On 28/10/2007, Stefan Teleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/28/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The "figure it out" option is lame; end of story. > > No, it's not. It's shorthand for "willing to put in the effort".
I don't call digging through thousands of random text strings in hopes that one will do the right thing "willing to put in the effort" -- I call that a pointless waste of time. I know, I spent *hours doing just that*. I am sorry if me sitting in front of my screen for an entire day trying to use something I've never used before only to watch it *fail* over and over again for hours doesn't meet your definition of "willing to put in the effort" -- but that's just too damn bad. I'm not going to have my efforts belittled just because someone feels like sharing a text string is equivalent to giving away nuclear launch codes. Apparently being a professional software developer for the last 8 years isn't good enough to qualify me to understand the super secret code buried in the ube strings and I'm plumb out of secret decoder rings. Yes, this is blunt and it is rude, but so is your assumption that I haven't tried. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list [email protected]
