Re:The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
by dang on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:35PM
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It wasn't just that one word. Telling someone they "want to play the victim" is also a personal swipe, as is "this is 100% your fault" and even "you're clearly leaving out some important detail". In fact, your comment consisted of nothing but swipes!
I don't even suggest they are stupid all the time, just acted so in that moment, which again is completely fine but responsibility should be shifted.
I'm sorry the use of that word is too much for you to handle, and I probably should have used another method to call out someone's mistakes. I'm also slightly disheartened that hackernews thinks the default use of stupid has to be cynical. That's my mistake and I will adjust to the fragile culture here.