I think it's sort of sad that this simple act of trust in your community (having coffee and exposing yourself to others) has to be over-analysed and dissected into a blog. Broadening and Deepening events, just dividing the whole act as events it feels like i'm reading a post-mortem on adobe workfront. When the true meaning of that awesome initiative remains the human need for social interaction and the need to be part of something bigger (like a community!). I feel this is poseur-ish and project-managerial to a degree even detailed oriented people will find unauthentic.
Readit News_madmax_ commented on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Guy lost me when he mentioned Musk is caring. Of course he cares...about his fortune and his power hunger.
I had the incredible luck to stumble upon this book early in my career and it helped me tremendously in so many ways. If I could name only one it would be that it helped me get over the sentiment of being helpless in front of a difficult situation. This book brought me to peace with imperfection and me being an artisan of imperfection.
New car sounds like brand new car, not used car. Which have history.
I found the title a bit misleading in that regard.
_madmax_ commented on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive github.com/LorenDB/neofet... · Posted by u/LorenDB
You seem to be having an argument with your own imagination, because I never said OP should rewarded, nor that post this was a contribution to FOSS.
>On a more personal note, I'm growing weary of spoon-feeding you. It is not very complex yet you still struggle to grasp the simplest of explanations.
Love it. Personal attacks are the sign of an intelligent, well-reasoned person. Thanks for the laugh.
What is imaginative is your ability to backtrack and pull a strawman in what I can only assume is your last ditch effort to preserve your ego.
_madmax_ commented on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive github.com/LorenDB/neofet... · Posted by u/LorenDB
>The fact that you'd rather have me shut up
If your only comment is "thanks for pressing a button", yes it's better to just shut up. I'm not the only one who thinks so -- your comment was downvoted and flagged pretty quickly.
>speaks volume about what you consider a contribution in FOSS,
How does my suggestion to not leave negative one-liner comments speak volumes? What was your contribution here again? Trying to make someone feel shitty? Awesome contribution.
>frankly I hope it's not a reflection on how you approach the real world, because you're in for a rude awakening.
Suggesting that someone not be negative to someone else purely for the sake of it? Yeah, rude awakening coming my way for sure.
To truly believe that uselessness (such as advertising the pressing of a button) should be rewarded is terribly short-sighted.
That's what I meant when I said that it spoke volumes about what you consider to be a contribution in FOSS. If you think that saying 'oh, I forked a dead project to keep it alive' and posting it without having accomplished anything is anything more useful or productive than pointing out how useless that is, then I'm afraid your definition of contribution is as shallow as your understanding of constructive criticism.
On a more personal note, I'm growing weary of spoon-feeding you. It is not very complex yet you still struggle to grasp the simplest of explanations.
_madmax_ commented on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive github.com/LorenDB/neofet... · Posted by u/LorenDB
>go ahead and celebrate
Lol. The choice isn't between 1) be negative just for the sake of being negative; or 2) celebrate.
A third option, which I am recommending whenever you find yourself leaning into choice #1, is to just not comment.
I wanted to comment, and I did. And I did say a fair point, in my opinion.
The fact that you'd rather have me shut up speaks volume about what you consider a contribution in FOSS, and frankly I hope it's not a reflection on how you approach the real world, because you're in for a rude awakening.
_madmax_ commented on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive github.com/LorenDB/neofet... · Posted by u/LorenDB
>So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.
If you are so unenthused, why not just... not comment?
What a weird choice to go out of your way to leave a negative comment on something you don't care about. Just trying to spread some negativity around for the fun of it?
Because it's dishonest to say they're keeping it alive while all they're doing is talking about it. You want to believe them, go ahead and celebrate.
_madmax_ commented on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive github.com/LorenDB/neofet... · Posted by u/LorenDB
> But thank you for pressing a button.
Why the passive-aggressive tone? Especially when OP shows explicit enthusiasm in making his fork active and valuable for the community.
What is bothering you with OP's endeavour that you need to make him feel bad about it?
If their actions spoke louder than their words I would actually be interested.
But that's what they did didnt they ? They pressed a button and they've posted it on HN. They actually did more to publish the button pressing than they did to keep the repo alive.
So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.
But yeah, you're better off in math if you can make it make sense on a philosophical level. That I agree with.