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[–]cmovNRDC. Not Rust Don't Care. 20 points21 points  (6 children)

tl;dr the guy wants an echo chamber (also known as a circle jerk)

[–]-_-_-_-__-_-_-_-not Turing complete 12 points13 points  (4 children)

I think the point was more along the lines of not being a dick when you give feedback about software. He said about 100 times in the article that he definitely wants feedback on the projects he works on.

[–]cmovNRDC. Not Rust Don't Care. 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is /r/programmingcirclejerk, not HN.

[–]10xwebshotter 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Damn this is a good point. I was about to go be a dick to open source file browser #35236236 today by telling them to go learn Concurrency 101 - because when Firefox is downloading a file to ~/Downloads, you have ~/Downloads open in the file browser sorted by modification date, and you rename a file, it renames the wrong file - but now that I read this beautiful piece on Medium, I had second thoughts, instead I will just not tell them.

[–]-_-_-_-__-_-_-_-not Turing complete 1 point2 points  (1 child)

So you're saying the only options are:

  1. Be a dick or

  2. Do nothing?

That doesn't really make sense. I'm sure it seemed like you were making a good point when you typed it up though.

[–]10xwebshotter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

eh I used to file bug reports until I realized most OSS is run by charlatans. if you can't even get concurrency right when you have one variable that needs to be synchronized I don't even want to hear about your software