On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 11:24 AM, Robert Myers wrote: > > If you think you know what you are talking about, perhaps you would > > consider a fixed-fee contract on a perpetual motion machine. > > > > From a practical point of view, all possible states of a program > > cannot be examined and tested. If you want to think of some extreme > > state (the assumed hardware gives misleading answers, for example) as > > a "bug," so be it, but I wouldn't be hiring you to manage anything. > > I hope you realize that you lose a lot of credibility when you stray > from discussing technical matters to sarcasm in order to debase a fellow > poster. > A veteran of many Internet wars, I am long past worrying about what people think of my "tone." Someone will *always* find a reason to take exception. As to self-righteousness, I deal with that on lists that address theology. It's a big no-no, but my telling you so makes *me* self-righteous. Finding a way out of that trap is roughly like violating the Halting Theorem.. If you don't want people pointing fingers at you, then don't point fingers. Robert.
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