nielsabel

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by nielsabel 9y ago
> before PC culture silences him Damn you, Wintel!
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by nielsabel 9y ago
These might give an interesting perspective: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-man-daryl-davis-be...
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by nielsabel 10y ago
But still, nobody has told me yet what was so rude about my post. How do you expect me to fix my behavior if you don't explain me what was wrong about it? “You're rude.” “well, how exactly?”
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by nielsabel 10y ago
Again, what was so horribly offensive and insulting about my post? I don't see it. Sure, I wasn't sugar coating. But all I'm getting here is: “You're not polite, because <insert inapt analogy>”.
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by nielsabel 10y ago
Oh, I guess you must be right then …
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by nielsabel 10y ago
So far, I only heard complaints about me being not polite enough and not about the actual content of what I said. Why do we always have to put our words into sugar coated ass kissery? Just so that nobody's feelings get hurt? I mean,
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by nielsabel 10y ago
You're confusing being a good writer with being polite.
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by nielsabel 10y ago
> This aggressive rant crosses the line on HN. If you can't contain your anger I'm not angry at all, really. Merely stating my perspective. > enough to post substantively and with respect for opposing views, you're not
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by nielsabel 10y ago
> we need to get more women in kindergarden interested in math. Why? What's the (supposed) benefit? I'd rather see general improvement on math lessons in school. Most of these lessons are boring, given by boring teacher. I&#x27
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by nielsabel 10y ago
“Andy Warhol. Phoney, radical Andy Warhol. Burgeois capitalist.” [1] [1] https://youtu.be/Bw0Rmt2S0uQ?t=10m27s
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by nielsabel 10y ago
> I reckon the German education system must be great because the average person over there seems to have very good English. Hahahaha … no!
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by nielsabel 10y ago
Thanks. This was a fun discussion.
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by nielsabel 10y ago
I think you pretty much nailed it here. > If you're talking about it as it is today, it's a mixture of great and horrible Most PC run Wintel and nowadays even more people use/care about ARM/Android/iOS. That&#x27
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by nielsabel 10y ago
That's not what I was arguing. I was arguing that a better idea does not (necessarily) get adopted, even if it is superior. Sure, Smalltalk might not compete today, but I'd say it was superior /then/ (and still didn&#x27
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by nielsabel 10y ago
> If Smalltalk GUI building is so great, how come nobody uses it today? Because it's maddeningly inferior to everything we have today. I'd argue that the CompSci community DOESN'T choose the best thing that comes along, bu