General > General Technical Chat
Migrating the forum to Discourse
<< < (37/69) > >>
I wanted a rude username:
Just one. Undertaker already measuring him up. And a lot of cowboys back at the saloon, loudly agreeing with each other over libations while Sheriff Jones looked on.
Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: TomS_ on April 04, 2020, 06:20:52 am ---If this thread were the Wild West, there would be dead bodies in the street by now.

Seriously, some people just dont know how to disagree, state their reasons why, and move on.

--- End quote ---

A weird comment, did you post this to a wrong thread? I think I have never seen such unanimous total agreement on this forum, ever.

I think we need to thank the OP for joining everyone together on this. Maybe the idea was just a positive version of trolling? If the OP was serious, though, I kinda feel bad for them.
TomS_:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on April 04, 2020, 06:41:43 am ---A weird comment, did you post this to a wrong thread?

--- End quote ---

I have definitely posted this in the intended thread.


--- Quote ---I think I have never seen such unanimous total agreement on this forum, ever.

--- End quote ---

I have no problem with unanimous agreement, thats a pretty good outcome really and shows that there is a lot of love for the current format of the forum. But that is not the point Im getting at.

Peoples attitudes stink sometimes, like they have some kind of personal mission to validate their own oppinion over someone elses. I just dont see the need for it. There are ways to disagree "professionally", and wars are started because people lack the ability to do so.

But should I expect more from the Internet? Probably not.


--- Quote ---I kinda feel bad for them.

--- End quote ---
I definitely feel bad for them. No one deserves that kind of assault for proposing an idea. No matter who is right or wrong, a little courtesy never goes astray.
Siwastaja:
It's the classical group lynching mentality. Happens on this forum time-to-time, like it happens everywhere. Yes, it sucks.

There are psychological reasons for that, too.

In this case, I would theoretize that many of us have, at some point in our professional careers, been abused by incompetent micromanaging bosses with bloated egos. These bosses often work by bringing in the buzzword bingo. As a result, some have developed an allergy-like condition to such business buzzword way of rationalization. It goes like this:

- You NEED to use Docker because it's hot right now.
- Wat, wait, but Docker has absolutely nothing to do with anything? You can't put the microcontroller in Docker!
- We will use Docker, end of discussion...

The OP did show exact same paradigm of discussion, including the part with arrogance, which I think is why it gave such strong reactions to some of us.

Then, when some people react strongly, possibly from understandable reasons, there always are those mindless puppets who join the group lynching when they see it happen. This is when the thing gets ugly, IMHO. I'm OK with a group getting against one if they show the reasons. When the scanvengers join, I'm out.
TomS_:
Some of that hits a bit close to home.  :-DD

A company I have worked at in the past was big on trying to make everything "agile". It was definitely an ideal they aspired to, but didnt quite get there, so it was a little bit of an awkward mix of tradition and "so hot right now" ideas. My team was network engineering, and I dont really know how much of "developer ideologies" can really translate to our line of work. Aspects I can see promise for.


--- Quote from: Siwastaja on April 04, 2020, 07:19:44 am ---I'm OK with a group getting against one if they show the reasons. When the scanvengers join, I'm out.

--- End quote ---
Ive always been taught in engineering: you can complain about something and why it sucks, but you better have a solution.
Navigation
Message Index
Next page
Previous page
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...

Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod