I used to think that by and large most software developers were of roughly above-average intelligence; and while that may be the case, my mentions the past few days has led me to believe they’re also roughly of below-average wisdom
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@mattly how much of that do you think is the tech culture vs undiagnosed neurodivergence? ️
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@joshsusser Vs “temporarily embarrassed billionaire syndrome”
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I have seen people who, when Microsoft bought GitHub spelled the purchaser with a dollar sign, tell me I now owe that company free labor because of things I did before the purchase
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@mattly why is the explanation for bad things always Capitalism?
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@joshsusser Because it’s the water our school of fish live in
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@mattly that tracks
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@mattly How was HN not Exibit A?
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@hugg I needed the laugh, thanks
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Matthew Lyonreplied to Matthew Lyon last edited by [email protected]
final observation on the matter: a recurring theme of the hostile replies I’ve gotten is equivocating the very *suggestion* that I wouldn’t happily do my part to protect a corporation’s asset with childishness:
“grow up, the world depends on Microsoft’s ability to ensure safety”
lol, if that’s truly the case, we’re all fucked, sorry/not sorry but have you SEEN their record?
I acknowledged the “petulant PDA” impulse at the root of the thread, that wasn’t the point, which all of them missed
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@mattly I posted one of the complaints to lobste.rs just to see what would happen and the replies were as entitled and focused around "value delivery for startups" as one might hope.
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@mattly Many of the comments are implicitly about how you need to "grow up" and "think about your consumers" and I think this is a deeply depressing thing.
My background was clj-time, and the decision to violate my license around that code because people found it convenient to use my razor thin wrapper around jodatime, is why I quit open source participation with the understanding at any point in time, the community would come along and bully me and barring that steal from me.
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Matthew Lyonreplied to ⛈️ Information ⛈️ last edited by
@Elucidating I really have to wonder how many of these people have ever actually worked with the public in a commercial capacity