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Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by throwaway90446 on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:04PM (#8663276)
Which is all well and good, but the author of that blog post, the one who stated he would not hesitate to fire Ben if he were an employee, has no problem mocking bisexuals in public presentations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI#t=3059

To date, Bryan Cantrill remains CTO of Joyent. The corporate position appears to be that blatant homophobia by employees is acceptable, but improper pronouns are terminable offenses.

Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by netstag on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:50PM (#8663558)
Never heard of him or Joyent till now, but I tried watching that video, skipping along and had a hard time not finding him being offensive. He even goes on to make light of nazis and mock a past co-workers "galactic butt", so then I just skipped even faster.

What's sad is that he seems to be talking about introducing 'drag' within the company and yet I doubt he realizes the irony given 90% of his talking content is just that.

Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by afandian on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:15PM (#8663338)
That's extraordinarily hypocritical when you compare it to his blog post. That joke was completely inappropriate.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by makomk on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:31PM (#8663425)
I'm not sure I'd call that "mocking" bisexuals, it's closer to mocking the shitty way other people treat them.
Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by astrodust on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:29PM (#8663412)
That does seem like an inappropriate joke, bad taste no doubt, but a firing offense? Only if this was representative of a pattern.
Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by philh on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:00PM (#8663632)
throwaway wasn't suggesting that Bryan should be fired for that.