I'm amazed by Radon's thoughtful replies in the email threads and the blog post itself. Lesson for me is to resolve issues with dignity and patience.
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
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#892> we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to play with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python online I'll just leave this here so we can all bask in the insane hypocrisy of this entire episode. https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/amjad-joins-codeca... Edit: See Amjad's response below – seems Repl.it may have pre-dated this hiri…
That was a clone of Replit that we made work at Codecademy. I started working on Replit (or repl.it) back when I was a student in Jordan. I didn't have a laptop so every time I wanted to get some programming done I had to setup a development environment at the university or at work. The idea for Replit was when you needed a repl to do some coding you should easily get one from anywhere including a mobile device. I th…
sorry, do you seriously expect a student who trained at your company to not program the way you do? what do you think they are there for?
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#893I sincerely hope that someone as skilled & self-motivated as Radon is absolutely flooded with job offers due to the PR explosion of this blog post.
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#894This is probably a reminder to throw some money at EFF to at least pay for their coffee if not their larger work. This is the kind of silly but serious case they've dealt with in the past.
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#895anyone who has ever interviewed with Amjad knows hes two-faced. He had a posting for a marketing position open forever and would have you work about 3 weeks for the interview. He would ask for marketing campaigns and how to implementing them. thinking that he was testing your skill set but actually just stealing ideas. I use to use Repl.it but forget. I really hope this company burns. He lacks the understanding of wh…
Just want to call this post out, as it sounds like someone who didn't pass an interview and is now very biased. I know the Repl.it team, including Amjad, and they're all some very upstanding people. I'm biased myself. Often there are localized judgement errors, and treating people via threat of the law is both a mistake (IMO) and also an unfortunately reality for running a company. It's hard to make a determination o…
I personally know Amjad from Mutual circles around, i disagree with u.
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#896Hey everyone, I want to apologize for the inappropriate use of power here. While I do believe there is an ethical line that was crossed here, I should have called him to understand his point of view and work it out. Which is what I'll try to do now, and see if we can get his project back up again. I'm sorry Radon. The lesson for me here is to internalize how I'm no longer the struggling kid from Jordan fighting for m…
There was no ethical lines crossed. If you have proof that he copied code from your repo then that is illegal. But if he copied the idea, there's nothing ethically wrong with that. The one who crossed an ethical line is you. You can't protect ideas, only actual code. What is ethically wrong is bullying a former intern with legal threats. You need to learn this, I guess the hard way.
Many people would say it's ethically wrong to copy an idea. In fact, it is common to see people up in arms on HN about it, when the power dynamic is reversed.
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#897Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's absolutely disgusting for that to be the case. Tell me again why we should treat America's government as anything other than evil and despotic?
Because it’s not North Korea’s government? You say that as if organizing and running a beneficent and just government is a trivial matter. People are evil and despotic, and every government is full of people.
It’s not trivial, but somehow most western countries manage to do way better than US.
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#898I'm an advisor for a large coding Bootcamp, and I was about to recommend they use Replit across the board for all of their students. I will now be recommending that people stay as far away from this company as possible. This kind of behavior is unethical and intolerable, and worse, suggestive of deeper issues with Replit's governance, decision making, etc. In the very least their poor decision making will now cost th…
Thank you !
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#899Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would play devil's advocate here and say that the situation is probably muddier than it is presented in the blog. Also there appers to be a level of trust here (at least the Replit CEO trusted that OP will not make this go viral on HN and spiral into a PR nightmare I suppose, which though is the most entertaining path it can take) Not sure how talented OP is. This can as well be a case study of who not to hire.
In regards to your comment about the situation being a bit muddier than presented: I would suggest that you take a look through the unabridged version as linked in the post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721/https://imgur.com... ) Rather than downvoting your comment I opted to reply to it since it may provide a bit more information for you to base your judgement on about "things being muddier". As for your…
Interesting. Now I think it really might be a (accidental) white box clone. A lot of stuff looks obvious in hindsight, especially if it is the best solution to the problem.
But then I believe this is legal (depending on your jurisdiction).
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#900Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, holding a VC fund and accelerator responsible for every tantrum thrown by one of their proteges is worth a downvote. This kind of catastrophizing doesn't contribute. For one thing, you jumped from "this kind of person" to "these kind of people", without supporting evidence. Do you have a process which can identify, in advance, everyone who is going to be an asshole to a former intern? While picking enough winne…
'"this kind of person" to "these kind of people"' Oh, if I had two wishes from a genie, first would be world peace, second would be being a native English speaker.
Just want to point out, since I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, it should technically be "these kinds of people".
"these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "these" and "people" are plural).
Maybe in this case English isn't as hard as you thought. :)