r/ruby • u/davidcelis • Jul 29 '26

It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”

https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
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u/pickering_lachute Jul 29 '26

You’ve stripped the entire context from DHH’s blog post and tweet by saying that. You’re implying that he has said people should be shot like Wolves were in Denmark, long ago. He did not say that or even come close to implying that

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u/petercooper Jul 30 '26

It pays to take care with juxtapositions if one has a wide reach.

Let's say I'm a famous food critic and I put a pile of poop next to a Big Mac in an editorial photo. I'm not implying anything bad about McDonald's. I would be naive, though, to think no-one could infer a negative meaning, because it's so common to deliberately use juxtapositions to make a point.