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177 points colinprince | 1 comments | 24 Sep 17 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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kweinber ◴[24 Sep 17 19:23 UTC] No.15326066[source]▶
This is also an important example of how limiting an anti-social attitude can be when trying to collaborate and have a large affect on the world. As brilliant as Jon is, he wasted an inordinate amount of time making up for constantly insulting people, places, and approaches. (Even today he couldn't avoid insulting all of Tulsa OK).

Imagine where windowing systems could be if his brilliant work, API thoughts, and insights weren't delivered with insults, arrogance and vitriol.

At the end it is sad that he was proud of being right even though he was an _hole (his word). It could have been that he was right and his best ideas were in common use.

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1. akira2501 ◴[25 Sep 17 02:08 UTC] No.15327628[source]▶
> how limiting an anti-social attitude can be when trying to collaborate

There are those of us who see collaboration as orthogonal to innovation and thus don't put any effort into it. Fortunately, there's a good mix of talent and dispositions out there to make up for it.

> Imagine where windowing systems could be if his brilliant work, API thoughts, and insights weren't delivered with insults, arrogance and vitriol.

Imagine a world where everyone is the same and has the same set of values. That may seem like paradise to some, but it sounds like doom to me.

> At the end it is sad that he was proud of being right

He was proud that he didn't compromise, even though that would've been easier, and no one would've faulted him for it.