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That being said, I don't care much for "show off" posts like "Look everyone, I made a functional web server in Brainfuck!". If you're trying to impress other developers, it is certain that you won't. It is not a worthy goal in itself.
"Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"
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Congratulations to PommeDeTerre for providing the perfect example of the sort of comments that are so condescending. I hope that he/she meant it in jest.
No, I'm completely serious. Can you explain how my last comment was "condescending"? It's not "condescending" to express an idea that differs from that of somebody else. It's not "condescending" to disagree with a claim made by somebody else. It's not "condescending" to give examples why a claim somebody else made may not be true. The commenter I replied to suggested that certain technologies were "new". I disagreed,…
The comments are condescending because you imply that there is no difference between them and the technologies you listed. In reality, most advances are made incrementally, and if one wants to make such an advance then one often needs to reimplement some, or all, aspects of what has been done before.
"What" a tool does is often irrelevant. Often advances occur in "How". And "How" is often either hard to communicate, not desirable to communicate (I.e. for competitive advantage), or not particularly interesting, but vitally important.
Indeed, often existing technologies need to be trimmed back to provide a more useful subset - asm.js comes to mind.
However, obviously the person you replied to was using those as _examples_. Your reply completely missed the point he was trying to make that new things, I.e. things that are not the same as other things, are used by people regardless of how similar they may be to other things.
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Congratulations to PommeDeTerre for providing the perfect example of the sort of comments that are so condescending. I hope that he/she meant it in jest.
No, I'm completely serious. Can you explain how my last comment was "condescending"? It's not "condescending" to express an idea that differs from that of somebody else. It's not "condescending" to disagree with a claim made by somebody else. It's not "condescending" to give examples why a claim somebody else made may not be true. The commenter I replied to suggested that certain technologies were "new". I disagreed,…
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I think the quality of the comments reflects the average quality of the posts. We can't talk about how amazing the information is if the submitted link is a 3 paragraph blog post. So unfortunately the average commenter becomes the type of person who comments on 3 paragraph blog posts. Now here's a cool startup idea. A ranking system that takes into account not only community upvotes, but an automated NLP assessment o…
> but an automated NLP assessment of the quality of writing. What about non-native English speakers?
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Congratulations to PommeDeTerre for providing the perfect example of the sort of comments that are so condescending. I hope that he/she meant it in jest.
No, I'm completely serious. Can you explain how my last comment was "condescending"? It's not "condescending" to express an idea that differs from that of somebody else. It's not "condescending" to disagree with a claim made by somebody else. It's not "condescending" to give examples why a claim somebody else made may not be true. The commenter I replied to suggested that certain technologies were "new". I disagreed,…
At the end, I thought it was a really awesome idea, but didn't comment -- I guess I should have, and this blog post makes me feel kind of guilty.
I've learned my lesson -- If you like something here, or even think it's remotely interesting, say so.
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Congratulations to PommeDeTerre for providing the perfect example of the sort of comments that are so condescending. I hope that he/she meant it in jest.
No, I'm completely serious. Can you explain how my last comment was "condescending"? It's not "condescending" to express an idea that differs from that of somebody else. It's not "condescending" to disagree with a claim made by somebody else. It's not "condescending" to give examples why a claim somebody else made may not be true. The commenter I replied to suggested that certain technologies were "new". I disagreed,…
All the technologies you cited are AWESOME. And I would be screwed if they weren't.
Everyday I have to thank all the wonderful minds that bothered to come up with easier and more elegant solutions to problems that made me pull my hair out on the past.
To say they are more of the same is untrue and very mean.
This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."
Offtopic, but a quick googling led me to this: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/lightbulb.html Fun read!
I've been active here for about 2 years now. I don't think there's been the dreadful decline people are talking about; I think it's mostly nostalgia talking. I know intellectually that I basically hated highschool and spent most of it alternatively depressed or bored out of my skull, yet somehow that period of my life has taken on a rosy tint. Sometimes OPs are wrong or misguided and somebody with more experience or…