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> dinged on a performance review for negatively comparing their kernel... engineers are not allowed to try or even talk about it I wonder if it was possibly no
by coldpie 4y ago
> dinged on a performance review for negatively comparing their kernel... engineers are not allowed to try or even talk about it
I wonder if it was possibly not that you compared the kernels but rather how you chose to express the comparison. For example this bit makes me think you possibly expressed your opinion combatively:
> a dogshit IO scheduler
Perhaps you were more polite in your day-to-day, I don't know. But your language here makes me wonder.
- BeetleB 4y agoJust World Fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
- CoolGuySteve 4y agoYou seem to be extrapolating a lot from a single turn of phrase but the fact remains that while Apple's kernel is satisfactory, it's not really considered best of bread in anything other than maybe dtrace support. So I'm sorry I offended you with my salty language but the evidence suggests I'm far from the only one that went ignored at Apple.
- coldpie 4y ago> I'm sorry I offended you You didn't.
- burnished 4y agoSome people seem unaware that others take issue with how they communicate and not what they communicate the way you are responding to some one who asked you a pretty mild question (assuming they were personally offended rather than asking about a potential communication issue) suggests there is some validity here.
- CoolGuySteve 4y agoI don't think it was mild, they more or less implied I was an asshole at work because they didn't like a single adjective I used years after the fact. Sure the phrasing was gentle, but the actual statement was quite offensive, presumptuous, and prudish.