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I have to agree somewhat with this comment. In particular, is handling 60 SKU's really a huge problem with technology and management nowadays?

It's a pity there's so much focus on small details like that and the color selection, because that's really not the main point, which the article does touch on - the two companies understand and heavily influence the consumer market and fashion, so the partnership makes sense. It's that simple.

By the way, Apple was the one who made the single-look product cool, with the iPhone. It's so cool that its own colorful 5C isn't selling very well (by its standards, of course) [1]. Restricting its color choices was not only because of the difficulty in doing so, it was a deliberate design choice. [Edit, based on parent comment: And getting people to buy overpriced cases to customize instead? Genius!]

1. Google "iPhone 5C sales". Observe articles calling it, e.g., "Failure Flop" and "dismal."

nope

This isn't really addressing the main issue. You need to emphasize and just drive the point home that people should not even be STORING plain text passwords. Anywhere. Get them to understand that they don't want to, and shouldn't, know anyone's password in plain text, and how. It's a very counter-intuitive concept that makes sense once explained.

EDIT: Just saw @ajanuary's child comment on the top-voted parent. The point exactly.

A few other comments have pointed it out already, but how does this comparison actually mean anything? For example, multiplication with the first hole-punch computers was no faster than multiplying by hand and paper (probably slower), but look where we are now!

I enjoy the levity of this thread; HN sometimes takes itself too seriously!

While this sounds like a very plausible argument, and I agreed wholeheartedly at first, I suggest taking a closer look. I doubt many people, when asked, will say that popularity implies credibility. Credibility is not what's driving these people, it's just the popularity, plain and simple. There's a difference.

^ This. This is a key in this story.

Consider how what the cost is to Horvath here, how she can say whatever she wants, launching a huge firestorm, and oh, 1/3 accusations is provable. (And one, about the guy removing her code, is actually pretty much disproven.)

Continuing to call the workplace "toxic" is objectively and clearly an overstatement as well.

> Up until know, when evaluating GitHub's reaction, we assumed the other co-founders wouldn't have known about this.

I'm not sure how they wouldn't have known about the settlement with Severind, if that's what you're talking about.

For the rest of your post, yes, I agree, it means they made a big mistake (even bigger? Probably.) And that mistake probably did contribute to a bad* environment, as tons of people have already mentioned with the PWs and pressure about the wife's work. My point is that these shortcomings have already been documented and admitted. What did the fact that it's happened before add to that?

* Note: Be very careful, though, about accepting adjectives such as "toxic" at face value: she can say whatever she wants without damaging herself in this case, but people have a funny tendency to use strong words to describe things that, objectively, just aren't that big of a deal. For example, my school's newspaper had a reporter complaining about being "violently rejected" because someone didn't respond to a text. No joke.

Call my well poisoned by that experience, but based on her Twitter posts (some guy deleting her code for not f*ing her, for which there is no proof), I don't know how reliable her description is.

I have to agree somewhat with this statement. Forget about the whole story for a second, then look again at Horvath's Twitter, and compare it to the stories written on this topic. That's what happened to me.

I was super sympathetic, too, and excited that there was such a good example of a woman fighting for her rights, until I saw her complaining about some guy deleting her code because he wanted to f* her. That's not what GH's investigation has found, and it's much more about the Preston-Werner's wrongs now.

Plumbing is reduced quite a lot with the many great packages out there. Express?

I'm more impressed by the use of D3 here than the actual contents.

Agree with comments above- doesn't even run in my Chrome, Ubuntu 12.04

Repeat of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6072383

Did you even click the link and read a few paragraphs? It's pretty clear that this is different than most tutorials, comprehensively covering a range of basic topics from the ground-up, and placing available resources into their contexts.

This is absolutely insane. I don't even know how it got to the point that an article was necessary to explain this.

Go Berkeley, awesome prof.

GIMP isn't bad.

That explains Google sponsored links showing up again. Oh well, that's just another filter I'll have to add.

Agree that the footer is annoying. The page also seems to break #15.