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The thing I wonder about with stuff from jacobian.org is whether the guy can actually write ANY code. My gut feeling is he a guy that has very good political s

The thing I wonder about with stuff from jacobian.org is whether the guy can actually write ANY code. My gut feeling is he a guy that has very good political skills and somehow used this a way to mind control geeks. Basically, I can't understand why anything he writes is somehow hackernews worthy...is he self-promoting?

masklinn 15y ago
> The thing I wonder about with stuff from jacobian.org is whether the guy can actually write ANY code. My gut feeling is he a guy that has very good political skills and somehow used this a way to mind control geeks. So you have no idea who he is, apparently did not look for any information (such as his gh page or his being one of Django's lead devs) and decided he was all about "political skills". And somehow failed to realized the article linked above is 3 years old. > Basically, I can't understand why anything he writes is somehow hackernews worthy... But that does not prevent you from judging him as "a politician who can't write code". Nice. > is he self-promoting? He "self-promotes" 3 years old articles by not even posting them himself? What sense does that make? Here's an idea: maybe he wrote good content, and he's not too bad a writer. But you know, if you want to insult him you could at least do it to his face, he's a member on HN after all: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacobian http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacobian
- fakecoder4life 15y ago
  is it possible that being a Django "lead dev" is a political position? I noticed he is a literature major at UC Santa Cruz, a school that doesn't give actual letter grades. Maybe he is the ultimate "trick baby"....or is Django something we cannot question on hacker news. I think this dude is full of shit myself.
  - rbanffy 15y ago
    And you say that hiding behind a throwaway id... very brave of you. Instead of insulting people, try to learn to properly discuss ideas. Learn to point out failed reasoning and to defend your own concepts with sound reasoning or facts. Once you start, it's not that hard and it makes the discussion so much more useful. We have limited time. We shouldn't waste it.
    - masklinn 15y ago
      For what it's worth and though I shamefully fed it, this seems to be a troll account created solely to insult a few people of the python community: only three comments insulting Jacob here and Jesse Noller in an other thread. I'm pretty sure the guy is not looking for discussion, he should just be flagged and ignored.
      - rbanffy 15y ago
        Thanks, masklinn, for the nice detective work.

masklinn 15y ago

> The thing I wonder about with stuff from jacobian.org is whether the guy can actually write ANY code. My gut feeling is he a guy that has very good political skills and somehow used this a way to mind control geeks. So you have no idea who he is, apparently did not look for any information (such as his gh page or his being one of Django's lead devs) and decided he was all about "political skills". And somehow failed to realized the article linked above is 3 years old. > Basically, I can't understand why anything he writes is somehow hackernews worthy... But that does not prevent you from judging him as "a politician who can't write code". Nice. > is he self-promoting? He "self-promotes" 3 years old articles by not even posting them himself? What sense does that make? Here's an idea: maybe he wrote good content, and he's not too bad a writer. But you know, if you want to insult him you could at least do it to his face, he's a member on HN after all: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacobian http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacobian

fakecoder4life 15y ago
is it possible that being a Django "lead dev" is a political position? I noticed he is a literature major at UC Santa Cruz, a school that doesn't give actual letter grades. Maybe he is the ultimate "trick baby"....or is Django something we cannot question on hacker news. I think this dude is full of shit myself.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  And you say that hiding behind a throwaway id... very brave of you. Instead of insulting people, try to learn to properly discuss ideas. Learn to point out failed reasoning and to defend your own concepts with sound reasoning or facts. Once you start, it's not that hard and it makes the discussion so much more useful. We have limited time. We shouldn't waste it.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    For what it's worth and though I shamefully fed it, this seems to be a troll account created solely to insult a few people of the python community: only three comments insulting Jacob here and Jesse Noller in an other thread. I'm pretty sure the guy is not looking for discussion, he should just be flagged and ignored.
    - rbanffy 15y ago
      Thanks, masklinn, for the nice detective work.