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On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:35 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> I hate to break it to you, but there really is no such place for such |
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> queries. We generally consider it rude when users whine about stable |
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> keywording. Therefore, I don't feel bad about a short response. |
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If questions on a particular topic get asked frequently, and indeed they |
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do, maybe there should be an official place to ask them. Saying |
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something along the lines of "this is the wrong place to ask, there is |
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no right place, so don't ask at all" to a customer would get any |
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employee of any business fired or given a stern warning instantly. It |
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doesn't matter if the person is customer support, a clerk, a developer, |
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management or whatever. It's unbecoming and does not promote a positive |
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image. |
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> Not really, I can only do what I do because I read stuff. Anybody else |
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> can easily do the same. |
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That makes the assumption everyone has the same amount of knowledge you |
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did when you started using Gentoo. |
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I don't know C#, for example. As a result, any attempt to program with |
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Mono would be futile and result in failure. |
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> I would like to point out that it was you who flamed me for apparently |
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> saying RTFM, when in fact if you read my original email, I did nothing |
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> of the sort. |
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You gave a logical RTFM. You're being literal with words when the |
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meaning of what you said should be fairly clear. You didn't want to |
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answer the question, so you flamed the person who asked instead of |
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answering or defering to a more helpful individual. |
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> I merely pointed out what should have been clear to anyone |
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> that signed up for this list, that it is not for whining about arch |
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> keywording. |
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Not everyone is like you. There are all sorts of different people out |
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there who process information in a lot of different ways. Without a |
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stated correct place for asking questions about keywording, it wouldn't |
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be hard to rationalise that the proper place is the dev mailing list. |
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You say it should be obvious like it's fact. Not everything is obvious |
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to everyone--Not everyone is a Steve or Stephanie. They may interpret |
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conveyed information in different ways and the ambiguity does not help |
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at all. |
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There's a reason devs rarely answer questions. Devs should do what they |
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do best, code and fix problems according to SE principles. If you really |
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want to answer questions, go ahead, but if you don't want to be helpful, |
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don't say anything. Someone else who does want to will chime in with a |
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helpful response. |
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> Sounds like you had an agenda to bitch about and found my |
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> email to be convenient. In other words, you have no point. |
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> -Steve |
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I do have an agenda. I won't deny that. I think the Gentoo philosophy is |
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essentially perfect, both as a development philosophy and also as an |
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operational philosophy. When I see a dev who violates this philosophy |
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with the way they behave, I am inclined to call them on it. |
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Kari Hazzard |
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