1/ François is getting a lot of heat for this. Yes, it can be argued that he’s belittling the hard work of others. That's a less charitable interpretation. But I doubt he had ill intent. Is it his responsibility to make sure nobody’s feelings get hurt in his venting over a tool? https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1205941768023236608 …
1/ I think it’s somewhere in the middle. I think there’s a bit of an unreality to being thrust into the public spotlight when you were previously just an engineer. Like for myself I know a bunch of people know who I am now and hear what I say, but there’s little perceived actual
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2/ tangible experience of this online. It’s weird, and things wind up not feeling too different than they were previously. So it’s easy to feel like you have license to say what’s on your mind and not feel the full ramifications of it. He may very well be arrogant
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3/ but my guess is it’s the common smart engineering nerd variety and that’s pretty easy for me to forgive as I can definitely relate to that and am still working on undoing that after all these years. That gets tough when people keep telling you you’re great lol
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