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Re:Bryan Cantrill Interviewed at ACM Bytecast by akerl_ on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:44PM (#27732875)
It’s not really viable to take a few facts like this and extrapolate a lack of hardship or trauma.

I think you’ve stepped pretty far outside of reasonable discourse about the post, and into the realm of intense speculation about somebody else’s personal life.

Maybe don’t do that.

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Re:Bryan Cantrill Interviewed at ACM Bytecast by chris_wot on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:53PM (#27733254)
Kind of like not extrapolating that someone hates females if they use a gendered noun?
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Re:Bryan Cantrill Interviewed at ACM Bytecast by akerl_ on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:15PM (#27733387)
I’m not sure how you got from my comment to this, but in the interest of being clear:

Extrapolating that somebody has a positive vibe and was an Eagle Scout, so they can’t have had past hardships is radically different from “extrapolating” that somebody who uses gendered language has gender biases. The former is a textbook logical fallacy (“affirming the consequent”). The latter is not.

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Re:Bryan Cantrill Interviewed at ACM Bytecast by sgrebn on Sunday July 04, 2021 @07:58PM (#27733584)
Cantrill's "vibe" has been controversial in the past. I wonder, while trying to be as neutral as possible, if the original commenter was actually sensing something like overconfidence or even arrogance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161006

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Re:Bryan Cantrill Interviewed at ACM Bytecast by chris_wot on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:22AM (#27736752)
Indeed. Everything points to someone who had never understood the damage he has done to others through his actions.
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