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So, guy who wrote GitHub and a ton of open source stuff is ousted from his own company and sacrificed for a person whos biggest accomplishment in open source is JavaScript for Cats? https://github.com/nrrrdcore/javascript-for-cats

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Why do you consider this relevant?

It would appear to be relevant because she describes herself as an engineer, and because she thought the reverts of her code and bad performance reviews were due to sexism.

Care to explain the downvote?

Another downvote by an anonymous coward for a perfectly reasonable comment? Sometimes I just have to shake my head at HN :)

Are you saying that good engineers can't have a sense of humor?

No.

She didn't write JS for Cats. Which is excellent, BTW.

The guy who wrote Github is responsible for some of the worst coding atrocities in a major piece of F/OSS. (Evidence: the Linguist debacle.)

JS for Cats is, in comparison to Linguist, a work of towering intellect.

More info? I have never heard of anything bad about Linguist (And I don't know that much about it.).

Googling didnt bring up anything obvious,

Parent might be referring to the fact that it can easily give false positives, but I'm not sure.

I think it's the project that does syntax highlighting for the code browser in Github?

It is the software the identifies % of language used in a repository and highlighting etc. https://github.com/github/linguist

I just haven't heard anything bad about it so am curious why OP calls it a "debacle"

What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party? These tumblr-twats warriors only break communities.

> What an embarrassment if you ask me. Why should he leave if he's been found of no legal wrong-doing by a third party?

Because you can do your job badly and be unsuitable to continue in it by exhibiting poor judgement without breaking the law.

You're assuming he did his job badly. All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING. You're taking her word over an investigations result.

> You're assuming he did his job badly.

No, I'm not assuming that. I am saying that's exactly what the report of the invstigation plus the actual concrete results suggests that Github determined based on the investigation.

> All I'm seeing is the investigation showing NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DOING.

The investigation does not show "no evidence of wrong doing", instead, it found "while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment" and that finding is cited as the direct reason for Preston-Werner's resignation.

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