AdmiralKanos wrote:I would have preferred that he stay but learn to get along with others. It's one thing to have a few people with whom you have feuds, but with Azeron, it was more like fifty. And despite his protestations, he had very finely honed techniques for enraging people.
He even managed to annoy the hell out of
me, and I'm not that easy to irritate. . . (although erecting a wall of ignorance and abusing decision theory are both good ways to start)
But with Azeron, I know that he is intelligent, but his views are a little scewed for my taste is all... Am I making any sense, or am I just soft?
No, he showed sparks of intelligence. The problem was that he was so unrelentingly abusive. His habit of wildly exaggerating his opponents' positions into incredibly caricatured strawman distortions made him few friends.
That, and heavily implying the existence of his awesome programming skills, and somehow trying to use that to justify his illogical positions.
(That tactic is bad enough normally, but trying to use it on
me was just plain insulting. . . of course, there was no way to tell
him that without stooping to the level of 'I'm at least as good a programmer as you!" Fortunately, I was able to resist the temptation, and just ignore most of that crap. . .).
It just seemed like such a waste of intelligence on stupid, irrational ideas
"People should buy our toaster because it toasts bread the best, not because it has the only plug that fits in the outlet" - Robert Morris, Almaden Research Center (IBM)
"If you have any faith in the human race you have too much." - Enlightenment
