On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Aled Gest <himse...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well if you really want me to make a point about how people who are >> needlessly belligerent on inappropriate threads are evidently >> incompetent at life, that's fine. I could have a field day nitpicking >> the psychology of people who overcompensate for their own inferiority >> by directing disproportionate aggression towards hapless randoms who >> dare to suggest naive ideas. I just think development threads are more >> productive when socially inept morons aren't derailing conversations >> with fruitless personal attacks. You understand the inherent pitfalls >> of fallacious behavior right? > > I'm sure you could have a ton of field days, describing for hours all > kinds of irrelevant crap. Maybe you can read a book about adapting to > different standards within different social groups instead of > lecturing to people who don't care. It's a mailing list. Calling > people stupid is not 'disproportionate aggression,' it's just calling > stupid people stupid. Sorry if your life has caused you to consider > honesty 'aggressive.'
I disagree, there *is* "disproportionate aggression" in this list, I at least try to be disproportionately "aggressive". There is nothing wrong with this, it is exercising the most fundamental human right: free speech. As for its purpose, I agree that in some cases it is probably counter-productive, but that is for the "aggressive" person to worry about, and I still think that in some cases it can be a useful rhetorical technique to bring attention to something that might pass unnoticed otherwise. tl;dr: Being an asshole can be a good way to make a point. (Not to say that I'm good at it, but I'm trying to improve my asshole-skills.) >> No, I want a terminal emulator that can behave like a terminal >> emulator. Last time I checked xmessage wasn't a terminal emulator. > > Which extant terminal emulators behave the way your proposed > functionality describes? I have no clue, but you wanted to use a program that behaves like existing programs, why don't you use the existing programs? Reading from stdin is a basic and fundamental Unix design, and should be applied where it makes sense, I think it makes quite a bit of sense here. uriel
