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> Some dumb part of me that always thinks people are innocent. You're not alone. Hans Reiser is one of two people where I had the notion that "Why would he do

> Some dumb part of me that always thinks people are innocent. You're not alone. Hans Reiser is one of two people where I had the notion that "Why would he do that? That makes no sense." The other one is Peter Madsen (the Danish submarine guy), he had a few month earlier been part of a TV show about find some German WWII u-boat, where he was absolutely brilliant and entertaining. For ReiserFS a large part of the issue, which is also addressed here, is that there just wasn't that many developers that cared that much for the filesystem. The Namesys developered cared, in large part because they where paid. Obviously they also had bills to pay, so when no one wanted to pay them to work on ReiserFS it just feel apart. We see this with many of the project that thrown into e.g. The Apache Foundation, the code is thrown over the fence, but with no advocates, no developer resources and no money, so the code is just left to rot.

kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
Narcissists can be very charming. You don't know the inner lives of most people and it's impossible to judge them by their public persona when it's entirely under their control. Celebrity actors are notable specialists in this area.
Aurornis 2y ago
> where he was absolutely brilliant and entertaining. When I was young and naive I thought con artists would be easy to spot: They would be obviously bad people and they would lie in everything they said. The challenge with successful con artists is that they tend to be very charismatic. They might also tell the truth 99% of the time. Telling mostly truths is the key to building trust, after which they can slip in a lie here and there and it will go unquestioned. This is a major problem in pop-culture science and health discourse right now. There are a lot of podcasters and bloggers who spend most of their time repeating simple and undeniable truths (exercise is good, you should eat more vegetables, getting sleep makes you feel better, going outside is a good idea) and therefore build up a lot of trust. Then they'll change gears to wacky alternative medicine ideas and slip them in between all of the obvious truths. For people who consume hours of their podcasts every week, those alternative medicine and pseudoscience claims are hard to identify among all the other simple truths.

kevin_thibedeau 2y ago

Narcissists can be very charming. You don't know the inner lives of most people and it's impossible to judge them by their public persona when it's entirely under their control. Celebrity actors are notable specialists in this area.

Aurornis 2y ago

> where he was absolutely brilliant and entertaining. When I was young and naive I thought con artists would be easy to spot: They would be obviously bad people and they would lie in everything they said. The challenge with successful con artists is that they tend to be very charismatic. They might also tell the truth 99% of the time. Telling mostly truths is the key to building trust, after which they can slip in a lie here and there and it will go unquestioned. This is a major problem in pop-culture science and health discourse right now. There are a lot of podcasters and bloggers who spend most of their time repeating simple and undeniable truths (exercise is good, you should eat more vegetables, getting sleep makes you feel better, going outside is a good idea) and therefore build up a lot of trust. Then they'll change gears to wacky alternative medicine ideas and slip them in between all of the obvious truths. For people who consume hours of their podcasts every week, those alternative medicine and pseudoscience claims are hard to identify among all the other simple truths.