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When the Weapon Was Pointed at Me
- anigbrowl 11y agoNot being familiar with the original context, this is unfortunately meaningless other than in the general sense of 'mobs are bad.'
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoMobs are bad. Don't join them, even though it's really easy to do so. And don't take it personally when they attack you, because it's really easy for people to do that thoughtlessly, and they actually don't hate you nearly as much as they sound like they do.
- anigbrowl 11y agoI didn't have any problem understanding his point, but I have no idea what personal experience he's talking about so I don't know how to evaluate his description of getting piled on.
- Arnt 11y agoHis experience doesn't matter. The result doesn't depend on what you've done. Try to imagine how it feels to be one of the last two idealistic volunters who work on a critically important open source crypto library when a major security bug is found and many thousand people decide to tell you what a shit you are and what shit your code is. That's not what Brent did, but if Brent and those two idealists were to meet and compare their inboxes, I bet they would look similar.