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Off topic: Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert https://twitter.com/robcolbert

by sync 13y ago

stefan_kendall 13y ago
He's doing a lot of negative bashing on twitter, and it sounds like he has some vague ideas of the freedom his job should allow him, while at the same time not having a true product of his own or the network to rebound from a crash and burn like that. Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.
rubiquity 13y ago
I'm curious as to why he is celebrating a single Node process handling 135 concurrent connections.
- untog 13y ago
  I think it's more that his home internet connection can do it.
  - rubiquity 13y ago
    You're right. I hadn't seen that when I posted the above comment.
  - voidlogic 13y ago
    Rob really needs a $5/mo digital ocean instance...
- tlrobinson 13y ago
  I don't think it's even 135 concurrent connections, it's 135 users who have his page open. Probably far less were actually loading it simultaneously.
danso 13y ago
Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand... https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 > I decided not to fight for changing something for the better today and quit. Why do companies lie? Why do ppl fear change? I am not wise enough to be called a source of wisdom...but if you are in IT, and your company is not actively poisoning children or criminally violating you, do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan.
- rubiquity 13y ago
  Yikes. He seems to be in a really bad place right now. I don't think tweeting and acting like that are going to help his prospects though. He seems like a passionate person but I'm not sure he is communicating that passion in the best of ways. Hopefully things get better for him.
- IanCal 13y ago
  > do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan. Quite! It's an interesting thing to read through after reading the other HN article "We have luxurious jobs but we are not ware of it" [0]. > Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand... Oh dear, down the rabbit hole I go... As far as I can tell, it seems to be about IT not supporting MongoDB and him not wanting to use *SQL. > I will key=value a BLOB in your row. Good luck reporting that. I am NOT dealing with tables. It's 20 the fuck 14. Hmm. [0] http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs-but-we-are-not-aware-of-it/ http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs...
Encosia 13y ago
Stefan_kendall, your last several comments are dead. You seem to be hellbanned, FYI.
- sampk 13y ago
  Hence the "Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.".
untog 13y ago
For those reading this later (he's posted many tweets since), he appears to have quit his job one week ago: https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 and today has no money: https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439507016709853184 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439507016709853184 but doesn't want to work for another "shop beholden to the weakness of its internal IT": https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439505080992034816 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439505080992034816 It's difficult to have a ton of sympathy, but it's still just an overall sad situation.
- fsk 13y ago
  Wait, he didn't keep a 6-12 month cash emergency fund?
  - swombat 13y ago
    I guess his finances aren't enterprise-ready...
    - pbiggar 13y ago
      This comment is in poor taste :(
      - swombat 13y ago
        You're probably ritht. I feel the original article was itself in poor taste, but that is no excuse for me stooping down to the same lack of taste. Apologies.
geraldcombs 13y ago
Perhaps npm, Inc should hire him instead of deleting his posts.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  I wouldn't hire him. In fact, I think he goes on an explicit no-hire list. And I definitely would have deleted the comment and banned him from making further comments. The mass of people coming to his defense is a great example of why I can't take the JavaScript community seriously. The very first line of the comment screams "arrogant jackass" who won't play well with others and prefers to make his points through mockery and derision.
rdtsc 13y ago
> Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert https://twitter.com/robcolbert Hmm...Life guidance. I don't know. Sometimes a technology's biggest detractors are its most fervent adherents. The drama, fuss, immaturity and irrationality is just off-putting and screams to everyone else "Do you enjoy drama? Do you want to be in the middle of trolling wars on Twitter? Please join us, just Node.js it all comes with it as part of the package!". This is isn't the only thing. The drama with Joyent fake firing that person who didn't want to accept some doc updates. Is that all, I maybe wrong, but there is just no end to immaturity and drama. The people and culture associated with this technology is off-putting to me. Maybe others love it, good for them.
- speg 13y ago
  Don't forget about the npm trademark thing. http://blog.nodejitsu.com/an-open-letter-to-the-node-community/ http://blog.nodejitsu.com/an-open-letter-to-the-node-communi...
- 1stop 13y ago
  Passionate people create drama... which technology stack are you in that doesn't have drama? Because I can't think of a modern one that doesn't have some amount. And the catch all is of course Steve Balmers sweaty speech...
  - rdtsc 13y ago
    C, Go, Erlang, Python -- none have this level of drama and immaturity. Passion people who are immature create drama. Passionate people who are mature don't create drama.
    - 1stop 13y ago
      Python had "fork my dongle"... Two people got "actual fired" over an innocuous comment made between friends at a conference. C is a different kettle, I suspect it had it's drama time, but the internet wasn't around to amplify it. Go and Erlang combined communities are a fraction of Node, python, ruby ones (individually). Those that read into internet ranting and call it drama or immaturity, are simply displaying their own maturity. The vast majority of people in these communities are mature professionals... now and then you get a blowup, that isn't a reflection on the technology or community but the individuals involved.
reeses 13y ago
Then leave it out or make a new post. This is not somethingawful or 4chan. We should be above doxxing people because they have opinions.

Off topic: Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert https://twitter.com/robcolbert

by sync 13y ago

Off topic: Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert https://twitter.com/robcolbert

stefan_kendall 13y ago

He's doing a lot of negative bashing on twitter, and it sounds like he has some vague ideas of the freedom his job should allow him, while at the same time not having a true product of his own or the network to rebound from a crash and burn like that. Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.

rubiquity 13y ago

I'm curious as to why he is celebrating a single Node process handling 135 concurrent connections.

untog 13y ago
I think it's more that his home internet connection can do it.
- rubiquity 13y ago
  You're right. I hadn't seen that when I posted the above comment.
- voidlogic 13y ago
  Rob really needs a $5/mo digital ocean instance...
tlrobinson 13y ago
I don't think it's even 135 concurrent connections, it's 135 users who have his page open. Probably far less were actually loading it simultaneously.

danso 13y ago

Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand... https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 > I decided not to fight for changing something for the better today and quit. Why do companies lie? Why do ppl fear change? I am not wise enough to be called a source of wisdom...but if you are in IT, and your company is not actively poisoning children or criminally violating you, do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan.

rubiquity 13y ago
Yikes. He seems to be in a really bad place right now. I don't think tweeting and acting like that are going to help his prospects though. He seems like a passionate person but I'm not sure he is communicating that passion in the best of ways. Hopefully things get better for him.
IanCal 13y ago
> do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan. Quite! It's an interesting thing to read through after reading the other HN article "We have luxurious jobs but we are not ware of it" [0]. > Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand... Oh dear, down the rabbit hole I go... As far as I can tell, it seems to be about IT not supporting MongoDB and him not wanting to use *SQL. > I will key=value a BLOB in your row. Good luck reporting that. I am NOT dealing with tables. It's 20 the fuck 14. Hmm. [0] http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs-but-we-are-not-aware-of-it/ http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs...

Encosia 13y ago

Stefan_kendall, your last several comments are dead. You seem to be hellbanned, FYI.

sampk 13y ago
Hence the "Vitriol gets you nowhere. This is something I've learned the hard way.".

untog 13y ago

For those reading this later (he's posted many tweets since), he appears to have quit his job one week ago: https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256 and today has no money: https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439507016709853184 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439507016709853184 but doesn't want to work for another "shop beholden to the weakness of its internal IT": https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439505080992034816 https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439505080992034816 It's difficult to have a ton of sympathy, but it's still just an overall sad situation.

fsk 13y ago
Wait, he didn't keep a 6-12 month cash emergency fund?
- swombat 13y ago
  I guess his finances aren't enterprise-ready...
  - pbiggar 13y ago
    This comment is in poor taste :(
    - swombat 13y ago
      You're probably ritht. I feel the original article was itself in poor taste, but that is no excuse for me stooping down to the same lack of taste. Apologies.

geraldcombs 13y ago

Perhaps npm, Inc should hire him instead of deleting his posts.

nknighthb 13y ago
I wouldn't hire him. In fact, I think he goes on an explicit no-hire list. And I definitely would have deleted the comment and banned him from making further comments. The mass of people coming to his defense is a great example of why I can't take the JavaScript community seriously. The very first line of the comment screams "arrogant jackass" who won't play well with others and prefers to make his points through mockery and derision.

rdtsc 13y ago

> Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert https://twitter.com/robcolbert Hmm...Life guidance. I don't know. Sometimes a technology's biggest detractors are its most fervent adherents. The drama, fuss, immaturity and irrationality is just off-putting and screams to everyone else "Do you enjoy drama? Do you want to be in the middle of trolling wars on Twitter? Please join us, just Node.js it all comes with it as part of the package!". This is isn't the only thing. The drama with Joyent fake firing that person who didn't want to accept some doc updates. Is that all, I maybe wrong, but there is just no end to immaturity and drama. The people and culture associated with this technology is off-putting to me. Maybe others love it, good for them.

speg 13y ago
Don't forget about the npm trademark thing. http://blog.nodejitsu.com/an-open-letter-to-the-node-community/ http://blog.nodejitsu.com/an-open-letter-to-the-node-communi...
1stop 13y ago
Passionate people create drama... which technology stack are you in that doesn't have drama? Because I can't think of a modern one that doesn't have some amount. And the catch all is of course Steve Balmers sweaty speech...
- rdtsc 13y ago
  C, Go, Erlang, Python -- none have this level of drama and immaturity. Passion people who are immature create drama. Passionate people who are mature don't create drama.
  - 1stop 13y ago
    Python had "fork my dongle"... Two people got "actual fired" over an innocuous comment made between friends at a conference. C is a different kettle, I suspect it had it's drama time, but the internet wasn't around to amplify it. Go and Erlang combined communities are a fraction of Node, python, ruby ones (individually). Those that read into internet ranting and call it drama or immaturity, are simply displaying their own maturity. The vast majority of people in these communities are mature professionals... now and then you get a blowup, that isn't a reflection on the technology or community but the individuals involved.

reeses 13y ago

Then leave it out or make a new post. This is not somethingawful or 4chan. We should be above doxxing people because they have opinions.