The aggravating thing to me is it wasn't even an attack, it was part of a talk about "assholes, idiots, whiners and trolls" that basically said "none of these people are necessarily that, here's how to look at things differently and maybe end up getting on with them instead".
Every other german who rendered a comment on said talk thought it was hilarious and clearly got that I sympathised due to being pretty blunt myself (oh gods east coast american middle managers, how easy they are to offend ...)
My commiserations on the unplanned demise of your quinces.
Why is that even a YAPC talk?
I've heard points similar rurban makes from mlehmann, who also got tired of p5p and maintains his own perl5 fork.
It was a keynote because open source is made of people and encouraging helpers and contributors is how open source projects prosper.
Re:Perl 11
by totalperspectiv on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:55AM
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Points taken! Thanks for adding some insight.
It's not that I cannot be offended by stupid stereotyping and attacks on Germans (Erik Naggum had some really vile posts in that regard), but the above is not even on my top ten list of things bothering me today.
Number one is cooking quinces to death, because I just wanted to blanch them a bit and forgot to turn the stove lower), so still pretty inconsequential.