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On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:24:11 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The point is, human communication is vastly more powerful |
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+1 |
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It might not be clear in the moment, because it looks like a ton of |
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bikeshedding and other ways some individuals would label this; but it |
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will be useful some time from now, when it leads to useful results. |
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Having some people talk about things on a chat, forum, blog, ... might |
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have a short lived effect now with an occasional spike in the future; |
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but, a news item reaches a much wider public for a much longer item. |
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Let's say someone upgrades his system in some weeks / months from now, |
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that person will be thankful that a news item was written about this; |
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instead of having this be part of the already though job of updating. |
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Of course, there is a thing like "too much handholding" but I think |
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that's not the case here as the upower case pops up in a lot of places; |
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one does not have to forget that there is also "too little handholding". |
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If it weren't for genkernel or a kernel seed to help me start out with |
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a booting system, I perhaps might have never started using Gentoo; I've |
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afterwards managed to change my config over time to look nowhere near |
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the original, but at least it makes me happy to have experienced the |
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handholding to bring me where I am today. These "little things" matter. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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