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EDIT: After being schooled on what a dick I am, I'm refactoring this to: sstephenson: unless your goal is to publicly embarrass tomdale, there must be somethin

EDIT: After being schooled on what a dick I am, I'm refactoring this to: sstephenson: unless your goal is to publicly embarrass tomdale, there must be something more productive for you to do. You presented your commit in such a way that it makes him look bad, and that phrasing in your pull request appears to be intentional.

ddagradi 15y ago
Exactly. There's no reason to crap all over someone's toy project when they're clearly learning, playing and experimenting. The choices sure seem like someone learning the framework, and I bet there's a better way to teach.
- tomdale 15y ago
  While I appreciate the kind words about my programming skill ;), I needed a pet project to test drive SproutCore 2.0, and that's the reason I picked it. I would probably not have done so otherwise given its current limited scope. But again, as features increase, the use of SC will become more valuable.
  - ddagradi 15y ago
    Sorry if that came off harsh - edited for clarity. Whether or not someone is the best programmer in the world with a certain technology, we're all complete novices in more areas than we can count. I know nothing about SproutCore, so count me among the utter noobs there. There's no point in jumping down anyone's throat for experimenting with new technologies though. Keep up the classy responses on Github :)
mishmash 15y ago
You call out sstephenson for being an asshole to tomdale, here: > sstephenson: unless your goal is to publicly embarrass And then immediately in the next sentence, suggest that tomdale is some kind of dog? > He's clearly not very competent, what is the point in rubbing his nose in it? He's not a dog. He's a person with feelings. He's also a fellow HNer: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomdale http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomdale You disappoint me justin_vanw.
sstephenson 15y ago
My goal is to prevent the spread of misinformation by example and help developers understand how to choose the right tool for the job. I can't believe I'm posting this, but are you genuinely suggesting that contributing a patch to an open-source project is somehow worse than calling the project's author incompetent (your words) on Hacker News?
- justin_vanw 15y ago
  I didn't say it was worse, I said it was pointless. I would have more accurately reflected my thoughts if I had said "you obviously don't think he is very competent". I could learn to be more careful about people's feelings regardless. Sorry tom, I don't know you and I shouldn't have commented.

ddagradi 15y ago

Exactly. There's no reason to crap all over someone's toy project when they're clearly learning, playing and experimenting. The choices sure seem like someone learning the framework, and I bet there's a better way to teach.

tomdale 15y ago
While I appreciate the kind words about my programming skill ;), I needed a pet project to test drive SproutCore 2.0, and that's the reason I picked it. I would probably not have done so otherwise given its current limited scope. But again, as features increase, the use of SC will become more valuable.
- ddagradi 15y ago
  Sorry if that came off harsh - edited for clarity. Whether or not someone is the best programmer in the world with a certain technology, we're all complete novices in more areas than we can count. I know nothing about SproutCore, so count me among the utter noobs there. There's no point in jumping down anyone's throat for experimenting with new technologies though. Keep up the classy responses on Github :)

mishmash 15y ago

You call out sstephenson for being an asshole to tomdale, here: > sstephenson: unless your goal is to publicly embarrass And then immediately in the next sentence, suggest that tomdale is some kind of dog? > He's clearly not very competent, what is the point in rubbing his nose in it? He's not a dog. He's a person with feelings. He's also a fellow HNer: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomdale http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomdale You disappoint me justin_vanw.

sstephenson 15y ago

My goal is to prevent the spread of misinformation by example and help developers understand how to choose the right tool for the job. I can't believe I'm posting this, but are you genuinely suggesting that contributing a patch to an open-source project is somehow worse than calling the project's author incompetent (your words) on Hacker News?

justin_vanw 15y ago
I didn't say it was worse, I said it was pointless. I would have more accurately reflected my thoughts if I had said "you obviously don't think he is very competent". I could learn to be more careful about people's feelings regardless. Sorry tom, I don't know you and I shouldn't have commented.