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
There are no words. How can someone so obviously incompetent be in charge of such an important open source project? Unless he's hired by some 3-letter agency to leave as many security holes in systemd as possible.
Then again he seems quite proud of getting banned from Github in 2013 for "creating a script that forced people to watch a library that [he] created": https://youtu.be/varf6oWaFtU?t=202
May I just point out how awesome the original author is?
I mean, I'm using his GitHub indicator (available as an extension for both Chrome[0] and Firefox[1]), I'm collaborating with him on his mega popular awesome list[2] (currently the top non-code repository on GitHub by the number of stars), he started the whole GitHub AMA idea[3], he developed a bunch of command line clients that I'm using regularly (like speed-test[4], is-reachable[5] and is-github-down[6])... And now this! This guy is unstoppable!
I've always been curious who are these people who commit so much personal time on open source projects (instead of doing rounded corners kind of web 2.0 work) and I googled Jeff Garzik, seemingly the most productive developer during this release:
Notice that even his home page is all about his projects as opposed to self-promotion.
Compare that to the douchebag Seth Sternberg (http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ), who built a company on top of libpurple's team open sourced work, bragged about building "from nothing to something" and didn't even mention them in TC article, preferring to speak about his "desire to build the next great thing" buillshit instead.
Uh, can't believe it's this person again. He was involved also a couple of days ago in another GitHub drama related to AI with another project he manages.
> The obvious denispetrov.com ... programmer ... a New Yorker ... end of a 25-year career and the blog dries up entirely in 2011, so it doesn’t match the place or time
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