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Advice is worth what you paid for it and even if you solicit advice you are not required to take it, especially if taking that advice implies you have to do stuff that runs counter to your nature and views. Patrick's advice is very good: for Patrick. But for Colin it was more of an exercise in how you could run Tarsnap, not how he should run Tarsnap. Meanwhile, Tarsnap is still in business many years later, has happy…
All fair points, and Patrick acknowledged this at the time - and in the previous HN thread back in 2014. I remember it was a good one. The detail that really pets me backwards is the whole "if you're here, you already know what this is for and how to use it" vibe. It's not just Tarsnap; many aspects of the OSS world uphold this most unfortunate tradition. I believe with all of my heart that it is unnecessarily hostil…
I used to believe this. And maybe at some point it was, but then the world, and the sector, was absolutely _flooded_ with script kiddies.
Now things that immediately confuse people that don't at least have a halfway decent idea of what they're about satisfy me.