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His tone is so histrionic. I'm glad the influence of people like this is now somewhat lower than 5 years ago.
by dak89 1y ago
His tone is so histrionic. I'm glad the influence of people like this is now somewhat lower than 5 years ago.
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- edent 1y agoSure, OK. But why is "teenage girl" being used as a pejorative? Is there something wrong with writing like a girl?
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- dak89 1y agoI can't remember exactly what the now flagged comment said, but there is something odd and affected about adopting the slang/jargon of people a generation younger than you.
- simianparrot 1y agoIt isn't being used as a pejorative. But an adult person shouldn't write like an emotionally unstable teenager if they want to be taken seriously. Teenage girls have a particularly clichéd way of writing and communicating. That's it. Being emotionally unstable isn't a pejorative either; it's part of growing up. It's called adolescence, when the brain is in a particularly turbulent and dynamic part of development.
- bartread 1y agoI stopped reading at the point he described Basecamp as having imploded. Can we please at least try to be a little more objective in how we use language? You may agree or disagree with what Basecamp, now 37signals, did but the company did not “implode”. Many of their employees - one third - did disagree with what they did and chose to leave. Was their leaving a protest? Well, maybe. But IIRC they were offered very generous severance terms, which would have made that choice much easier to make and so perhaps robs it of some of its value as a protest. And what about the company? Well, as far as I can tell, they seem to be doing fine. They’re offering junior devs, was it 125k or 150k US fully remote? Somewhere in that ballpark anyway. And just about anywhere within a certain range of time zones. That’s not a sign of a company that’s struggling. I have read DHH’s blog post about London, and I am a Brit, so think I can offer a somewhat qualified point of view here. DHH is correct about the demographic changes in London over the past decades, but he’s absolutely wrong to cast Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) as some kind of good faith activist standing up for the rights of ordinary British folks. The guy is a criminal and a low-life grifter. I can’t even really call him a fascist because I’m not convinced he really believes a word he’s saying. So I’ll stick with con-artist. Back to the post: the most charitable interpretation I can put on it is that DHH simply hasn’t done his homework on Robinson. Is that an accurate characterisation? I honestly don’t know.
- PikachuEXE 1y agoAnd I don't even know much of these stuff is related to Ruby Central Is Not Behaving in Good Faith. Not a good sign for an article if it's for showing evidence... (maybe it's not I wish I can see more summary, state facts mostly (with sources even they might not be reliable but better than just guessing without source)
- mvdtnz 1y agoReading this post is like playing 2021 Internet Millennial Outrage Bingo. It's quite fun if you make a game of it.