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Member since:2006-04-19
I am honestly a staunch BSD supporter, but prefer Open over Free. I am not a daily user of them, but I use them, I use openSUSE mostly at the moment. But even though I'm a far far cry from any kind of an engineer or developer, I don't know any programming languages only some commands, I am also not willing to talk with most open source people, because of exactly your experience. I am a get-to-the-point kind of person, with other things too not just computing, so I've noticed over the years you have to be very careful who you ask, because people seem to feel such a strong need to bring their opinions into everything. So although it might sound like I'm arrogant or anti-social, it's because I'm honestly not interested in hearing anybody's opinion when I'm asking a technical question, when it's not a philosophical discussion, since opinions don't help in any way in how to operate a system. If someone asks me anything, I do my best to give them to the info they need to fully answer their question. When I ask a technical question, I would greatly prefer a technical answer, and if the end result of the answer sounds like I'm going to turn my system into a ticking time bomb, that's fine, because I can work with that, but opinions and rants I can't do anything with. So I understand exactly what you're saying, and so I've learned to just learn and research everything on my own with open source stuff, the majority of people don't interest me. I would have to say Theo is one for the few people I've ever had discussions with that gives a fully informative answer. I honestly don't know his opinion on a lot of things, he just answers so straight, so he's one of the few I enjoy talking with whenever I do because he is never irate with his answers, just very practical.
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2005-07-06
There's is nothing worse that rude people when you need help. I had been using the IO language to write a library of generic object storage in a SQLite database. I was using 200605XX version, all worked well. I had written thousands of lines of code, it was pretty huge and very flexible.
Then I upgraded to the 200607XX version... it stopped working. It use to scan the modules and preload the necessary built-in references, but that behavior changed so that you had to explicitly reference them to load them before instantiation.
So I posted a note asking if this was intentional or if it was a bug and one of the developers literally started swearing at me and calling me names?!?!?! I was like "What the heck?! I was just asking a yes or no question" and he's telling me to f*ck off.
So I got mad and threw away all that code and removed IO from my system. Not the best response on my part after all that work (dipstick that I am).
But just because he was having a really bad day, he spread it to me and everyone else on the board that day.