Comment by Aeolun
4 years ago
> could they not have collaborated to put together an improvement in Windows Terminal?
My experience with people that want to collaborate instead of just recognizing and following good advice is that you spend a tremendous amount of effort just to convince them to get their ass moving, then find out they were not capable of solving the problem in the first place, and it’s frankly just not worth it.
Much more fun to just reimplement the thing and then say “You were saying?”
Haha I just saw the youtube video with the developer demoing his project and the text in his terminal literally reads in Hindi "you can wake up someone who is asleep, but how do you wake up someone who is just closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep?"
The developer surely was having a tonne of fun at the expense of Microsoft. Perhaps a little too much fun imo.
> Much more fun to just reimplement the thing and then say “You were saying?”
The thing is NO ONE likes to lose face. He could have still done what he did (and enjoy his "victory lap") but in a spirit of collaboration.
To be fair, MS folks set themselves up for this but the smart-alec could have handled it with more class and generosity.
This was purely self-inflicted.