Comment by zarzavat
1 day ago
To paraphrase an Internet aphorism, don't have personal relationships with mentally unsound people. There are many ways to ruin someone's life, cancellation is but one of them.
If someone really wants to ruin your life, they will find a way. The most effective way to avoid that is to screen your partners aggressively.
This is great advice, I’ll start applying it as soon as I figure out a universal test for “mental soundness”.
All people are imperfect. Many people act in ways that don’t make sense to me. But labeling someone “crazy” and refusing to associate with them is a big judgment to make.
The aphorism you're referring to, is it "don't commit your code to an unstable repository"?
Yes, being policed by the mob is terrible.
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You don't know someone until you know someone.
The challenge of course is that the really dangerous ones hide how dangerous they are.
This is why I generally try to avoid women.