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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I know looking at it from the outside can look like throwing a fit, but as a software dev I can assure you our professional life is a constellation of papercuts and stumbling blocks on the best days. It is a fun job in many ways but it’s by its nature extremely frustrating at times. For professionals, the inherent frustrations are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, the rest of the iceberg being induced frustrations due to work environment causes of various nature, and a lot of devs who also develop stuff in their own free time do it to regain a sense of purpose and control.

If these kinda hiccups keep happening even outside the day job of a developer, it is absolutely understandable that the reaction is simply to cut the bullshit rather than grabbing yet another shovel to shovel away the shit you’ve been covered with this time.

Ultimately, the cost benefit analysis for keeping uBOL hosted on mozilla’s platform became skewed on the cost side and the additional expense is not one that gorhill can or wants to afford.

So, yeah, it’s not a hissy fit.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think throwing a fit and it being a hissy fit are the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t think throwing a fit and it being a hissy fit are the same thing.

~~the things people will debate online~~

edit: I beefed it on this one. They were being normal and I misunderstood. Note to self to think before typing in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Throwing a fit can mean getting angry. It being a hissy fit would mean the cause was something childish and not serious.

I'm not trying to debate it, if you look I'm the one who originally wrote the comment so I'm trying to explain what I meant.