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Re: Why “new”?

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On 08-02-2011 06:17, Ken Wesson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:38:01 +0800, Peter Duniho wrote:
>> If you can't admit that you should have been able to find the
>> information you sought on your own, fine.
>
> Sure I could have tried mucking about with assorted google queries. I
> just plain didn't feel like it. Satisfied?

That is usually called being lazy.

>> It's certainly not worth any of the rest of our time to keep hassling
>> you about it.
>
> Then why are you? Hassling me, that is. At least four people have flamed
> me here in the past 24 hours -- you, Arne, Lew, and Mike. And all because
> I did two apparently-especially-heinous things:
>
> 1. I asked what J was.
> 2. On encountering a term for which I foresaw more than one possible
>     connotation, I made no assumption about which was intended, rather than
>     guess right OR guess wrong.
>
> Now, please tell me:
>
> 1. what is wrong with asking what J is (ignore that this is a Java
>     newsgroup and J is apparently nothing to do with Java; that wasn't the
>     focus of the flamage); and
> 2. what is wrong with taking a term at face value instead of assuming
>     (with the risk of guessing wrong) that it was (or wasn't) intended in
>     a sarcastic manner.

The biggest problem is not what you did not know or did not do,
but how you react when it was pointed out.

> If you can come up with no plausible theory by which EITHER of those
> actions of mine is morally wrong, then I respectfully request that all
> four of you that I have just named post apologies.

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing

Arne

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Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 15:48 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:30 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 22:58 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm@myrealbox.com> - 2011-02-09 15:31 +0000
  Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-07 19:10 -0500
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 12:17 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-08 23:05 -0500
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-08 20:24 +0800
  Re: Why “new”? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-07 09:18 +0100
    Re: Why “new”? Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-02-07 16:38 +0800

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