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Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by kefka »

That's an old picture, as in before January 24, 2014. Why do I know?

Because the "United Meritocracy of Github" carpet shown was removed after feminists threw a fit and got them to remove it. Because "Meritocracy is masculine and evil." (Read; the women GH hired can't cut it. Mainly GitHub's Julie Ann Horvath)

Source: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by neffy »

kefka wrote: post #2

That's an old picture, as in before January 24, 2014. Why do I know? Because the "United Meritocracy of Github" carpet shown was removed after feminists threw a fit and got them to remove it. Because "Meritocracy is masculine and evil." (Read; the women GH hired can't cut it. Mainly GitHub's Julie Ann Horvath) Source: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

Speaking from the distaff side here, meritocracy would be a really nice thing to have. But what happens all too often is that a company wanting to distance itself from xxx-discrimination will quota hire the not-terribly meritocratic, because hey we just confirmed our own prejudices.

What happens when genuinely meritocratic hiring is introduced is quite interesting:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by andreiw »

kefka wrote: post #2

That's an old picture, as in before January 24, 2014. Why do I know? Because the "United Meritocracy of Github" carpet shown was removed after feminists threw a fit and got them to remove it. Because "Meritocracy is masculine and evil." (Read; the women GH hired can't cut it. Mainly GitHub's Julie Ann Horvath) Source: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

OT: those are some skewed definitions of meritocracy... The real issue the feminist camp is missing is that in a real meritocracy no one looks at your gender or background. The real issue at stake in the corporate world today is that a meritocratic org is an unattainable ideal - they don't exist. Every org ends up being an ol' boys club. And being an ol' gals club is going to be just more of the same. Double hilarity for women from GitHub getting discriminated against based on their affiliation - this just proves that feminism is simply the other side of the same sexist coin.

Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by dragonwriter »

andreiw wrote: post #5
kefka wrote: post #2

That's an old picture, as in before January 24, 2014. Why do I know? Because the "United Meritocracy of Github" carpet shown was removed after feminists threw a fit and got them to remove it. Because "Meritocracy is masculine and evil." (Read; the women GH hired can't cut it. Mainly GitHub's Julie Ann Horvath) Source: http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

OT: those are some skewed definitions of meritocracy... The real issue the feminist camp is missing is that in a real meritocracy no one looks at your gender or background. The real issue at stake in the corporate world today is that a meritocratic org is an unattainable ideal - they don't exist. Every org ends up being an ol' boys club. And being an ol' gals club is going to be just more of the same. Double hilarity…

> The real issue the feminist camp is missing is that in a real meritocracy no one looks at your gender or background.

A real meritocracy serves exactly the values of whatever person or group defines the merit function; when sexists exist and are in positions of social power, "real meritocracies" will also be sexist.

Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by jarek »

KaiserPro wrote: post #6

Aha, chatbots! Brings back my days on IRC.

Everything old on IRC is new again.

I read an article about Slack that praised their speed of integrating feedback and iterating with the following example: "the Slack team quickly identified small changes that had a big impact: Within the list of channels, they added fields for a description and the number of people using that channel."

Re: Hubot, “the hardest working GitHubber”

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Post by ultramancool »

KaiserPro wrote: post #6

Aha, chatbots! Brings back my days on IRC.

Having a botnet with all your servers really isn't a bad idea. I mean, easy admin access, live monitoring, the ability to query everything and have all interested ops people examine the output... pretty handy. Seems like it'd beat a lot of these monitoring services and tools people pay for these days.
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