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I remember posting an answer to a CGI question with some grody, idiomatic solution, and getting scolded/downvoted by a high-rep dev (who montiored the subject t
by falsedan 7y ago
I remember posting an answer to a CGI question with some grody, idiomatic solution, and getting scolded/downvoted by a high-rep dev (who montiored the subject tags) who responded with... a solution that didin't work! When the original asker responded, they directed them to file a bug.
That contempt and disregard for the actual day-to-day tediousness of writing commercial code is an attitude I can do without.
Also: https://imgur.com/C22vPFV https://imgur.com/C22vPFV
- mplanchard 7y agoWow! That screenshot is unbelievable. I’ve never seen his book before, but I went and looked it up so that I can be sure to never buy it and to recommend against it, due to the author, if it comes up in conversation.