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Not to mention the fact that Torvalds, Jobs and Gates all used their frank and forthright exchange with people they worked with, whom they knew, and who knew th

• vacri 14y ago
  I'm more responding to the idea that it's reprehensible to be exposed to harsh comments than the idea it's bad making them in the first place. I've never read the twitter involved and sure, it's probably awful. But that happens in the world. Catch public transport enough and you'll encounter it. Go shopping enough and you'll encounter it. Having some resilience is not a bad thing. In my personal experience, people with low resilience are also the people who avoid reading news about bad events and current affairs, because it upsets them. So they lead more of a fantasy life. I don't think ignoring problems in the hope that they'll go away is the right way to be. EDIT: I've now read the tweet and the total offending commentary is 'eyes bleeding'. That's it. Compare to the reams that have been written in this post about how insincere his apology is and what a prick he is. If he was to write up a blog post about how he'd ended up sobbing because HN had been so mean, the comments here would probably not be 'sorry, that was mean of us', they'd be mostly 'you deserved it', like moral crusaders. There's a lot of hypocrisy going on in this thread.