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[OT] Re: is laziness a programer's virtue?
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| D Herring 2007-04-16, 10:03 pm |
| Xah Lee wrote:
> In a couple of posts in the past year i have crossed-posted (e.g.
> recently “What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities”, “is laziness a
> programer's virtue?”, “On Java's Interface (the meaning of interface
> in computer programing)” ), there are a some controversy, and lots of
> off-topic and careless follow ups.
Please don't dismiss so many posts as being "off-topic and careless".
> I think a few things today's tech g ers should remind themselves:
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> • If you deem something off-topic to “your” newsgroup, and want to
> tech-g by changing the “follow-up group”, start with yourself.
> Please do not cross-post yourself, and tweak the follow-up, and
> proudly proclaim that you changed the follow-up as a benign gesture.
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A few more points:
- I know many gs but not so many gers...
[url]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ger[/url]
- Please topquote snippets from the threads about which you are commenting.
- Please set your newsreader to prepend "Re: " or somesuch when replying
to a toplevel post.
- Please don't preach about "meta-talk and policing" in a post which is
mostly meta-talk and preaching.
Thanks,
Daniel
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| Michele Dondi 2007-04-17, 8:04 am |
| On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:58:52 -0400, D Herring
<dherring@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
>- Please topquote snippets from the threads about which you are commenting.
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>- Please set your newsreader to prepend "Re: " or somesuch when replying
>to a toplevel post.
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>- Please don't preach about "meta-talk and policing" in a post which is
>mostly meta-talk and preaching.
FYI "Please" is probably a word that XL ignores completely. Thus do
what most humans in their sane state of mind would do. Killfile it. If
for some reason you can't, then ignore it. Certainly, do not feed it.
Michele
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