And people say techbros are not a thing.

[theweaselking]

"Every time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn't there to work, rather is there to scam you. "

"The only group I could think of that couldn't have a grievance would be white males."

"I didn't say white"

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Fucking Dave Winer. I have hated his guts for so long. And that he has the balls to claim that the timing of this shit coming out soon after the Horvath-GitHub clusterfuck is unrelated... you fuckass.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't know him. And yet, he's totally THAT GUY who has always been THAT GUY.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Also this: "Winer then came to collaborate with Microsoft and jointly developed the XML-RPC protocol. This led to the creation of SOAP, which he co-authored with Microsoft's Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein."

He also had a hand in the RSS clusterfuck around the turn of the millennium. So he's a technical assclown in addition to being a patronizing old guy with a huge blind spot. He'll often act like he's not sexist and then steps all over himself, sticks his foot in his mouth, then wonders why people get mad at him.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

That was so awful I thought, "why take Fred Phelps and not this douchebag? He's just as hateful and his poison is doing even more real damage, because people pretend he's acceptable."

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Yep.

Let me fume with furious anger for a while before I can even attempt to write some sort of reply.

Welp, that's clearly not going to happen.

[Insert rage-filled howl here.]

So sick and tired of this shit happening. :(

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to believe that he honestly meant to write "young" and not "white," and didn't realize he was doing so. This does nothing but further damn him.

[jayblanc.livejournal.com]

I like how this Awful Old Guy Who Doesn't Understand ends up working for Apple. Because Apple sure are known for tolerating goldbricks, and it's trivial to get hired at Apple.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

I'm also amused by the "I kept moving him from project to project and for some reason this didn't increase his productivity WTF!?"

Must be weird being a CEO in a world where The Mythical Man-Hour was never written.

[jayblanc.livejournal.com]

It's almost like this old guy didn't know you're supposed to just hack out code on the very first idea that comes into your head right away. Planning is for chumps, if Winer had taken time to design a more robust format for RSS, then where would we be?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

This is the guy that complains you can never fire union people. You solve this by documenting, documenting, documenting. More paperwork sucks, but if you want to fire someone for cause, it's easier to show cause when you already have it documented.