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		buro9 on March 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidatio... At the time he was viewed as critical to the project. They indulged him. A very steady stream of very good devs leaving the company occurred because of such invented rules and irrational behaviour. He was a truly great dev, but a fairly insane architect and gatekeeper.

logicchains on March 16, 2014 [–]

I wonder if they financial benefit they gained from keeping him around was greater than the financial loss due to continuously losing good devs...

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