ridicule

* Are you going to get ridiculed for failing?

Satire works when you hold folly up to ridicule.

But this constant ridicule of "the Enterprise" is getting on my nerves.

I don't agree that that constitutes "ridicule", in Winer's words.

For my trouble I shared in the ridicule, and later got a talking-to about "teaching things when people are ready for them.

"This is almost the worst part of it for me. Those people get to play "the voice of reason" at the time, but they don't receive any of the deserved ridicule when their fantasy world doesn't pan out.

Instead of cheering on idiots who get acquired for outrageous sums, ridicule them.

Something to keep in mind before you ridicule the small number of representatives who are actually friendly to tech.

He was direct and took pains not to ridicule a thirteen year-old for making an entirely age-appropriate mistake in measuring the results.

If you want to really disrupt a market or community, you will often face difficulty, incredulity, ridicule, and unfair play.

"And while you're busy learning the basics, we'll just wait until you release something so we can publicly ridicule you on Twitter because you did something we don't approve of.

A lot of hackers do like to ridicule him for those reasons, which I think is a mistake - despite those shortcomings, his body of work is still full of ideas and theories that you won't find anywhere else.

The amount of patience, perseverance and determination required to make this a successful venture is enormous, but add to that the ridicule and criticism of your peers and it must be extremely difficult.

It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots.

The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital.

I met Aleksey at Yale a few months after the video had gone viral and found him to be a nice enough guy who was intelligent and interesting to talk to, though it was clear that he had serious emotional issues as even then after all the ridicule he felt compelled to boast of unlikely achievements almost as a reflex.

How can we as a development community rationally expect to grow the open source ecosystem and encourage people with this type of snobbery?There's one lesson that I'm personally taking from this, after unsolicited ridicule, one sincere apology, one bullshit non-apology, and one arrogant I have nothing to apologize for!