alt Hacker NewsFair enough.
The word “naive” was a strong one to throw at you, but I think in the context it reflected irony and humor, not disrespect.
Anyone who learns anything looks back on a naive version of themselves. I remember thinking a lot like you, too.
(I don’t think things are collapsing, but do see significant unnecessary regressions in the state of programming: Madness, insanity, everywhere! :)
> Anyone who learns anything looks back on a naive version of themselves. I remember thinking a lot like you, too.
I'm so glad that for the most part in my early internet days (early 2000s), I was pseudonymous. I tended to have very strong opinions about stuff I had barely just learned and didn't have experience to get nuances. My political opinions have completely flipped and I look back on my young firebrand days and unfortunately see lots of young people repeat the same vapid shit that I believed because I was ignorant but convinced it all followed from simplistic crap ideas I was raised with.