Time to do a Man's Work ??

[Bruno Medeiros]

What?? That previous discussion was bad enough that it drove Andrei 
away? That's unfortunate :/ .  I hope it's only temporary.


James Dennett wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> David B. Held wrote:
>>> Perhaps there is a small element of personality cult involved, and I
>>> think Andrei is popular partly because he is a personable and
>>> entertaining guy at times.  He has strong views on many topics and
>>> defends those views vigorously.
>> To everyone but us, it seems.  I'll admit I'm more than a bit
>> disappointed that Andrei gave up on public discussions of D.
> 
> There's a distinction that seems key for constructive
> discussion, that does not seem important to some here:
> the difference between attacking/defending our technical
> creations, and attacking/defending the people involved.
> 

Indeed. And we are software engineers*, we should know better than the 
average person how to not only to detect the difference, but to 
*abstract* one thing from another. (this was actually one of the points 
covered in that Google presentation I mentioned recently) It seems thats 
not the case, as emotionality still takes over rationality for many 
people, even "smart" people.

* (developers, coders, hackers, whatever)

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D