James Watson
Posts: 2024
Nickname: watson
Registered: Sep, 2005
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Re: Disbelief: women and Open Source
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Posted: Aug 3, 2009 1:11 PM
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> James, in that case the full quote is:
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> 'I'm not designing software for other people, 'Hansson
> says. 'I'm designing it for me.' "
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> Taken literally, that's really hard to defend. But maybe
> we could interpret it along the lines
> as you suggested - "for me and my fellow developers" (in
> the context of Ruby on Rails).
It's sort of a cliche. The idea behind it is that you shouldn't be developing things that you wouldn't want to use. Specifically, you shouldn't be developing tools that assume the developer using them is not a smart as you. I am assuming that's really what he means.
> And how about this one:
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> "Then he clicked over to the next slide, white letters
> against a dark background that spelled out
> his response to the naysayers: fuck you. The crowd erupted
> into laughter and applause."
I don't think this is worth too much thought. At best it's laziness and at worst it's offensive and hostile. Either way, it doesn't communicate much information too me. I chalk it up to nerd machismo. I learned to use the 'F' word at the ripe age of 5 or 6. It takes a lot more than that to shock or impress me.
It seems to me that the whole RoR craze is just the next fad in a long line of fads for nerd hipsters. It appeals to the kind of person who wants to be involved with all the fun parts of development but won't tolerate doing any of the hard work. It seems to me that RoR might just give you enough power to grow out of RoR. And maybe that's OK.
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