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Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with the nitty gritty of programming but this blogger sounds insufferable. If I’m wearing a duck duck go shirt and someone co

Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with the nitty gritty of programming but this blogger sounds insufferable. If I’m wearing a duck duck go shirt and someone comes up and wants to talk about how DDG uses/used bing I’m not going to engage in this conversation. Who the fuck wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? Also, how condescending to assume the person doesn’t think about it at all. This sort of monologue is gross and the writer is an asshole.

janalsncm 3y ago
I think that’s a little harsh. I honestly think the anecdote at the beginning was shoehorned in as some kind of clumsy attempt to add personality. But the dirt/surface/air framework seems useful to me.
- blululu 3y ago
  The starting anecdote might have been tacked on at the end. It might even be a fabrication. It is certainly unnecessary to the framework they are advancing which is itself reasonable. The fact that the author chose to frame their thinking in terms of them being a snide jerk to a colleague really made me unsympathetic to them as a person.
brickteacup 3y ago
> Who the fuck wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? ummmm me (I mean I hate Go but in a hypothetical world where I liked Go, me)
drewcoo 3y ago
> wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? If I see someone wearing a political t-shirt, they're clearly virtue signaling. If I ask them about it, I might expect political slogans, but often they won't even be able to manage those slogans, much less explanation of a party platform. If I see someone wearing a branded beer shirt, they're likely to be able to represent for their shirt-beer. Most of the time I'd only expect advertising slogans, but once in a while maybe they'll have something interesting to say. They're going to be generally more informed than the political shirt crew. A programming language t-shirt is much more niche and advertises that the wearer has an interest in that language and wants the world to know about it. This goes far beyond the virtue signaling of the political shirt crowd. If all they can do is repeat slogans (like most of the beer-shirt-wearers), I'd be disappointed, too.
- mahogany 3y ago
  Sometimes people are given a shirt as a gift, or they just think it looks cool. I never knew others took shirt-wearing to be such a serious activity.
  - throwaway675309 3y ago
    I don't know if it's that serious, but personally I'd be rather embarrassed wearing an emblem or a logo and not being able to speak at least to some degree about that thing. Reminds me of all the clueless people wearing Che Guevara shirts...

janalsncm 3y ago

I think that’s a little harsh. I honestly think the anecdote at the beginning was shoehorned in as some kind of clumsy attempt to add personality. But the dirt/surface/air framework seems useful to me.

blululu 3y ago
The starting anecdote might have been tacked on at the end. It might even be a fabrication. It is certainly unnecessary to the framework they are advancing which is itself reasonable. The fact that the author chose to frame their thinking in terms of them being a snide jerk to a colleague really made me unsympathetic to them as a person.

brickteacup 3y ago

> Who the fuck wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? ummmm me (I mean I hate Go but in a hypothetical world where I liked Go, me)

drewcoo 3y ago

> wants to talk about the Golang GC just because you have a Golang shirt on? If I see someone wearing a political t-shirt, they're clearly virtue signaling. If I ask them about it, I might expect political slogans, but often they won't even be able to manage those slogans, much less explanation of a party platform. If I see someone wearing a branded beer shirt, they're likely to be able to represent for their shirt-beer. Most of the time I'd only expect advertising slogans, but once in a while maybe they'll have something interesting to say. They're going to be generally more informed than the political shirt crew. A programming language t-shirt is much more niche and advertises that the wearer has an interest in that language and wants the world to know about it. This goes far beyond the virtue signaling of the political shirt crowd. If all they can do is repeat slogans (like most of the beer-shirt-wearers), I'd be disappointed, too.

mahogany 3y ago
Sometimes people are given a shirt as a gift, or they just think it looks cool. I never knew others took shirt-wearing to be such a serious activity.
- throwaway675309 3y ago
  I don't know if it's that serious, but personally I'd be rather embarrassed wearing an emblem or a logo and not being able to speak at least to some degree about that thing. Reminds me of all the clueless people wearing Che Guevara shirts...