Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UNIX Compatibility | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Wed, 25 May 2011 17:17:09 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:20 +0000, Michael Witten wrote: > 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.
No you weren't. I found your remark to be pompous sideline sniping.
The End.
-Mike
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