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Comment by windexh8er

5 years ago

It is great feedback. Feedback that you failed to execute on in a spectacular manner. You've lost my group as customers today. In no way will I knowingly support a founder with such a broken perspective on prior art.

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p5a0u9l  5 years ago

This is toxic. The man made a gracious response.

  • JAlexoid  5 years ago

    Let's be honest here... Failure to talk to someone about it and then being forced by publicity to do so - is forced, thus inherently disingenuous.

    With the backdrop of publicity - I just don't buy the apology. Maybe next time Amjad will be better, but now - he's on the hook.

  • windexh8er  5 years ago

    Toxic in what way? It's OK for the CEO to publicly fly off the handle expecting this to go away due to his big stick he now wields because he's successfully leveraged the work of giants to his own fortune?

    A gracious response? No. His apology was not an apology at all. His apology can be distilled down to: "I'm sorry, but I'm still right - and I'm only sorry because the community has called me on it."

    Toxic? Or warped perception?

    • burnished  5 years ago

      toxic in the sense of appropriateness. your response isn't crazy, but as a response to some one graciously accepting critical feedback it doesn't make much sense. frankly a top level post would have been more appropriate. I think the specific idea at play here is that people should be able to apologize, or at least acknowledge some one criticizing them, without that becoming an avenue for attack. I mean, do you want to participate in a scenario where the only rational response is to simply not engage?

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    • samtheprogram  5 years ago

      He read the feedback (or at least replied) 3 hours ago. Give him time. Hopefully he’s acknowledging that comment well and we will be hearing from him again soon.

  • ahmedalsudani  5 years ago

    Unfortunately the crowd has turned into a mob... not the first time we’ve seen this. Wait for the cooldown and hire a PR professional.

cdelsolar  5 years ago

yeah we were talking about repl.it earlier today at work and wanting to increase our usage of it and this is really souring me