In what world is ranting about PR copy and saying someone should lose their job over quite literally doing what they were asked necessary?
Who, exactly, is it necessary for? The original commenter getting their rocks off on insulting someone else’s job? Others coming in and laughing at someone insulting someone else? Critically necessary.
It’s not like the original article author is going to come in, see this comment, and reflect deeply on themselves and their work.
I admit I was harboring a small hope that someone from GitHub / Microsoft might see the criticism here (not just mine) and that it might help reduce the frequency with which that sort of sales person tries to communicate with their market of software engineers. It was a bit unpleasant to suggest someone should lose their job. While they were presumably asked to write the piece, they were not asked to write it so tastelessly.
