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Is there a reason you’re so actively hostile in this thread? You’ve been belittling people in nearly every comment. You were willing to apologize to well-known

Is there a reason you’re so actively hostile in this thread? You’ve been belittling people in nearly every comment. You were willing to apologize to well-known contributors, but everyone else can stuff it?

throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
Yes and no. I need to tone it down (or leave HN, wehich is probably better). Other people need to improve things. But this is not going to happen. An alternative to doing something is to dismiss other people's work. That's what this guy did. 'Emacs is too slow' - emacs startup time doesn't bother me, even if it did it would be down in the noise amongst other emacs irritations (or other software, heck, the amount of time I've wasted on Git...) He dissed emacs for no good reason, and dissed stallman who I really do respect (because RMS actually did something). I've seen a lot of this kind of destructive behaviour and I'm so tired of it. I should just leave HN if I can't contribute properly. Edit. If I post stuff like "x != y" I will say why, with timing, or clarify with In My Experience" or something. "emacs is slower" doesn't tell me by how much or discuss if startup time even matters, so it is a useless criticism; I can't act on it. It doesn't even feel like a good-faith comment.