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This has nothing about punching down. Writing a blog about this basic mistake, and presenting as advice shows a strong lack of self awareness. Its like when Goo

by belter 11mo ago

This has nothing about punching down. Writing a blog about this basic mistake, and presenting as advice shows a strong lack of self awareness. Its like when Google bought thousands of servers without ECC memory, but felt they were so smart they could not resist telling the world how bad that was and writing a paper about it...Or they could have hired some real hardware engineers from IBM or Sun...

Nevermark 11mo ago
> Writing a blog about this basic mistake, and presenting as advice shows a strong lack of self awareness. You realize they didn’t ask you to read their article right? They didn’t put it on your fridge or in your sandwich. Policing who writes what honest personal experience on the Internet is not a job that needs doing. But if you do feel the need to police, don’t critique the writer, but HN for letting interested readers upvote the article here, where it is of course, strictly required reading. I mean, drill down to the real perpetrators of this important “problem”!
- belter 11mo ago
  They are doing Enterprise sales and were founded in 2014...These type of technical blogs are normally written to demonstrate the company internal expertise, demonstrate skills of the engineering team to motive hiring etc... Does this inspire confidence?
  - Nevermark 11mo ago
    Do I trust this person to be transparent? Yes! Do I trust in their ability to hit a bump and be motivated to learn and communicate, without ass covering, blame deflection or stubborn denial? Yes! Are you more confident of people without those traits? —- Critique the dishonest, the manipulative, the deceptive, and the dangerously self-unaware. Better to respond to normal people making their way forward by offering your own insight, if you actually have any that they didn’t just learn for themselves. Or by respectfully leaving them to continue. People who punch down are not good people to work with. They don’t inspire my confidence. Do they inspire yours? —- Read all the useful discussions here. Do you imagine all these people saw less that you, to see something constructive? Or more?

by belter 11mo ago

Nevermark 11mo ago

> Writing a blog about this basic mistake, and presenting as advice shows a strong lack of self awareness. You realize they didn’t ask you to read their article right? They didn’t put it on your fridge or in your sandwich. Policing who writes what honest personal experience on the Internet is not a job that needs doing. But if you do feel the need to police, don’t critique the writer, but HN for letting interested readers upvote the article here, where it is of course, strictly required reading. I mean, drill down to the real perpetrators of this important “problem”!

belter 11mo ago
They are doing Enterprise sales and were founded in 2014...These type of technical blogs are normally written to demonstrate the company internal expertise, demonstrate skills of the engineering team to motive hiring etc... Does this inspire confidence?
- Nevermark 11mo ago
  Do I trust this person to be transparent? Yes! Do I trust in their ability to hit a bump and be motivated to learn and communicate, without ass covering, blame deflection or stubborn denial? Yes! Are you more confident of people without those traits? —- Critique the dishonest, the manipulative, the deceptive, and the dangerously self-unaware. Better to respond to normal people making their way forward by offering your own insight, if you actually have any that they didn’t just learn for themselves. Or by respectfully leaving them to continue. People who punch down are not good people to work with. They don’t inspire my confidence. Do they inspire yours? —- Read all the useful discussions here. Do you imagine all these people saw less that you, to see something constructive? Or more?