Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Christian Parpart wrote: [Thu Sep 01 2005, 05:45:43PM CDT]
> 
>>This just leads me to assume you're not really a coder (wrt native
>>programming languages like C/C++), are you?
> 
> 
> *Grin*  This sort of condescending attitude is rarely wise when it comes
> to dealing with Gentoo devs.  Not only does it tend to annoy people
> (yes, I'm a tad annoyed by the presumption), but since you're still
> relatively new here the odds are that people know the person you're
> being condescending to better than they know you, and thus it just makes
> you look bad if you're wrong.  Feel free to ask people what I do for a
> living, and whether they suspect that I know the difference between a
> 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit int.

Ha! Yeah ... kids these days... just don't respect their elders like
they should ;-). I have seen more and more 'newish' devs speaking their
minds like this without even knowing/asking the person. I guess respect
and tactfulness isn't being taught anymore...

And yes, Grant definitely knows the difference :-)

Cheers,

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Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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