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>It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity. That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the actual negative statements you made about
by Nicksil 6y ago
>It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.
That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the actual negative statements you made about the author:
>Some people just want to find negativity in the world.
>I'm going to take a wiiiiild guess here that the author's personal peak was around 1996.
>It's just a reaction to 'the kids' coming after him not being up to how good he (mis) remembers the past.
>This negativity is a disappointing and growing trend among some grumpy old men in our field as that generation approach retirement.
That's not "calling out" negativity. That's a list of snark, broad insult, and generalizations with no supporting information. It's rude, discriminatory, and serves only to diminish the overall quality of discussion.
- chrisseaton 6y agoI don’t know what to tell you apart from > Since 1996 almost everything has been cleverly repackaging and re-engineering prior inventions seems like an ignorant attack on thousands of people’s professional competence and a veiled insinuation of deceit (the ‘clever repackaging and re-engineering’) and > Suddenly, for the first time ever, programmers could get rich quick sounds like a moral attack. All in all it’s a shitty thing to say to people. And there’s more and more grumpy people trying to tell young computer science researchers today that they’re useless and have no new ideas like this. Have you been to a CS conference recently? You may be missing the context that these people are everywhere criticising everyone for not being as innovative as they remember they were. It’s damaging and not true either. No thanks!