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Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by jmartrican »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

It seems the person who resigned here was on the Rust core team, and had been involved in Rust for quite a long time ( https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcement-jonathan-turn... ).

Rule of thumb i like to follow before making any important decisions I ask myself "am I in a high emotional state". If the answer is yes, I refrain from making a decision. I wait till I can affirmatively answer "no" to that question. Its a simple little filter you can apply to avoid rash decisions (or social media posts).

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by rsynnott »

School-Cotton wrote: post #69
rsynnott wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

English is extremely stingy with pronouns in general; beyond singular vs plural they, there's also no proper plural you, no modern informal you (it was 'thou', but that's archaic), no exclusive vs inclusive we, and so on.

“You guys” is the plural form of “you” for the majority of American English-speakers in colloquial contexts.

Or "y'all", or "youse", or lots of other variants. But there's no standard, is the thing.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by DocSavage »

nabakin wrote: post #34
rvz wrote: post #30

So someone getting upset over their powerpoint presentation getting downgraded from being part of the RustConf keynote. That’s it? Much like an explosion in an ant hill.

1. They didn't submit a talk or intend to give one 2. They were specifically invited to give a keynote and decided to do so at their request 3. Repeatedly confirmed the topic was ok 4. Put a lot of work into the keynote 5. Told last minute they would not be giving a keynote with no reason I'd be upset. This is not how you treat your community.

What does "last minute" mean here? Isn't RustConf in mid-September and it's a single track conference so speakers are heard by all participants? It would be a good way to get your work and opinions out to the broader community.

Clearly the process was botched and more effort should've been made to come to a mutually beneficial solution, but going from an invited keynote (great honor) to an invited talk (honor) is not what I would call a deliberate attempt to "disgrace one of the experts in my field."

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by fsckboy »

jmartrican wrote: post #70
knorker wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All y'all use y'all?

I love y'all, both the word and y'all. Wish it was more widely used outside of the US South.

in my dialect of English we just say "you all" or "all of you"

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by superdeeda »

mijoharas wrote: post #66
rsynnott wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

English is extremely stingy with pronouns in general; beyond singular vs plural they, there's also no proper plural you, no modern informal you (it was 'thou', but that's archaic), no exclusive vs inclusive we, and so on.

> there's also no proper plural you I don't know what y'all are talking about.

> I don't know what y'all are talking about.

"You" can refer to either one person or multiple people.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by mijoharas »

superdeeda wrote: post #76
mijoharas wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there's also no proper plural you I don't know what y'all are talking about.

> I don't know what y'all are talking about. "You" can refer to either one person or multiple people.

And y'all only refers to multiple people. I guess it's kinda a plural "you". ;)
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