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Comment by rjzzleep | Hacker News Reader

no it's not. it just depends on who you think your audience is. why do people always put their own use case as general rule for everyone?

granted, you're talking about making money. otherwise is perfectly fine being a complete douchebag and everyone still using and loving what you build, invent, research.

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Being clever is all well and good as long as you're right. But all those enemies you're making by being a jagoff are waiting for you to slip (or at least won't be forgiving).

In the mean time, Forrest Gump has buddies everywhere who willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when he accidentally commits a broken build.

Be excellent to each other.

And how's that working out?

ffmpeg, linux, plenty more? what are you guys talking about. steve jobs doesn't really count, there's plenty guys, who actually built things themselves and successfully on top of that.

It worked out pretty well for Steve Jobs.

Yeah except, well, the dying at 56 part.

Yeah, because that's related to whether or not he was a jerk.

Spoiler: It isn't.

He refused his doctors' advice about surgery. He said it was because he was scared and didn't want to face reality, but not taking care of yourself for the sake of your family seems like a jerk move to me.

There are likely "nice" people out there with irrational aversions to Western medicine as well.

Otherwise nice. It's seems more likely that the sick just aren't clever enough to see what a dick move it is to give up. "Aversion to western medicine"... suicide... what's the difference?

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