Off topic: Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert
https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256
and today has no money:
https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439507016709853184
but doesn't want to work for another "shop beholden to the weakness of its internal IT":
https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/439505080992034816
It's difficult to have a ton of sympathy, but it's still just an overall sad situation.
Hmm...Life guidance. I don't know.
Sometimes a technology's biggest detractors are its most fervent adherents. The drama, fuss, immaturity and irrationality is just off-putting and screams to everyone else "Do you enjoy drama? Do you want to be in the middle of trolling wars on Twitter? Please join us, just Node.js it all comes with it as part of the package!".
This is isn't the only thing. The drama with Joyent fake firing that person who didn't want to accept some doc updates. Is that all, I maybe wrong, but there is just no end to immaturity and drama. The people and culture associated with this technology is off-putting to me. Maybe others love it, good for them.
http://blog.nodejitsu.com/an-open-letter-to-the-node-communi...
And the catch all is of course Steve Balmers sweaty speech...
C is a different kettle, I suspect it had it's drama time, but the internet wasn't around to amplify it.
Go and Erlang combined communities are a fraction of Node, python, ruby ones (individually).
Those that read into internet ranting and call it drama or immaturity, are simply displaying their own maturity. The vast majority of people in these communities are mature professionals... now and then you get a blowup, that isn't a reflection on the technology or community but the individuals involved.
The mass of people coming to his defense is a great example of why I can't take the JavaScript community seriously. The very first line of the comment screams "arrogant jackass" who won't play well with others and prefers to make his points through mockery and derision.
https://twitter.com/robcolbert/status/436928505498976256
> I decided not to fight for changing something for the better today and quit. Why do companies lie? Why do ppl fear change?
I am not wise enough to be called a source of wisdom...but if you are in IT, and your company is not actively poisoning children or criminally violating you, do not quit out of professional principle without a backup plan.
Quite!
It's an interesting thing to read through after reading the other HN article "We have luxurious jobs but we are not ware of it" [0].
> Thanks for reaffirming my commitment to not read up about an author/user/submitter other than in regards to the opinion/assertion made at hand...
Oh dear, down the rabbit hole I go...
As far as I can tell, it seems to be about IT not supporting MongoDB and him not wanting to use *SQL.
> I will key=value a BLOB in your row. Good luck reporting that. I am NOT dealing with tables. It's 20 the fuck 14.
Hmm.
[0] http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/27/we-have-luxurious-jobs...