Donglegate Controversy Yields Only One Winner: GitHub http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

First, two guys at a programming conference made some jokes about big dongles and wanting to fork some other guy's repo, and the woman sitting in front them took offensive. Then she snapped their photo, shuttled it onto Twitter, and told her 11,000 followers what the two coders had said. Then one of the coders was fired by his company. Then someone launched an online attack against the website run by the woman's company. And then the company fired her. The incident shined a harsh light on just about everyone involved: the coders, the woman with the camera, the companies who fired them, and the larger programming community -- a traditionally male-dominated culture that's still struggling to provide women with the same level of comfort as men. In the end, no one came out looking too good. Well, no one but GitHub.



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