laurent_du

Good read, thank you. It feels nice to read something that was fully written by an actual human being.

I have been a Linux user for 20 years and I have no idea what display server or windows manager I use. Every time this theme pops up on HN a lot of people argue very passionately about this and I feel I have no understanding at all of this. What are the stakes? Why does this matter? Why is there so much argument going on around Wayland, Xorg, X11 and whatever?

I have seen this happen countless times and it still baffles me.

Subjectivity is fine when it is backed by experience and knowledge. If anything, the narcissist perspective is the one where you claim expert opinion doesn't matter because it's all subjective and it hurts your feelings when people criticize your work (or your "taste").

There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is not that they were playing a childish game, it's that they were over-estimating their own abilities by a lot. It's ok to acknowledge you are good at something if you are, in fact, good at this thing.

I recently found a weird trick to motivate myself to do things I don't want to do. Instead of thinking of the outcome of this task (which I probably don't care much about since I don't want to do it in the first place), I think about the fact that doing things I don't want to do makes me better at doing things I don't want to do, which is a desirable outcome for me. Your mileage may vary.

He won't be giving any advice, they are buying his contact list.

I think development speed is merely tagging the correct causal factor which is expertise. I have witnessed development teams requiring weeks to change a single flag in a configuration flag? Were they slow? Well, yes, but I'd argue they were mostly clueless.

No, it's a different etymological root. A better translation would be to say that you give a share of your attention (делить's meaning is to divide).

I use 0.1% of hledger and that's enough for me. Thank you to the author for providing this powerful tool for free.

I think the person you are answering to was asking for a book recommendation.

I am going to piggyback and drop an interesting bit of trivia: Enid Blyton's infamous Brer Rabbit is actually an African-American. Look it up.

I am not interested in arguing so I'll just repeat that your article is beautiful and even though it's not entirely correct I think it has value and I appreciate the time you spent working on this and putting it out to help others.

Beautiful article but that's not what big O means. The author seems to be describing something that is usually called (upper case) Theta. Big O is an upper bound.

Can you really oppose "genocide" when your publication's name is literally "Jacobin"?