2010/9/23 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:41 -0500, Myra Nelson wrote:
One would hope this is enough to end the BS, it's getting tiring.
Myra Nelson
Did you just compare the service of highly-paid lawyers and doctors with voluntary time on the Arch ML? =)
My observation is that most of the responses so far are based on the poster's history rather than the particular question asked, rightly or wrongly.
No, I was comparing the expertise. I consider this list to be populated with individuals with a lot of expertise in the field of programming. That is what makes it worth reading daily. Also the wiki is excellent and being improved all the time. I mention the wiki due to the tremendous improvement in that area over the last 3 or 4 years. In the past I've had wiki pages I had to study for several hours and work through more than two or three times to get it right. However, after 10 knock downs, I think it gets a little long winded and tiresome to keep at it. Eventually it serves no purpose and in some cases leads to extraneous side tracks (ie wiki pages removed most recently) that don't serve the overall discussion; IMHO. My other point was, it might be simpler to point out where this information can be found without the "really dudes's" and "who are you's" etc. Part of the problem, from both sides is a culture clash, one that's hard to reconcile and too long to debate here and now. My view comes from having the opinion that if I training you to do something and I have to tell you more than twice how to do it, I don't need you. Somewhere along the line I discovered not all people could grasp what I said the way I said it. I knew what I was doing and how it should be done, training logging engineers in the oilfield, and just couldn't understand why no one could get it. It's friggin easy. Might it be worthwhile to link to ESR's "How to ask questions the smart way" or link to it in a wiki page. At some point the discussions seem to become "bikeshed". I would like to thank you for the courteous reply. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!