life is too short to spend it drowning in misinformation. Calling someone out on a technical failure is 100% legit. How is it "aggressive" if they're clearly wrong?
This is an absolutely horrible article. From totally over the top comparisons to an absolute lack of substance, this is no more than a collection of ‘haha me smart’ garbage mixed with personal attacks.
What can possibly be wrong with giving people a different option to try Linux? If it’s not right for you, who cares because you have other options? The constant negativity is so boring.
I’m not sure this article is about the right thing. Rather over the last few years of cultivating a Bach obsession, I’ve discovered that streaming services in general are really bad at classical music. Without any hyperbole, Apple Music and Spotify combined don’t have nearly the selection that I have access to with an afternoon of digging through a used record store. When you get into records (especially European pressings) from the 1960s, you get into the heyday of liner notes when they were part education and part advertisement.
Some things just aren’t meant for shuffle and genres that haven’t been properly digitized are definitely one.
I don’t agree - the type of communication between certain members makes a team harder for everyone to join. You end up with tribal knowledge to the extreme if you communicate like this. It’s why it is unbelievably bad advice - it claims it respects a listener’s time yet creates an environment where the majority won’t listen.
> You end up with tribal knowledge to the extreme if you communicate like this.
Wait, what? How does a team habit of bluntly stating facts result in "tribal knowledge"? If anything it should be the opposite. The approach in the article has problems but I don't believe that's one of them.
Your comment declares your opinion without explanation, and so lacks substance and is unpersuasive as written. More information would help HN readers evaluate your claims fairly rather than dismiss you. In specific, I’d love to hear your views on these questions so I can give you serious consideration:
> This is a recipe for disaster.
What about Crocker’s Rules, and/or this post’s advice to follow them, do you consider a recipe for disaster?
> Please don’t follow Crocker’s Rules;
What outcome are you hoping will result from granting your request? Do you have personal experiences with Crocker’s Rules underpinning this advice? Do you tend to experience social discomfort typically, atypically, or infrequently / never?
> just get better at communicating than the person who wrote this
Other than the presumed adherence to Crocker’s Rules in writing this, which is addressed by the questions above, do you have other criticisms of their writing to present? What communication ideals do you consider as better models than Crocker’s Rules? Do you consider there to exist appropriate circumstances for Crocker’s Rules?
Yep. Almost every company uses multiple vendors for things. Suppose you use a tech support helpdesk and you don't want to waste time dealing with banned ex-customers. You can't import that list of hashes into Zendesk or whatever and tell them to blocklist them.
Substitute "billing company" or "authentication provider" or "fraud detector" for "helpdesk". There are times when it's not sufficient to say "don't do business with SHA-256 hash ef61a579c907bbed674c0dbcbcf7f7af8f851538eef7b8e58c5bee0b8cfdac4a". You need to say "John Smith is banned".
There’s a book by Albert Glinsky about Bob Moog called Switched On. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. It’s definitely reverential but does one of the best jobs of explaining the dilemma between innovation and business that I’ve read.
What if I order something on the road and want it delivered to my home? Or what if I want to order something over mobile? My mobile IP is often 1500km away from where I live.
Autofill solves all of that with an implementation cost that approaches zero.
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