deprecating

But of course that's a self-deprecating joke more than a statement of what theoreticians really think.

He wraps it in a self-deprecating tone of humor, which may come out as ignorant but is in fact just him being humble.

If you judge people for being self deprecating, you wind up self selecting people who overpromote themselves

Self-deprecating humour is almost never offensive, even to the group you're a part of.

Is there any stated reason for deprecating CalDAV support?

It also helps that he is very quick, very intelligent, and has a sense of self-deprecating humor

I find his hyper-self-deprecating tone at the beginning of the talk to be a little off-putting.

I assumed it was the work of the programmer tasked with installing the key for the NSA, not some self-deprecating humor.

We're deprecating our platform for releasing technically interesting experiments that don't make us money

Why else would someone with good karma go out of their way to flag this _review_ from Anandtech of all people?I am sure people are waiting for the inevitable deprecating takes of Gruber, Marco, Siegler etc.

When somebody directs "derogatory" remarks at themselves, it's called "self-deprecating".

Find the self-deprecating humor quite amusing, but even better is the actual description:"Because Javelin's design focuses heavily on solving scalability challenges, it isn't appropriate for everyone.