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You’re looking at two identical toasters from two different manufacturers. Someone has glued on a big red alarm clock onto the side of one of the toasters. Yo

by orf 4y ago

You’re looking at two identical toasters from two different manufacturers. Someone has glued on a big red alarm clock onto the side of one of the toasters. Your conclusion after seeing this is to write to the manufacturer of the toaster without the alarm clock glued onto it and complain that it’s lacking a big red alarm clock and say they suck because they are not copying the amazing alarm clock features that the other manufacturer has. Ok.

tolmasky 4y ago
This is a fiction in your head. I’m not writing any manufacturer. I’m casually commenting on a forum that I’m pretty sure is not Python’s official complaint box. This is as ridiculous as yelling at someone at the bar who says “yeah, I don’t like to use Python that much”. The entire “thrust” of my “threat” to Python is that I’ll try to avoid it in the future. You’re blowing this way out of proportion. If I reacted this way whenever someone said something bad about JavaScript or Objective-C (which I promise you get way more “drive by” complaints), I don’t know what’d I do!
- orf 4y ago
  Replace “write to the manufacturer” with “leave a review on Amazon”. The point doesn’t change. Nobody is threatened by anything, and my point has nothing to do with Python. If someone posts a comment saying “curl sucks! Every time I run it it just prints ‘command not found’” I’d of course try to tell them that’s not a fault with curl. If they replied with “yes it is because I can’t figure out how to install it from this 3rd party site” then the discussion may become protected. But ok, maybe we will agree to disagree.
  - tolmasky 4y ago
    No, you’d refuse to read the curl complaint because it’s too long, and instead arbitrarily decide that the entire discussion should hinge on issuing a challenge for them to find you one place where curl doesn’t work. And then when he does, you’d say “So what! No one wants curl there anyways!” Afterwards you’d get involved in a long weird analogy discussion about two people arguing about git. But that fault would be shared by both of them.

by orf 4y ago

tolmasky 4y ago

This is a fiction in your head. I’m not writing any manufacturer. I’m casually commenting on a forum that I’m pretty sure is not Python’s official complaint box. This is as ridiculous as yelling at someone at the bar who says “yeah, I don’t like to use Python that much”. The entire “thrust” of my “threat” to Python is that I’ll try to avoid it in the future. You’re blowing this way out of proportion. If I reacted this way whenever someone said something bad about JavaScript or Objective-C (which I promise you get way more “drive by” complaints), I don’t know what’d I do!

orf 4y ago
Replace “write to the manufacturer” with “leave a review on Amazon”. The point doesn’t change. Nobody is threatened by anything, and my point has nothing to do with Python. If someone posts a comment saying “curl sucks! Every time I run it it just prints ‘command not found’” I’d of course try to tell them that’s not a fault with curl. If they replied with “yes it is because I can’t figure out how to install it from this 3rd party site” then the discussion may become protected. But ok, maybe we will agree to disagree.
- tolmasky 4y ago
  No, you’d refuse to read the curl complaint because it’s too long, and instead arbitrarily decide that the entire discussion should hinge on issuing a challenge for them to find you one place where curl doesn’t work. And then when he does, you’d say “So what! No one wants curl there anyways!” Afterwards you’d get involved in a long weird analogy discussion about two people arguing about git. But that fault would be shared by both of them.