I used to think that by and large most software developers were of roughly above-average intelligence; and while that may be the case, my mentions the past few days has led me to believe they’re also roughly of below-average wisdom
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 23:58:32 JST Matthew Lyon -
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:01:42 JST Matthew Lyon @joshsusser Vs “temporarily embarrassed billionaire syndrome”
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josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:01:43 JST josh susser @mattly how much of that do you think is the tech culture vs undiagnosed neurodivergence? 🤷🏻♂️
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:08:16 JST Matthew Lyon I have seen people who, when Microsoft bought GitHub spelled the purchaser with a dollar sign, tell me I now owe that company free labor because of things I did before the purchase
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josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:21:06 JST josh susser @mattly why is the explanation for bad things always Capitalism?
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draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:29:08 JST draNgNon @mattly that tracks
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John Hugg (hugg@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 00:35:35 JST John Hugg @mattly How was HN not Exibit A?
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 01:42:28 JST Matthew Lyon final observation on the matter: a recurring theme of the hostile replies I’ve gotten is equivocating the very *suggestion* that I wouldn’t happily do my part to protect a corporation’s asset with childishness:
“grow up, the world depends on Microsoft’s ability to ensure safety”
lol, if that’s truly the case, we’re all fucked, sorry/not sorry but have you SEEN their record?
I acknowledged the “petulant PDA” impulse at the root of the tread, that wasn’t the point, which they universally missed
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⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 03:47:15 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️ @mattly Many of the comments are implicitly about how you need to "grow up" and "think about your consumers" and I think this is a deeply depressing thing.
My background was clj-time, and the decision to violate my license around that code because people found it convenient to use my razor thin wrapper around jodatime, is why I quit open source participation with the understanding at any point in time, the community would come along and bully me and barring that steal from me.
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⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 03:47:16 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️ @mattly I posted one of the complaints to lobste.rs just to see what would happen and the replies were as entitled and focused around "value delivery for startups" as one might hope.
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