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It's like an all-inclusive guidebook for how to look down upon others and discredit them internally without any of the messy business of actually communicating
by was_hellbanned 13y ago
It's like an all-inclusive guidebook for how to look down upon others and discredit them internally without any of the messy business of actually communicating with them about "their" issues. Why improve when you can label, isolate, mock, and ostracize?
- benbou09 13y agoI totally agree that this guide would be much more useful with each time a paragraph 'how can you help these people improve themselves'. But I think that as it stands now most people would understand that these are just clichés. In fact, using this as a guide to look down on other people would be the behavior of an 'Agitator'.
- banachtarski 13y agoThat's actually the tone I read in this article unfortunately. Didn't care too much for it.
- Aaronontheweb 13y agoAuthor here. One piece of feedback I really liked from this comment thread was providing some guidance on how to get better at reading someone else's code. I've made an issue out of that (code illiteracy) in a few blog posts before and I think that HN commenter is right. I think I'd like to do a few posts on how to overcome some of these traits - beginning with reading code.
- cema 13y agoguidebook for how to look down upon others Not necessarily "others", and that's the most useful part, I think. (And not to "look down" but simply to recognize the traits.)