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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source
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bla2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:02 UTC] No.17515883[source]▶
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(

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sjm-lbm ◴[12 Jul 18 16:09 UTC] No.17515955[source]▶
It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696

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vxNsr ◴[12 Jul 18 16:34 UTC] No.17516240[source]▶
O_o I wonder how many times I've spoken to someone and didn't realize who it was/how important they were because of the anonymity of the internet.
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freehunter ◴[12 Jul 18 17:15 UTC] No.17516660[source]▶
I know I've gotten into heated arguments on here or on Reddit with very well-known figures in the tech world without realizing who they are until after the fact. Luckily I don't think I've every argued with a developer about their own product before... that I know of.
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swyx ◴[12 Jul 18 17:21 UTC] No.17516715[source]▶
i have a great solution: speak to everyone like they are a human being with feelings :)
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1. TimTheTinker ◴[12 Jul 18 17:31 UTC] No.17516795[source]▶
* slow clap *

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