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His articles are excellent, and I've learned a lot from them myself. But I cannot sympathise with lowering the level of a technical discussion to personal insul
by ggambetta 11y ago
His articles are excellent, and I've learned a lot from them myself. But I cannot sympathise with lowering the level of a technical discussion to personal insults.
- Wintamute 11y agoI would be wary about parsing any text below the words "RANT MODE ON" all caps in bold as technical discussion.
- copperx 11y agoOn the other hand, I really love those personal insults. They get the point across. Maybe there's something wrong with me?
- amagumori 11y agothere's a difference between being angry at people and insulting them. he was definitely pissed off, but he didn't insult anyone.
- angersock 11y agoI don't know if this is a general failing of people's critical thinking abilities, a sloppiness in their reading, or something else, but I have noticed over the past (feels like) few years a growing problem: A lot of folks conflate personal insults ("you, ggambetta, are clearly a dunderhead when it comes to reading comments") with general sentiments about a group or abstract population ("Hacker News posters tend to be overly sensitive to the point of being crybabies"). A great deal of the flavor and comedy in writing, especially pieces that are self-identified rants, are not from personal insults but instead from hyperbolic and sometime vitriolic statements about an abstract other.
- gafferongames 11y agoSpot on and this was firmly written with tongue in cheek! It's funny because it's true though. I harbor no ill will to anyone. Also, a nice ending to this whole thing, the original poster found the article, and halfway through reading it, realized it was about them and posted a comment!
- plonh 11y agoI can't sympathize with a technical discussion Mandarin. Lucky it is a big internet with lots of blogs.