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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by ksec on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:28PM (#48895966)
>like linus lol

I am not even sure if that is an insult.

Linus attack on "things" he dislike and call the person out on it. I don't believe Linus has ever call out on that person's other non related behaviour.

People keep using Linus here as if they are the same. They are not.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by eptcyka on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:57PM (#48897141)
What is the behaviour that Jarred was called out for that was not related to Bun?
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by pcollins123 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:36AM (#48903024)
Being a bad manager. That’s a very personal attack.
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by thereforegrin on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:01AM (#48905409)
if he actually was, then it's not a personal attack but stating facts about a person - there's a meaningful difference.

A personal attack has no informational value (about the accused), while bringing to light bad qualities of a person does - especially if those qualities are related to the issue at hand, which in this particular situation seems to be the case.

Again, the distinction between a personal attack and proper characterisation of bad qualities rests on actual facts i.e. was it slander or was he really a bad manager?

I don't know but I personally give less probability to the former than the latter.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by eptcyka on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:22AM (#48905673)
Managing a very public project that advertises Zig and doing so poorly is a matter of fact, is it not?
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by ksec on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:28AM (#49058576)
That was what ZSF try to implies. And would have been much better if it was written as such. But the way it is currently framed is a personal attack.
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