>Every day humans make me again realize that I love my dogs, and respect my dogs, more than humans. There are exceptions but they are few and far between.
You love them more than humans because they're fundamentally incapable of calling you out on your fud?
Please don't post acerbic swipes to HN. That's definitely against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd (re-)read those and take the spirit of this site to heart, at least when posting to it, we'd appreciate it.
I don't want to jump in out of turn here, but as a HN reader, I would ask that you please consider adjusting your tone. The only reason HN is worth anything is because you find the most interesting people here -- and love him or hate him, Larry McVoy has certainly earned a permanent spot.
If you like git as much as you seem to like it, you should be thanking Larry, because my understanding is that it was his decision to play hardball with Linus that led to git's birth in the first place.
If you disagree with him, the beautiful thing about HN is that you can state it politely, and you get the chance to talk to, and maybe even getting a little feedback from, a successful entrepreneur who sold source code management software to SV powerhouses for many years. There aren't a lot of people with that perspective.
Be grateful that Larry is here and willing to share some of his knowledge and experience with you (that's what "I'm retired" means; he has no obligation to evangelize bitkeeper anymore, he is doing it for your information).
Do NOT scare this type of person away from HN or make it too annoying for them to contribute. HN is nothing without such people. Seriously.
So please put on your big boy pants and show some respect and professional decorum. This is a trade outlet, not reddit, and we try to maintain some respect and not to engage in snide attacks and petty accusations.
As a change of pace, I really enjoyed your comments on k8's in the thread you linked in your profile. It truly is a breath of fresh air to see some sanity around that topic, especially with how much favor such platforms have curried on HN.
>I would ask that you please consider adjusting your tone.
I would ask that you go reread the thread where he made a pretty disingenuous claim about my experience with SCM's.
>the beautiful thing about HN is that you can state it politely
Look at the timeline of his posts. I didn't start this. You're just replying to me and making it about tone because you disagree with my positions.
> and maybe even getting a little feedback from, a successful entrepreneur who sold source code management software to SV powerhouses for many years.
And then lost it to someone's side project they made in about a year. The history of SCM's, especially proprietary ones, is essentially a history of failure.
>he is doing it for your information
I'm going to reask you to reread this thread and truly ask yourself whether he's just hear to share information. He's clearly a little bit jaded by his loss. Allow me to share this choice quote from his first response to a pretty simple claim I made:
>You all lost out on "the most sane and powerful" as a result.
He's referencing BitKeeper. Which definitely isn't sane or powerful.
>Do NOT scare this type of person away from HN or make it too annoying for them to contribute.
I'm sorry, he actively is spreading fud so I don't give a shit who he is.
>So please put on your big boy pants and show some respect and professional decorum.
My tone is blunt. His is disingenuous. Guess which one of these is more harmful to the community.
>This is a trade outlet, not reddit, and we try to maintain some respect and not to engage in snide attacks and petty accusations.
Are you going to tell this cornerstone of HN the same thing? My guess is probably not.
You love them more than humans because they're fundamentally incapable of calling you out on your fud?