Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 19 December 2013 20:22, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
> > Agreed.  I enjoy reasoned debate.  I don't enjoy being told the reason is
> > because "that's the way we do it".  That is not reasoned debate.  It is
> club
> > support.
>
> I believe, from reading this mailing list for some time, you must be ready
> to find many stupid reasonings. But opposite is, fortunately, also true:
> there
> are people here who can help.
>
> Second, you bumped into something which is not 100% to your liking, but on
> the other hand is "simple" and works. The simplicity is, in my
> opinion, what has always
> counted for people seriously-involved in plan9 and is one of the main
> advantages of the plan9 programs.
>
> Third, it would be, from my experience, an error to expect that there are
> no
> errors/flaws in the plan9 programs. When I started to play with plan9,
> I thought:
> it is simple, there are no errors. But in reality, whatever I tried,
> it did not quite
> work. So, my advice is to be ready to find such problems nearly all the
> time.
> And since many people who created the programs are gone by now, there is
> often little effort to correct these, even if there are true bugs.
>
> That's what I think.
>
> Ruda
>
>

Thanks for your thoughtful input!

Unfortunately, I have started and continue to provoke a most unhelpful line
of discussion.  Know that it was (poorly) done with good intention
merely to draw a distinction between technical reasons and "that's the way
we do it" attitudes.

Blake

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