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You're the Smartest Guy In The Room ... but please, try to restrain yourself.
- hegemonicon 17y agoThis is basic strategy really - being a dick to people will almost never bring you closer to a goal you've set, which means there's no point in doing it. The success rate of "calling people stupid until they agree with me" is quite low...
- chasingsparks 17y agoI think it depends on your intent. Being a dick is a clever strategy if you want attention. Being a dick by calling someone very popular (or visible) stupid gets you attention. Instead of people ignoring the dick, they pile on and then criticize him -- which is giving him attention. Then, people who find some reason to agree with him pile on and defend him. Bamb, the dick has now usurped some of the targets authority. (P.S. I am not defending this strategy. I find it annoying -- but entertaining in a checkout line gossip rag type way.)
- rick2047 17y agoI totally agree with you.that is just very close to the human nature
- coglethorpe 17y ago"Being a dick is a clever strategy if you want attention." Imma let you finish, but BEYONCE HAD THE BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME.
- chasingsparks 17y agoWell played. He was one of the examples I had in mind.
- daniel-cussen 17y agoI'm completely sure that Kanye has ADD. That was in no way to his advantage, and if he thought it through the way non-ADD people do, he wouldn't have done it. It was a strictly bad play.
- thejash 17y agoI find it a little ironic that the server hosting this article is down.
- slig 17y agoWhy that would be ironic?
- ihumanable 17y agoWe get it, you're the smartest person in the room, you know the definition of irony, you are not Alanis Morissette.
- dasil003 17y agoWhat's actually ironic is the main thread on this story.
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- oliveoil 17y agoCan someone from the python community say if this is pointed at someone in particular?
- albemuth 17y agoZed Shaw maybe?
- slig 17y agoI think you got it: http://twitter.com/zedshaw/statuses/4502578820 http://twitter.com/zedshaw/statuses/4502578820
- andreyf 17y agoMe thinks we call this irony: the first two posts in this chain asked whom this was pointed at, and suggest Zed Shaw. You make a good point that it might be he who wrote it. ;)
- mikeryan 17y agoIt could be Zed, but the funny thing is in that case, Zed got 100% test coverage for Lamson done about a month ago. http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-22.html http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-22.html
- rbanffy 17y ago
- Raphael_Amiard 17y agoI don't know who this is for, except it's not me, but, after reading it in with no person in mind, i read it again, like it was adressed to me, and i thought "He's right"
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- amichail 17y agoParents and teachers need to take part of the blame for making a big deal out of innate intelligence.
- siddhant 17y agoI've seen people around me trying to unnecessarily add irrelevant technical jargon to the simplest of matters which they want to tell me. In 99% of the cases, it turns out to be something I have a really good laugh on.
- nopassrecover 17y agoThe tone is hilarious. Love the build up.
- run4yourlives 17y agoI was with him until he said "I could care less". Couldn't damnit, could not. This irks me to no end. </grammar nazi>
- DannoHung 17y agoI've always thought that could be a clever turn of phrase, like, "Well, I could care less, but that would actually require effort." Like, utter and complete apathy, even unto apathy for the apathy.
- mcantor 17y agoI commend you, good sir, and assert that you are no grammar nazi. A nazi is crude, unreasonable and thoughtless. You are none of these things. You have merely demanded a minimum amount of effort from the people around you, an infinitesimal moment spent in quiet reflection that could perhaps result in a magical epiphany resembling, "Wait a minute, if I could care less, that means I am caring more than the minimum! That is not what I am trying to express! Alack, I must duly backspace." Edit: And to whoever downvoted this man, I officially call you a knave.
- thismat 17y agoSpot on sir. I up voted the both of you as this is a huge irk or mine as well. Say what you mean, don't just rehash phrases you've heard before! This says a lot about how much thought we put into what we're saying and hearing, as I've seen and heard this on all types of media, from TV, movies, radio, books...
- immad 17y agoSite is down. No Google cache yet either...
- brutimus 17y agoCopy of article text: http://dpaste.com/hold/100477/ http://dpaste.com/hold/100477/
- masomenos 17y ago... which is relevant since Chris seems to have removed the original from his webserver
- rick2047 17y agoYou know many people actually try to intentionally not become something like the intended audience of that article. People around us can be really dumb, you know like in a high school (or like in my case even college). Now the key here becomes not to let yourself be pampered by such pseudo eliteness. I always try to be with people who have a greater intellect than me, just so i can beat them. but when i cant help it, i make it a point to keep reminding myself this is not the crowd i can judge myself with
- ilyak 17y agoIs that the "permafrost" Stevey wrote about?
- jriddycuz 17y agoThe guy who introduced me to Python originally had that kinda dickish attitude, and for some dumb reason I assumed the whole Python developer community was like that. It really biased me against using the language for quite some time, which is a shame because now I've come to really like it. The moral of the story: some people have Asperger's, and you shouldn't let their (pathologically?) contemptuous attitudes affect you.
- hellotoby 17y agoThis article has described elitism. Humility is the true sign of intelligence.
- _pius 17y agoBrilliant.
- raffi 17y agoI can always tell the smartest guy in the room types, my solution? I talk about my visual basic projects and what a great language it is. It's a great game to play.
- jrockway 17y agoIt is worth nothing that just because something is an active community project doesn't mean that it's the right way to do things. And also, just because the right way to do things is not implemented in your favorite langauge doesn't mean that the wrong way is not wrong.