Hacker News Reader

As you say, it's pretty hard to say that the average quality of software engineering makes it deserve the word "engineering" at all. Most software is bad accross the board, and developers on average get pretty good salaries for... whatever they bring to the world.

Still I don't think that some random employee deserves to be harassed and publicly shamed for a bad blog post.

View on HN

In other industries this would be a gross ethical issue and potentially a legal one.

In this industry, public criticism for public fraudulence is "harassment", I guess? C'mon, man.

> In other industries this would be a gross ethical issue and potentially a legal one

Yes, but this is not another industry. Also in other industries, some say that "full self-driving is coming tomorrow" or "we can send millions of people to live on mars".

> public criticism for public fraudulence is "harassment", I guess? C'mon, man.

I never said "don't criticise". I have seen comments that I found very disrespectful early when this post started growing, and I tried to call for some empathy for the human being who made that mistake.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com