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>It [...] discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress. Does it though? Sounds like an opinion.
> Does it though? Sounds like an opinion. Given that the comments in question add absolutely no value to the issue and instead insert a bunch of visual noise and fog then I'd argue it's not an opinion.
This is the opinion part.
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In my observation, this demographic is most densely concentrated in the JavaScript community. Not sure what that says about the language itself, but there’s definitely a glut of unprofessional JS devs out there.
I really think it’s just because it is the most popular and accessible language to the masses we get a larger sample of the population.
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You say it like it's a bad thing? It's possible to be both professional and have some fun (not talking about the linked GH).
I mean there is a difference between having fun and conducting yourself in a professional manner where appropriate. With the increase in adoption of certain technologies (node etc) I have noticed a relationship with the people employed to work with them and their poor level of professionalism in the workplace with regard to their work and how they deal with other people (in the UK) and even how they dress. Similar ag…
While there are many points in your post that I agree with, we really should stop worrying about how people dress.
If it's a developer sitting behind a computer screen all day long with zero customer contact whatsoever, he really shouldn't be forced to wear a certain dress code just to satisfy someone's standard of professionalism. Such feelings are in similar spirit as "woman should not wear trousers" a few decades ago - there is just no rationale behind it other than conditioning by society.
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You say it like it's a bad thing? It's possible to be both professional and have some fun (not talking about the linked GH).
I mean there is a difference between having fun and conducting yourself in a professional manner where appropriate. With the increase in adoption of certain technologies (node etc) I have noticed a relationship with the people employed to work with them and their poor level of professionalism in the workplace with regard to their work and how they deal with other people (in the UK) and even how they dress. Similar ag…
The sheer numbers of users of NPM says that this can happen from time to time and the stability they are providing is nothing other than exceptional.
Otherwise professional conduct mainly comes down to creating an atmosphere of noncommittal distance to deal with difficult personalities. I think being subjected to it for too long should disintegrate any personality, because it is completely unnatural. Hard to imagine people longing for more of that.
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Most companies try to stay professional, and many people carry that behavior into github. However I have worked at a major tech company that trended closer to "millenial" in age. There memes were an everyday part of the corporate culture. Professional emails quite often would have a meme included. I can see someone coming from a corporate culture like that thinking it would be perfectly normal to carry this behavior…
I do not get this. My first job was at a company which had very unprofessional communication internally (for good and bad) but we always made a clear distinction between internal and external communication. There is a time and place for everything.
*FYI, I did not work at GrubHub, which probably fails the most at pretending to be cool and fun.
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This is the first time I've seen "&c" used instead of "etc", I had to look it up. Interesting abbreviation!
Why would anyone use "&c" considering that it doesn't actually save any key presses?
Nonetheless, Tiro would approve. ⁊c.
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This is the first time I've seen "&c" used instead of "etc", I had to look it up. Interesting abbreviation!
Why would anyone use "&c" considering that it doesn't actually save any key presses?
"&" is a ligature for the letters "et". A traditional way to handwrite it, other than as &, is a "crossed epsilon", something like Ɛ̸, which looks more like "et". There's a Unicode character closer to this form: 🙲. I have no preference between 🙲, &, etc. and et cetera — none is common enough that I would recognize it by shape while reading prose.
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Some people getting in the workforce in the last few years have troubles making the distinction between work and play contexts. It's extremely visible on github, slack, &c. which are more and more looking like discord / reddit (gifs, memes, random jokes in the middle of serious discussions)
In GH in particular, I’m not sure why images are allowed to be rendered in comments at all. They are almost always harmful. External links can be used instead
This seems to be slowly clearing up. Regardless, can we talk about the conduct in this GitHub thread? I know every community is different but is it common to have memes and jokes posted this quickly and often in a GitHub issue? It makes it really hard to follow and discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress.
Actually those animated gifs might have been better than all those "me too", since a text-only post informing about the situation would have stuck out much better.
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Some people getting in the workforce in the last few years have troubles making the distinction between work and play contexts. It's extremely visible on github, slack, &c. which are more and more looking like discord / reddit (gifs, memes, random jokes in the middle of serious discussions)
In GH in particular, I’m not sure why images are allowed to be rendered in comments at all. They are almost always harmful. External links can be used instead