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Congratulations, you were some sort of child prodigy who could code perfectly from day one. Or maybe you just started earlier. What exactly are you trying to a

Congratulations, you were some sort of child prodigy who could code perfectly from day one. Or maybe you just started earlier. What exactly are you trying to achieve by hating on someone who's done nothing but share what they've learnt with other people. He isn't making you run this. He didn't even make you read it.

tacos 11y ago
And nobody's making you read my comments either. So why is your meta-criticism valid but mine somehow not? Look, I'm not trying to be a killjoy here. But there were no fewer than twenty versions of this on Github already. I know it, and I did have to read it, because I set this shit up and a good portion of my time was wasted after reading "guide" after "guide" from people who really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer, let alone a publishing platform. Once you took more than a half step away from the real caffe docs (which are totally fine, incidentally) every install guide was idiotic and broken. Every Python script was total bullshit. Publishing things that are hardcoded to your username in the home directory? Really? 29 public commits of an 80 line script and you still haven't sorted that out? I submitted pull requests for the path bugs, the jpeg save at 75% idiocy, people spelling "avconf" instead of "avconv." But no0bs were copying the stuff around (not forking) faster than I could keep up. And nobody was accepting patches anyway. They just dumped the shit on Github and abandoned it. Dump enough crap on a site and it disappears -- whether its Geocites or Google Code. Don't treat these amazing resources like your personal scrapbook. Show a little self respect and respect the time of others, too. That's the essence of being a professional.
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- dang 11y ago
  These comments break the HN guidelines. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but dumping all over someone else's work is not fine. Please don't do that here.
  - tacos 11y ago
    I agree that two comments upthread is inappropriately personal. Several people downvoted all my comments in bulk, including the one below that's a purely technical explanation of using multi CPU/GPU caffee. I personally do not care about points (moreover the same comment in another thread more than offset the 'karmic punishment' in this one) but since you're here, please have a look at the way some people are treating the downvote button. I will keep things up a level and more broadly constructive in the future.

tacos 11y ago

And nobody's making you read my comments either. So why is your meta-criticism valid but mine somehow not? Look, I'm not trying to be a killjoy here. But there were no fewer than twenty versions of this on Github already. I know it, and I did have to read it, because I set this shit up and a good portion of my time was wasted after reading "guide" after "guide" from people who really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer, let alone a publishing platform. Once you took more than a half step away from the real caffe docs (which are totally fine, incidentally) every install guide was idiotic and broken. Every Python script was total bullshit. Publishing things that are hardcoded to your username in the home directory? Really? 29 public commits of an 80 line script and you still haven't sorted that out? I submitted pull requests for the path bugs, the jpeg save at 75% idiocy, people spelling "avconf" instead of "avconv." But no0bs were copying the stuff around (not forking) faster than I could keep up. And nobody was accepting patches anyway. They just dumped the shit on Github and abandoned it. Dump enough crap on a site and it disappears -- whether its Geocites or Google Code. Don't treat these amazing resources like your personal scrapbook. Show a little self respect and respect the time of others, too. That's the essence of being a professional.

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dang 11y ago
These comments break the HN guidelines. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but dumping all over someone else's work is not fine. Please don't do that here.
- tacos 11y ago
  I agree that two comments upthread is inappropriately personal. Several people downvoted all my comments in bulk, including the one below that's a purely technical explanation of using multi CPU/GPU caffee. I personally do not care about points (moreover the same comment in another thread more than offset the 'karmic punishment' in this one) but since you're here, please have a look at the way some people are treating the downvote button. I will keep things up a level and more broadly constructive in the future.