From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32096 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2010 15:36:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 32089 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2010 15:36:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f43.google.com) (209.85.161.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:23 +0000 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so356548fxm.2 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.89.149 with SMTP id c21mr263380wef.73.1280417780826; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.99] ([82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h37sm516233wej.47.2010.07.29.08.36.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C51A4F4.3070608@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "it's actually jolly hard work being gratuitously evil you know" Subject: Re: Constructive criticism References: <20100728001415.GD4000@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4C50E8DD.3010806@gmail.com> <20100729055532.GA18691@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4C5198A6.6020903@gmail.com> <20100729145211.GA20303@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20100729145211.GA20303@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-q3/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 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! cheers, DaveK