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

"Twisted" <twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oliver Wong wrote:
The problem is that you didn't even bother to try googling at all.

I never do for a three-letter query. 999,999 times out of a million it
will be a waste of time.

[hostile stuff deleted]

So, showing your true colors at last? You're just another one of them?

[snip everything else]

Put an honest effort to read through this part from the original post:

<quote>
It's not your "obvious lack of google-fu" that they're pouncing
on, but your "obvious lack of effort". The problem wasn't that you put in
the wrong Google query. The problem is that you didn't even bother to try
googling at all. And the even bigger problem is that you automatically
assumed that Google would not return useful results without even trying it.
And an even bigger problem than that was when people told you googling for
"ant" *would* return a useful result, you argued with them, despite that
there existed a trivial, easy to repeat experiment to demonstrate that you
were wrong: namely to try actually googling for "ant".

So really, your google-fu level had nothing to do with why you got
pounced on, IMHO.
</quote>

You don't need to agree on whether or not these things I'm claiming you
did are actually problems or not, but do you agree that you did in fact do
all of these things?

If people were getting angry at you because your google-fu level was
very low, then they'd probably be getting angry at you unreasonably. But I
think the reason they're getting angry has nothing to do with google-fu. And
if you want to know how to avoid having people getting angry at you, the
first step is to figure out what it is that you're doing that's making them
angry.

- Oliver


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