Not clear from your reply whether you added it (as a mod) or you are announcing to the gp that the year has since been added as at the time of your comment (i.e. by the poster or a mod).
Appears that OP, a former Replit intern, used Replit to create a site that might be construed as a Replit competitor. Replit responded with a heavy hand.
I don’t care about Replit. But this just seems like a bad idea.
Tbf Replit is an online IDE for full stack development, that means that almost any idea you work on Saas dev tooling could be construed as a competitor.
Yes so you should keep that in mind if you sign documents specifically agreeing not to do this in the next 2 years... we may never know what the guy signed, but I assume interns at least sign NDAs.
The fact that CEO is a (insert bad word) is also true, however.
It doesn't matter if he used replit they don't own the code you write with it and it doesn't matter if he used to work there they don't own former employees either.
If you remove the irrelevant details it can be shortened to A personal created what could be construed as a replit competitor this seemed like a bad idea which only makes sense if it's a bar owned by the mafia.
Furthermore they didn't respond "with a heavy hand" This statement carries the implication that some reaction was warranted and they overdid it.
A manipulative sociopath reacted to a non-issue by using insane threats to silence someone on the off chance that he might become a legitimate competitor.
Did you catch the part where he made it about him him growing up a "struggling kid from Jordan" whist still essentially asserting most of the same position.
Once you create a product/project that is in some ways similar to that of a former employer, you have entered potential conflict-of-interest territory. If you can afford the time and legal expenses to argue that it is not a conflict of interest, that's fine. If you cannot, then you should think twice about what you are doing.
Should it be that way? The answer is a definitive maybe. Part of the reason why the legal system exists is to resolve disputes like this. The real problem is the cost and time involved make it mean that both parties rarely have equal access to it, and that it is often used as a heavy handed threat by those who know they have better access to it (with the end result being to silence people rather than seek a just resolution).
As for the personalities of the parties involved, that has nothing to do with it. You can be the biggest jerk in the world and be right, or the kindest person in the world and be wrong.
> Riju is only available on IPv6-enabled networks ... More people should do this
Of the 12 wireline ISPs here, 2 support IPv6. One of the two is available to 2% of the customers; the other costs 50% more than IPv4-only. For the extra money you get 5% of the upload + much higher latency. I'm looking into starting my own ASN just to get IPv6 here.
In the US there are millions of locations stuck with IPv4 only networks due to ISPs that are solidly committed to never supporting it.
IPv6 evangelists don't give a meaningful crap about those millions - and are happy to push IPv6 rosiness in a way that denies their existence.
Because of this, IPv6-only services can only ever get so far off the ground. An exciting service is less exciting when it's unreachable from point B.
That line made me chuckle because if anything like that was on the original announcement, it should’ve become immediately obvious to the Replit CEO that this guy is not a threat. Excluding half the internet from your potential userbase isn’t much of a startup move.
What is the limiting factor there? I don't understand. I assumed these programming languages were working in a browser (wrapped into wasm or some other VM) so everything was client side. Is that not the case? Are they running the language kernels in their servers? I don't understand what the "cost" here is.
Am actually interested in this question in a non-snarky way.
Many years ago, I taught lots of programming workshops in academia and managing the student environments was always a pain. So when I heard of replit and similar tools it always seemed to me like a good solution for this problem.
However, I was struck recently when I went back to teaching how little in roads it made in this space, out of 4 universities in the UK (cohorts of 100s) I saw hardly anyone using it or even heard of it.
It seems the preferred option now is to just use google colab, which works great but doesn't give students the feel of a full-blown IDE.
I haven't used it in a while, but it was great for playing around with python ideas as someone who maybe doesn't want to set everything up on their own machine
I think both are wrong. Replit should have used care considering their customers are developers that like to code, especially open source. Also Radon(?)while inspired by his internship played very close to a line. As an employer, I would be worried how easily it would be to cross the line.
Readit News
Last time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 (4022 points!!!)
Not clear from your reply whether you added it (as a mod) or you are announcing to the gp that the year has since been added as at the time of your comment (i.e. by the poster or a mod).
I don’t care about Replit. But this just seems like a bad idea.
The fact that CEO is a (insert bad word) is also true, however.
If you remove the irrelevant details it can be shortened to A personal created what could be construed as a replit competitor this seemed like a bad idea which only makes sense if it's a bar owned by the mafia.
Furthermore they didn't respond "with a heavy hand" This statement carries the implication that some reaction was warranted and they overdid it.
A manipulative sociopath reacted to a non-issue by using insane threats to silence someone on the off chance that he might become a legitimate competitor.
Did you catch the part where he made it about him him growing up a "struggling kid from Jordan" whist still essentially asserting most of the same position.
https://intuitiveexplanations.com/assets/amjad-hn-1.png
This is basically a narcissist simulating a normal person territory.
It's basically saying sorry you made the projected economic cost of my bad behavior negative I'm going to save face here.
Should it be that way? The answer is a definitive maybe. Part of the reason why the legal system exists is to resolve disputes like this. The real problem is the cost and time involved make it mean that both parties rarely have equal access to it, and that it is often used as a heavy handed threat by those who know they have better access to it (with the end result being to silence people rather than seek a just resolution).
As for the personalities of the parties involved, that has nothing to do with it. You can be the biggest jerk in the world and be right, or the kindest person in the world and be wrong.
I hope that every potential customer will consider the culture he cultivates. We don't need this in tech.
Like it. More people should do this
Of the 12 wireline ISPs here, 2 support IPv6. One of the two is available to 2% of the customers; the other costs 50% more than IPv4-only. For the extra money you get 5% of the upload + much higher latency. I'm looking into starting my own ASN just to get IPv6 here.
In the US there are millions of locations stuck with IPv4 only networks due to ISPs that are solidly committed to never supporting it.
IPv6 evangelists don't give a meaningful crap about those millions - and are happy to push IPv6 rosiness in a way that denies their existence.
Because of this, IPv6-only services can only ever get so far off the ground. An exciting service is less exciting when it's unreachable from point B.
It's really not a big deal.
Many years ago, I taught lots of programming workshops in academia and managing the student environments was always a pain. So when I heard of replit and similar tools it always seemed to me like a good solution for this problem.
However, I was struck recently when I went back to teaching how little in roads it made in this space, out of 4 universities in the UK (cohorts of 100s) I saw hardly anyone using it or even heard of it.
It seems the preferred option now is to just use google colab, which works great but doesn't give students the feel of a full-blown IDE.
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