On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 09:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > See "Tip 3" in: > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/systemd.html While I can see that attitude in closed source software, as yet another vendor lock-in, I'm more inclined to go with a point I saw raised, elsewhere, about ADD programmers (attention deficit disorder)... When a thing doesn't work, rather than work on it, debug it, and make it better. Just reinvent the wheel, make yet another thing from scratch, and hope that it's better. Rinse, lather, repeat. Sure, as someone who does electronics engineering, I can understand situations where you look at a thing, and decide that there's just no way that you can modify it to make it good, so you do need to start over. But it really smacks of incompetence if there's a stream of things being handled in this manner, one after another. And then there's the ego of "I didn't invent it, so it's no good, and I want everyone to fawn over me, instead," attitude. I've come across programmers with huge egos, but no real surprise there. If they didn't think they were better than someone else, they wouldn't be inventing something new that does the same job as something else. The real trouble is when their /thing/ doesn't work that well, and they won't accept criticism, nor do anything to fix it off their own bat. You don't even get the cranky, "well if you're so good, tell me exactly what to change to fix it," you get the "if you don't like it, go away bulldust." (In this case, it was some closed-source Windows software I used, over a decade ago. So nobody needs to get their knickers in a twist that this was a veiled slur at anyone in particular on this list.) -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.5-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 20:28:39 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
