> All of these latter technologies are useful incremental improvements on top of the foundational technologies that came before.
As if that wasn’t the case before. We’ve always built on what came before. What on earth does the author think was so revolutionary about Java? The language was an evolution of the C family. The VM was an evolution of Strongtalk.
The negative person says ‘all done before.’ The reasonable person says ‘step forward’ as we’ve been doing ever since.
And what’s the implication? That people have become stupid or lazy or ignorant? This is an attack on the work and integrity of a generation of people.
There is a consistent claim at the moment from CS men of a certain age that we don’t appreciate their genius enough. They bang on about how under appreciated their ideas are at their invited talks and on Twitter. I don’t think I’m the only one in the community thinking this. I think quite a lot of people feel this.
It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.
>It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.
That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the actual negative statements you made about the author:
>Some people just want to find negativity in the world.
>I'm going to take a wiiiiild guess here that the author's personal peak was around 1996.
>It's just a reaction to 'the kids' coming after him not being up to how good he (mis) remembers the past.
>This negativity is a disappointing and growing trend among some grumpy old men in our field as that generation approach retirement.
That's not "calling out" negativity. That's a list of snark, broad insult, and generalizations with no supporting information. It's rude, discriminatory, and serves only to diminish the overall quality of discussion.
> Since 1996 almost everything has been cleverly repackaging and re-engineering prior inventions
seems like an ignorant attack on thousands of people’s professional competence and a veiled insinuation of deceit (the ‘clever repackaging and re-engineering’) and
> Suddenly, for the first time ever, programmers could get rich quick
sounds like a moral attack. All in all it’s a shitty thing to say to people. And there’s more and more grumpy people trying to tell young computer science researchers today that they’re useless and have no new ideas like this.
Have you been to a CS conference recently? You may be missing the context that these people are everywhere criticising everyone for not being as innovative as they remember they were.
> All of these latter technologies are useful incremental improvements on top of the foundational technologies that came before.
As if that wasn’t the case before. We’ve always built on what came before. What on earth does the author think was so revolutionary about Java? The language was an evolution of the C family. The VM was an evolution of Strongtalk.
The negative person says ‘all done before.’ The reasonable person says ‘step forward’ as we’ve been doing ever since.
And what’s the implication? That people have become stupid or lazy or ignorant? This is an attack on the work and integrity of a generation of people.
There is a consistent claim at the moment from CS men of a certain age that we don’t appreciate their genius enough. They bang on about how under appreciated their ideas are at their invited talks and on Twitter. I don’t think I’m the only one in the community thinking this. I think quite a lot of people feel this.
It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity.