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rtaylorgarlock

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Have you ever been downvoted for calling 'dupe?' I once was downvoted after calling dupe on a link posted thrice. HN is an interesting place to hang out, that's for sure.

Zed 1.0 3 months ago

^^the #1 reason I limit my daily time allowance for HN

Wow, thanks for your honesty here. I'm commenting primarily to commend your decision-making which I couch in empathetic understanding. I saw your post and immediately thought, "good, surprised it took {any organization leaving github} this long." I don't hate big M nor the 'github ecosystem' (except maybe github actions, which seems to get 10x the attention it deserves); the challenge is I perceive far better solutions to be chosen which would serve the open source world if we simply deploy a slight increase in cognitive energy.

My comments have a weird history: either I display technical prowess and flavor my comment negatively (as is statistically more common on HN), or I get downvoted. My response is to spend less time on HN :D if I want pressure to think a certain way by people with limited skin-in-the-game in my life, i'll just show up to a fundamentalist church ;)

NASA Force 3 months ago

REQUEST: coupon for positive thinking; STATUS: DENIED, NON-NEW USER NEW BETTER HAHAHA

std::process::exit(sarcasm)

seriously though, this is HN. I'm done complaining about it. I'd like to encourage different behavior, yet my experience has taught me the opposite: Be open to offering feedback in the case feedback is requested or required. In any other case, disengage.

dawwww poor hn user's are afraid of their VC's Imagine disliking an analysis which favors smaller users. Before i ever commented on a single HN post, I was told repeatedly how cynical, negative, and sarcastic HN was. Hm.

Reminds me of Vercel's Rauch talking about his aggressive 'any UX mistake is our fault, never the user's' model for evaluating UIX. (It is/was Guillermo who says that, right?)

Bazzite Post-Mortem 5 months ago

Boy i wish that principle held up in real medicine and other parts of life; "rep and skills" may in some ways equal power, but that false equivalency is how problematic behavior is excused in unfit individuals.

SmartOS 6 months ago

Ah, very cool. Thanks for sharing; will try it out

I've struggled a bit on this: LinkedIn's positivity echo chamber vs. the negativity-rewarding dunk culture here. No greater power exists on HN than critical thinking using techno-logic in a negative direction, revenue and growth be damned.

Opencode don't have to maintain Zen for so cheaply. I don't have to say anything positive nor encouraging, just like I don't have to sh!t on youtuber 'maintainers' to promise incredible open source efforts which do more to prove they should stick to videos rather than dev. Idk. Not exactly encouraging me to comment at effing all if any positivity or encouragement is responded with the usual "hm idk coach better check yoself" ya honestly I think i know exactly what to do