On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:10:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> > >> Which is another way of saying that you want others to have already made > >> the mistakes for you. > > > > No it isn't! Ponder why most people take their car to a mechanic for > > servicing. > > And you snipped: > > >> As long as you recognize that somebody has to make the mistakes, > >> and don't mind watching and learning while they do, that's not necessarily > >> a bad thing, given courtesy and quid-pro-quo, of course.
Not on purpose. I didn't see it. It wasn't near that paragraph. > Paying a mechanic is one kind of quid-pro-quo, wouldn't you say? Don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who pays their mechanic to make mistakes. Au contraire in fact. > Do I need to unpack that a bit more, talk about how testing is a > substitute for making mistakes? No thanks. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141013135359.GC2362@tal
