> Since the issue was raised on HackerNews -- my life has been hell. Not an hour goes past without some kind of personal attack that ranges from a shaming to an outright physical threat. It has affected my livelihood, my career, and my health. It destroyed a family vacation when I was supposed to unplug. Nobody deserves that, and certainly not someone who is innocent of what they are accused of. Please be aware of that should you ever feel emotional again.
We are toxic and we're not seeing it. We should stop posting a link to that thread imo.
If COVID taught me anything it's that it doesn't matter where you go looking on the political spectrum, be it left or right, you'll always find enough people that are fine to be the judge, jury and executioner.
As it stands now, that thread is a very clear cautionary tale. It is posing links to the next ongoing, emotionally charged, accusation we need to be cautious of.
Oh he very much deserved it. We need to discourage the culture in tech where people set up VC-style "conversations" with the intention of scoping out ideas.
The Winget product manager, who stole the Appget product idea, on the other hand probably does deserve the blowback
I agree to the sentiment, but not that he should be harassed for it. It seems that too many of us are happy to hide behind the corporate veil and be less than human when it comes to treating others fairly. Google KNEW of this guys vulnerable position, had him consult on an issue, then released a (very similar) competing app (and we all know where it will be in 3 years - at least its open source this time). I get that these things happen in the corporate world every day, but that doesn't make it right.
We are toxic and we're not seeing it. We should stop posting a link to that thread imo.