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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Replying to @danluu
There's more to it, though — the woman in question is notorious for harassing and publicly shaming people she disagrees with.
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen
The HN comments (and lobsters comments) imply that, but IMO they don't actually make a case for it.
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Replying to @danluu
I could be wrong; this is my reading of the "Opalgate" bug report from 2015. What did you think about it?
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen
The thing I dislike about that thread is the piling on and the way arguments are (IMO) phrased to score points, not convince. But...
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...that's mostly other people. Also, even if I strongly disagreed with her behavior, I think people often behave differenty in diff contexts
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and I wouldn't read much, if anything, into her work behavior from comments in a github thread on a project she doesn't work on.
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Alternately, there are some people who are known for being raging assholes on the internet who are also known for being nice to work with
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I think it can generally be agreed that she's not *that* abrasive, so I don't think there's strong evidence that she's not nice to work with
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IMO, one should have a pretty high bar for standard of proof before trashing someone in public if they're not a public figure and...
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