In this episode I’m joined once again by Scott Hanselman and we explore the idea of “being mean” - and what makes people mean in our industry.

In the first story Scott shares his experience on being “outted” at a former company, where his name sat beside 7 of the 10 top entries on a list of “what not to do to code”.

Scott then interviews Cyra Richardson - a program manager at Microsoft with a rather strong opinion about the changes she’s seen in the company over the last 20 years.

Finally, I spend some time talking to Giles Bowkett and his various … “interesting” interactions with the Ruby community.

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