Dakota Jack wrote: > I flat don't believe this. Who, what, where, when, etc? >
Uh... you're saying you don't believe I've managed and/or worked on large projects at large companies? Or you're saying that you don't believe that I've had (occasionally _substantial_) issues with sub-standard coders having commit rights to said projects (which I would think is a no-brainer)? (Two good ones pop immediately to mind: why is the laser printer printing everything as a mirror image? Hint: it's not a printer setting, and it's somewhere in that 1.2 million lines of C and C++ code. Why does Beavis occasionally hover 8-16 pixels above the ground under certain pad inputs combined with one of two specific moving obstacles? That's somewhere in 16K of self-modifying Z80 assembly language. Ooo, how about trying to fix a 300-line lisp macro written by somebody else that really didn't know lisp? Or the completely undocumented 64K of 8051 assembly and C pump control system that wanted a pressure compensation algorithm but it was kind of hard to tell which of the multi-processors you needed to add the code to? Or the cereal boxer written in Forth that would occasionally (think 8-bit overflow) shoot cereal more or less everywhere?) NOT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE COMMIT ACCESS. Non-trivial things can happen when they do. Either way, why on EARTH would I give a shit what you think? I've been doing this for 20 years in essentially every major software field there is (and about 10 years non-professionally before that) and somehow I've managed not to alienate nearly every user of this list and still be a pretty good programmer. Somehow I manage to not threaten people with lawsuits if they call me a name. Tell me why I should care what you think, 'cuz I'm having problems with this one. And for those of you flooding me with "don't feed the troll" emails, I know... but now "Dakota Jack" is directly questioning my honesty and my history, which I do _not_ take kindly to. I am many, many things, not all good, but a person who does not speak the truth is not among those things. I spend most of my non-computer time in a dojo where them's fightin' words. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
