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Funny, had to learn all this stuff for my Master's thesis as it was a crucial part of my project to provide reliable shell command exchange via serial connectio
by erikb 10y ago
Funny, had to learn all this stuff for my Master's thesis as it was a crucial part of my project to provide reliable shell command exchange via serial connection. It was really really hard to find anybody who knows anything about this lower network level and terminals.
What I can add for everybody who feels the same disappointment as ESR: It's very common for a growing community that three things happen.
A) The number of people with just a little knowledge over the holy grail of your community increases.
B) The popular communication is taken over by great communicators who care more about their publicity than your holy grail.
C) This gives the impression that the number of really cool people decreases. And that is depressing to old timers. But it's in fact often not true. Actually most often the number of cool people increases too! It's just that their voices are drowned in all the spam of what I like to call the "Party People" (see B).
So yes, you can actually cheer. It's harder to find the other dudes, but there are more of them! Trust me, I'm not the oldest guys here but I've seen some communities grow and die till now, and it's nearly always like that.
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd these days D) the B)s use various "social" tactics to tar and feather A)s that get in their way...
- kosma 10y agoI've seen this kill entire companies in an extremely slow, painful death. I used to fight this... These days, as soon as I see a Chief Architect or a CTO start to social their way to some technical goal, I just leave the company - for it's a very clear signal that an engineer is a second-class citizen there. No point in waging that battle.
- i336_ 10y agoAs someone still learning about the finer points of social interaction (and sorely lacking in experience), what would you say are some of the signs that this sort of thing is happening?
- forgottenpass 10y agoSee also: https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- rasjani 10y agoAs having seen and being part of the start, rise and fall of certain scene of genre of music, this article provided a great piece to reflect upon how and what really did happen :)
- kosma 10y agoThis was so entertaining & insightful to read I ended up buying the actual book [1]. Thank you. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F9IV64W/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F9IV64W/
- TheGrassyKnoll 10y agoBurning Man ?