Honestly the arrogance of their workers are truly astounding. It also tracks that someone with little software experience would become GitHub's staff research engineer. Truly a massive signal that we can't let these companies lead the direction of tech in our country.

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__turbobrew__ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I sit at the intersection of design, anthropology, and web development

How do these people still have jobs post ZIRP?

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aleksiy123 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Where is the arrogance? and I thought talk/slides where interesting.

And wdym even mean "lead the direction of tech". Its just people trying to build a product based on their views/vision.

Others are free to build their own competing visions? and everyones free to choose the platforms that they use.

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square_usual 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The state of HN truly has fallen if people are questioning Maggie Appleton's credentials. Besides, she's working on GitHub Next, not the core product. Sheesh.

	▲	shimman 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm aware of who this person is, been following their work since their egghead.io doodle days. What I would never do is put this person in a position involving software research when they were never professionally a software developer nor were they academically trained like one either. I'm sorry but this is just a perfect encapsulation of why American corporations are brazenly bad and corrupt without actual competition. This is honestly no different than RFK Jr being the Secretary of HHS. I'm sure if you spoke with him, he'd say he was highly competent at this job too.
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	▲	slopinthebag 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Idk. If I learned that the head of design for Github worked as a linux contributor and C developer before taking on that role I would have a similar reaction.

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booleandilemma 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m Maggie and I’m a staff research engineer at GitHub Next. At least that’s my title, but I’m actually a designer. Or I was, back when that was still a separate thing to engineering.

Ah. I didn't think we could debase the title of "engineer" any further, and yet here we are.

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reducesuffering 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You weren't kidding. They're an anthropologist who went into design a few years ago because "it's not terribly employable" and as of less than 1 year ago was a "Lead Design Engineer at Normally"? This is GitHub Staff eng steering the direction of the concept of PRs?

	▲	serial_dev 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Few years ago” is about a decade in design, to be fair. I’m not sure what staff level means at GitHub, but at some other companies it’s just “senior++”, and people with 10yoe get that title quite often.