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Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Christian Parpart wrote: [Thu Sep 01 2005, 05:45:43PM CDT] |
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>>This just leads me to assume you're not really a coder (wrt native |
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>>programming languages like C/C++), are you? |
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> *Grin* This sort of condescending attitude is rarely wise when it comes |
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> to dealing with Gentoo devs. Not only does it tend to annoy people |
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> (yes, I'm a tad annoyed by the presumption), but since you're still |
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> relatively new here the odds are that people know the person you're |
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> being condescending to better than they know you, and thus it just makes |
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> you look bad if you're wrong. Feel free to ask people what I do for a |
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> living, and whether they suspect that I know the difference between a |
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> 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit int. |
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Ha! Yeah ... kids these days... just don't respect their elders like |
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they should ;-). I have seen more and more 'newish' devs speaking their |
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minds like this without even knowing/asking the person. I guess respect |
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and tactfulness isn't being taught anymore... |
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And yes, Grant definitely knows the difference :-) |
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Cheers, |
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