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It's a brief influx. We've had these before. Two days from now we'll all have forgotten about this. How is this any different from, say, all the furor when App
by unalone 17y ago
It's a brief influx. We've had these before. Two days from now we'll all have forgotten about this.
How is this any different from, say, all the furor when Apple releases a new product, or Google unveils a future technology, or TechCrunch gets called out for doing something dumb? Social news is given shape by social waves.
- Semiapies 17y agoNone of those things involve scads of people freaking out and trying to psychoanalyze a man they don't know. It's not the volume of stories, it's the tone of the comments.
- unalone 17y agoThe freaking out I think is ludicrous. The psychoanalysis, well... I liked the eulogy, and I like the postings of his quotes. I didn't mind this post, but I took it more to be a "look at how this guy made a programming manual moving" than a "look at how he let us know what was going to happen." I'll upvote anything featuring the (P)G. I do find it silly that this has become so fevered in 24 hours' time. I'd find it hilarious if two days from know _why set up his Twitter and his web site again and was all, "Hey guys, I'm back, how you doing."
- Semiapies 17y agoBy psychoanalysis, I mean all the people talking about why he did this, what he was thinking, etc. Going on about his tweats and things he put in his books and treating them as "clues" is just one expression of that.
- unalone 17y agoI agree. That's all dumb. I didn't think people were being serious about that. Hell, if there's one thing we do know it's that we didn't get to see _why in his early developing years. When he joined the community, he was already a bright, talented guy with an assortment of interests. It's harder to look at somebody and figure out what they were thinking if you've only ever seen them when they were fairly mature.
- Semiapies 17y agoA very good point.
- jacquesm 17y ago> Going on about his tweats I can't even parse that...
- Semiapies 17y agoInteresting. Where are you from? EDIT: Oh, I could actually check your profile. Some people fill those out. "Going on about <something>" is an idiom I've encountered in Texas and seems common throughout the Southeastern US as well. You can get the essential meaning by thinking of it as a shortening of "Going on at length about <something>" with strong implication of excessive length, though it can be (and often is) used to apply to whole discussions among multiple people.