Imperfection is still imperfection.
Imperfection is still imperfection.
Posted May 24, 2015 4:24 UTC (Sun) by gmatht (subscriber, #58961)In reply to: Congratulations on all the bites, Mr. Edge by ksandstr
Parent article: The programming talent myth
[0] seems to apply fairly well to social issues. It is easy to alienate social groups without any active malice. Just treating everyone equally isn't nearly enough to achieve equality (think "all religious groups shall receive an equal amount of pork"). And of course, avoiding pork doesn't come close to ensuring that a meal is kosher/halal. Labeling someone who has freely given everyone, including a minority groups, open source software an oppressor because they haven't done a perfect job of proactively welcoming hundreds of minority groups would be rather harsh.
On the other hand, [0] drives home that imperfection is still imperfection. Marking all equality bugs as WORKSFORME, and labeling Kaplan-Moss a parasite purely because he is looking for a fix also seems rather harsh.
I don't see anything selfish about admitting that he might not be exceptional, nor have I seen any hard evidence that he isn't actually exceptional.