On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 17:57:55 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 15:28:37 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 21:49:33 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 02:33:41 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
That's a pretty awesome rant! Bill, could you please email
me your mailing address? I'd be glad to send you a DConf
T-shirt. Thanks! -- Andrei
Quitting a well paying job at Facebook to peruse a hobby
sounds like something a person going through midlife crisis
would do. You may keep the T-shirt. I suggest you smoke
some DMT (and have a breakthrough), or have a few Ayahuasca
sessions. If that doesn't set you off on a path to the
greatest positive impact, then nothing ever will. Everything
you've desired to achieve with D is a construct of your ego,
and nothing more.
This is completely over the line. Personal attacks of this
nature are absolutely unwarranted and unwelcome here.
He started it.
If I get up on a stage with a grin splitting my face and talk
about how great D is, I'm considered a hero. But if I
criticize D for it's flaws, then I'm a troll or someone who is
just ranting. Anybody has the right to criticize D, just as
people have the right to praise it. If D is part of your
identity to the point where you can't stand hearing people
criticize it and then get offended, then you have issues. Grow
up.
Look, no one here thinks D is perfect. There are some things that
I don't like about it myself, but I like it more than everything
else. Unless you have criticism that you want to bring up for the
sake of discussion, then you *are* ranting.
If you take your first post in this thread and rewrite it so that
it starts discussion about those topics, it could be valuable.
Nothing is going to be changed unless people start talking about
them.
