He seems to be a good coder with poor judgment. But I think it would be wiser to manage him better than to fire him so long as he recognizes what he did was wrong. I'm a bit of a softie for the clueless, brilliant coders, though.

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jxyxfinite 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I suspect he ported over/heavily referenced how the official cli worked and got into massive legal trouble by open sourcing it.

It’s hard to grok that someone would go to extensive length to get him fired without seriously violating company policy

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

He doesn't recognize it. He claims in the post he was fired because certain leaders were afraid of being disrupted.

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pydry 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This seems pretty plausible. This tool probably did threaten some product line or other with cannibalisation.

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IncreasePosts 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is it plausible?

Imagine any leader that is not sundar trying to get this person fired. At some point, that leader would need to justify to either their leader, or a similarly leveled peer why they budgeted x SWE-years(where x is probably > 25) for a project that took this person far less than 1 SWE-year.

	▲	wiseowise 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’d be surprised how petty some people are.

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sleepybrett 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it makes them look lazy for not doing it already, this tool was sorely needed.

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jofzar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My bet is that he was reprimanded for this and then didn't back down, hes even in the comments here now arguing about it