On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 7:24 UTC (Thu) by maniax (subscriber, #4509)
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

Lennart complaining about this is THE asshole calling other people assholes. There are enough examples of this, one was Datenwolf's talk at CCC, where Lennart never stopped interrupting him, even though Datenwolf's complaints were relevant.
So maybe he is the problem in this case?

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On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 10:52 UTC (Thu) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

"Datenwolf's talk at CCC, where Lennart never stopped interrupting him"

You mean Lennart never stopped correcting him.

Correction is what happens to people when they come horribly underprepared for their talk, full of misguidance how things actually work or why those things exist there in the software to begin with, while defending their world view ( in Datenwolf's case in his world people with disabilities did not exists ) how that software is supposed to be written.

You do realize those talks more often than not are being record and that record later get's shared with the world right?

So you know that it's better to correct them then and there rather than after their talk because if you dont those correction would never make it to the recording.

On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 9, 2014 11:36 UTC (Thu) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link]

Some facts:
Datenwolf's talks was basically a long rant about many pieces of software he obviously did not understand and of which many Lennart was involved with.
Datenwolf told people to ask questions during the talk.
He confirmed that again when the organizers asked him about Lennart and told them "let him speak".
Datenwolf went even further and repeatedly _asked_ Lennart about his opinion during the talk.
However, whenever he did not like Lennart's answer, Datenwolf interrupted Lennart and just talked over him.

But surely, Lennart is "THE asshole" while wasting people's time with an extremely badly prepared talk full of _wrong_ advice is somehow ok.