[Cialug] Wow.

[Dave Hala Jr]

Life's too short to sweat the little things.



On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:17 -0500, Morris Dovey wrote:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
> > Todd Walton wrote:
> >> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541221,00.html?test=latestnews
> >>
> >> Never had it myself, but I hear it's a delicacy among the Republican crowd...
> >>   
> > It's rarely a good idea to post comments like that.
> > 
> > 1) You will (and have) offended people on the list.
> > 2) The list is archived, and 5 years from now you may be looking for a
> > job or something
> >     and Hiring Manager Patty googles your name, sees this, and thinks
> > "Not such a good fit in our company."
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
> 
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