What about 9/11?
For a period absolutely everything, whether at all even distantly related or not, was somehow tied to "because 9/11" or "what about 9/11". Not because people actually thought it was relevant, but because politicians can't pass up a chance to grandstand by invoking something that people have strong opinions on.
I thought it was a succinct way of conveying the point here. "But what about the node.js gender incident??" isn't as widespread and not as big a problem as the "but what about 9/11???" crowd, but suffers from a sort of isomorphic logic.
Bend over backwards to forgive and explain all you want, I guess.
izs' ignorance to this principle is on par with, say, someone refusing to change a gendered pronoun because of its perceived triviality.
- Keeping women out of tech.
- 9/11.I got to the original comment and rolled my eyes that I halfway knew someone would bring it up today. Rather than dismiss it, though, somehow Isaac found a way to make it worse. I should start invoking the holocaust when discussions aren't going the way I want, apparently.
And yes, the sitation with regards to that commit is unfortunate, but I'm not sure what any of us can do about it beyond wait for someone to get over themselves and start contributing again.
>I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks. Contact me somewhere else.
It's like he's throwing stones in a glass house and then complaining of all the vandals...
And, ironically, this is on his profile: "I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks."
This is coming from someone who remembers Rudy Giuliani's brain being replaced by a broken record player during his presidential campaign. It took way too long for me to get what you were trying to convey.
[I don't know either of you but I think that's a sad story.]
And it had about as much to do with this announcement as Ben's departure from Node last year.
People outside a team rarely have much insight into the day to day relationships. That's just how it works. That's what a "team" is.
Again, no need to be agressive, it's not that idiotic to ping the past when we talk about the futur.