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shridharxp | 3 months ago

It's okay to bring some "natural" language in technical communication. It feels more humane. All the whitewashed corporate language, riddled marketing bullshit feels so soul dead.

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adrianN|3 months ago

You can express dissatisfaction and anger „naturally“ without calling people losers and monkeys.

throwaway150|3 months ago

> You can express dissatisfaction and anger „naturally“ without calling people losers and monkeys.

I can't speak for others. But if I am screwing up as badly as GitHub is, I'd rather someone calls me a loser and monkey for it. It's like someone splashing ice cold water on my face and showing me the reality. It's going to be very uncomfortable, yes. But I'll learn from it and try not to screw up so badly again. I find this kind of natural outburst refreshing really.

MarcelOlsz|3 months ago

I think it's a breath of fresh air. Don't want to be called out like this then stop fucking up.

m4rtink|3 months ago

Yeah, its rude to actual monkeys - they did nothing wrong!

johnfn|3 months ago

If he had gone on a rant purely about the product - eg “GitHub actions is a garbage product that never works”, I think that wouldn’t have left such a bad taste in my mouth. Calling the developers all “losers” crosses a line.

rwallace|3 months ago

Sure. If you feel the need to write "this is shitty code", fair enough, I'm fine with making allowances for that kind of language. But please leave it at that, instead of also insulting the people who wrote it. There are, unfortunately, plenty of ways for bad incentives to result in competent people creating bad products.

TiredOfLife|3 months ago

But not when it's against coc

tjpnz|3 months ago

As a corporate drone it's refreshing. Already planning to dedicate some of the holiday season to learning Zig and this latest move only makes it more enticing.

bsder|3 months ago

And if he cleaned it up, an even larger number of people would be calling it written with AI.

Shrug.

If he were berating a specific person, I might flag it. Berating Github and Microsoft as an organization? Nah.

Given that CEOs seem to now live in a Post Shame Reality(tm), I'll allow bringing some shame to the situation.