Bill Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You are certainly entitled to your opinion. �But knowing as I do that >>> you have no leadership experience in a software development role, your >>> opinions on topics like this have no weight. >> >> Argument from authority has no weight either. �If you disagree with my >> explanation for why I believe numbered migrations are bad, I'd love to >> hear and learn from why. > > I provided my reasoning in the post you're responding to. You > provided no 'explanation' other than that time-stamped migrations are > now the 'rails default'.
Quite wrong. The very post you responded to -- available at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/211974#920846 -- contained a detailed explanation of why I think that time-stamped migrations are less brittle in a multiple-developer situation; perhaps you missed the latter half of the post when you replied to it. If you disagree with anything I said there, please tell me why -- I will listen with great interest to a logical argument. I am unimpressed by things like name-calling or argument from authority. > >> Till then, it's all just blowing smoke. > > It's very clear from a review of your posts that you're simply playing > with the counter. "I'm the x-highest poster on the Rails list." I have absolutely no idea how many posts I've made here. I'm not playing with any counter. > If > anybody's "blowing smoke" it's you. And I'm going to start making > that sure your record is clear with respect to people who use these > easily manipulated stats to judge a job applicant's stature in the > community. > > You are, in my opinion, a threat to the Rails community. I really don't think I have enough power in the Rails community to be any threat to it at all, even if I were engaging in behavior that is destructive to the community, which I don't believe I am. (I love the Rails community, and everything I have done in its context has been with a view to helping it, not threatening it.) > You prey on > newbies; I don't "prey on" anyone. I try to help anyone I can. > chastising, criticizing, and otherwise castigating. That's > wrong. What? It's wrong to tell someone that he's falling into common newbie errors, and to suggest a better way of doing things? When did that happen? I don't get it. > So from now on, when you respond to a post, if it doesn't > offer real assistance, be assured that I will respond with a "marnen > is an asshole. ignore him." Interesting that you should do that after saying, in the course of interviewing me, that my posts on the Rails list had helped convince you that I knew what I was doing with respect to Rails. Of course, things can certainly change. > Piss me off just a little more and I'll > make a new hobby out of going back into the archives and responding in > retrospect. Well, post-stalking is generally considered poor form by most people I know, but if that's what you want to do, I won't try to stop you. > Ain't technology great? ! Technology is great at making sure the facts speak for themselves. Name-calling lasts forever on the Internet. > > Bill Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
