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I think this isn't an entirely worthless comment, but you start off by insisting that Justine Tunney is referred to as "himself". This is either a silly mistake

by Y_Y 2y ago

I think this isn't an entirely worthless comment, but you start off by insisting that Justine Tunney is referred to as "himself". This is either a silly mistake, or a misguided political statement. Either way I don't think it adds to the discussion, and it's certainly going to distract people from your more interesting point that mixing binary data throughout the shell script is not permitted by the standard.

sgammon 2y ago
They made this comment as a correction. It is intentional. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.
- AlexeyBelov 2y ago
  And it's always the fresh accounts.
jart 2y ago
It's not an interesting point, it's a willful misinterpretation of the intent of the standard made by someone who wasn't there. The worst thing about bigots is they usually hide it and grasp for other more socially acceptable reasons to make you miserable when you're someone like me. I'm astonished you would still continue to take them seriously after they've revealed their intent and motivation.
- Y_Y 2y ago
  I apologise, my interpretation was naïve. Not being familiar with the intent of the person I was responding to (directly or by experience) and not knowing the how to correctly interpret the POSIX standard, I was trying to politely re-focus the thread. I'm lucky enough not to have to spend much time thinking about identity issues or being the target of bigotry and I suppose that was reflected in my previous comment. Maybe it's telling that you're here making fantastic contributions for FOSS and people who are trying to bring you down are only making invalid claims about standards compliance. I'm a big fan of yours and I'm really sorry that I contributed to that incident.
  - jart 2y ago
    Thanks and don't worry about it. The Hacker News community has always been so welcoming and supportive to me. I'm really lucky to have had the opportunity to serve you all these last four years. If you think this was an incident, you should have seen 4chan /g/ last year. Thankfully things have been going reasonably well for me since then. Ever since publishing https://justine.lol/matmul/ https://justine.lol/matmul/ I appear to have flipped the hater bit (see Paul Graham's blog) in the heads of even my most ardent detractors. So even on /g/ the disrespect has become somewhat rare these days.

by Y_Y 2y ago

sgammon 2y ago

They made this comment as a correction. It is intentional. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.

AlexeyBelov 2y ago
And it's always the fresh accounts.

jart 2y ago

It's not an interesting point, it's a willful misinterpretation of the intent of the standard made by someone who wasn't there. The worst thing about bigots is they usually hide it and grasp for other more socially acceptable reasons to make you miserable when you're someone like me. I'm astonished you would still continue to take them seriously after they've revealed their intent and motivation.

Y_Y 2y ago
I apologise, my interpretation was naïve. Not being familiar with the intent of the person I was responding to (directly or by experience) and not knowing the how to correctly interpret the POSIX standard, I was trying to politely re-focus the thread. I'm lucky enough not to have to spend much time thinking about identity issues or being the target of bigotry and I suppose that was reflected in my previous comment. Maybe it's telling that you're here making fantastic contributions for FOSS and people who are trying to bring you down are only making invalid claims about standards compliance. I'm a big fan of yours and I'm really sorry that I contributed to that incident.
- jart 2y ago
  Thanks and don't worry about it. The Hacker News community has always been so welcoming and supportive to me. I'm really lucky to have had the opportunity to serve you all these last four years. If you think this was an incident, you should have seen 4chan /g/ last year. Thankfully things have been going reasonably well for me since then. Ever since publishing https://justine.lol/matmul/ https://justine.lol/matmul/ I appear to have flipped the hater bit (see Paul Graham's blog) in the heads of even my most ardent detractors. So even on /g/ the disrespect has become somewhat rare these days.