Re: [tlug] rpcbind --needed?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:24:39PM -0500, Josh Glover wrote:

>Bad ideas meet with ridicule on this and most highly technical lists. The
>sooner you learn to not take it personally, the sooner you can get down to
>the real business of learning The Unix Way.

Unsolicited Jonathan Translation:

-----
If somebody tells you that something you did/are doing is the stupidest
thing they've ever heard, it's best to take a look at what you did or
are doing, because odds are pretty good that it's stupid.  Don't shoot
the messenger for telling you the naked truth, and don't confuse being
told that your idea is stupid with being told that you are stupid.
Sometimes people who are not stupid do stupid things.  Sometimes even
really smart people do stupid things.  No one is perfect, and the shortest
way from doing a stupid thing to stopping it (and after all, who wants
to do stupid things?) is being told that you're doing it, so you can take
action to stop it.
-----

I've never had an idea that I was told was stupid during peer review
that I didn't later wind up abandoning.  If a truth is harsh, that
doesn't make it untrue, and this isn't some kind of PHB meeting where
we all need to sit around lying in our teeth trying to advance some
political agenda.

WRT Steve Turnbull, he is indeed extremely clever and experienced, which
is why those of us who have been around here a long time and aspire to
cleverness were sad to see him leave and thrilled to see him return.
If what he says is the unvarnished truth, well, put your own varnish on
it if that will make it look better in your living room.

>http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=crybaby

Ah, yes, good old Rick of linuxmafia.com.  I always liked him :-)

Jonathan
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