You know how many conversations I have with people who are mad about a problem, and I tell them that's the reason we have a policy they didn't follow, and then they say they should tell people that that's the reason for the policy, and then I tell them they do explain it, right where the policy is written. Oh my God, you didn't read the policies before you did this, did you!? What else did you miss!?

> wiping $40B and several people's life savings

Okay, you shouldn't dump your life savings into a cryptocurrency that claims to be doing innovative things in the first 2 days. But if that's true that guy ruined multiple people's life's work. That's a bit mean-spirited, wouldn't you say?

That's absolutely not it. What you're describing is part of the UNIX philosophy: programs should do one thing and do it well, and they should function in a way that makes them very versatile and composable, etc.

And that part of the philosophy works GREAT when everything follows another part of the philosophy: everything should be based on flat text files.

But for a number of reasons, and regardless of whatever we all think of those reasons, we live in a world that has a lot of stuff that is NOT the kind of flat text file grep was made for. Binary formats, minified JS, etc. And so to make the tool more practical on a modern *nix workstation, suddenly more people want defaults that are going to work on their flat text files and transparently ignore things like .git.

It's just that you've showed up to an wildly unprincipled world armed with principles.

This part I've heard from social media sources and haven't seen in reputable documents, but some of Afroman's claims about the police officers and their history of sexual abuse is apparently based on claims from the same informant that were never investigated.

The whole thing stinks and I'm glad attention has been thrown on that department.

There's an interesting parallel to Formula One, where there are limits on the computational resources teams can use to design their cars, and where they can use an aerodynamic model that was previously trained to get pretty good outcomes with less compute use in the actual design phase.

I literally watched someone Google "masonry bit" right in front of me.

> we want to operate like the world’s largest startup

This is a phrase I hear repeated by leadership a lot, and it's usually code for "why doesn't everyone else just make the business grow faster?" It is almost always, as in this case, followed by statements that suggest they don't understand what is actually different about the way a start up functions and why they stopped operating that way at some point in the first place.