Comment by dimino | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dimino | Hacker News Reader

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Sorry, but what you call a "toy", I call a highly reliable technology that's used in production widely across the majority of Fortune 500 companies. No one here is suggesting anything remotely like what you're strawmanning, but it's clear the straw man is the only argument you can take down.

The reason you are completely wrong and a toxic member of your team is that your logic can be used to justify all kinds of terrible, short term wins that sacrifice any kind of long term/sustainable design. You'd rather make a bad technology play so your boss gets off your back, than think through your decision and make a long term investment into a sustainable, maintainable, improvable, and agile technology that's actually suited to solve the real problem you have.

OF COURSE you're there to accomplish the tasks your business needs to succeed. That's a given. What's not a given is that you need to slap together the shittiest piece of software that'll do that job right then and there.

Your attitude is what keeps companies from solving problems, and forces them to pay dollar after dollar to fix the same issue over and over again. You're selfish, you're greedy, and you cost your company insane amounts of money.

You should not be employed in this industry if what you wrote here is how you think, period.

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and crossing into personal attack? This breaks the site guidelines and is not ok here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not doing anything like that, but please, pretend that I am, seems like your go-to move here anyway.

We cut you much more slack than we give to most accounts who break the site guidelines, so I'm not really feeling your complaints.

Would you please pick one account to post with? Using multiple accounts to work around moderation restrictions is obviously abusive.

You know moderation is at an IP level, we've had multiple discussions about it, and I'm clearly still getting hit with the rate limit, so when you say "to work around restrictions" it's obviously disingenuous on your part. Someone/multiple people are auto-downvoting everything I comment on with my other account, so I switched to see if it kept happening. Unsurprisingly, it didn't until I mentioned it again, and it started up immediately after.

As for the other comment you made (can't reply directly, rate limit), it isn't a low information post, I'm showing a screenshot of the message I get when I hit the rate limit.

You're literally gas lighting right now, it's insane.

You also know if you actually do anything else beyond rate limiting I'll just go dark, which is even "worse" for you, so this so-called "leniency" is nonsense. Just stop.

Edit: You can't use multiple accounts to get around rate limits, as you and I have discussed multiple times, so I'm not "doing" anything that constitutes a ban, but feel free to ban at your leisure. Over the years you've established yourself firmly as an unreasonable person, so there's no point trying to treat you like one.

I'm afraid I don't really follow what you've written here.

Rate limits are meaningless if people can just use multiple accounts to get around them. If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban at least one of your accounts—but more likely all of them. After several years of trying to persuade you to use HN as intended, I'm beginning to lose patience.

> You should not be employed in this industry if what you wrote here is how you think, period.

That seems pretty personal. Not that I'm hopping on dang's bandwagon, but you can't post that sort of attack and say you're not doing anything like that.

I've wound up seeing a lot of your recent posts and I can understand where a lot of your responders are coming from... you are very strongly opinionated and have no problem crossing the line from "I hold this opinion" to "you're wrong for not agreeing and therefore you <insert consequence>".

THAT's the behavior that's getting you the pushback. Be more open to discussing things and comparing experiences and maybe you'll see more cordial response back.

It's not a personal attack, it's my opinion. I've worked with people who think that way, and I'd prefer if they didn't exist in the industry. How would you prefer I shape that comment so it's not crossing some magical line?

I am aware, generally, how things are. My complaining here is not confusion, it's frustration. I know I can change my behavior to elicit a better response, but I'm frustrated that it's relevant. People should have thicker skin, and when people dish it out (as what was going on here), I should be allowed to give it back. Dang's not commenting on anyone else's posts here, though there were many other rule violators.

It's an unfair application of the rules.

Edit: This post is 0 minutes old, how does it have a downvote already? This is the shit I'm talking about...

You gotta relax your tone eh. Not sure why you’re so personally/emotionally invested in this topic but your aggressive tone makes your myriad comments grating.

This isn't an aggressive tone, except to people who have their own emotional investment into the topic.

I put out what is given.

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