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And it's still a weasel apology
Generally a weasel apology would be: "I'm sorry If I made someone feel bad" Not "I am sorry. I feel terrible that I made someone else feel terrible." Corey's apology did feel nicer, but I don't think that Steve's was a bad apology.
I'd say don't let it get to you, but that'd be dishonest. It'll get to you. The thing is you can't stop. That's the hard part.
Heather, I agree that people are unnecessarily rude to you. Don't sob. Your code shows you are already a more capable programmer than most of the ones I interview. No one has given you a clear answer as to why your code is reinventing the wheel, so allow me to do it politely. I took every single example from your README, and show you below how everything can be reimplemented with sed -r (nice extended regex syntax, m…
Thank you for taking the time to write these translations. In fact, I'm going to bookmark this thread and use it as a reference in the future. I feel these examples serve more as a selling point for why one would use something like `replace` over a cacophony of flags and pipes. The interface for `replace` is simple and elegant. It does one thing, and it does it well. I think that's commendable. P.S. The `sed -r` flag…
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Then take the 5-10 minutes to scan the man pages. Write a simple shell script wrapper exposing a syntax as simple as "replace". And be done with it in 15 minutes top. It seems to me that writing all this js code would take a lot longer than 15 min.
I think the point everyone is trying to make here is. Should every person spend 5-10 minutes doing this? If the problem occurs too frequently, it makes more sense to make the solution re usable. Which is exactly what 'replace' is doing here.
Hell, some people even have twitter feeds about it https://twitter.com/stupidphp
All I can say is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DozqEUPY5dA
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I think the point everyone is trying to make here is. Should every person spend 5-10 minutes doing this? If the problem occurs too frequently, it makes more sense to make the solution re usable. Which is exactly what 'replace' is doing here.
> I think the point everyone is trying to make here is. Should every person spend 5-10 minutes doing this? Exactly. People tell me "Nobody needs ack, you just write wrappers around find+grep" and I say "You could, but I published it and now people don't have to."
"[Laziness] makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer."
I'm surprised no one mentioned it, but hey, there are people using windows out there where that can use this (instead of installing cygwin, or finding out what on earth is the equivalent of grep on windows command line) I think it's just immature behavior to criticize like this and I'm happy to see the top voted comments here Criticize in private, praise in public. Otherwise you are just a bully.
Then I see these people’s follower count, and I sob harder. I can’t help but think of potential future employers that are no longer potential. There's a big responsibility that comes with being well-liked and nice. When someone with a good reputation and the means to broadcast it speaks negatively about someone, it matters much more than someone who is routinely rude, frequently negative, or unknown. I know that if t…
Fair point. Once I read the names of those involved, I was a little taken aback for this very reason. Friends I respect think quite highly of Corey, for instance. Also worth noting, both [Steve and Corey] have published apologies on their own blogs. Both are worth reading.
I know Corey and don't really know too much about what happened here, so I'll only say he's one of the most positive and supportive people I know.
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Compare the cause-and-effect of both the situations. One can send someone to jail for life and destroy their finances, reputation etc... the other can hurt someones feelings. Contending the latter should be addressed before (or even comparatively) to the former is what I take issue with.
If empathy were a limited resource that demanded to be spent only in descending order of the seriousness of the potential injury, then you might have a point.
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And when you say that they are part of the Ruby community, it's sad, but I said to myself - why doesn't that surprise me. It's said that the community behind a really useful language has that type of reputation. To tell you the truth, it's part of why I moved to python.
I take it you haven't seen @zeeg's tweets on the subject, then: https://twitter.com/zeeg Sorry to disillusion you about the Python community. Personally, part of the reason I stopped using Python heavily professionally in 2007 is because I was sick of hearing and reading Python web developers regularly disparage Ruby and the "Ruby community," a tradition carried on in comments like yours to this day.
I openly dislike Ruby (as a language), but I swear this project was written in Node, which I also dislike.
Oh, and I could care less which language something is written in, my simple, trollish tweet, was only based on the usability aspect.