Just want to call attention to the sheer strength @yifan_xing_e and @killnicole have exhibited in coming forward with their accounts. For those who watch #MeToo unfolding around them, it might look easy to do. It's not. A thread.

https://twitter.com/yifan_xing_e/status/1387083773292941313

Both were women & total newcomers. One hadn't even graduated from university yet, and still was interviewing for her 1st job. They were both taken advantage of by a prominent person known in the *global* Scala community at face value as one of our friendliest/kindest individuals.

What ever happened to people taking responsibility for their actions?

Like, if you say or do something shitty, why is it so rare that people own up and apologize?

Why is it cool to "dig in" now on obviously ridiculous shit? I grew up in an uneducated, lower-middle class family. If you messed up, someone told you, you apologized, you rectified whatever was wrong, and you moved forward and forgot it. And did right from then on.

As I hung around more educated people in my life, this has gone backwards

Not at @usenix #ATC19/interested in WTH @cmeik's Partisan is?

I'll live tweet it for yinz❤️

Partisan is:
a distributed runtime that removes assumptions made by initial dist actor runtimes (Dist Erlang, Orleans, Akka) & allows for significantly increased scalability & throughput First point, the use of actors in distributed systems is popular and common in industry. (This can be a contested point depending on the audience.) Examples: