Except he's been reading Slashdot for years. And I didn't reply to your childish post to talk about the feedback he's gotten to his post, his experience with Slashdot, or other users' behavior. It was to address your response, just like my last response was to address the fact that you should have spent your time giving him your advice rather than making a corny joke. As for me, I signed up for Slashdot just to respond to the idiotic comments people were making about his life, since I know what's going on in it. I don't pretend to be a Slashdot expert. But I would have at least thought that other computer programmers/nerds would have been a little more understanding. You can call me naive if you want, but you're just plain stupid if you think I'm going to let you be a self-righteous jerk to someone I care about.
"I live with a woman" is not a peculiar way to say you live with your girlfriend when the original insult was "Find yourself a WOMAN (or a MAN, if that's your thing" (or something to that extent).
And of course I got "snitty" with you. The logical thing in this situation would have been to have offered him your paragraph long advice, rather than make some incredibly lame and trite joke at his expense. Why even bother? In posting an Ask Slashdot article, he *gasp* actually expected to get some (ready for this?) REAL RESPONSES, and not just criticisms about his life (of which you know nothing - I could be his sister or his friend for all you know) or stupid juvenile jokes. He expected to be able to come to a community where people would understand his love for programing, and not the other way around. Nice try on the "I was just playing the Slashdot game, and now that you've irritated me I'm taking the high road" approach, but it's not working.
Except he lives with his girlfriend, and miles and miles away from his mother. Where did you write this comment from? The room in the basement of your parents' house?
He has a woman, and has had one for some time. Nice of you to keep the conversation on a mature level by resorting to comments ilke "What are you, a retard?" Guess what, I write/edit for my profession, and I recently started a side company in my SPARE TIME doing - OMFG - writing and editing! I guess that means I do nothing and that there's no hope for me, right? Sorry that we both love what we do and have a passion for it that far exceeds what your mind can comprehend.
Just because someone loves what they do doesn't mean they have no life. Gaining experience by wanting to do more work is not a shortcoming or a fault, nor is it something to be mocked or reviled by a group of NERDS. Besides the fact that he does bring work home occasionally, but not to the point where it affects his social life or otherwise. Maybe, before jumping to erroneous assumptions (such as that he does nothing but program), you should have put some intelligent thought into your response so that you didn't come across as an imbecile.
He goes out, he gets laid quite frequently (almost every day), and does quite a bit that's not programmaing.
So you're not passionate about what you do. So you don't love programming as much as he does. And seems to me that your "jack-of-all trades" abilities are comprised of making seething, insulting generalizations about people whom you don't even know.
He's most definitely not a brownnoser, and he has plenty of purpose in his life. I'm not even sure what your comment that he likes to "take it" is supposed to mean, unless you're referring to the fact that he enjoys programming.
Not everyone has to get loaded to have a good time. He does drink, and he does socialize.
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Except he's been reading Slashdot for years. And I didn't reply to your childish post to talk about the feedback he's gotten to his post, his experience with Slashdot, or other users' behavior. It was to address your response, just like my last response was to address the fact that you should have spent your time giving him your advice rather than making a corny joke. As for me, I signed up for Slashdot just to respond to the idiotic comments people were making about his life, since I know what's going on in it. I don't pretend to be a Slashdot expert. But I would have at least thought that other computer programmers/nerds would have been a little more understanding. You can call me naive if you want, but you're just plain stupid if you think I'm going to let you be a self-righteous jerk to someone I care about.
"I live with a woman" is not a peculiar way to say you live with your girlfriend when the original insult was "Find yourself a WOMAN (or a MAN, if that's your thing" (or something to that extent).
And of course I got "snitty" with you. The logical thing in this situation would have been to have offered him your paragraph long advice, rather than make some incredibly lame and trite joke at his expense. Why even bother? In posting an Ask Slashdot article, he *gasp* actually expected to get some (ready for this?) REAL RESPONSES , and not just criticisms about his life (of which you know nothing - I could be his sister or his friend for all you know) or stupid juvenile jokes. He expected to be able to come to a community where people would understand his love for programing, and not the other way around. Nice try on the "I was just playing the Slashdot game, and now that you've irritated me I'm taking the high road" approach, but it's not working.Except he lives with his girlfriend, and miles and miles away from his mother. Where did you write this comment from? The room in the basement of your parents' house?
He has a woman, and has had one for some time. Nice of you to keep the conversation on a mature level by resorting to comments ilke "What are you, a retard?" Guess what, I write/edit for my profession, and I recently started a side company in my SPARE TIME doing - OMFG - writing and editing! I guess that means I do nothing and that there's no hope for me, right? Sorry that we both love what we do and have a passion for it that far exceeds what your mind can comprehend. Just because someone loves what they do doesn't mean they have no life. Gaining experience by wanting to do more work is not a shortcoming or a fault, nor is it something to be mocked or reviled by a group of NERDS. Besides the fact that he does bring work home occasionally, but not to the point where it affects his social life or otherwise. Maybe, before jumping to erroneous assumptions (such as that he does nothing but program), you should have put some intelligent thought into your response so that you didn't come across as an imbecile.
He goes out, he gets laid quite frequently (almost every day), and does quite a bit that's not programmaing. So you're not passionate about what you do. So you don't love programming as much as he does. And seems to me that your "jack-of-all trades" abilities are comprised of making seething, insulting generalizations about people whom you don't even know. He's most definitely not a brownnoser, and he has plenty of purpose in his life. I'm not even sure what your comment that he likes to "take it" is supposed to mean, unless you're referring to the fact that he enjoys programming. Not everyone has to get loaded to have a good time. He does drink, and he does socialize.
You don't work a true 40 hours a week, who are you trying to kid? ;)