jmcdiesel

Its not about low expectations. Its about no expectations.

Buddhism, Daoism, etc... its the same idea. Don't have expectations, good or bad, simply be in the moment.

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You dont chose your emotions, you chose which emotions to react to.

There is an entire philosophy built around that concept, buddhism.

I know hes not making the claim, but the article itself is based around the hypothetical negative claim.

Because being annoyed doesn't affect them, only you.

Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm.

When you are entitled to something, you expect it, and you can't expect something and be truly appreciative of it at the same time. When you don't expect good though, the bad doesn't upset you, and the good, you actually genuinely appreciate.

Nah, you're not.

Entitlement only leads to disapointment. It's bad all around, from my perspective.

You can't be entitled to something AND appreciate it at the same time. So, a lack of entitlement of being treated well leads to appreciating more when you are treated well.

If nothing else, its a fun sociology/psychology conversation.

Is it me, or is this whole article failed out of the gate by the fact that you can't prove a negative?

"Prove that x didnt happen" is impossible.

Now, if he said to prove that the earth IS only 10,000 years old, that would be at least something to shoot for, but changes the whole scope of the article...

There is a reason for that, though.

There is no reason to import what you don't need. This is why wildcard imports are generally frowned upon in most development teams. (I say most, thats unqualified, of course, but from my experience, its always been a part of the code standards)

Your code is much more readable and clear when you are explicit about what you are importing.

"Maybe a nitpick, but given that most other programming languages don't distinguish named vs default, it's probably not necessary"

Not sure that how other languages do things really plays a part in how JS does things?

I think his point is that having them available is necessary, because they both have strong use cases.

Keep in mind, the entitlement works both ways...

This isnt just for you, more of a general thing. Ive seen it a lot in this thread alone.

Creating an OSS project doesn't entitle you to be treated a certain way either. Nothing does. Being entitled at ALL is bad, so expecting good or bad is just a waste.

I try to live more by the "give everything you can, expect nothing in return, be grateful if something comes" mentality. Shitty people are going to be shitty people, and most of them are shitty for a reason - so feel bad for them, not angry or annoyed at them. Nobody WANTS to be an asshole...

Only on hacker news can "Thanks!" be interpreted negatively... jesus...

>>> 'Hi, can you implement <Feature that takes a month of work>? Thanks!' >>> Usually from people who have never contributed anything.

This is a very toxic attitude, honestly.

How dare users request features they can't implement themselves... only experienced developers with domain knowledge should request features!

Just because it was unclassified doesn't mean it was released...

Im sure there are literally millions of documents that have been "unclassified" due to time, but have never seen the light of day since then. Its not like they broadcast when something is unclassified

Double alliteration FTW?

Your empirical data is limited by our perception.

Do you really think we know all of the forces at work, that we can perceive them or detect them with the tools we have?

Its rather arrogant to think that we know even "most" of how the universe works, let alone all of it... and if you can admit that we know very little overall, then the empirical data we do have has a lot less weight...

Religion is dying, but spirituality is growing.

I think the interesting part comes from our (and i say our, as in, the HN demographic) tendencies to hold strict beliefs based only on (and limited by) our own perceptions.

The thing is, it comes at you when it comes at you, and you cant tell someone else why they should believe in something they cant see, feel, experiment with or experience.

I was an atheist, almost militant atheist, for most of my life... then my wife became spiritual, started doing tarot and stuff like that, doing reiki (energy healing) etc, and i was open to it, but didn't really buy into it. Then she started having mediumship abilities... and then I felt totally like it was kinda a crock... but then something ridiculous happened.

My father died before I was born, a few months before... She has supposedly been in contact with him, and i liked that as a form of comfort, but again, im a skeptic. Then she described a scene... she described the interior of a car, sitting in a field, with my mom in the passenger seat, from the view of the drivers seat. The car, after she described it to me, was an impala, and she got that it was a 62 model year... and said it was dark gray with one wheel white and the others black... and it was in a field of yellow and purple flowers, and my mom had a red shirt on and jeans... Ive never heard this story, i couldnt have possibly told her any of it, she doesnt speak to my mother, so she couldnt have gotten it from there... but i asked my mom, if they had an impala at one time, and he response was "yeah, it was a dark gray 62 impala with red interior" ... and i asked about the field, and she knew exactly where it was, and even the mis-matched tire... so, to me, I believe now, that there is more than we realize. Be it supernatural, be it a bug in the programming of a simulation we live in, be it just a natural form of energy we dont understand or cant perecieve... but there is something more...

But i dont tell you that story to convince you, or to justify my own beliefs (i have no need to justify them), but to show you that, until something happens to you that pulls your perspective, your personal perspective, so far out of line with your current beliefs, you will never believe, and you will be certain even... and thats the problem with spirituality or religion... you have to come to it yourself, which is near impossible to do, when the religions themselves are constantly trying to force people to believe...