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(My other reply is dead, apparently?) The point is we can’t be truly meritocratic. It’s a utopic ideal that doesn’t hold up in the real world. Those who are deciding what merit is …

The point is we can’t be truly meritocratic. It’s a utopic ideal that doesn’t hold up in the real world. Those who are deciding what merit is are the ones who already have power. A…

Missing the point. Meritocracy is not something to aspire to. In practice it masks and reinforces power structures, increasing inequality: > The main finding is consistent across t…

Negative reaction to “meritocracy” is hardly knee-jerk. In fact, the word was coined as criticism of the concept: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

I read this as an apology for not having the preventative processes or environment in place. Despite no legal wrong doing, they still failed miserably when faced with this situatio…

> I suspect that what founders really fear is being misunderstood in their motivations as their companies grow. They fear that employees view them as disconnected and only trying t…

> We aren't that far off from the Egyptians that were using hundreds of thousands of slaves per pyramid. It's a good thing that we've transcended the necessity for hundreds of thou…

Of course not. But don’t use meritocracy as an excuse to not be proactive about diversity.

Death by a thousand cuts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality

> For me, two adult individual can do whatever the hack they want to do, if it is legal and they are both consent of doing it. Not at all true in a professional environment. And th…

Meritocracy as an ideal may not be intrinsically sexist or racist, but declaring an organization a meritocracy doesn’t automatically eliminate existing sexism, racism, etc, and ins…

No, it’s “X isn’t really Y, despite what we say, and it’s actually harmful, so let’s stop reinforcing problems by pretending that it is Y”. As being discussed elsewhere in this thr…

Horvath mentioned on Twitter they supported her coming forward about her experience: nrrrdcore: I'm thrilled to be joining a new team in just a few weeks and they completely suppor…

The BitBucket issue tracker is clunky garbage by comparison, and its general UI doesn’t feel as well thought out. GitHub as a tool is really great. That said, company values matter…

Sort of. “Merit” is more a measure of those groups’ definitions of success. Calling it a meritocracy overly simplifies the circumstances for that success, often reinforcing the pow…

It’s not “get rid of meritocracy” but rather “recognize that it isn’t really meritocracy and it’s preserving problems”.

Steve Klabnik explains it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405881 In short, it’s a not-really-present ideal that’s often used to mask the existing power relationships th…

Gross attempt at rationalizing inappropriate behavior. Plus, the male developer in your story would also be considered unprofessional.

Sass by default sets UTF-8 encoding.

Yes exactly. It’s the host’s job to talk to the audience. Unless you have something to specifically say to those watching, you’re better off focusing on the host and letting the di…

Because someone thought it was interesting enough to submit, and others thought it was interesting enough to vote up. Pretty simple, really.

The blog theme was made by a Chinese developer, which is probably why that is set the way it is.

It’s seen wider acceptance. Some argue even more so than LESS. Sass is very popular in the Drupal community, for instance.