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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

By what criteria are you judging these programmers to be evil? Just because they are liberal does not necessarily make them evil.

[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No it doesn't. There is a certain class of programmers who are evil in every way. They control every widely used open source software in the same way that evil dishonest moderators control almost every widely used subreddit. If a user of their software asks them a question they are often condescending or rude. If you report a bug they will tell you it's not a bug and you are using it wrong. And if it is something that is very obviously their problem like a memory leak, they will ask you questions about how you were using it until they can find something abnormal you did which they will use as an excuse to ridicule you and say that you are the problem and not their shitty software. And if you didn't do anything unusual, and you can reproduce the bug by running it in the canonical way, they will just lie and say to your face that you did something stupid and end the discussion. They have to do this because they program according to principles that result in bad software, so the only way they can avoid looking incompetent is by ridiculing those who report things that may make them look bad, ridiculing their competition, and forcing programmers who write better software than them to stop via dishonest political means.

Although almost all of them claim to care passionately about liberal causes, I don't think they truly care because everything is about image to them, so it would make sense for them to support causes that make them look like good, caring people. All of the evil programmers where I work have Twitter accounts, where they post about liberal causes daily. They are vocal in their support of Black Lives Matter, but I don't think they really care about blacks this passionately because they are all whites and I only ever see them associate with whites.

[–]yoke 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

what you described sounds like a real issue.

i don't think the kinda person you described will have a good reputation in the community though, at least not in the core team of any respected project. because the people you describe seems incompetent at tech.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What he described seems to be the standard these days. It is good programmers who get a bad reputation in the modern world of modern scum.