhibiting poor judgement without breaking the law.
  - sergiotapia 13y ago
    You're assuming he did his job badly. All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING. You're taking her word over an investigations result.
    - dragonwriter 13y ago
      > You're assuming he did his job badly. No, I'm not assuming that. I am saying that's exactly what the report of the invstigation plus the actual concrete results suggests that Github determined based on the investigation. > All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING. The investigation does not show "no evidence of wrong doing", instead, it found "while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment" and that finding is cited as the direct reason for Preston-Werner's resignation.
bitlord_219 13y ago
Why do you consider this relevant?
- cpncrunch 13y ago
  It would appear to be relevant because she describes herself as an engineer, and because she thought the reverts of her code and bad performance reviews were due to sexism.
  - cpncrunch 13y ago
    Care to explain the downvote?
    - cpncrunch 13y ago
      Another downvote by an anonymous coward for a perfectly reasonable comment? Sometimes I just have to shake my head at HN :)
  - bitlord_219 13y ago
    Are you saying that good engineers can't have a sense of humor?
    - cpncrunch 13y ago
      No.
nailer 13y ago
She didn't write JS for Cats. Which is excellent, BTW.
Allan_Smithee 13y ago
The guy who wrote Github is responsible for some of the worst coding atrocities in a major piece of F/OSS. (Evidence: the Linguist debacle.) JS for Cats is, in comparison to Linguist, a work of towering intellect.
- rurounijones 13y ago
  More info? I have never heard of anything bad about Linguist (And I don't know that much about it.). Googling didnt bring up anything obvious,
  - anaphor 13y ago
    Parent might be referring to the fact that it can easily give false positives, but I'm not sure.
  - bm1362 13y ago
    I think it's the project that does syntax highlighting for the code browser in Github?
    - rurounijones 13y ago
      It is the software the identifies % of language used in a repository and highlighting etc. https://github.com/github/linguist https://github.com/github/linguist I just haven't heard anything bad about it so am curious why OP calls it a "debacle"

by vpv 13y ago

sergiotapia 13y ago

What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party? These tumblr-twats warriors only break communities.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party? Because you can do your job badly and be unsuitable to continue in it by exhibiting poor judgement without breaking the law.
- sergiotapia 13y ago
  You're assuming he did his job badly. All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING. You're taking her word over an investigations result.
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    > You're assuming he did his job badly. No, I'm not assuming that. I am saying that's exactly what the report of the invstigation plus the actual concrete results suggests that Github determined based on the investigation. > All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING. The investigation does not show "no evidence of wrong doing", instead, it found "while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment" and that finding is cited as the direct reason for Preston-Werner's resignation.

bitlord_219 13y ago

Why do you consider this relevant?

cpncrunch 13y ago
It would appear to be relevant because she describes herself as an engineer, and because she thought the reverts of her code and bad performance reviews were due to sexism.
- cpncrunch 13y ago
  Care to explain the downvote?
  - cpncrunch 13y ago
    Another downvote by an anonymous coward for a perfectly reasonable comment? Sometimes I just have to shake my head at HN :)
- bitlord_219 13y ago
  Are you saying that good engineers can't have a sense of humor?
  - cpncrunch 13y ago
    No.

nailer 13y ago

She didn't write JS for Cats. Which is excellent, BTW.

Allan_Smithee 13y ago

The guy who wrote Github is responsible for some of the worst coding atrocities in a major piece of F/OSS. (Evidence: the Linguist debacle.) JS for Cats is, in comparison to Linguist, a work of towering intellect.

rurounijones 13y ago
More info? I have never heard of anything bad about Linguist (And I don't know that much about it.). Googling didnt bring up anything obvious,
- anaphor 13y ago
  Parent might be referring to the fact that it can easily give false positives, but I'm not sure.
- bm1362 13y ago
  I think it's the project that does syntax highlighting for the code browser in Github?
  - rurounijones 13y ago
    It is the software the identifies % of language used in a repository and highlighting etc. https://github.com/github/linguist https://github.com/github/linguist I just haven't heard anything bad about it so am curious why OP calls it a "debacle"