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Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by philh on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:05PM (#8663671)
The thing that annoys me most about this post is that

> to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered

is not what Ben was doing, and nothing Ben said on the subject could have given that impression. "Empathy is a core engineering value", and when you ascribe untrue motivations to people, you are completely failing at it.

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Re:Moving the joyent/libuv repository to libuv/libuv by mcantelon on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:41PM (#8663898)
The business context of the post is interesting: IIRC at the time there'd been friction between Joyent and Strongloop (who Ben works for) and each company had two core contributors (one of whom was Ben). After the commit controversy Ben, IIRC, stopped contributing to core for awhile.
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