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Herby Vojčík

An essay on Silk

https://medium.com/@herbySk/silk-is-just-too-flexible-24835693d463

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Joe Shirk

Re: An essay on Silk

410 Error -The author deleted this Medium story

Browse for great reads on Medium.com

On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 2:19:53 PM UTC-4, Herby wrote:

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Herby Vojčík

Re: An essay on Silk

Yeah, I left Medium because of some issue which I found incompatible with my world view.

Richard Eng moved the article here: https://smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/silk-is-just-too-flexible/

Herby

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Sean P. DeNigris

Re: An essay on Silk

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Herby Vojčík wrote

Yeah, I left Medium because of some issue which I found incompatible with my world view.

Would you be willing to share that with us? I still don't really understand Medium...

Cheers,
Sean

Herby Vojčík

Re: An essay on Silk

[PERSONAL]

Well, it's really political / cultural. I don't feel like bothering
people on the list with the details.

I am on the right-wing, pro-life, anti-LGBT-rights,
anti-redefine-marriage side. After US Supreme Court (IMNSHO, tragic)
decision, the logo of Medium changed to rainbow colour and stayed such
for some time.

I won't host my articles on the site that can put that thing on any of
my articles, without asking me. I do not join their sentiment and do not
think it is something worth public celebration; on the contrary.

(other poisoned sites include ie. bitbucket and github - I already
deleted my personal account on bitbucket, creating one only for purpose
of my actual job; and actively looking for some replacement to github -
which may as well mean I would need to stop taking care of amber or even
contribute to it)

Herby

Sean P. DeNigris wrote:

> Herby Vojčík wrote
>> Yeah, I left Medium because of some issue which I found incompatible with
>> my world view.
>
> Would you be willing to share that with us? I still don't really understand
> Medium...
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> Sean
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Herby Vojčík

Re: An essay on Silk

Herby Vojčík wrote:
> [PERSONAL]

Well, seems that it sent to the list anyway :-/ even if I wanted to only reply personally. Shit happens.

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NorbertHartl

Re: An essay on Silk

> Am 18.07.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Herby Vojčík <[hidden email]>:
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> Herby Vojčík wrote:
>> [PERSONAL]
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> Well, seems that it sent to the list anyway :-/ even if I wanted to only reply personally. Shit happens.
>
Yes, shit happens. And I'm glad not sharing a mindset like this, sorry. Otherwise I would stop using amber.

Norbert

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Herby Vojčík

Re: An essay on Silk

Norbert Hartl wrote:
>> Am 18.07.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Herby Vojčík<[hidden email]>:
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>> Herby Vojčík wrote:
>>> [PERSONAL]
>> Well, seems that it sent to the list anyway :-/ even if I wanted to only reply personally. Shit happens.
>>
> Yes, shit happens. And I'm glad not sharing a mindset like this, sorry. Otherwise I would stop using amber.

People _shoukl_, IMO, "vote by feet", eg. moving away from bad places. Otherwise policy makers of those bad places won't ever get the feedback. Like this, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott. But I understand a lot of people just don't think it's worth it, compared to their immediate personal losses.

> Norbert
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horrido

Re: An essay on Silk

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Medium is a cross between a blogging site and a "publication" site. Many organizations use it like an online magazine. For example, there's a "magazine" devoted to all things war-related. There's one related to science. Et cetera.

The thing about Medium is that they make it REAL EASY for you to look GOOD when you publish an article. My publications are a case in point. They may or may not contain rubbish, but–damn!–they look good. Some of my popular articles include:

The Three Worst Programming Languages
The Smalltalk Revolution
Dart is Dead
A Word from The Beegoist
The Case for Go Web Frameworks
The Zen of web2py
How to Choose a Programming Language
A Gentle Introduction to Amber

I'm really hoping that "Amber Alert: We can do mobile apps!" (due next week) will be another hit. By drawing attention to these articles via Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, I can reach–and have reached– a lot of people around the world.

I absolutely love this platform. It's much, much, much better than WordPress, which is what I used to launch Smalltalk Renaissance. You see, Medium is also an "aggregation" site.

I would highly recommend Medium if you want to get your voice heard.

On Saturday, 18 July 2015 11:35:09 UTC-4, Sean DeNigris wrote:

Herby Vojčík wrote
> Yeah, I left Medium because of some issue which I found incompatible with
> my world view.

Would you be willing to share that with us? I still don't really understand
Medium...

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horrido

Re: An essay on Silk

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I don't let my personal politics commingle with my technological bent. I respect Herby's views, even if I don't agree with them. I won't lose sight of the goal, which is to promote Smalltalk. And if that means using Medium, GitHub, WordPress, etc., so be it.

I can still use Medium, Facebook, or whatever to advocate for other causes (and believe me, they are controversial), but there will ALWAYS be dissenters. That's life.

On Saturday, 18 July 2015 17:28:11 UTC-4, Norbert Hartl wrote:

> Am 18.07.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Herby Vojčík <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href='javascript:';return true;" onclick="this.href='javascript:';return true;">he...@...>:
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> Herby Vojčík wrote:
>> [PERSONAL]
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> Well, seems that it sent to the list anyway :-/ even if I wanted to only reply personally. Shit happens.
>
Yes, shit happens. And I'm glad not sharing a mindset like this, sorry. Otherwise I would stop using amber.

Norbert