Node, Twitter, and Apologies

Post by wpietri » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

zeeg wrote: post #59

I was one of the people who made a comment about this. I'm not going to defend that I think attempting to replace sed/grep is a bad idea (especially not in 140 characters), but I will defend people's opinions. Everyone has one, most of them you won't agree with. Whether they're nice or not. I'm generally not a nice person, at least online, that's my choice. That said, especially with this being the internet, you have…

You're entitled to be mean about things you don't like? But when other people have opinions on your opinions, you're suddenly a live-and-let-live guy? C'mon.

Of course, you can't even apply your own advice here. People have opinions that maybe there was some gender bias going on, but are you ignoring them? No, you're reflexively bashing them.

And you certainly didn't just "ignore it" when you came across some code you didn't like. So if you've got a principled intellectual stand here, I can't find it. As far as I can tell, your take is, "I like being a dick, but you people should shut up."

Post by tunesmith » Thu, Jan 24, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

zeeg wrote: post #64

tunesmith wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you choose to not be a nice person (online)? Just curious. Also, I think the "If you don't like, ignore it. If you can't ignore it, then you won't survive," is self-serving advice. It'd be easier to take seriously if you were one of the nice people.

I don't necessarily choose it, I just don't go out of my way (like most people) to be nice. I would argue, that what makes me who I am (a driven, passionate person) also leads to traits like being honestly vocal about things. Whether the way these things are presented is directly related or not is a little bit different. If I see something I don't like, whether it's on the internet, at work, or just in general, I wil…

"If I see something I don't like, whether it's on the internet, at work, or just in general, I will usually say I don't like it."

Regarding the views of the larger public who don't know you, who cares what your feelings are?

If your goal is to reflect your driven, passionate, intelligent nature to affect the public, then what's more relevant is WHY you don't like it - what, specifically is problematic in your experience. Getting to that point isn't white-lie, pc, or bending over backward to be polite - it's simply more relevant.

Utility-wise, isn't it more efficient to share that stuff, and just skip the "it sucks, it stinks, it's awful" comments? I don't know how you actually communicate since I haven't noticed other comments of yours but in general it seems to me that there's a major difference between venting and informative criticism - and mixing them can definitely reduce your efficiency in positively affecting others.

Re: Node, Twitter, and Apologies

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