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Re:Write Simply by Slighted on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:53AM (#34606969)
Regardless of whether or not its his personal website, my point still stands, although reading my previous post I think I should be more specific. There are quite a lot of big-name programmers that gain large amounts of ego from their work to the point that they feel confident to speak on matters they're not terribly educated to the point that they're fantastically incorrect, and confidently so.

>Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise?

Absolutely.

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Re:Write Simply by dang on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:48AM (#34607296)
I don't know any "big name programmers" but this is definitely a thing socially. Think actors and musicians commenting on social causes and whatnot.
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Re:Write Simply by Slighted on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:08AM (#34607422)
When I was writing my post Jamie Zawinski (The "Mozilla guy") was what I had in mind. A great programmer but very outspoken in his social views to the point that he's entirely disconnected from reality. Lacking perspective. This is a blog post of his that I find to be one of the better examples of what I'm referring to: https://web.archive.org/web/20221211061513/https://www.jwz.o...
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Re:Write Simply by dang on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:38AM (#34607602)
I have to recuse myself in that case because of the hairy balls thing.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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