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speaking to "you" rather than throwing vague shade at the group of all sysadmins is merely direct, not confrontational. it is not an expression of outrage to po
by dvanduzer 11y ago
speaking to "you" rather than throwing vague shade at the group of all sysadmins is merely direct, not confrontational. it is not an expression of outrage to point out how weirdly passive aggressive the remark was.
the sysadmin is a subset of hacker, a culture proud of its autodidactic tradition. and the spirit of the internet is to share useful information once you've learned it. it is totally appropriate to come to this website and post that you were interested in the subject of security in networked file systems, didn't know what the acronyms meant, and here's that information if anyone else wanted to know.
it is extremely important to learn how to learn. and i am genuinely curious about this apparent expectation that literature in a highly technical field should have a glossary everywhere. would you expect a blog about routers to always explain what TCP/IP stands for?
- brudgers 11y agoI went from the article directly to the HN comments to learn the acronyms and lo, there an author had posted them for an intended technical audience of HN'ers analogously to the blog's author writing for their intended audience. Alas, the comments to the comment had devolved from informing a technical audience to non-denominational internet argument for argument's sake. The mere possibility of a slight slight doesn't justify provoking a pissing contest. The present pop psychology pathologizing of parent poster's purpose hardly makes the proposed proposition of "you"'s previous use as primarily a literary device particularly plausible. But at least there is no pretence that it was primarily a charitable or polite reading.