Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:03:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:03:36 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Final Fantasy 2 based game source code References: <171686ae-5239-4502-9ef3-65a68e8a1a1d@googlegroups.com> <2f2dnQ_g9NZbI9TMnZ2dnUVZ7tCdnZ2d@bt.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-1HjNxmPtmq0J/9DMUiBDL5mVXRcgTukhYCpM0VDC6TJawbMwXiR4XbubObLeatffgT8mtYw27xPSpMF!Atv80vpeQhj3//G7VNszh5FP2iyAzVSWxA1J8P9HLhFH4FGRobrJ/vYReuND9kpB6fE363BlJMc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2704 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22982 On 20/03/13 14:28, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: > On 3/20/2013 8:51 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> The only possible explanation is that he gets some sort of pleasure by >> being such a dick. Or can you offer another reason ? > > People remember negative emotions better than positive emotions. So, > present your comments as a scathing critique, and it will be better > remembered and applied in the future than a melancholy response. :-) I'd probably agree with that, nothing spurs one on more that someone trashing your code ... not that anyone has ever trashed my code of course :-) However, a good teacher will always temper a scathing critique with positive advice, so, for example. DO NOT USE RAW TYPES! YECCCH! might be tempered with "using raw types isn't recommended because it bypasses the compile type type checking offered by Java generics" Succinct, simple to understand and provides a hook for further learning. We'll ignore the fact that Bloch is shouting, something which he has roundly lambasted others in the past ... I'm nothing if not forgiving :-) Scathing is fine, rude and belittling is never so. lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun