Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B

Re:Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuat... by grandmczeb on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:34PM (#17811103)

> Be sure to read that first sentence of mine a couple of times before replying. It does not say "integrations are always trivial to port and are thus irrelevant", for instance. If I wanted to say that, I would have.

Off topic, but when you write something like this the message you’re sending is “I’d rather insult the reader than take the time to communicate in a way that can be properly understood.” Hopefully that’s not the intention.

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Re:Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuat... by jerf on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:04PM (#17811467)

What it actually communicates is "I've been communicating over text on the internet for 25+ years and I have a pretty decent idea exactly how someone is going to aggressively misinterpret me."

There is no other way to communicate nuance that I've found. If you claim that "some types of X are Y", you'll get angry replies about how some X aren't Y, angry replies about how terrible it is to claim that all X are Y, and on more than one occasion, angry replies about how some types of X are Y.

If you're insulted, well, then, it's not targeted at you. But abundant experience says it does have non-zero targets. And it's getting worse, not better, as more and more people are convinced(/programmed) to believe that reading people as harshly as possible and then being as angry and offended as possible is a virtue rather than a vice. As these people get more power, it's becoming simply self-defense to make sure you underline your point.

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