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The underlying issue is CADT churn in the userland. Every few years or so some new "kid" comes onboard and decides they can rewrite some piece of code over a c

The underlying issue is CADT churn in the userland. Every few years or so some new "kid" comes onboard and decides they can rewrite some piece of code over a caffeine fueled weekend. This then effectively solves some surface problems but resets the clock on a whole lot of other issues...

msla 9y ago
Yes, blame everything on the young. That isn't biased at all. And the fact young people are more likely to be People of Color due to demographic shifts isn't a factor at all, I'm sure.
- dang 9y ago
  Would you please stop posting this kind of comment to Hacker News? It breaks the HN guidelines, specifically this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Also this one: "Assume good faith." (<-- Edit: whoops, haven't added that one yet! It's coming.) Blatant nastiness is easier to do something about because it's so obvious. But when people degrade discussion by replying to the worst about each other, the frog boils more subtly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - msla 9y ago
    Would you please moderate hateful and bigoted statements on HN, then?
- mr_overalls 9y ago
  Oh, good Lord.
hysan 9y ago
I never heard of that acronym, CADT, so I had to look it up. For the curious, it stands for "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model.[1] And that exact scenario... wow. I've run into it before and have taken the effort to retest and revalidate some bugs for reopening. I thought I was just unlucky with how many such bugs affected me, but I guess I wasn't alone. [1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
- digi_owl 9y ago
  I would advice against linking that. JWZ do not like HN much, so he has set his site to refer-filter every incoming connection to a less than pleasant image on imgur...

msla 9y ago

Yes, blame everything on the young. That isn't biased at all. And the fact young people are more likely to be People of Color due to demographic shifts isn't a factor at all, I'm sure.

dang 9y ago
Would you please stop posting this kind of comment to Hacker News? It breaks the HN guidelines, specifically this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Also this one: "Assume good faith." (<-- Edit: whoops, haven't added that one yet! It's coming.) Blatant nastiness is easier to do something about because it's so obvious. But when people degrade discussion by replying to the worst about each other, the frog boils more subtly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- msla 9y ago
  Would you please moderate hateful and bigoted statements on HN, then?
mr_overalls 9y ago
Oh, good Lord.

hysan 9y ago

I never heard of that acronym, CADT, so I had to look it up. For the curious, it stands for "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" model.[1] And that exact scenario... wow. I've run into it before and have taken the effort to retest and revalidate some bugs for reopening. I thought I was just unlucky with how many such bugs affected me, but I guess I wasn't alone. [1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

digi_owl 9y ago
I would advice against linking that. JWZ do not like HN much, so he has set his site to refer-filter every incoming connection to a less than pleasant image on imgur...