<div dir="ltr">You have just proved my point. I ask for compassion and you tell me how wrong I am.<div><br><div><div>/quit</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:39 PM, zxq9 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zxq9@zxq9.com" target="_blank">zxq9@zxq9.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 2016年3月25日 金曜日 10:04:38 Sean Cribbs wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:20 PM, zxq9 <<a href="mailto:zxq9@zxq9.com">zxq9@zxq9.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > EVERYONE! STOP EVERYTHING! SATIRE IS NOW "TOXIC"!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> I'm reminded of this Molly Ivins' quote (<br>
> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8534-there-are-two-kinds-of-humor-one-kind-that-makes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8534-there-are-two-kinds-of-humor-one-kind-that-makes</a><br>
> ):<br>
><br>
> "There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our<br>
> foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The<br>
> other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I<br>
> do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the<br>
> powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the<br>
> powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar."<br>
><br>
> I'm sure Jesper intended it to be funny, but it just rubs salt in the wound<br>
> of something that was very embarrassing for the JS community, and makes<br>
> Erlangers look bad for doing so. All I'm suggesting is that we have some<br>
> compassion for a change.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Your quotation references the "powerless" VS the "powerful".<br>
<br>
WTF<br>
<br>
Since when was Erlang the big dog and js the outsider?<br>
<br>
Get some perspective.<br>
<br>
And yes, massively, unfixably huge screwups that affect users who don't<br>
even know what is going on but depend on the magic of actual engineers<br>
doing, on occasion, actual engineering is absolutely worthy of satire.<br>
<br>
Especially if said screwups were satirized loud and clear very early in<br>
the life of the environment in which said screwup later occurred.<br>
<br>
You *do* realize it is just about impossible to get funding for an Erlang<br>
based project merely because of the word "Erlang" being associated with it<br>
and a crapshoot to get funding for a js project regardless of merit, right?<br>
Or have you not recently walked the streets of LA?<br>
(Hint: I have.)<br>
<br>
Get off your horse. It already died.<br>
<br>
"We shouldn't judge people."<br>
"But we must somehow make hiring decisions."<br>
<br>
"Stop being so judgemental about tech, its all just tradeoffs."<br>
"That's nice, but our infrastructure has to run on *something* we decide<br>
today, and the balance of all tradeoffs are not equal."<br>
<br>
-Craig<br>
<br>
PS: Will anyone second this view? No. Of course not. That is a radical<br>
thing today. That only means that we are nearer the end of this cycle than<br>
the beginning. Much less controversial to chain one's self to a convention<br>
center door with a "code of conduct" taped to one's chest that states<br>
attendees are forbidden to take actions that are already illegal.<br>
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