[bilkow]

I mostly agree, but a generalized attack at the remaining GitHub workers by calling them "losers" and then "rookies" is unwarranted and leaves a bad taste IMO.

See the edit history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46133179

Edit: 1. just to be clear, it's very good that they have accepted the feedback and removed that part, but there's no apology (as far as I know) and it still makes you wonder about the culture. On the other side, people make mistakes under stress. 2. /s/not warranted/unwarranted/

[Nextgrid]

A structural engineer will not sign off on bad designs no matter how much pressure the company applies to them. They will resign and/or report the incident to their local regulator as a safety issue.

We don't have that for developers. Maybe shame/offense is our next best bet. You are free to work for a terrible company accepting and/or encouraging terrible design decisions, but you need to take into account the potential of being laughed at for said decisions.