I don't think you needed paragraphs like "My guess is that some high-level greedy marketing dickwad, completely unaware of the asinine implications of his brilliant idea, signed off on this dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks pricing model. He then directed the grunts to somehow implement his grand vision on GitHub’s servers. That’s when shit started to hit the fan." ... to get the conversation started. Your other points were sensible and lucid. This was a distraction and had the paradoxical effect of making me more sympathetic to github. The same looks to be true of other posters in this thread.
If you were consciously choosing to take a hyperbolic tone, can I ask if you might reconsider that decision in future posts? Or at least concretely test your idea that calling people "dickwads" and "grunts" gets you more traction.
I appreciated you raising the bandwidth question, and comparing it with other services. You made a good argument.
Thank you!
It's just as much within his rights to call someone out for it as it is for someone to write as he likes.
Clearly the post was written for an audience. Being needlessly inflammatory could certainly turn the audience off, and/or undercut the author's credibility. Ansiton's advice was both helpful and valid.
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I don't think you needed paragraphs like "My guess is that some high-level greedy marketing dickwad, completely unaware of the asinine implications of his brilliant idea, signed off on this dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks pricing model. He then directed the grunts to somehow implement his grand vision on GitHub’s servers. That’s when shit started to hit the fan." ... to get the conversation started. Your other points were sensible and lucid. This was a distraction and had the paradoxical effect of making me more sympathetic to github. The same looks to be true of other posters in this thread.
If you were consciously choosing to take a hyperbolic tone, can I ask if you might reconsider that decision in future posts? Or at least concretely test your idea that calling people "dickwads" and "grunts" gets you more traction.
I appreciated you raising the bandwidth question, and comparing it with other services. You made a good argument. Thank you!
It's his personal blog not some corporate blog or newspaper.
I'm not sure it's within your rights to ask him to change the way he writes within his own bubble because you don't like his word choice.
It's just as much within his rights to call someone out for it as it is for someone to write as he likes.
Clearly the post was written for an audience. Being needlessly inflammatory could certainly turn the audience off, and/or undercut the author's credibility. Ansiton's advice was both helpful and valid.