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Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by kazinator »

ctvo wrote: post #31

Every time there's a thread on this I want to bring up the fact that Amjad still has not listed what this open source project stole. You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft and not present evidence. Release a statement clearly stating NOTHING was stolen or release evidence. We have the public commit history of the project. Feel free to go through each commit and po…

I think it's fairly obvious that the content of the accusation is something like "you took our idea of making a web front end to a bunch of virtual machines in which one can interact with programming languages".

Problem is, using a web-based terminal to access a host is not original. They have no patent on it.

In general, such an accusation could be legally actionable. E.g. say you were employed by some restaurant and stole their secret recipe, and then used it to offer the same menu item in your own restaurant. Type of thing.

There is no secret sauce here, though.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by tuscanevenings »

darkhorse13 wrote: post #35
patcon wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't been following this except for reading the post yesterday, but these words strike me as kinda vulnerable for him to admit (in the good way), and I want to applaud it. It seems like he's admitting that his environment shaped him, and his hustle mindset and "me against the unfair world" might not always be appropriate. * shrug * Though yes, he seems to have some personality flaws. I hope he's working on them, b…

Please. We all have struggles in life, all of us. Nothing can justify bad behavior, and straight up bullying. I do believe anyone can change though, so here's hoping that he does so for the better.

The opportunity to demonstrate that he could change was in the follow up call. I had considered ceasing my company's use of Replit after the original HN post; the supposed olive branch message that was really to elicit underdog sympathy, the phone call and his behaviour on Twitter was the nail in the coffin.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will. Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

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Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by sillysaurusx »

dang wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will. Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

If anyone wants to see the descendant count now, rather than waiting, I've submitted a snippet of javascript as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442644

Or just open your browser console and run the JS directly:

  [...byTag(document.body, 'a')].filter(x => x.innerText == 'more').map(x => { x.innerText = `${byClass($(x.href.split('item?id=')[1]), 'togg')[0].attributes['n'].value - 1} more`; });
I find it much easier to browse HN now. It's immediately clear whether I'm missing a large subtree.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by rackjack »

hluska wrote: post #104
rackjack wrote: post #15

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Off-topic, but does anybody remember the name of the emancipated slave that said something along the lines of "You can't give me freedom, you can only give it back"? I really love that quote but I can't find the original source.

I’m not familiar with the quote but it sounds like Frederick Douglass. My favourite Douglass quote is, “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” If you find the quote, let me know! I’m always looking to expand my mountain of unread books...:)

Wow my memory completely butchered it. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfcc21c6Uo

The top YouTube comment(s) say the quote I was thinking of: “You can’t give me my rights, I was born with them. You can take them away, but you can’t give them to me.”

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by sillysaurusx »

dang wrote: post #103
sillysaurusx wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh! I’m sorry, I had HN blindness. I didn’t notice at all that “reply” got swapped to “more”. Cool. (Wish it was a different color, or included the descendant count.)

It probably will. Ideas about how to get this right are welcome.

Hey, it looks like you shut it off entirely (a few seconds ago?). For what it's worth, I didn't hate it. If it's a necessary performance change, people will understand. It was nice to see HN trying an experiment; I'm sorry if my comments sounded negative.

From analyzing it today, one alarming thing I noticed was that in all recent threads with "more" links, the conversation never seemed to nest more than one or two levels deep. But the moment you go to an old thread, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208#21232605, the "more" links turned out to be hiding 9+ comments.

But, like, it's not a horrible thing to constrain the comment subtree. If you were feeling like it was the way to go, my only feedback is to trust your judgement on that one. Personally, I thought it was an interesting new dynamic, even if I had my own (probably-unjustified) concerns.

Anyway, best of luck, sorry for the mistaken bug report, and keep trying new experiments! It's really cool!

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by simonpatchin »

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Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by mustacheemperor »

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 learned very on in my founder career that invoking potential legal action is a big red button you must be extraordinarily cautious about using. Chances are if you need it, other core team members will be telling you as much. And using it at the wrong time looks like setting off a bomb in a restaurant because your water glass is empty for ten minutes.

So much egotism from the CEO in this exchange. I'm glad this was published and posted to HN because it's a valuable lesson to learn by example from.

Re: How did Replit respond to this blog post?

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Post by hluska »

rackjack wrote: post #115
hluska wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not familiar with the quote but it sounds like Frederick Douglass. My favourite Douglass quote is, “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” If you find the quote, let me know! I’m always looking to expand my mountain of unread books...:)

Wow my memory completely butchered it. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfcc21c6Uo The top YouTube comment(s) say the quote I was thinking of: “You can’t give me my rights, I was born with them. You can take them away, but you can’t give them to me.”

Thanks friend!! First, thanks for the link. And second, thanks for mentioning you butchered the quote - I do that almost constantly and I love knowing I’m not the only one. This is a very kind response - thanks for the link and your openness!!
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