Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UNIX Compatibility | Date | Wed, 25 May 2011 14:20:09 +0000 | From | Michael Witten <> |
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On Wed, 25 May 2011 06:18:28 +0200, Michael Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:31 +0000, Michael Witten wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:16, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: >> >> > No one ever bothers to deal with issues because they are tiny, >> > nit-pitcky things that no one other than standards mavens would care >> > about. You have to be someone who is extremely anal to really care >> > about this kind of stuff. It's really stupid stuff... paper pushers... >> > >> > If you want to waste time out of your life that you'll never get back... >> > ... >> > ... standards committee, as full of ivory-tower eggheads as it is, >> > does have some folks who recognize that there is such a thing as >> > the Real World)... >> >> The world would be a better place if you weren't so needlessly >> confrontational when sharing your knoweldge, Ted. > > Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative > description of a mindset. Ted's usage added useful information to the > conversation, unlike the pompous interjection above.
At first I thought you were labeling as `pompous' my suggestion that the world would be improved by the introduction of a little more civility in our discourse, and so I was confused.
However, it ocurred to me that you were actually admonishing yourself for your preceding sentence:
> Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative > description of a mindset.
Common vernacular among whom? Among the leathered-handed thick-necked hacks bumping around mindlessly in the fog at the base of the ivory-tower?
Oh. Perhaps, though, you are unfamiliar with that particular common vernacular for colorfully describing a mindset...
Everybody brings a different brain to the task at hand, and it is foolish to dismiss an entire class of brain, especially by indirectly insulting a particular person.
Ted just got finished telling Richard that Richard thinks about tiny, nit-picky, really stupid stuff on which only egg-headed paper pushers waste time that they'll never get back.
We don't need that kind of thing.
Sincerely, Michael Witten
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