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Re: #phpdrama

shocm — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:52:07 -0000

Damn dude, feel better?

Re: #phpdrama

phpjerk — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:57:08 -0000

"This particular situation probably would not have been any different except that it involved people outside our little group and became more public."

tl;dr - It's okay to be total douchebags as long as no one finds out. (that goes for BOTH sides)

Re: #phpdrama

Tired Of This Shit — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 10:28:41 -0000

Sorry but you're bitching like a high school kid. You all (everyone flaming each other on twitter) have made my twitter feed so shit in the past day that I feel stupid for following you all and putting you on a 'Developers' list that I read diligently every day.

Look at this from an outsider's perspective:

1. Taylor said something privately.
2. You all got offended and put it out on twitter to publicly flog the guy.

No. 1 wasn't very cool but who knows what you whiners say to each other in private? No. 2 was outright wrong - nothing you say will make it right to anyone other than your pathetic clique.

Get back to coding assholes. That goes for all of you.

Re: #phpdrama

AmyStephen — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:41:01 -0000

I understand your position. You are a leader of a group that was privately the focus of negative comments. Good leaders protect their group. I get that and I appreciate it, too.

One thing for everyone to remember, what is "private" and assurances of privacy are legal matters. In the US, our privacy is guaranteed by the constitution (which NSA should be doing!) and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... defines the inclusion of electronic communications. These are basic rights and certainly rights to which Taylor is entitled.

If you want to be offended by his comments made in private, fine. But Taylor was entitled to full confidence that his comments made in private, remain in private and everyone who is exposing his private comments are violating his rights.

Re: #phpdrama

shocm — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:17:56 -0000

He was talking to an SDPHP Presenter about the presentation he just did for the SDPHP group. There is a lot of talk about assumptions and so yes, there was an assumption he knew he was speaking about the SDPHP group. The chat that was shared was what was shared initially so we did not see the entire chat, again the assumption was made. When the chat got posted publicly in our IRC we decided to address it publicly. Right or wrong we wanted the transparency to the members of the group about what we were saying and to whom. For the record our member are pretty split on the topic and don't all agree with us but they all know exactly what we said, there is no speculation or hearsay.

Re: #phpdrama

AmyStephen — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:08:44 -0000

Since he doesn't know the SD User group is there really any other way to take those comments? Have you seen any example in public where he offended someone? Even one? I have not seen it, not saying it doesn't exist but it would be a surprise to me.

Did anyone contact him privately or was there a big rush to publicly announce the offense? As far as the others who jumped right in, I'm not sure I understand their goal as they responded to his private comment. Is he supposed to straighten up in private? Or, is he supposed to understand he doesn't have privacy?

From a PR perspective, you're right, his tweet that he didn't want anything to do with the group was not in his best interest.

This man who created software that is taking the internet by storm needs to 1) stop trusting people with private comments and worrying about their feelings and 2) start spinning his response in ways that are better from a marketing perspective.

I am disappointed in many leaders of our PHP community.

Re: #phpdrama

shocm — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:52:31 -0000

I agree it is unfortunate and I do not disagree with a lot you said. I honestly don't know what the relationship is between Taylor and the Presenter is and if Taylor's assumption with privacy was just. I know for myself, unless I know a person on a personal level, I assume nothing I am telling them is private unless I make that clear to them.

I think the issue a lot of us are having, I know I am personally, is the way Taylor is handling this. He could have said "Look that was taken out of context and I was not targeting SDPHP" maybe even a "sorry if it came across that way" and all this would be over. But when he continues to fire back with his tweets like "I want nothing to do with San Diego PHP. Period. Ever." is unfortunate.

I'm glad you have the respect for Taylor that you have and you are a good person for trying to be a voice of reason and I appreciate it. But for me personally, I am disappointed to see this coming from a leader in the PHP community. That's not to say that myself and others with the group didn't go into defense mode but my bigger issue is in the how Taylor conducted himself after. Regardless how the information got out and the assumptions of privacy there were, it got out and should have been handled better not with a "That was told in private." Even his "I was addressing the issue with hecklers" would have worked if he had responded with a clear response and made it clear that he was in fact not talking about the group as a whole.

To that same tone, for better or worse, it was also good to see others step up and try to get an understanding of what went down. If that would have happen from the start this whole thing I feel would have been avoided.

Re: #phpdrama

AmyStephen — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:14:13 -0000

If you follow Taylor in social media and in his Laravel issue queues, you'll likely agree finding an example of him being rude to anyone is not easy -- personally, I have not seen him do it one time. He is always very patient and kind. Seriously.

