Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

This is definitely the longest discussion I've taken part in, and as
some other posters have said, by this point it's almost purely for
entertainment.

Twisted, stop flattering yourself. Nobody has pulled any dirty tricks
with Google Groups to limit your postings. I've been bitten by this
limit in the past when involved in very heated discussions in political
newsgroups. (You think this discussion is a flamewar, you should see
some of those!) Making threats over the internet just makes you look
like a buffoon. Especially when you make remarks like "don't expect
your computer or internet connection to last till the weekend". That
one made me laugh out loud!

It is rude to post disingenuous caricatures of a person to a public newsgroup. Don't do it again.
Oh, please. Is this another veiled threat? Don't make me laugh. It was
a perfectly reasonable comparison to the current debate (which really
ended long ago).

Are you still so pissed about everyone's disagreement about your
ass-backwards approach that you have to continue blasting any new
advice you are given? It's an established way of solving a common
problem (See design patterns). There's no new ground-breaking discovery
to be made here; _especially_ not your method of doing things. A Java
source file should be that, the source of a Java class. Not some
bizarrely-encoded image icon. If the String class weren't final, would
you advocate creating String subclasses for each string literal you
want to use in your application?

And by the way, don't bother using smiley emoticons when it's perfectly
clear that your posts are inflammatory and not in a joking tone. Also,
nobody thinks you are witty by using Capitalized Phrases(tm), and it
just makes you look like more of a fool.

I've never seen anybody in such denial about a flawed approach and
never seen anybody reject so much advice from so many experienced
posters who initially responded to your message with the intention to
help. You see it as an attack on your methodology, but it is more
experienced developers (by your own admission, calling yourself a
newbie) trying to steer you in the right direction. Instead you decided
to take it as a "challenge" from the "alpha male" (a really stupid
analogy by the way).

But by all means, Twisted. Post and flame on. This whole conversation
is a gem. Some great highlights:

* Software only does what its name implies
* Google is flawed because it doesn't return results that you think it
should
* You are a mighty hacker and will disable the computer and internet
connection of anyone who dares censor you in a public unmoderated forum
* Standardized build tools like Ant are unreasonably complicated to
learn and have no use in small projects.

One remark though on the Google issue - Google is a search engine and
they catalog what is out on the Web. When somebody runs a search, i.e.
"ant", it's going to return more relevant results first. In this case,
relevancy means its popularity, how many pages link to it, etc. It
doesn't just "know" that there is a more mainstream use of the word
"ant" and return results for that instead. There is more "buzz" on the
Internet about Ant, so that's what Google finds. If you don't like it,
you'll just have to deal with it - Ant is a hugely popular tool and
isn't going away anytime soon.

You mentioned before that you don't have the desire to be a
professional software developer. Thank God for that; I'd be miserable
if I had someone as stubborn and unreasonable as you on a project team.

--
jpa

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