<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Morris Dovey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrdovey@iedu.com">mrdovey@iedu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jeff Davis wrote:<br>
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Todd Walton wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541221,00.html?test=latestnews" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541221,00.html?test=latestnews</a><br>
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Never had it myself, but I hear it's a delicacy among the Republican crowd...<br>
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It's rarely a good idea to post comments like that.<div class="im"><br>
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1) You will (and have) offended people on the list.<br>
2) The list is archived, and 5 years from now you may be looking for a<br>
job or something<br>
and Hiring Manager Patty googles your name, sees this, and thinks<br>
"Not such a good fit in our company."<br>
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I reluctantly agree, as some readers may be young and impressionable, still lacking the experience and knowledge that would allow them to exercise capable judgment and rational discretion between intended humor and serious declamation.<br>
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It is, of course, extraordinarily difficult to engage with nearly any sizable group of people without rubbing /someone's/ fur the wrong way on /some/ subject. The vi/emacs holy wars are a prime historical example of the idiocy of blind polarization. Fortunately, most of the participants survived, matured, and moved on to more productive discourse.</blockquote>
<div><br>I bit my tongue after the original post, but clearly, this is not going to die. There is a HUGE difference between a vi/emacs holy war and the original statement. The statement was very inflammatory. The statement basically accused a large section of the country of eating babies. That, sir, is quite different than what editor is the best editor. I wonder what the response would've been if MSNBC had reported it instead of FOX News.<br>
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There /are/ those who go through life actively looking for things to which they might take offense, and they'll probably always be with us. Without doubt I would manage to offend /someone's/ sensibilities with a simple statement that my preferred programming language for the work I do is ISO/IEC Standard strictly-conforming C with POSIX extension use carefully isolated in separate and clearly identified TU's. <sigh><br>
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Five decades of software/silicon/mechanical development have convinced me that if Patty's employers allow her to hire on any basis other than the best-available expertise to get the work done, then the candidate's interests will be better-served elsewhere. It's that simple - and yes, it does require the exercise of a certain amount of courage.<div>
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Morris Dovey<br>
DeSoto Solar<br>
DeSoto, Iowa USA<br>
<a href="http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/" target="_blank">http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/</a><br>
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