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Chill, man. It's clear he posted this as a "Here's a good idea, let's start to flesh it out" sort of page, and it got exposure before it had even been fleshed
by jfarmer 15y ago
Chill, man. It's clear he posted this as a "Here's a good idea, let's start to flesh it out" sort of page, and it got exposure before it had even been fleshed out. I'm sure he's looking for people who are really excited about making it happen to help him do just that. I think this is a fine way to go about it.
Two weeks from now nobody will remember that this took off on GitHub, HN, Twitter, etc.
If you like the idea, or even just the potential of the idea, why don't you offer up useful suggestions instead of being uselessly critical? What would you want to see? Since it needs more focus, where would you focus it? If you were giving a talk, what would you give? Do you know anyone who would be excited about helping to organize it?
If I were Brandon, I'd be ecstatic that this took root so quickly and people are already responding emotionally -- even if negatively.
- cperciva 15y agowhy don't you offer up useful suggestions instead of being uselessly critical? I thought "you need to narrow your scope" was a useful suggestion. I guess you think differently.
- zedshaw 15y agoNo, a suggestion would be: "You need to narrow your scope. I personally would be more interested in X and Y, but not Z, J, or N." What you did was give a vague criticism without offering a concrete solution in response. Those kinds of criticisms are always difficult to respond to primarily because, should he follow your suggestion and it fail, you can simply say: "Well I just said narrow your scope, I never said narrow it to those failed topics."
- cperciva 15y agoI'm not so egotistical as to think that the topics which interest me would be the ones which interest lots of other people. In fact, I have ample evidence to the contrary.
- jfarmer 15y agoNobody is saying that's the case, but surely you see the (qualitative) difference between: "Why did you even do this? It's really unfocused. This needs to be more focused if you ever hope in seeing something happen. We need to see more action and less wishful thinking." and "Interesting! This has a lot of potential. I'd love to see topics X, Y, and Z, although that's just me. Send me an email and I can introduce you to some people who might be interested in helping to organize this."