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Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by nrmitchi »

mkr-hn wrote: post #68
nrmitchi wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, and I'm curious for many others commenting in these threads; did you read the entire email thread was that posted on imgur (and referenced as "technical details" from the post), or just the content of the original blog post? I only ask because there is a 3-page (in my opinion, aggressively worded) email response in between "I feel this is unethical" and "legal action". I could see how the content and to…

Three pages of text is a lot to read in images you can't reprocess for accessibility on a site made for viewing images.

Ya, it's definitely a lot to read.

But if you are going to make statements like "I can't believe he responded in that way!!", it's important to read the thing that is actually being responded to.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by brhsagain »

yepthatsreality wrote: post #59

Was this removed from the front page because Replit has taken money from Ycombinator? EDIT: Just to clarify. This post has gained over 200 points and 70 comments on the last hour. It jumped from top 5 posts to low end of the top 50 posts in seconds and is rapidly sinking. Just curious what decision led to the hiding of a popular post.

I don't think so. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by songzme »

_meqs wrote: post #10

Honestly, this is about what I expected. I have the admittedly niche and somewhat impractical opinion that it's within no one's rights to have ownership over an idea, an implementation, or a solution to any problem at all . When businesses try to base themselves off of that type of ownership, of course they'll be threatened by someone putting together a small side project for the fun of it. Ideas aren't something you…

I also have the same opinion that its within no one's rights to have ownership over an idea, implementation, or solution to any problem at all! All good ideas should be shared as the good idea itself, without any ties to ownership or credit where its due.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by yepthatsreality »

brhsagain wrote: post #72
yepthatsreality wrote: post #59

Was this removed from the front page because Replit has taken money from Ycombinator? EDIT: Just to clarify. This post has gained over 200 points and 70 comments on the last hour. It jumped from top 5 posts to low end of the top 50 posts in seconds and is rapidly sinking. Just curious what decision led to the hiding of a popular post.

I don't think so. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

That’s for the previous thread though. Unless I’m missing something every thing he says doesn’t necessarily apply to this thread.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by ywei3410 »

nrmitchi wrote: post #66
2bitencryption wrote: post #14

The craziest part, to me, is how the CEO could have expressed his view in a way that would have been much more compelling. "Hey, really cool project. Though honestly, not sure how I feel about a former intern of mine publishing a project that is so similar to what they worked on as an intern. But on that note, we'd be happy to have you back on the team if you want to continue the project with us :) What do you say?"…

I am curious, and I'm curious for many others commenting in these threads; did you read the entire email thread was that posted on imgur (and referenced as "technical details" from the post), or just the content of the original blog post? I only ask because there is a 3-page (in my opinion, aggressively worded) email response in between "I feel this is unethical" and "legal action". I could see how the content and to…

If you're referring to the email which Radon responds to the technical details; I don't think it's fair to label it aggressively worded without mentioning that Amjad had essentially accused them of copying internal design decisions.

Taken directly from the email; "but this feels weird/unethical since you worked for us and now are copying internal design decisions (even bad ones)".

Could Radon's email be worded better to defuse the situation? Probably; but they are a fresh graduate just out of university and I think it's reasonable to hold Amjad to a higher standard.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by TearsInTheRain »

2bitencryption wrote: post #14

The craziest part, to me, is how the CEO could have expressed his view in a way that would have been much more compelling. "Hey, really cool project. Though honestly, not sure how I feel about a former intern of mine publishing a project that is so similar to what they worked on as an intern. But on that note, we'd be happy to have you back on the team if you want to continue the project with us :) What do you say?"…

It looked like his first reaction was exactly that, he even pitched him on a job. It was the second and third reaction where he started bringing up issues with copying

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by ggoo »

eptcyka wrote: post #51
ggoo wrote: post #4

Not a real apology when it only happens because of public pressure, this is just saving face. And not a very good attempt at that.

It doesn't have to be real, and it's probably impossible to squeeze a real one out of this individual. Getting egoists to not do what they want is a good enough compromise IMO.

So we've succeeded in making an egotist feel uncomfortable for a bit? They're very unlikely to change.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by minimaxir »

yepthatsreality wrote: post #59

Was this removed from the front page because Replit has taken money from Ycombinator? EDIT: Just to clarify. This post has gained over 200 points and 70 comments on the last hour. It jumped from top 5 posts to low end of the top 50 posts in seconds and is rapidly sinking. Just curious what decision led to the hiding of a popular post.

Usually updates are penalized, which this is.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by rasikjain »

Masad response does not seem to have the tone of apology. He is apologizing to the legal threat only. He is still not ready to accept about open source Project.

Good that Radon has responded well to that criticism and made communication transparent in his blog.

Setting the wrong tone from the position of CEO.

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