> before PC culture silences him Damn you, Wintel!
These might give an interesting perspective: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-man-daryl-davis-be...
But still, nobody has told me yet what was so rude about my post. How do you expect me to fix my behavior if you don't explain me what was wrong about it? “You're rude.” “well, how exactly?”
Again, what was so horribly offensive and insulting about my post? I don't see it. Sure, I wasn't sugar coating. But all I'm getting here is: “You're not polite, because <insert inapt analogy>”.
Oh, I guess you must be right then …
So far, I only heard complaints about me being not polite enough and not about the actual content of what I said. Why do we always have to put our words into sugar coated ass kissery? Just so that nobody's feelings get…
You're confusing being a good writer with being polite.
> This aggressive rant crosses the line on HN. If you can't contain your anger I'm not angry at all, really. Merely stating my perspective. > enough to post substantively and with respect for opposing views, you're not…
> we need to get more women in kindergarden interested in math. Why? What's the (supposed) benefit? I'd rather see general improvement on math lessons in school. Most of these lessons are boring, given by boring…
“Science has been done without women for centuries, and it obviously worked.” – Luboš Motl Can we please just stop all this PC bullshit. Robo Pike obviously doesn't realize that the reason these women attending that…
“Andy Warhol. Phoney, radical Andy Warhol. Burgeois capitalist.” [1] [1] https://youtu.be/Bw0Rmt2S0uQ?t=10m27s
> I reckon the German education system must be great because the average person over there seems to have very good English. Hahahaha … no!
Thanks. This was a fun discussion.
I think you pretty much nailed it here. > If you're talking about it as it is today, it's a mixture of great and horrible Most PC run Wintel and nowadays even more people use/care about ARM/Android/iOS. That's reality…
That's not what I was arguing. I was arguing that a better idea does not (necessarily) get adopted, even if it is superior. Sure, Smalltalk might not compete today, but I'd say it was superior /then/ (and still didn't…
> If Smalltalk GUI building is so great, how come nobody uses it today? Because it's maddeningly inferior to everything we have today. I'd argue that the CompSci community DOESN'T choose the best thing that comes along,…
> before PC culture silences him Damn you, Wintel!
These might give an interesting perspective: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-man-daryl-davis-be...
But still, nobody has told me yet what was so rude about my post. How do you expect me to fix my behavior if you don't explain me what was wrong about it? “You're rude.” “well, how exactly?”
Again, what was so horribly offensive and insulting about my post? I don't see it. Sure, I wasn't sugar coating. But all I'm getting here is: “You're not polite, because <insert inapt analogy>”.
Oh, I guess you must be right then …
So far, I only heard complaints about me being not polite enough and not about the actual content of what I said. Why do we always have to put our words into sugar coated ass kissery? Just so that nobody's feelings get…
You're confusing being a good writer with being polite.
> This aggressive rant crosses the line on HN. If you can't contain your anger I'm not angry at all, really. Merely stating my perspective. > enough to post substantively and with respect for opposing views, you're not…
> we need to get more women in kindergarden interested in math. Why? What's the (supposed) benefit? I'd rather see general improvement on math lessons in school. Most of these lessons are boring, given by boring…
“Science has been done without women for centuries, and it obviously worked.” – Luboš Motl Can we please just stop all this PC bullshit. Robo Pike obviously doesn't realize that the reason these women attending that…
“Andy Warhol. Phoney, radical Andy Warhol. Burgeois capitalist.” [1] [1] https://youtu.be/Bw0Rmt2S0uQ?t=10m27s
> I reckon the German education system must be great because the average person over there seems to have very good English. Hahahaha … no!
Thanks. This was a fun discussion.
I think you pretty much nailed it here. > If you're talking about it as it is today, it's a mixture of great and horrible Most PC run Wintel and nowadays even more people use/care about ARM/Android/iOS. That's reality…
That's not what I was arguing. I was arguing that a better idea does not (necessarily) get adopted, even if it is superior. Sure, Smalltalk might not compete today, but I'd say it was superior /then/ (and still didn't…
> If Smalltalk GUI building is so great, how come nobody uses it today? Because it's maddeningly inferior to everything we have today. I'd argue that the CompSci community DOESN'T choose the best thing that comes along,…