@blakeyrat said:
Thank you.
You're welcome.
@blakeyrat said:
I didn't know what && meant in bash. I already knew what it meant in JavaScript, C#, C++, etc... re-read the thread. Also, initially I didn't know the WTF was in bash.
There is something called a "reasonable assumption"; it's something that we do all of the time (whether we realize it or not). In this case, it is reasonable to assume that && might potentially mean the same thing in bash as it does in programming languages.
@blakeyrat said:
Re-read the thread. I did figure that out, just not right away. It took me a few minutes.
Shoot first, ask questions later. You tend to do this frequently. I'm not suggesting that this is bad, but it can make someone look foolish. $diety knows, I do this from time to time (I used to do it all of the time). I speculate that this is a common by-product for a person whose mind "runs a million miles per hour" (i.e., ADD types).
@blakeyrat said:
You're welcome to think whatever you like. But I have been telling the truth in this thread. Thanks for not just calling me "dumb", like so many other people have done.
People who sometimes do dumb things are not always dumb. If anything, I'm just trying to point out that you have a habit of going off on rants possibly because you react first and think later. Now don't get me wrong, some of your rants are justified - I may not agree with the way you go about handling certain things, but I cannot disagree with the intent of some of your arguments. Like you said, people think differently.
@blakeyrat said:
It's possible for someone to think differently than you do. It's possible for them to be just as intelligent, just as effective a developer, just as human, without being your exact clone. Geeks have this horrible, horrible tendency to forget this, to form a "groupthink" where everybody has to share the same ideas, the same way of thinking, and to exclude anybody outside the groupthink.
I love the contradiction in this statement, because I thoroughly enjoyed 1984. Now I don't explicitly remember the use of "groupthink", but I at least get the reference and can assume its meaning. However, if there are people on this board - which it is reasonable to assume that there are - that have not read 1984, they may be scratching their heads wondering what the in hell "groupthink" is. Can you see the contradiction here?
@blakeyrat said:
It seems like this entire forum wants to do nothing but send insult after insult my way because I'm outside the groupthink.
Eh, this forum is a tough audience. I expect nothing less from this bunch. But when you burst in with your guns blazing, you can also expect an equal reaction from the forum members. There is a law about that somewhere.
@blakeyrat said:
And it's not just me, look how you treat Nagesh simply because he's from India and English is his second language.
I personally have never treated Nagesh any such way. I don't honestly know if he's real, the product of someone's imagination (and boredom), or both. As such, I take it with a grain of salt. But, yes, I have picked on you from time to time - btw, it's all meant to be in good humor and fun, and not a personal attack against you as a human bean; you troll, expect to occassionally get trolled (I would never get offended if someone deliberately trolled me). In other words, you get what you give.
@blakeyrat said:
Hell, look at that poor guy, SpectateSwamp, who writes a search app for his own use, you poke and prod and make fun of like he was a circus freak. All you're going to accomplish is to chase off anybody with an original thought, leaving an intellectual wasteland behind. It'll turn into Slashdot.
There is that contradiction again. Now I used my reasoning skills to search the forums for that whole SpectateSwamp stuff, and read maybe one or two pages of it (honestly that is a LONG discussion that would take me weeks to read all of, and wasn't worth that much investment of time), but other people may not be that savvy or have enough common-sense to figure out. This is why "reasonable assumptions" are to be expected, especially on a board such as this one.
@blakeyrat said:
If that's what you want, if that's what you're after fine-- but at least be open about it so I can leave now and save my sanity, because there's no point in me posting here if the only reason anybody wants to hear my ideas is so they can mock them.
Sanity is over rated anyway. Besides, you've been here long enough (longer than me), and I would venture a guess that this type of behavior is not new, nor exclusive to just you. It goes with the territory. Besides, if the people here didn't have respect for you, or dare I say like you, then they probably wouldn't spend as much effort to pick on you. You are the pig-tailed schoolgirl to the bully boy pushing her down on the proverbial playground. In other words, we like you dude, and picking on you is our way of saying that we think you're cute. ;)