As a programmer I ask questions. That’s part of the job and eventually, it’s part of the nature. You ask questions because there’s a need for an answer: after all, it’s part of trying to find the solution for a problem. It’s not my nature to ‘second-guess’ about a solution, and as such, I do expect the same behaviour and attitude from other programmers. We’re here for the solution, after all.
Which brings me to today, Dave Winer’s item over at respectable Scripting News. Winer notices that his blogging tool isn’t mentioned in Google’s directory of Weblog tools. Instead of asking questions, he ends up in an obnoxious rhetorical rant: the typical rant of a person who is obviously personally and emotionally too involved. I find this behaviour rather unsettling.
That was weird. He will have to mind his manners in PEI this week where he could get railroaded for saying “bum” publicly.
He will have to mind his manners in PEI this week where he could get railroaded for saying “bum” publicly.
I have no idea what is driving him sometimes. All programmers I know have an ego. That’s natural. But Winer’s (baseless, as shown afterwards) accusations regarding Google tells me that something is terribly wrong. A shame.