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by mustache_kimono 655 days ago
> This is the wildest single thing I've ever seen on HN. You decided it would be a good use of your time to try to explain - straight to someone's face - why you (in your own words) "hate" them. Wild.

That's not exactly what I intended.

When I said "hater", I was poking fun at myself for being a "hater." Informally, in the US, a hater is simply a negative or critical person. You don't want to be described as a "hater", and I self-applied the term. But since "hate" is perhaps too strong a term for this forum (or is too US centric?), I disclaim that word as describing my feelings towards Drew, and apologize to him if I was misunderstood (Drew, I'm sorry!).

Now that we are past that word, how I feel about Drew and his writing is laid out in the parent comment.

> I mean, Drew literally says this in the article you're commenting on

I think you may have mixed up the two posts to which I was referring. It could be I wasn't clear enough.

At that part of my comment, I was referring to his initial post: "Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?" See: https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/03/Does-Rust-belong-in-Linux...

>> I might even jump in and build out a driver or two for fun myself, that sounds like a good opportunity for me to learn Rust properly with a fun project with a well-defined scope.

I'm not sure how Drew claiming he might write a Rust driver in the future lends Drew credibility here? At least not the credibility I indicate is missing from Drew's post.

However, maybe I'm missing something?

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You're apologising to someone "if he misunderstood" when you said you hated them. How magnanimous.

Maybe one day you'll spend time composing your thoughts to put out there, looking forward to engaging in a discussion on a topic close to your heart, and instead you'll find someone saying they personally hate you.