Two people have written blog posts about getting fired from github https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310 … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703661 …
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Replying to @danluu
The most striking thing about this to me is how different the comments on the two situations are.
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Replying to @danluu
Case A: the man gets the benefit of the doubt, negative comments get downvoted Case B: the woman gets a ton of FUD, top comment is FUD.
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I don't know enough about the situation to know if the FUD is true, but neither does the person who wrote it or the people who upvoted it.
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It is literally impossible for the comment ranking to be a reflection of reality. It's all just a reflection of people's biases.
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Replying to @danluu
In "his" post he doesn't explain why he was fired or what led up to it. He even says "I still don't know why".
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Meanwhile "her" post was choc-a-bloc w/detail. Much more opportunity for armchair quarterbacking there.
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In "his" post, he mentions having been severely burnt out, which is a reason I've seen people get PIPed. IMO, that's a bad reason, and...
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...there's not enough information in the post to know if that's "the" reason, but I don't see that as different from her post in that regard
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The people who think her firing is justified appear to believe they know exactly what it would be like to work with her...
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...which seems impossible to know given one blog post, or one blog post plus the github issue people are trotting out...
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