Kind of glad I've stopped using Twitter. Seems to be a cesspool of negativity and snarkiness. I think the problem is the vast majority of Twitter users have very few followers and consequently get very little interaction (Even programmer "celebrity" @izs only has ~8k followers). I think this leads to Lord of the Flies behavior, why we constantly see tweets getting attention when they are antagonistic.
Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm
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#22Was this just the last straw? I ask because the tweet pictured in the article seems fairly reasonable. Calling out a coworker for insulting you on twitter doesn't seem particularly objectionable.
Very much the last straw. How about this tweet:
"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."
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#23Another brogrammer removed from the industry. Hopefully the debacle at TC Disrupt over the weekend removed a few more as well. Let's keep this train rolling.
He hasn't been removed from the industry, just from this job. If he's any good (which I have absolutely zero knowledge of) then he'll be back somewhere else before long. Hopefully with a new attitude.
Fair enough but when top-level executives are being removed for their inappropriate behavior hopefully people will start to notice that "hey, maybe I shouldn't act this way!" and our industry can actually be respectable once again.
This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen with a very vivid history. No company is going to place themselves at risk hiring this guy again. There's plenty of other respectable talent out there.
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#24Was this just the last straw? I ask because the tweet pictured in the article seems fairly reasonable. Calling out a coworker for insulting you on twitter doesn't seem particularly objectionable.
Very much the last straw. How about this tweet: "In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though." https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/statuses/18546571881
Wow. Suddenly this article makes sense.
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#25For Business Insider's sake, I hope he was not involved in any hiring decisions because there will be some lawsuits.
Looks like he is: http://www.businessinsider.com/hiring-mobile-apps-developer-...
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#26For all the value of political correctness in the workplace, someone just lost their job for their honest views, because some found them too ugly to bear. If you're still thirsty for more ugly truth, check out a Twitter search for @paxdickinson just now. Apparently to many, honesty is objectively worse than endless vengeful hate.
I don't support anything this guy said, but clearly some of it was sarcasm, and as for the rest of it, differences of opinion are entropy, and every time we suppress them, the universe gets that little bit colder and humanity dies that little bit quicker..
There are no winners here. I find everything about this episode a disgrace on both sides.
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#27Another brogrammer removed from the industry. Hopefully the debacle at TC Disrupt over the weekend removed a few more as well. Let's keep this train rolling.
What was the debacle at Disrupt?
You wouldn't have heard about it if you only read Hacker News - users systematically flagged any reference to it off the site. The 21st Century equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "la la la la"
Worth pointing out that the exact same thing has now happened to this thread.
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#28Was this just the last straw? I ask because the tweet pictured in the article seems fairly reasonable. Calling out a coworker for insulting you on twitter doesn't seem particularly objectionable.
I don't think they are coworkers...just that they work in the same building (ie. 2 different companies).
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#29Was this just the last straw? I ask because the tweet pictured in the article seems fairly reasonable. Calling out a coworker for insulting you on twitter doesn't seem particularly objectionable.
There's a lot more than that tweet.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-ne...
Example: "In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."
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#30It is height of hypocrysy! That dude is not entitled to his opinion. :facepalm: I hate this entire feminism in tech agenda. Yeah, He is a douche, so what? Everyone is a little bit on varying topics.Because of things like that our industry is stranded in politics. Pax: Salute! business insider: you are anti-democratic and pro-feminist douche bags. fuck feminist agenda.
I've already posted this once, but can you explain how this tweet is related to the 'feminist agenda':
"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."