This is a surprisingly low-quality essay for the front page of Hacker News. Accusing everyone of communism? Claiming that Adria Richards’s job was to go to conf

This is a surprisingly low-quality essay for the front page of Hacker News. Accusing everyone of communism? Claiming that Adria Richards’s job was to go to conferences and “fuck them up?” And that comparison is extremely suspect regardless of the hyperbolic ad hominems. That issue was around what is and isn’t a violation of a conference’s explicit or implicit code of conduct, and what is or isn’t an appropriate response with respect to the persons involved and those that report them. Whereas, this issue is around a person who has not violated a code of conduct. Massive difference. A far better comparison might be to the fate of Brendan Eich, who did not publicly espouse views about same-sex marriage on or off the job. There’s an excellent essay to be written about the dividing line between someone’s personal views and their professional conduct, but this isn’t it