What happened here was two people were talking privately. One was presenting the work of the other. The presenter was frazzled after the presentation, obviously feeling like he had not done a good job and that he had been mistreated by some in the audience (whether it is true or not is a matter of opinion, one in which each are certainly entitled).

The other tried to show support by saying "What do they know? etc." Like a friend would do, or like your mother might do when you came home from a bad day at school. The comments were really not directed at anyone specifically or even the group. It was only said to comfort the speaker.

And, it was said in private with full confidence that it would remain private.

We rely on trust in our online world. This makes me wonder -- who's private comments will be shared next? Can we trust one another?

Beyond that, one might also consider how these types of responses impact the motivation of open source software developers. Some of the comments I've seen people make -- that given his name recognition, he shouldn't expect anything that he says to remain private. That's an incredibly harsh statement to make to someone that because they shared their work free of charge and because people found it very useful, now they are not entitled to privacy. Is that really how this works? Is that who we are as a community?

I know you don't mean any harm, either, and that you are defending your group. But the truth is your group doesn't need to be defended, these comments were not intended in that manner nor were those comments intended to be shared. Trust is really important and everyone pointing fingers at Taylor right now best understand -- they could be next and they will have no cause for complaint. If my privacy doesn't matter to you, your privacy doesn't matter to me, either.

Very unfortunate.

Re: SSH AutoComplete on OSX

Alfred Nutile — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 06:19:23 -0000

Thanks!

Re: [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

Rumpole — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:11:40 -0000

Unfortunately it's stopped working for me :( Updating my CentOS server using Yum Upgrade, then re-installed dpkg-statoverride, and re-run the commands. Nagios Web Interface is still unable to write to the cmd file :(

Re: 2 Weeks as a Programmer

shocm — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:12:49 -0000

I'm already queuing up a post title either "I owe @johncongdon a beer" or "I Blame @johncongdon for everything that has happen to me" :-) I told Rachel at the office I was printing up t-shirts that read "I Blame JC"

Re: 2 Weeks as a Programmer

johncongdon — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:11:28 -0000

Awesome way to chronicle your journey. I like it.

Re: Open Source Ecology

Siku — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:20 -0000

Filmmakers get exclusive look at Open Source Ecology's Factor E Farm. Looks super cool.https://vimeo.com/62637602

Re: SSH AutoComplete on OSX

shocm — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:41:49 -0000

Case sensitivity is more of a OS level issue. There may be a way to trick this script with some regex, I would need to play with it a little.

Re: SSH AutoComplete on OSX

fgallnii — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:14:47 -0000

Very useful, thanks a lot :)
Any way to make SSH case insensitive?

Thanks for your support :)

Re: [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

Gerard — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:23:07 -0000

Cleanest description I've seen 'in the wild' .. thanx a lot!

Re: I learned US Airways likes to hold its seats hostage for more money

Cee Tee — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:50:59 -0000

I'm in the exact same situation, thank you for this article. I booked a trip through a travel agent who told me to go on USAir's website and reserve my seats, but cannot actually pick any without paying $25 for EACH leg of my trip!

Looks like i'll just be playing 'musical chairs' when i check in!

Re: [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

Billy Kan — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:53:13 -0000

I am using Naigos Core 3.4.1 on Centos 6.3. How should I fix the error?

Billy

Re: [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

shocm — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:52:01 -0000

Awesome to hear. Glade it was helpful.

Re: [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

Leon — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:31:36 -0000

Still helps after all these years...

Re: SSH AutoComplete on OSX

jsmoriss — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:20:38 -0000

_complete_ssh_hosts () {
        COMPREPLY=()
        cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
        comp_ssh_hosts=`egrep -v '^[#\[]' ~/.ssh/known_hosts|\
                cut -f 1 -d ' '|sed -e 's/[,:].*//g'|uniq;
                awk '/^Host/ { print $2; }' ~/.ssh/config`
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${comp_ssh_hosts}" -- $cur))
        return 0
}
complete -F _complete_ssh_hosts ssh

Re: SSH AutoComplete on OSX

Ng Dinh Toan — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:11:30 -0000

I think line grep -v "[" ; should be grep -v "\[" ;

Re: Sony <<EOF

shocm — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:59:20 -0000

Wow, thanks Sukhjit. It was always such a pleasure working with you. I am looking forward to following all your new adventures in SF.

Re: Sony <<EOF

sukhjit — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:42:23 -0000

Big loss for Sony. I know the Social Media team must be very disappointed. You were such a great champion for our projects and a totally awesome solutions minded guy! I'm glad we're in touch. I will do my best to follow and support your next adventure. Thank YOU for always being such a great support to me. :)

Re: Sony <<EOF

shocm — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:53:19 -0000

Thanks Ken.. You do the same