On Jul 23, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Robin Houston wrote:
I think the TextMate community is pretty wonderful by the standards of technical communities in general […]
I can only second this.
I found it about as surprising s/o actually followed Thomas' "hint" as the "hint" itself. Like… s/o jumping out of the window because he was told so. Thomas has always been a worthy member of this community. I have 345 messages from Thomas in my TextMate mailbox and he's always been friendly and helpful. It's tragic that somehow this comment made it through Thomas' reality check AND someone really followed the bad advice. We shouldn't judge the whole community for this single incident.
I wish I had a 0.3% error rate in my comments and at the same time I hope my 0.3% error will not be that bad.
Niko.
As a side-note I don't think connecting this list to whatever bad smell you have with the ruby community is helpful in any way.