On 10/12/2013 09:56 PM, Ray wrote:
I don't know Richmond - I kind of disagree with you, albeit
respectfully so. You've apparently taken some time to write down your
concerns here and that's to be respected. I'd just create a junk mail
filter and be done with it.
That will block out the 'background hum' but it won't stop others
getting a false impression about computer programming.
Actually, I'd kind of like to see the masses get into scripting more.
I'm all in favour of more people learning how to program computers.
What I am not in favour of is giving people the false impression that it
does involve quite a bit of time adf effort.
I've always found it fascinating and I don't view myself as a brain at
all. I don't even know what the word prognathous
Probably best to reach for the dictionary :P I don't think, last time I
looked, that knowing what the word 'prognathous' meant was one of the
prerequisites to label oneself as brainy.
means :-)
Best wishes and please stay with the community as it changes along
with the relentless passage of time.
Oh, you can be sure I will, and continue to make fairly full-frontal
assaults like this one :)
Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software
On 10/12/2013 2:49 PM, Richmond wrote:
Why do I feel that RunRev have been scraping the barrel recently?
I wonder if the, unintended, result of their open source initiative
is that their income has
dropped considerably; hence the rather childish adverts.
My e-mail inboxes (I have 2 e-mail addresses that are personal and
one for my Devawriter)
seem to get at least one RunRev advert a day, and, as such, I don't
mind that.
But there is something I don't like; the implication of these adverts
seems to be that any old moron
can write computer programs ; something that is palpably not true.
And my ego feels bruised by
the corollary that if any old moron can write computer programs with
Livecode then I must be any old moron (and I'm not; I'm a special
type of moron in a category of my own).
Certainly that "BE THIS GUY" (Who would you rather be? and the answer
is 'anybody else') advert does not
do RunRev many favours; it comes out of the British 'dumb everything
down to the stage where its just simply insulting' school of thought
that seems to be pretty well all pervasive throughout the British Isles.
This started with the slightly prognathous girl on the new RunRev
website who is spacing out with her
mall-rat friends (Scottish valley girls; the open sewer that runs
between Edinburgh and Glasgow, starting
with Westerhailes [heroin capital of the world] and moving through
Hamilton [Buckfast tonic wine capital
of the world]; 2 national disgraces and social bombsites whichever
way you look at them) and has moved slowly down-market from there
("'down market' from Westerhailes" I hear you ask; well, I did see
somebody injecting themselves with heroin in a carpark right
smackdown by the river Tay in Dundee in 2003; so, if one thinks about
parts of Lochee and Hilltown, it is just about possible).
As somebody who has learnt about 9 programming languages (and most of
the people on the RunRev use-list will better me there), I am well
aware that learning to program is NOT for any old moron, and to imply so
with "Tracy Beaker on Speed" types of adverts is disingenuous insofar
as it gives any moronic programmer wannabees out there a distinctly
wrong impression, and it will drive away more intelligent and
motivated typoes towards programming languages/IDEs/packages that
don't promote themselves through kiddy-crap.
The whole thing reminds me of a Steve Martin film called "The Jerk",
where, at one point, Steve Martin, playing the epynomous lead
character, is drinking some multicolored cocktail out of a glass with
a paper umbrella in
it, and pointing at an advert the same cocktail saying "be somebody".
"With 8 x 1 hour long lessons and a 1 hour 1-1 Skype Session and a
Live Q&A Session every week you could produce the #1 selling app."
Possibly; but not if you are a person who wants to "be somebody" in
the way the advert presents things.
RunRev produce a fantastic product; a product that can produce simple
Powerpoint-like slideshows to incredibly complicated stuff (my
Devawriter being about 25% along that line); so advertising Livecode
like
this is just doing RunRev a disservice.
------
Jump on me.
Agree.
Disagree.
BUT; Please, don't keep quiet. I do feel that as parts of what
RunRev choose to call a 'community' and
like to tell us that we have some sort of say and input on what their
company does, we should voice our opinions in this respect (as well
as all the others).
------
Richmond.
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