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Another 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.

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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.

Respectable == toeing the Marxist/feminist line. You can have political opinions in public, as long as its left.

Meanwhile, this guy is still employed: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200

Also, "the economic catastrophe facing the global marketplace is a result of a failure of white culture in America."[2]

Because, hey!, we all know white people are crazy. Good thing businesses never have to hire white people.

[2] http://dashes.com/anil/2009/01/monoculture-is-bad-for-busine...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-ne...

Pretty sure this guy qualifies as a douchebag and not simply trying to toe the line in a politically correct world. That is, of course, my opinion - but I sure as fuck wouldn't want this sort of individual publicly representing my company and embodying sort of behavior we tolerate, embrace or promote.

Reply to Below- The tweets speak for themselves. No journalism necessary.

Hmm, I remember that author from somewhere. Yep, she's a shock troop in the battle to impose cultural Marxism[1].

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/dear-paul-graham-your-priorities...

A) "This guy is a lawsuit waiting to happen." Yep. As in... Either assign an intern to make my twitter updates for me or expect to get sued for wrongful termination and for me to finally set precedent about the limits of corporate policy with a goddamn federal lawsuit.

B) "There's plenty of other respectable talent out there." No there isn't. There are plenty of people who read hacker news and know what's trending today, but very few who can pinpoint what's going to be trending tomorrow or what a company can do to position themselves to be on the front page tomorrow.

Wrongful termination in an at-will state without violating any protected classes or protected speech? That would be an interesting precedent to set, how would you go about that?

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.

After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.

It happens any/every time gender is discussed on Hacker News.

There was a hackathon planned last year that boasted "women, booze & massages". Numerous threads about it were immediately flagged off the site. Same the Geeklist issue with a promo video that had a woman in her underwear.

It would be one thing if the HN community was capable of looking at these issues and having a reasoned discussion about them. But no, flagged immediately. Heroic hackers jumping on the gender grenade so the rest of us don't even have to think about it.

There was discussion, but it was flagged off the front page immediately.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-ne...

I tried to watch some of disrupt - but the live-stream crashed FF every single time, so I gave up.

That was incredibly depressing - the story gets flagged because its not newsworthy to someone.

GP didn't ask why he hadn't heard about it, he asked what it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OhpES4L7g Titstare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88eb8LUIdU Circle Shake

Not only the sheer audacity of these idiots with their "apps" but also on the shoulders of TechCrunch who apparently do not employ any sort of pre-screening toward applicants.

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