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Re: Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data

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Post by dang » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 5:53 PM UTC

Annatar wrote: post #120

dang wrote: post #119

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Please follow the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Which guideline do you believe I did not follow? (I hope you write back face to face, because I would tell him the same thing in person and then some, and enjoy every microsecond of it.)

The comment was uncivil and snarky.

Regardless of your temperament, can you please not be abrasive/aggressive on HN? It encourages worse from others and leads to a toilet-whirlpool effect.

Re: Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data

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Post by dang » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

javiermaestro wrote: post #99

Annatar wrote: post #94

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It's for Linux only, and I run illumos-based SmartOS on my own infrastructure. That's not the point. The point is that all these generation Y kids grew up on PC buckets and still don't understand UNIX and the concepts behind it, and yet they use it to power their applications. This can only end badly unless they start making an effort to understand the concepts behind the substrate they are writing software for.

A few things. First, can't you run Linux inside a Solaris Zone? I don't know much about Solaris stuff (although I do like it very much, I grew up mostly with Linux, which you so much despise, and I'm not too familiar with other Unixes). So... I think you could probably run Logdevice if you really wanted. Then, here's my two cents. When engaging in conversation and civil dialog, please try to avoid being so dismissive…

> You come across as abrasive and entitled.

I recognize the good intention here, but if you're going to post this kind of comment, please try to eliminate the personal provocations. They don't help, and do hurt.

Re: Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data

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Post by Annatar » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 12:06 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #121

Annatar wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which guideline do you believe I did not follow? (I hope you write back face to face, because I would tell him the same thing in person and then some, and enjoy every microsecond of it.)

The comment was uncivil and snarky. Regardless of your temperament, can you please not be abrasive/aggressive on HN? It encourages worse from others and leads to a toilet-whirlpool effect.

The person in question is one of the authors of "logdevice", which is relevant to that person's reaction: instead of saying "we didn't know about sbin, we'll fix that" it seems it was easier to just write a tractate trying to teach me, multiple decades older than them manners. What was aggressive?