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Popular Programming Book "Clean Code" is being rewritten (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

twitter happened, I guess

But today I stumbled across a long twitter thread that I can only describe as intentional character assassination. The author of this thread is misrepresenting facts and making some pretty nasty accusations. Again this is not all that unusual, except for the fact that I was not invited to defend myself. [...] The gist of this author’s thread is that I am a misogynist; and that I should not be taken seriously in any regard. I understand that efforts have been made to have me excluded from conferences, and to boycott the publisher of my books, etc.

- Uncle Bob in 2017

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[-] SkyeStarfall 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is just a lot about people's reactions to something, but nothing about what that something actually was

It'd be nice to see what the actual something was so one could judge for themselves

Edit: I took a look at his twitter, and he seems to be pro-trump and anti-kamala and anti-walz, calling him a socialist who let Minneapolis burn, as well as transphobia thrown in here and there and more that I didn't bother to read

...so I'm gonna go with "the people's reactions to him likely had a point"

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

exactly, vague accusations in a lot of places, nothing remotely concrete.

…so I’m gonna go with “the people’s reactions to him likely had a point”

...and this is exactly the problem

[-] SkyeStarfall 26 points 5 months ago

You know what? You can find enough concrete shit from just reading his twitter for 5 minutes. Stuff posted in the last few weeks.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hmm. The initial drama seems bullshit, starting a huge fight over the word "craftsmanship" is just hypersensitive at best or toxic behavior to manufacture outrage at worst. A gender neutral terms would be preferable but hardly the biggest issue right now.

But since "uncle bob" supports Trump then that alone is enough to condemn him as a supporter of fascism and bigotry.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Like what? Some L takes on wars or politics? Because that's all I'm seeing.

[-] arisunz 15 points 5 months ago

ah yes, as we all know statistically these people tend to have a very sane opinion of women

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 6 points 5 months ago

So... What is the problem of women in tech? Either I skimmed over this or he fails to get to that point at all.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

well, that's up to women in tech to explain what the movement advocates for, he's laying out his experience

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 months ago

Not even that, he's basically using 1000 word essay to say “I can't be a misogynist, I hired women” as if that says anything. The words “the problem with women in tech” are both mentioned many times in the article as well as its title, but somehow it's not about that problem at all, but the fact he got called a misogynist and that he now has conflicted feelings about it.

Man, this is such a bad defence, let alone article.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting, thanks, I didn't know anything about that. I've probably looked at the book at some point, but don't remember anything about it.

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