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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by ericjang on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:55PM (#11049471)
It definitely doesn't sound right. I'm hoping/wishing that this quote was taken out of context. Can anybody with more insider context elaborate?

I'm very interested in the "internal cultural battle" over diversity issues at Github, because my school's CS dept. is having a lot of dialogue lately with similar rhetorical arguments. Teaching Assistants recently had a mandatory student-run training session that I perceived to be frighteningly one-sided.

Besides the photo, what else did the talk discuss?

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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by greenrd on Sunday February 07, 2016 @11:44AM (#11053475)
This is very odd. I know universities can be very liberal places, but where did this combination of "mandatory" and "student-run" come from? I'm actually in favour of flattening hierarchies - but not inverting them. Why should students barely out of high school get to dictate the behaviour of teaching assistants who may be up to 40 years their senior? Why should the power relationships be temporarily inverted like that?
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