Re: Constructive criticism

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:57:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 29/07/2010 15:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:05:10PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 29/07/2010 06:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:35:09AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>> On 28/07/2010 01:14, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:55:14PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>>>>> Darn, dropped the punchline:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Your code is 100% bogus and should be taken out the back,
>>>>>>>>> lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Then the bleeding corpse should be hung, drawn and quartered.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Then burnt.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Then the smouldering rubble should be jumped up and down on.
>>>>>>>> By a hippo
>>>>>> Oh boy.  That brought back memories.  I guess I'm glad I'm not the
>>>>>> object of the discussion though.
>>>>>  Clearly, I was too subtle in that reply.  It doesn't seem that anyone in
>>>>> that thread was distinguishing between criticising someone's code and
>>>>> criticising the person themselves.  Oh well, never mind.
>>>> I'm certainly well aware of the distinction but it's not one that I've
>>>> had much luck with myself.
>>>>
>>>>>  Well, I'm too busy to care right now anyway, I've got a whole bunch of
>>>>> parents that I have to go and tell that their babies are ugly!
>>>> Wait!  Dave!  Stop!
>>>>
>>>> Oh boy.  I'll bet it's too late.
>>>>
>>>> cgf
>>>  Actually, it all went rather well, considering.  There was an awkward
>>> silence for a moment, but then someone else spoke up and said that he'd
>>> thought so too, but hadn't wanted to say anything for fear of hurting their
>>> feelings.
>>>
>>>  Then the guy from the QA dept. said that actually that might explain why the
>>> baby had failed in some of their tests, and then the Marketing guy said that
>>> they had had some negative consumer reaction to the baby in their polling, but
>>> they hadn't highlighted it in their report because ... well, everyone already
>>> hates Marketing anyway, and before you know it it turned out that pretty much
>>> everyone had been thinking the same thing but nobody was saying it.  Even the
>>> parents were agreeing that they'd kind-of known it really, but didn't want to
>>> admit it to themselves...
>>>
>>>  ... It was all going fine until I told them to "Plan to throw one away, you
>>> will anyhow".
>> 
>> Hello Reddit users of 2015!  We of the past salute you!
>> 
>> cgf
>
>  I must admit, "Man writes rude email on internet, five years ago" isn't
>quite the cutting-edge up-to-the-minute reportage I had expected to find on
>reddit...
>
>  Anyway, can't stop.  I'm off down the zoo to kick some penguins and see if I
>can't get myself a front-page Slashdot headline next!

Memo to the future:  Dave Korn hates Linux!

cgf