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>"I don't really understand your take-away except for a cynical "bah, nothing ever works so don't try." Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite pl

>"I don't really understand your take-away except for a cynical "bah, nothing ever works so don't try." Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite platitudinal disclaimer in my post about how how life is all about trade-offs and what works for Bob might work for Alice." The take away is clearly "things that work in the small often don't work in the large. If you're taking life advice, take it from someone who has done something for a while and had a reasonable experience.". Someone crowing about their two day experience is...well... This applies to all sorts of similar enthusiastic advice. Intermittent napping. Standing desks. The Dvorak keyboard. Drinking your coffee with butter. New diets. Going without the internet. Meditating. Taking up karate. Working in parks. Whatever. There's a lot of wisdom and knowledge among them, but it isn't coming from the guy who just started. If someone is giving a sales pitch for a lifestyle change based upon a tiny experience, they are often doing it because they think converting others makes it more real/more likely to yield the change they want. It doesn't work that way. Try things. Try lots of things. Save evangelizing until you maybe have a real experience?

hombre_fatal 6y ago
Ah, so worthless cynicism and condescension after all. I see why you made a novelty account for this. But I wonder if you see the irony in promoting yourself into this role of inquisitor? I get it, you're mad that I admitted I only have two days of experience while telling people how to get started in one of the most important software platforms in the world (it's how Wikipedia works) -- I'm not exactly making new sounds on this. Maybe you're fine with my install instructions, but I went too far (for your tastes) when I said it was promising so far. And you thought this behavior needed to be called out by your "Dunning-Kruger in the wild" meme account. I don't think I've misinterpreted the situation, I just find it a bit sad and I wonder how much you think you've added to the discussion. That you run that account, you must think: "quite a bit!" I'll leave that one up to the audience.
- hn_check 6y ago
  >"Ah, so worthless cynicism and condescension after all. I see why you made a novelty account for this. But I wonder if you see the irony in playing this sort of inquisitor?" You are irrationally hostile. My comments are not for your edification or service, and this is a shared platform where multiple people are reading and deriving value, each comment kicking off different thoughts and conversations. If you take this so incredibly personally, that's a you problem. Your internalization and repeated attacks are bizarre. But you do you.
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  - hombre_fatal 6y ago
    Ah, so "edification" is what you think you're bringing to HN with your novelty attack-dog account. As per your account's bio description, I would wonder how you feel about the "fomentation" of cynicism and negativity on HN as well. Alright, we've had our fun. I hope @dang detaches this thread.
hn_check 6y ago
Why in the world was this flagged? hombre_fatal's absolutely surreal and out of context paranoid delusions did not color the absolutely rational statements in the above post.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

Ah, so worthless cynicism and condescension after all. I see why you made a novelty account for this. But I wonder if you see the irony in promoting yourself into this role of inquisitor? I get it, you're mad that I admitted I only have two days of experience while telling people how to get started in one of the most important software platforms in the world (it's how Wikipedia works) -- I'm not exactly making new sounds on this. Maybe you're fine with my install instructions, but I went too far (for your tastes) when I said it was promising so far. And you thought this behavior needed to be called out by your "Dunning-Kruger in the wild" meme account. I don't think I've misinterpreted the situation, I just find it a bit sad and I wonder how much you think you've added to the discussion. That you run that account, you must think: "quite a bit!" I'll leave that one up to the audience.

hn_check 6y ago
>"Ah, so worthless cynicism and condescension after all. I see why you made a novelty account for this. But I wonder if you see the irony in playing this sort of inquisitor?" You are irrationally hostile. My comments are not for your edification or service, and this is a shared platform where multiple people are reading and deriving value, each comment kicking off different thoughts and conversations. If you take this so incredibly personally, that's a you problem. Your internalization and repeated attacks are bizarre. But you do you.
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- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  Ah, so "edification" is what you think you're bringing to HN with your novelty attack-dog account. As per your account's bio description, I would wonder how you feel about the "fomentation" of cynicism and negativity on HN as well. Alright, we've had our fun. I hope @dang detaches this thread.

hn_check 6y ago

Why in the world was this flagged? hombre_fatal's absolutely surreal and out of context paranoid delusions did not color the absolutely rational statements in the above post.