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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by officialchicken »

ryanackley wrote: post #90

This is standard stuff for a growing company. Right down to the disillusionment of the rank and file. I'm curious if anyone in the HN community has worked for a > 500 person company with a flat structure. What a lot of commenters seemed to miss is that the remote work policy applies exclusively to senior managers. Senior managers are no longer allowed to live afar and must report to the office. These are the people t…

How does a GPS fence lead to better management/leadership?

Until you realize their whole reason for github existing (and why Linus wrote git in the first place) is to support product development for large remote/distributed/non-centralized teams or projects. It just happens to also work identically for very small teams/projects too.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by makomk »

Absentinsomniac wrote: post #182
mjbh7k wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been seeing this discussion a lot lately, particularly in the publishing world. 79% of editors are white and 78% are women [1], so the statement has validity at least when talking about the gatekeepers of what stories get to be told. Marlon James recently posted about his experiences with it [2] and many writers of color have since shared similar experiences. My take is that it's not "us vs them", but a need to…

OK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as much as you seem to imply.

It sounds small when you put it that way, but try looking at the same stats from the other side: 37% of Americans aren't white, but only 21% of editors aren't. Or to put it another way, white people are twice as likely to become editors as non-white people. That's not a small difference.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by timcederman »

iza wrote: post #15

> "We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work" By replacing flat meritocracy and remote work with traditional top-down management? > "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon, so let's limit their scope of damage" So the technical director and member of the social-impact team is a blatant racist.

The second is a quote from a long-term Hacker News member, but he hasn't been active lately. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danilocampos

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by [deleted] »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #198
YuriNiyazov wrote: post #155

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Do you have an arrest record? If not: there's the magic power. Statistically speaking, a poor young black male is much more likely to have an arrest record than a poor young white male. Edit: holy batman the downvotes. I never considered the possibility that maybe #hnwatch is right.

I live in Germany, so that does not really apply to me ;)

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Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by swang »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #146
akavlie wrote: post #45

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Clearly you haven't been apprised of the current rules. Hatred of white males is categorically not racism, because they have all the power.

I am a young white male with no money, no job and bad health. Can I please have some of this mysterious magic power I am supposed to have?

"white" people's power is not that they are given money, a job, or great health. their power is that they are the ones given those opportunities. Being white doesn't remove you from being poor, jobless, or in poor health, you just have a lot more options to get out of it.

Being poor and white is a lot better than being poor and black or poor and because you're not fighting additional problems that come with being a minority.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by mariuolo »

malandrew wrote: post #130
hitekker wrote: post #38

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This makes me sad. I thought you were being over the top about the racism but then I saw the slides in the article: http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56b3d2462e526543008... My first reaction is that the language of "us" vs "them", victims vs oppressors, reeks of hatred. Hatred undermines productive conversation, which undermines any attempt at building a good culture. I would have to listen to the whole presen…

I don't know if you even need to see the whole presentation. A few of the full sentences on that one slide are more than enough to project a strong us vs them attitude of hatred and victim versus oppressor, especially the following bullets: - "This is not work for white folks to lead" - "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women" - "we need solidarity with our Asian friends and colleagues" This is blat…

Is this Sanchez a SJW? Is she trying to destroy the company?

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by benlovell »

audessuscest wrote: post #143
ktRolster wrote: post #91

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If you try writing a technical book as a woman, other women will discourage you, saying, "No one will buy a computer book written by a woman." No joke.

That's not true, this book [1] is written by a woman and got a lot of support : [1] http://www.amazon.fr/CSS-Secrets-Lea-Verou/dp/1449372635 (it's really good btw)

Practical object oriented design in Ruby by Sandi Metz is hugely popular, and not just inside the Ruby community, and rightly so, it's one of if not the greatest texts on programming I've read.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by _pmf_ »

> One person familiar with Wanstrath's relationship with these VCs told us they are "thrilled" with him and with the changes he's been making at the company.

I, too, like watching a nice horror story unfold.

> It's led by Nicole Sanchez, vice president of social impact

Does she have more or less to say than the vice president of sanitary hygiene? Maybe the chef of the cantina wants to have a word about the hiring process of technical personnel, too.

Re: GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

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Post by mjbh7k »

Absentinsomniac wrote: post #182
mjbh7k wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been seeing this discussion a lot lately, particularly in the publishing world. 79% of editors are white and 78% are women [1], so the statement has validity at least when talking about the gatekeepers of what stories get to be told. Marlon James recently posted about his experiences with it [2] and many writers of color have since shared similar experiences. My take is that it's not "us vs them", but a need to…

OK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as much as you seem to imply.

Sure, but we're talking about white women, which make up about 33% of the population of the US. Are you arguing that it's ok that 79% of the publishing industry is white and 78% is female?
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