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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (brennan.day)
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[–] 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's nice that people are finally starting to write about what a coke fuelled POS DHH is. People within the Ruby community have known this for years. the fact that he is where he is because of some truly horrible PHP is mind boggling.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    the fact that he is where he is because of some truly horrible PHP

    Could you please explain what you mean here, for those of us unfamiliar with the context?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    His original claim to fame was building a gaming website in the early 00s utilizing some really poorly written php. a friend then asked him to essentially build basecamp because said friend didn't know any better and DHH was the only person that kinda sorta knew what he was doing. he got lucky with ruby on rails (what he used to build basecamp) cause his previous stuff was really bad.

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