Just deleted Tim Bray from my RSS feeds. Anyone who thinks you can ship good software and be a horrible person at the same time, is not someone I can really conscience reading anymore.
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Replying to @aurynn
Hm? It’d be rude to name names, but it wouldn’t be hard.
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Replying to @timbray
Empathy is so fundamental to writing quality software that in 2019 I cannot fathom anyone who doesn’t understand that. The lack of empathy has put us where we are - with facial recognition systems that can’t deal with black people, for instance.
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“Flaming asswipes” as you call them cannot write good software, because they cannot engage with users or user needs. They make teams and team interactions toxic. They ruin the industry.
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Replying to @aurynn
I 100% agree about the damage to the industry and the humans who have to interact with them. I hate my profession sometimes. But I often find myself using software created by really deplorable people. I’d much rather not name names, but they aren’t exactly secret.
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Replying to @timbray
It’s only by naming them from a position of power that anything changes. Silence is complicity.
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We can look at last week and @sarahmei finally getting RMS to face consequences.
Being silent does not make a better industry.
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