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> only a couple of questionable phrases that got blown out of proportion and completely picked apart I don't know about that. So far, many of the tweets from h

by tomkin 15y ago

> only a couple of questionable phrases that got blown out of proportion and completely picked apart I don't know about that. So far, many of the tweets from his own Twitter account seem to postulate himself as a genius. I would like to think the UI he has created isn't leaps and bounds above what I've seen and I know very few developers get the kind of credit he seems to think he deserves for doing very similar work. Doubtful his work operates on the caliber of the average IBM engineer. Sorry, it's really off-balance. If I am giving dcurtis praise for his evolution of blogging, I have to ask myself why. Would the same praise be given if you made Svbtle? Doubtful. The fact that it was essentially duplicated within less than a weekend shows that the praise was probably placed rather than earned. > I keep hearing how "Hacker News has gone down hill" but it was never as visible to me until the Svbtle threads. "HN going downhill" and "whaaa! no one fellated me for the work i did" seems to have some correlative timing. Another thing that is tiring – those proclaiming HN has become a wasteland, but submitting their own articles to HN hoping for the spotlight, only to later call the end of days when people don't immediately grovel at their knees in astonishment.

shazow 15y ago
Are you justifying this completely poisonous and destructive behavior on the basis that you found his Twitter feed too arrogant for your liking and that he got more attention than you would have? > submitting their own articles to HN hoping for the spotlight I'm confused, are you accusing me of submitting my own work for a spotlight? Or Dustin? I've certainly done it for my own work in the past, as many other members of this community, but it wasn't Dustin who submitted Svbtle.
- tomkin 15y ago
  > Are you justifying this completely poisonous and destructive behavior on the basis that you found his Twitter feed too arrogant for your liking and that he got more attention than you would have? I don't expect to get that kind of attention for something on that level. Nothing I've done certainly would warrant the kind of attention Dustin is getting for this concept. We're not talking about a lot of work, let's remember. The whole "but his years of experience to get to this design!" garbage talking point is most ignorant. Sometimes people post stuff on HN and it's so simple but brilliant that my jaw drops in awe. Building over top of Tumbler, Posterous, etc, philosophy and taking it 1 step further (not to mention: exclusivity, arrogance, nepotism, prop theatre) is not inciting that emotion. Sorry. If I had been responsible for, say, Ruby on Rails, I'd expect the kind of clamour that Dustin is getting for a weekend project – of which, many are posted to HN as "Show HN: My weekend project X". All of which are reviewed, criticized and praised for what they are. Not one of these humble moonlighters go off to Twitter and claim X community is dead, or that everyone sucks if they don't agree. Most of the time, they take the criticism and learn from it. Dustin cried in the corner and acted like a spoiled brat. The tweets just solidify that. > I'm confused, are you accusing me of submitting my own work for a spotlight? Or Dustin? I've certainly done it for my own work in the past, as many other members of this community, but it wasn't Dustin who submitted Svbtle. No.

by tomkin 15y ago

shazow 15y ago

Are you justifying this completely poisonous and destructive behavior on the basis that you found his Twitter feed too arrogant for your liking and that he got more attention than you would have? > submitting their own articles to HN hoping for the spotlight I'm confused, are you accusing me of submitting my own work for a spotlight? Or Dustin? I've certainly done it for my own work in the past, as many other members of this community, but it wasn't Dustin who submitted Svbtle.

tomkin 15y ago
> Are you justifying this completely poisonous and destructive behavior on the basis that you found his Twitter feed too arrogant for your liking and that he got more attention than you would have? I don't expect to get that kind of attention for something on that level. Nothing I've done certainly would warrant the kind of attention Dustin is getting for this concept. We're not talking about a lot of work, let's remember. The whole "but his years of experience to get to this design!" garbage talking point is most ignorant. Sometimes people post stuff on HN and it's so simple but brilliant that my jaw drops in awe. Building over top of Tumbler, Posterous, etc, philosophy and taking it 1 step further (not to mention: exclusivity, arrogance, nepotism, prop theatre) is not inciting that emotion. Sorry. If I had been responsible for, say, Ruby on Rails, I'd expect the kind of clamour that Dustin is getting for a weekend project – of which, many are posted to HN as "Show HN: My weekend project X". All of which are reviewed, criticized and praised for what they are. Not one of these humble moonlighters go off to Twitter and claim X community is dead, or that everyone sucks if they don't agree. Most of the time, they take the criticism and learn from it. Dustin cried in the corner and acted like a spoiled brat. The tweets just solidify that. > I'm confused, are you accusing me of submitting my own work for a spotlight? Or Dustin? I've certainly done it for my own work in the past, as many other members of this community, but it wasn't Dustin who submitted Svbtle. No.