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Hacker News: “It’s unfair the burden put on maintainers of the core pillars of open source software. Show some respect for the maintainers, and do your best to
by relistan 4mo ago
Hacker News: “It’s unfair the burden put on maintainers of the core pillars of open source software. Show some respect for the maintainers, and do your best to contribute.”
… little changes …
Also Hacker News: “I have the right to tell you how to manage the project that you created and have maintained for 30+ years, because I feel very self-righteous about AI and code quality!”
- marginalia_nu 4mo agoAs HN consists of more than two people, it is home to multiple contradictory opinions. Furthermore, both points may be valid. As a user you might want working software, and as an open source maintainer, you aren't beholden to what the users want.
- relistan 4mo agoSure, but you cannot deny the hypocritical swarm behavior, which is the point.
- marginalia_nu 4mo agoThe "swarm behavior" is mostly an illusion created by your mind. HN is just a bunch of people and bots.
- relistan 4mo agoYep a bunch of people who often exhibit swarm behavior.
- cyclopeanutopia 4mo agoBy this logic, will you just start calling yourself "hypocritical Karl", as you clearly belong here? ;)
- relistan 4mo agoAre you in middle school?
- cyclopeanutopia 4mo agoNo, are you?
- customguy 4mo ago> the hypocritical swarm behavior, which is the point. That's exactly why that "point" is inherently nonsense. It's right there, you just wrote it yourself. If you lump people together "as a group", and some of them have different opinions on something, that doesn't make any of them a hypocrite. And the group can't be hypocritical either, because it's just your abstraction, not an actual group that communicates and coordinates and decides what "official" stance to take on certain issues.
- nelsonfigueroa 4mo agoGoomba fallacy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy