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This comment comes across really mean and judgmental. I didn’t read all of the original commit, but it read to me as informative and passionate with all of the

This comment comes across really mean and judgmental. I didn’t read all of the original commit, but it read to me as informative and passionate with all of the frustrations solving a difficult problem comes with. Honestly, this comment is so over the top I can’t even detect whether you’re serious or not.

powjfjti83 7y ago
Opinions are relative. My over the topness is on purpose. The tone of the commit message resonates with exactly the same tone as my post (to me). The commit comment is filled with judgmental, caustic language toward the efforts of others. Yet my opinions about the persons view of “how to design language” are over the top. So you get my point entirely it seems. Are those people less passionate and deserving of such a caustic response by a person who added a media player, a gold cup holder, on top of their foundations, walls, & plumbing? I don’t care how passionate someone appears when the result is elevating their own abilities when their accomplishments aren’t really half as important. Generating an opinion no matter how passionate is not the same as real effort. A true craftsman would build a replacement without the perceived flaws. I’ll give them props when they release their general purpose language that also ends up having a 30+ year history of needing to bend and shift with the times. I somehow doubt his clean room view of what C should be can hang with the shifting hardware landscape over the next 30 years without becoming a bit warty
- matheusmoreira 7y ago
  That commit message may be caustic but there is a lot of knowledge and experience included in it.
- xvector 7y ago
  > My over the topness is on purpose. The tone of the commit message resonates with exactly the same tone as my post (to me). No, you see. The author of the commit was being humorous. You're just being an asshole. > by a person who added a media player, a gold cup holder, on top of their foundations, walls, & plumbing? C would be worthless if it wasn't for the programs that were built on it. To argue that the passion of the C developers is worth more than the passion of a media-player developer makes zero sense. > A true craftsman would build a replacement without the perceived flaws. Great thing the author never claimed to be "a true craftsman." > I’ll give them props when they release their general purpose language Ah, the "you can't criticize art unless you're an artist" argument.
- dang 7y ago
  Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
joror9 7y ago
The point being I easily got the problem and a solution in the git commit that was originally posted without having to wade into the authors personal emotional preference for humor. I’m trying to solve my own problems using Github. If I wanted to bullshit I’ll hit you up on IRC. How much of these things are in source code we import into our systems? It’s enough reading through lines of obscure code. I don’t really want the lift of parsing others emotions. Time & place, children.

powjfjti83 7y ago

Opinions are relative. My over the topness is on purpose. The tone of the commit message resonates with exactly the same tone as my post (to me). The commit comment is filled with judgmental, caustic language toward the efforts of others. Yet my opinions about the persons view of “how to design language” are over the top. So you get my point entirely it seems. Are those people less passionate and deserving of such a caustic response by a person who added a media player, a gold cup holder, on top of their foundations, walls, & plumbing? I don’t care how passionate someone appears when the result is elevating their own abilities when their accomplishments aren’t really half as important. Generating an opinion no matter how passionate is not the same as real effort. A true craftsman would build a replacement without the perceived flaws. I’ll give them props when they release their general purpose language that also ends up having a 30+ year history of needing to bend and shift with the times. I somehow doubt his clean room view of what C should be can hang with the shifting hardware landscape over the next 30 years without becoming a bit warty

matheusmoreira 7y ago
That commit message may be caustic but there is a lot of knowledge and experience included in it.
xvector 7y ago
> My over the topness is on purpose. The tone of the commit message resonates with exactly the same tone as my post (to me). No, you see. The author of the commit was being humorous. You're just being an asshole. > by a person who added a media player, a gold cup holder, on top of their foundations, walls, & plumbing? C would be worthless if it wasn't for the programs that were built on it. To argue that the passion of the C developers is worth more than the passion of a media-player developer makes zero sense. > A true craftsman would build a replacement without the perceived flaws. Great thing the author never claimed to be "a true craftsman." > I’ll give them props when they release their general purpose language Ah, the "you can't criticize art unless you're an artist" argument.
dang 7y ago
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but do need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

joror9 7y ago

The point being I easily got the problem and a solution in the git commit that was originally posted without having to wade into the authors personal emotional preference for humor. I’m trying to solve my own problems using Github. If I wanted to bullshit I’ll hit you up on IRC. How much of these things are in source code we import into our systems? It’s enough reading through lines of obscure code. I don’t really want the lift of parsing others emotions. Time & place, children.