From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corey To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:42:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.34-rc4; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <20100416115756.GA1107@polynum.com> <201004251904.20025.corey@bitworthy.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004261142.36229.corey@bitworthy.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] [PlanX] Re: Mars Needs Women Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e826b3e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Monday 26 April 2010 06:06:11 erik quanstrom wrote: > > I'd prefer not to narrowly frame things in terms of my own personal > > needs. > > that kind of thinking made linux what it is today. > You can quit being obstinate now, the threat has been eliminated - sleep soundly, knowing that Plan 9 is once again safe... from being turned into... linux? The. mind. reels. > > Despite my best efforts, I'm still seeing folks inferring or projecting > > the following fallacies: > > > > * I'm being a troll who's objective is to embroil people in arguments > > * I'm being a motormouth who wants nothing more than to gab on and on > > * I'm trying/hoping to change 9fans culture in my own image > > * I'm trying/hoping to change Plan 9 'proper' according to my own notions > > * I'm trying/hoping to convince other people to do work on my behalf > > i believe in duck typing. > Is this your sad attempt at leaving a snarky hook? Your implementation automatically treats all but a very narrow and somewhat arbitrary set of values as type Troll.That's the problem with duck typing. Better to have a message outright fail than to have it interpreted and applied incorrectly. Sounds like you could benefit from some unit tests. The problem is that in this case there's a massive bug in your program logic - your knee_jerk_reaction(), tunnel_vision() and dogma() methods appear hardcoded somewhere to intercept and override all messages that would be better handled by your benefit_of_the_doubt() or think_rationally() methods. No doubt we can play insult-one-another-via-programming-analogy ping-pong all day long, but I'm done with this thread, and the subject in general: the vocal minority who have taken it upon themselves to purposefully sabotage communication have finally become impossible to tolerate.