Paying nVidia

Posted Jan 21, 2007 22:39 UTC (Sun) by mattmelton (subscriber, #34842) [Link]

Your type of comment and attitude is something I am not familiar with at LWN. With the exception of a few inter-developer debates spreading over from LKML, if there was a non-hostile post which did not troll or flame, people posted positive or non-negative criticism at the very least.

You have not. Instead you take initiative to flame me and my response and my applolgy. You are NOT constructive. You are very negative.

Unlike yours (yes, it's personal as you took the time to flame me), my initial post was clear and informative.
* I study where someone has applied for a post at nVidia.
* I have been told in no uncertain words what to expect and what level I am supposed to be at before apply to a company like nVidia
* I have my foot at the bottom rung of a very tall ladder.
* And I gave my opinion on where I see programmers standing.

If you have an issue with what I said, then by all means please reply with something along the lines of, "I disagree with your hierarchy - i don't believe its right to..." etc

Getting passed the flare of what people write is hard nowadays. The problem is, Lysse, that I believe you're really not annoyed about the nVidia issue on which I commented on; you're not annoyed at the perspective I chose to talk from; and you're not annoyed by the way I apologised to the people I mislabelled in my rather sweeping comment. I honestly think you're annoyed about the sweeping hierarchy statement and that I sided with nVidia. I believe you disliked my comment so much - to the degree that it personally insulted you - and that any attempt by myself to correct it has only caused you to insult me directly.

Could this be a deep rooted dislike or jealousy of "plain intellectual snobbery" in you? Maybe it's hard to refrain from constructively building a comment when "plain intellectual snobbery" becomes a front, and this is what rushed you to insult me, rather than the issue I was commenting on.

I could go on about how "plain intellectual snobbery" actually adds to ones experience and ability; and that qualifications (plain intellectual snobbery) are nothing to scoff at. But again, I'm sure that "plain intellectual snobbery" might get in the way of what I'm trying to say, and that you'd attack me again.

I've just re-read what I've said, and I still don't see it as anything more than a neutral opinion - one I only ever so lightly support I might add.

If the rolls were reversed, and you had posted my comment (I'm not proclaiming you ever would here), I would have either
* not felt the need to reply
* replied constructively, adding new information into the debate
* replied without trolling or flaming, but offering an opinion that perhaps I was a little too generic.

You did none of these. You are flaming, and you are trolling. You are inciting my to reply (I'm a fool for doing so) and adding to what I've grown to dislike in LWN comments.