Stalking people online for thought crimes
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I use Go since the day of the public announcement. I love Go. I contributed to Go the Solaris port, the arm64 port, and now I am finishing up the sparc64 port. I don't want to play a game of who's contribution is more important, but since I started contributing to Go, I received only unfair treatment from people associated with the Go project in either official capacity, or from powerful members of the community.
This is just another example (one that broke the camel's back apparently) of the shit I have to swallow to contribute to the project I love.
I cannot continue contributing if I all I get is insults, nobody thanks me for anything, and people are actively hostile against me and discriminate me against me at conferences. Sorry.
I have some plans that would improve the portability of Go and some plans for some tools that will aid debugging complex Go systems. Sort of like a debugger, but much broader in scope and programmed in Go instead of some ad-hoc scripting language. Hope people will find it useful.
The ideas come directly from my painful experience in debugging low-level Go runtime issues.
Also, "stolen intellectual property"? They should steal his pixie dust and unicorns too.
I think I have a very thick after dealing with so much shit thrown at me over years.
> They should steal his pixie dust and unicorns too.
You have not read my links carefully. Nobody stole my code. I voluntarily gave the solaris, arm64 port, and now sparc64 port to the Go project. You are welcome to grep the git log for my name, or try running Go on SPARC: https://github.com/4ad/go
Many tens of thousand of lines given away with no expectations other than human decency.
It was a different person's, and a different project stolen by a completely different project. How I am treated by the Go project is completely orthogonal to what happens to other people's stolen code. However, I have provided links so that anyone can independently verify that part of the story, if they are interested in it.
If you're going to complain about somebody, you should expect people to complain right back about you. When they do so, writing a post whining about it ends up looking childish -- it's hardly "stalking" or "thought policing". People complain about each other's writing style on the internet all the time. Being butthurt about getting an email isn't so rare and precious that you should write a thinkpiece about it and post it to HN.
I do not want to live in a world where truth does not matter. Truth is all that matters.
> If you're going to complain about somebody, you should expect people to complain right back about you.
Oh, I definitely expect people to complain about me. I support their right fully. Here it is not a case of complaint. It is a case where a non-technical group of people think it has the authority over my interaction with a different group of people, and takes an administrative action.
A bunch of people are threatening me and actively take action against my way of being.
> Being butthurt about getting an email isn't so rare and precious that you should write a thinkpiece about it and post it to HN.
I have not posted to HN. I have posted on the Go mailing lists. I have no control of what is posted on HN. I posted on the Go mailing list because there are other people who feel the same (I know because they told me), and are afraid to talk in fear of repercussions. I posted in the minute hope that things might change.
This incident is just another event in a long streak of events of constant discrimination by some people associated with the Go project. It is no sole event, although my e-mail to the list mentioned only this particular event.