Re: gEDA-user: POLL: On politeness

["John Luciani" <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your sarcasm also wastes time --- you have to type
it and others may read it.

If you were concerned with actually solving
problems you would ---

1. SUCCINCTLY state what the problem is.
2. If you have an idea to fix the problem
   SUCCINCTLY suggest it.

No smarmy or sarcastic words are required to communicate the details
of engineering issues.

(* jcl *)



On 2/27/06, Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 01:08:11AM +0100, Bill Sloman wrote:
> > In the meantime, lets all try to be as polite and smarmy as we can -
> > it is complete bullshit, but I've found that while I am very quick to
> > realise that I am being flattered because somebody wants something,
> > the flattery still motivates me to  do what is being asked!
>
> If I get a request in e-mail on Ronja it usually begins with a flattery.
> So when I see flattery, I skip the flattery and start reading again. I
> thought that I could save you some time by leaving it out...
>
> Nice words don't mean anything. I can puke a shitload of nice words in
> a minute. They are dirt cheap. Example:
>
> gEDA is a wonderful package. It actually allowed me to make
> considerable amount of electronic designs in a professional way. The
> fact that it has thigs like autoplacer and autorouter that even work
> somehow practially is amazing considering that there are only 3
> developers that are doing it in their spare time and have presumably
> lots of other things to do in their lifes.
>
> Every time I design and see that quite reasonably designed user
> interface draw quickly X primitives on the screen, I feel happiness that
> other people wrote it for free and gave me this tool as a gift. The
> boards produced make a better impression on me than those from Eagle
> because the copper filling is not sloppy and the overall design of the
> system shows everywhere that it was written by real programmers who
> have style and can do things in an elegant way.
>
> gEDA opens up new gateways to future improvement of user controlled
> technology and all this is credit of those people who wrote it!
>
> CL<
>
> >
> > --
> > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
> >
>


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