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Yeah..those people are not me and probaly anyone i know, so don't even care.

by jbeja 12y ago

mwfunk 12y ago
The point is that this confuses a purely subjective statement that is more about the observer than the observed (such as, "I don't like the style of the icons"), with an attempted objective statement (such as, "KDE is not polished") which is supposed to be purely about the thing being discussed rather than the tastes of person making the comment. AFAICT this is at the root of pretty much all pointless arguments about anything remotely technical on the Internet. Put another way, if X is designed to do Y, you can't say "X sucks" just because Y isn't interesting to you. You might say, "X is a bad implementation of Y". You might say, "I don't like Y therefore I don't use X". You might discuss whether or not Y is a valid goal, or whether or not X does a good job of achieving Y, but any serious discussion about anything requires that everyone involved make an effort to recognize that X and Y are two completely different things. The key here is "serious discussion". If people don't want to seriously discuss this, then by all means just post opinions about whether or not something is good at what it does based on how well it matches up with your particular tastes and requirements. But the whole point of HN ought to be that everyone makes at least a token effort to seriously discuss this stuff. You can go anywhere if you just want to have conversations about what sucks and what rules and leave it at that.
- jbeja 12y ago
  You draw a lot a words out my comment just for the sake of comment something that you got on your mind even before i commented on this thread. Regardless i am mostly agree with you. But i don't have the energy nor mood to discuss anything that i am not even involve with, and there is nothing wrong to feel that way.IMHO,if you truly want to bring a meaningful discussion go to the source of this project and with the poeople that are interested on working on it, instead something so ephimeral like this thread.

Yeah..those people are not me and probaly anyone i know, so don't even care.

by jbeja 12y ago

Yeah..those people are not me and probaly anyone i know, so don't even care.

The point is that this confuses a purely subjective statement that is more about the observer than the observed (such as, "I don't like the style of the icons"), with an attempted objective statement (such as, "KDE is not polished") which is supposed to be purely about the thing being discussed rather than the tastes of person making the comment. AFAICT this is at the root of pretty much all pointless arguments about anything remotely technical on the Internet. Put another way, if X is designed to do Y, you can't say "X sucks" just because Y isn't interesting to you. You might say, "X is a bad implementation of Y". You might say, "I don't like Y therefore I don't use X". You might discuss whether or not Y is a valid goal, or whether or not X does a good job of achieving Y, but any serious discussion about anything requires that everyone involved make an effort to recognize that X and Y are two completely different things. The key here is "serious discussion". If people don't want to seriously discuss this, then by all means just post opinions about whether or not something is good at what it does based on how well it matches up with your particular tastes and requirements. But the whole point of HN ought to be that everyone makes at least a token effort to seriously discuss this stuff. You can go anywhere if you just want to have conversations about what sucks and what rules and leave it at that.

jbeja 12y ago
You draw a lot a words out my comment just for the sake of comment something that you got on your mind even before i commented on this thread. Regardless i am mostly agree with you. But i don't have the energy nor mood to discuss anything that i am not even involve with, and there is nothing wrong to feel that way.IMHO,if you truly want to bring a meaningful discussion go to the source of this project and with the poeople that are interested on working on it, instead something so ephimeral like this thread.