Comment on Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System

• oxomoxo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Correct, people comment bad jokes all the time. This is completely irrelevant as I didn’t call him out for the bad joke. I made a bad joke in response to his bad joke.

  I called him out when a number of people corrected his bad joke (including down voting him), and he tried to justify the bad joke with more bad jokes and deflections about how he just couldn’t remember syntax and he has all this experience. It’s a problem he has with admitting fault, not about his joke, but how in making the “joke” he tried to prove to people he didn’t really make a mistake.

  He did this on another post the same day when he claimed a link was paywalled. It wasn’t, multiple people said it wasn’t, and he insisted it was for him, only to later, after multiple back and fourths say that he has bad eyes and that the site needs to be made better. I bring this up, because he even brought it up here.

  So again, I have no issue with bad jokes, I have no issues with bad programming. I have an issue with people who want to pretend like they are perfect and it’s everyone else who is at fault.

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  • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What? He said he didn’t remember? How was he avoiding responsibility? And then there was another mistake that he also admitted to with the paywall? He’s not pretending to be perfect, what more do you want? I’m imagining the only thing you’d be satisfied with is a 7 minute apology with a ukulele.

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    • oxomoxo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He said he ran it through compiler and it didn’t complain (which he later claimed was sarcasm), then he said he couldn’t remember the syntax because of all the different languages he used over the past forty years >That’s how long I’ve been programming, so long that I can’t even remember the syntax anymore. and then went on a long rant about all the computers he used as a kid.

      He didn’t admit the mistake on the paywall he said >Young webpage developers designing UI for younger aged eyes, and not thinking that when people get older they increase the font size of everything on their device so they can see still, which affects the layout of everything being displayed. He never once said he was wrong in fact he double down on it with >I’m not going to change my original comment, and I still stand by it. If they obfuscate the way of closing the pop-ups by making the close button so small and insignificant compared to the other likewise texting around it, to me that still paywalling, as they’re trying to trick people into signing up for an account to read the article.

      Again, I am not worried about the mistakes. He also certainly doesn’t need to apologize. A simple acknowledgement without deflecting into some long excuse as to why it’s not his fault or he’s just so experienced that he got the details mixed up would be fine. Also again, if this was a one off example, I wouldn’t have said anything, it’s a trend I’ve seen him do a few times on a few different posts and it rubbed me the wrong way so I decided to call him out on it, like many others have also done.

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      • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You calling out his programming experience is just so dumb. It’s totally reasonable for someone to not remember all the details from work decades ago. He went off on all these details about his career because you were interrogating him lmao

        And about the paywall … I mean he is right about those big-ass popups being such a UI nightmare they could be a barrier for some people. You’re just mad he didn’t edit his comment?

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