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This woman is just an extremely negative and hostile personality. She's technically competent, so she can justify her behavior in her own head, but she's basically a female bully who thinks people don't like her because she's female. No, they don't like her because she is an unpleasant and caustic personality. After leaving Google, for years she writes stories about how smart she was, how irrationally they discriminated, how dumb they all were, and so on.

Yet last I looked Google was still standing up on its own hind legs without her. Just a little more than that, in fact. Maybe they just didn't want to work with a smart asshole with a perpetual chip on her shoulder.




> This woman is just an extremely negative and hostile personality.

I've been wondering what to say to you to get you to wise up for the last half hour, you usually have some pretty interesting stuff to say but this is such a personal attack that I give up. Why? What are you trying to achieve other than profiling yourself as nasty, negative and hostile yourself?


  | I've stopped yet another half-assed idea from
  | going into production, but at what cost?
I will say that this statement definitely gave me the, "I'm the only smart person here, everyone else is just dumb," vibe.


For all you know in that situation she might have been right. Whatever it was I don't see it warranting such a vitriolic personal attack.


Well. At that instance she was. Fiercely discussing solutions to a problem without first checking if it existed is dumb behavior.


Maybe, but "yet another" implied other instances too.


  > Yet last I looked Google was still standing up
  > on its own hind legs without her
So for any of her accusations to be true, then Google should have crumbled when she left? Are you for real?


I've never met Rachel, but I read her blog fairly regularly and have never gotten the impression that she's unpleasant. On the contrary, she sounds like she'd be a fun person to work with.


Do you have additional knowledge beyond this article to back this up, or are you getting all of this just from this one thing?


Looking through her logs[1], Some of her posts are a little off.

one[2] ,for example, berates other programers for stupid solutions to a simple problem, then uses sin and cos for simple discrete calculations.

That's well within acceptable hacker irritability levels, however. In fact I think it might be a bit lower than normal, so I'm not seeing what the parent post is talking about.

1. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/

2. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/03/06/rover/


Seriously. Had I been in the same position, which I have, I would have just silently observed the heated discussion, identified the linchpin, and approached them afterwards.

On one hand she describes these guys as loud, wrong, assholes. And then she takes action to interject the correct answer in a way that just proves she's the loudest asshole there (but RIGHT!). Then all of a sudden, the whole episode is ascribed to sexism? She must have left out a lot of details, cuz I don't see it.


I think it's fair enough for you to say these things but only if you fill out your profile and put your name to your accusations.


You're trolling, right?




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