Re: Java 7 features

On Sep 11, 8:59 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In context? Yes, because in doing so you leave out a significant
point, that I also said I was not a fan of the show.

An irrelevant point. You don't need to be a fan of it to have run into
it or its newsgroup -- or even to be purposely hanging out there, if
you've got some sort of bone to pick regarding the show. Running into
a x-post in another newsgroup that originated there is even more
likely, given the amount of random and spurious crossposting that goes
on these days.

Ex-fan is another reasonable possibility.

As I just said in another post, I agree with those who say that
[insults my competence yet again]

Oh, do grow up.

I also have observed, in Usenet groups, a pile-on effect, in which
a put-down from one person attracts put-downs from others as well.

I can prove that it does more than that; that it actually alters, over
time, what people feel or believe about the target, and not in a way
the target is likely to desire unless masochism is their kink.

Could be. Maybe this would be a good point at which to comment
that a lot of my thinking about reputation in the workplace was
formed in situations in which people generally pretty much knew
who was competent and who wasn't, based on direct knowledge of
their work, and their opinions weren't much swayed by admissions of
mistakes or self-deprecating humor.

This is a set of circumstances approximately diametrically opposite
those observed on the internet (namely an enormous number of
pseudonymous people that are strangers to one another, plus the people
who don't know you well yet who will one day google you).

It's unsurprising that what works for you in the one set of
circumstances would be totally inappropriate and worse-than-useless in
the other.

But in technical
newsgroups, it seems to me that one can form opinions based on
people's work rather than on what they or others say about it.

This is a strange claim, since most of us here see very little of one
another's work, save the odd snippet of example code. And all of that
is likely shoddier than our usual code output, despite being on public
display, because the nature of the medium is such that it's generally
written in haste into something that doesn't lint it as we type it and
never compiled or tested first. :)

(Worse for us GG users, where it's written into something that doesn't
even have "save as draft" or similar options -- just "send" and
"discard", and if the power goes out or the browser goes bang before
you finish it and hit "send" ... not an environment conducive to proof-
reading and careful copy-editing, nor to anything but type it in as
quickly as possible and send it before Something Goes Wrong(tm).)


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