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Agreed. The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduc
by hatefulheart 11mo ago
Agreed.
The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed. It is respected and admired as a great piece of engineering to be studied by all hackers.
- mikestorrent 11mo agoI didn't know what it was, so I used the grand information retrieval device I was already sitting at to look it up
- colecut 11mo agoI knew what the BEAM was, but in his defense, searching "BEAM" doesn't bring up anything relevant in the first few pages I looked at.
- Dylan16807 11mo agoDisgraceful? It's a pretty polite request. > hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed This is some pretty intense gatekeeping, pal.
- jabbywocker 11mo agoCan’t wait until we collectively drop whining about “gatekeeping”
- Dylan16807 11mo ago[flagged]
- jabbywocker 11mo agoHe wasn’t an ass about it. And the people who don’t know what BEAM is can easily google their way to more information than they’d ever be able to get from a comment here. Edit: I will say that’s a better take. It’s at least blatant about it being the personal attack you intended it to be instead of passive aggressively couching it behind the pretense of caring about community. If you want to be shitty to people, just do it. I’d prefer honest assholes than weasely manipulators.
- Dylan16807 11mo ago"I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed." is being an ass to a lot of people.
- jabbywocker 11mo agoI disagree, but I don’t think we’ll see eye-to-eye on much when it comes to the behavior of commentators
- hatefulheart 11mo agoHey Dylan, you’re being an ass. Their tone was disgraceful, let me explain by giving you an example of how posts should be made. “Hey! This looks interesting, quick search on Google didn’t explain what the BEAM is as well as I would like, can someone let me know what this is about in layman’s terms?” This is inviting people to talk about the topic at hand. It puts the responsibility of knowing something squarely on the person who wants that information and it’s generally pleasant. How the parent decided to phrase his desire for being spoon fed information was in fact disgraceful.
- Dylan16807 11mo agoSo, question. Are you upset the blog author did go put in an extra sentence to say what BEAM is? Is that playing into the disgrace?
- hatefulheart 11mo agoOh do get a hobby Dylan.
- Dylan16807 11mo agoSame to you? But okay bye I guess.
- rramadass 11mo ago
- jedmeyers 11mo agoThe curse of knowledge in this thread is mind boggling.