Comment on Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months agoWhat? 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.
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.
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?
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re correct, it is very reasonable for someone not remember details about a language that was used in schools for education decades ago, that he himself said he played with as a kid, as I have done myself. AGAIN it’s not that he didn’t remember, it’s that anyone who has worked as a programmer for decades, and I mean without exception, would ever in any circumstance post that code from memory. Because anyone who has done any coding knows you only remember syntax when you have been practicing in it daily. No one remembers the syntax to BASIC, it isn’t a useful language. You would just search for “hello world” loop and you would find endless examples you could copy pasta. Which he himself says he likes to do with that creative commons nonsense he tags to every post.
Sure pop-ups suck. Sure interface design needs to be better, it’s not the point. The point is he claimed that the site was paywalled, he was wrong, that’s okay. He was told by multiple people he was wrong, including one person who went as far as to post a screenshot. Even after all that effort from the community he doesn’t just say “ah my mistake, I see it now”, he goes into an excuse of bad UI design, even though no one else had the problem. It simple, just say you made a mistake without making excuses. Really easy to do, and way less effort than this whole deflection thing he does.
He’s a shit poster, who bullshits people because he doesn’t want to be wrong. I am under no illusion anything will change with this guy. His shitty behavior continues today just as it has in the past. I just made the mistake of saying something about it.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
So you’re mad he didn’t research his joke properly? Why do you care so bad if he “deflects”, he’s clearly just concerned about the website being difficult to access? Just let the comments that show it’s not paywalled stay up, and let his concerns stay up as well. It’s not a big deal. You’re acting like a bully comment cop.