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Nate Cox

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  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • I’ll take it a step further and say that most of the people I’ve worked with have been amazing. Really just some very enjoyable people to be around.

    Something about the field though seems to really attract the super assholes and they’re so assholish that they color the perception of the whole field.

    It’s really unfortunate how a very loud, very obnoxious minority can have such an outsized impact.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • “Being mean to people is a good thing because it teaches them to [something]” is an indefensible sentiment.

    Yes, nobody is entitled to your answer to a question and you’re fine to just not answer any question you don’t want to. Being a dick about it, though, is actively harmful to both the person you’re being a dick to, and the community you’re participating in.

    It’s interesting that people defending being a dickhead so frequently fall back to accusations about intelligence. E.g.:

    If you want to keep asking questions unintelligently, though…

    For a group of people so very concerned with intelligence, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to explain to you the concept of emotional intelligence.

  • Trump drops threat of tariffs over Greenland

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  • Don’t fall for it, EU. Don’t restart the trade agreement talks.

    This dumb asshole will absolutely still do all the shitty things he wants to get Greenland.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space?

    I wouldn’t walk into a strip club period, but for all of your other examples I would absolutely go to those places to figure out how to interact with them. Frankly, I do not understand why you wouldn’t. Who is more qualified to explain to you how to interact with them than the people you want to interact with?

    You’re accusing me of “white knighting” (hello, painfully 2010s virtue signaling catch phrase) for saying that people shouldn’t be shitty to each other. I’ll counter by accusing you of enabling that negative behavior by making excuses for it.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • I’m glad that I was a beginner before SE. I think it may have pushed me out of my field before I even got started.

    Exclusively book learning may have been more difficult in some ways but I’ll take it over SE any day of the week.

  • Why are programmers so rude to beginners?

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  • No.

    All of the “rules” you’re describing are effectively just gaslighting people who have been bullied into thinking they asked for it. It takes so little effort not to be a dick to people. It’s like the lowest effort thing I can think of.

    Asking questions is fine; asking without doing prior research is fine too. Online bullies want others to think you need to have a PhD thesis on the topic before you’re allowed to ask a question and that mindset is ridiculous.

    Ask your questions @alina@lemmy.world, don’t apologize for it, and just ignore the assholes. It’s totally fine to look for a human connection first, you don’t need that doctorate beforehand.

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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  • You’re right, controlling how local governments elect representatives and spend money and disseminate media narratives has absolutely no outcome on general elections.

    Totally.

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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  • Do yourself a favor and google the terms “gerrymandering” and “voter suppression”. You clearly don’t have any idea what they are from your response.

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    To Every American Who's Sorry (from the Greenland subreddit)

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  • Did they, though? Or has a generational institution of gerrymandering and targeted voter suppression simply become insurmountable?

  • I always laugh a little when packaging says "Vegan & Plant-Based"

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  • Oreos are vegan. Vegan doesn’t inherently mean plant-based.

  • Announcements

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  • If you want to add 1 and 1 together, you must first invent the universe.

  • Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

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  • Amazon Games confirms MMO New World has a year left before it goes offline permanently

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  • Too bad but not unexpected. I think the game itself had potential; I like the classless concept and there was a “just go out and play” feel that was cool.

    The story, however, was… was there a story? I honestly can’t remember one. Also the PvP systems were dumb.

  • Trump threatens tariffs on countries that disagree with Greenland takeover plans

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  • You might even call it his trump card.

  • Trump threatens tariffs on countries that disagree with Greenland takeover plans

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  • The rest of the world needs to just embargo us at this point.

  • it's just the worst

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  • They want you to "quit demonstrating"

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  • it's just the worst

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