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jolisson Show HN: My 24-hour project, instacss.com

What's the license for your code? You should put one in before you accept patches. ;-)

And the UI is totally awesome.

jolisson My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.

I seem to recall that there are studies showing that venting isn't an effective tool to make you feel better, despite the popular "catharsis" meme. I can't find them right now, but here's a quote: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/a-few-more-things-pop-psychology-h...

In any case, if somebody feels the need to vent, I hope they don't do it where I end up reading them. ^^

jolisson My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.

I don't think it's true in general that hackers (or geeks) "are jackasses to one another". Rather, it seems to depend a lot on the community. For example, I tend to work with Rails software, and the communities that I've encountered have (without exception!) been very friendly.

Though pessimism aside, I think the post is spot-on with its argument!