On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Les Stroud <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you answered YES to more than one of the questions, then ask > yourself if Tor is not suffering from paycheck fanboy-ism? > He just started using Eclipse and finally understood why NetBeans never succeeded. We should salute his pragmatism :-) More seriously, I have seen many, many people working at Sun suffering from such a reality distortion field (probably not limited to Sun but that's a company I know very well). The amount of denial can be very, very high. For example, check out this Java ME blog <http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/> from a prominent Sun employee, which has been going on for years (I'm not exaggerating). All he does is scan the headlines every day for whatever contains the words "Java ME" (or rather, "J2ME" since "Java ME" never caught on), post the relevant snippet on his blog (very often leaving aside that the press releases usually contain Android and iOS much more prominently than J2ME) and then spin it as the confirmation of the obvious superiority of J2ME over everything else. There are many, many examples like this. It's hard to tell whether such people really believe their delusion or they are just doing this because of their paycheck (more excusable, in my opinion). Back to the Posse, I'm much more concerned about Joe's mental health :-) Joe's insistance at thinking that Steve Jobs and Apple are never wrong even when Dick and Carl point out obvious mistakes that they made is puzzling. In this last podcast alone, there was this belief that Apple's closed model is superior to Android's after this malware incident (Dick nipped that one in the bud before Joe was even able to make his point, which was pretty funny). Then there is the "Jobs never said 'nobody reads any more', it must have been taken out of context" ("Wrong" and "wrong" again). To blow Joe's mind even further, I'll add this funny anecdote: in 2003, Jobs scoffed at the idea of showing videos in iPods... "I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen" Fun times. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
