>From what I've seen you've been pretty cordial. I assumed in my oblivion I could have missed some posts, thus the "I'm staying out of it", but it was the "name calling" that set off my "flame" ding-a-ling. No need for that here. (I guess, I'm new, so, I don't know the lay of the land. Could be par for the course or whatever)
Heh. Now that's odd that you would mention VHS. Not sure how it correlates, but there's something interesting in there. Hmmm. Well, life is such a trip. Yay! :Den On 4/9/06, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well Isaac as I keep saying, everyone is entitled to an > > opinion. And mine is > > that your the one who will be left fishing for scraps, > > because I can't see > > many companies giving a job to someone like you who is so > > arrogant and > > living with his head up his own ass and thinks everyone is > > below him. Most > > big companie shave their own set of standards, and > > refusing to adhere by > > them and telling your employers they are stupid idiots for > > not agreeing with > > you really wont do u any favours. > > A solid understanding of life and people and how to get on > > with them is > > required in the real world, something you appear to lack. > > Your probably to be one of those bedroom coders who can't > > get on with anyone > > or anything so just keeps to himself and locks himself in > > a dark room where > > he doesn't have to meet people and risk getting beaten up > > cozz you cannot > > help but insult them. > > > I feel sorry for you really. > > > Russ > > Is anybody else wondering who he's trying to convince? Is there even > any reason for me to respond to verbal abuse like this? > > Am I perceived as being so arrogant? Does anybody else want to support > Russ? I'm not being snarky or facetious here, I really would like to > know if people perceive me that way. If there's a general feeling that > I present myself in a way that encourages this perception of me having > a superiority complex, I'd like to know if there's something I can do > to change the way I present myself. > > Bedroom coders: No, I gave two presentations at cf.Objective this > year. > > Corporate standards: I was at Site Manageware for 1.5 years and > adhered to every one of the standards they decided on, in spite of > disagreeing with quite a few of them. I've also done quite a bit of > Fusebox work and adhered to those standards in spite of being > preferential to other methods. > > People: I get along with them fairly well. From about the time I > joined Site Manageware I became the de-facto "answer guy" because I > enjoy helping people and the other programmers could tell that I > enjoyed helping them and that in many cases I simply had more > experience than them. It wasn't my job. I wasn't even a manager of any > kind. My supervisor made all the architectural decisions, although he > generally included me in discussion about them. Probably a good 50% of > the architectural decisions he made were contrary to my input and that > never bothered me. > > Arrogance: I do believe that I have more experience than most > ColdFusion programmers, but then I've been working with ColdFusion for > 8 years and it's only been around for a little over 10, so there's not > a whole lot of room for people to have more hands-on experience than I > do, although there certainly are some and I learn new things about it > all the time. I know when I've produced something that nobody else has > published in the community (ex: sql language abstraction, xml rule > managers), but I'm not so arrogant as to think that nobody else has > done these things and simply not published them or that nobody else > could. I also acknowledge when others have done things I haven't, like > Tartan, ColdSpring and COAL. I don't think any of us is above or below > anyone else, we just have different experiences and different > opinions. My personal opinions about the nature of programming are > based on what we know collectively about economics. During the 80's I > had a huge collection of casette tapes and VHS. They're all gone now, > asside from a handful of VHS. Why? Because the increased supply of > CD/DVD technology devalued them and made them no longer profitable to > manufacture. The same is true of any set of skills - increased supply > of new skills will bring the price of them down and devalue older > skills. > > > > s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 > new epoch : isn't it time for a change? > > add features without fixtures with > the onTap open source framework > > http://www.fusiontap.com > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237314 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
