perlmeditation
princepawn
Looking at
[id:134344|merlyn's responses] to my criticism, I have to say
what you say makes sense to me... in fact it does seem to
be part of your nature to want to save people for their own good even
when they don't want it.... just look at the number of times you have
spent your world-class skills begging people to not write another
templating system here. Just look at the number of times that you have
spent creating links to your well-written industrial-strength articles
(that the asshole censor cum dictator [am I paying vroom to continue
his dictatorship?]
[vroom] has removed) so that people can do
things in a way based on the work of a true genius, yourself.
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Frustrating, isn't it?
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It is scary how poorly run some of these major companies are. I can
just see [merlyn] sweating bullets thinking about what might happen to
the price of hardware if someone got in and destroyed some of their
data.
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[id://117324|As I have said before with complete sincerity],
you are one of the greatest altruists in the Perl community
and no doubt what you were doing there was some great work.
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I will just take what happened to you as a lesson to me. From now on,
whenever I see wrong, I will have to simply stay in-line. Everything
is not meant to be done right or with justice. I used to worry about
senseless violence.... "if there is a good God, why are innocent
people killed everyday"... then I realized "why am I so worried about
people killing people when tornadoes do it to humans all the time".
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We humans live for cooperation and equality. I was floored when
reading Ariel and Durant's "Lessons of History", which makes it
plainly clear that nature unabashedly thrives on competition and
discrimination. As sad as it may have been for Intel, and as painful
as it must have been for you to scream at the top of your lungs at
them, at some point for your own personal health and safety, you just
have to play the pacifist role to some degree or another and
dissociate yourself from your sense of duty.
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In other words, I [id://121184|wrote a post]
here which was basically about why
I left Oracle. You would think that a Perl-only group at the
#2 software company in the world would have 5 or 6 Damian Conways
5 or 6 more Randal Schwartz and a couple of Larry Walls to round
out the bunch. Not so, I was floored by how completely out of the
know these people were. They were a bunch of non-thinking
rule-obeying robots being overworked by a couple of demonic, controlling
egomaniac manager types who probably never heard of the term "let's
discuss the pros and cons of your solution versus mine." They would
bring in people from overseas and in fact now have a new India
Development division which will save money but will in fact ensure the
continued trend of non-thinking subservience.
They were using hand-coded poorly conceived
versions of [cpan://App::Config]. They had their own crufty
memory-eating, buggy [cpan://HTML::Template]. They had an
impotent featureless [cpan://Test] that had serious useability
problems. I was the most talented Perl developer I met in person in and
out of my group, hands down, no contest. And without question, I think
that is a shame. In fact, the reason that
I posted [The Top Perl Shops] was so that in my next job I could be
saying "yes, I am working under so-and-so and I am happy with his
decision because he is 4 or 5 times better at me than Perl". I want to
work for a [merlyn] or a [japhy] or even though we fight a lot,
[tilly] is 100 times better at me both at Perl and Philosophy of
Programming and I would work for him to and deal with his abusive
personality because he is clearly well-versed.
<small>
And I can here [tilly]'s reply: "you have demonstrated that you are
not
worthy of working with me" and that is the difference between
[tilly] and [merlyn]. [merlyn] believes that people can improve and
become better with time, regardless of past infractions, while
[tilly] is basically sentences you to a life of losership once you
offend him.
</small>
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Concluding, I find
[id://134333|jynx's statement]
<blockquote>
The monastery is supposed to be a place for monks to come
together and work in peace and harmony
</blockquote>
to be very dangerous. You are basically saying let us come to this
place and drop our ability to think critically and only accept what is
around us. There is a saying "friends tell you what you want to
know. enemies tell you what you need to know." In other words, in a
real monestary
<a href=http://www.madregrande.org>Such as this one I just spent 31
days of intensive Buddhist medititation at</a>,
you come to work on your personal issues and get many
lifetimes of self-destructive originally voluntary, now automatic
habits corrected via intense personal
work. It is only in a cult that people work in harmony because they
are given a set of rules and they all mindlessly abide by them.
Resolution conflict is an important skill and not showing a person their faults is bad for that person and unhealthy for a group as a
whole.
But it may take a couple of testicle fondlings in "peace and
harmony" of a catholic brothel or a few large-scale larcenies in the
"peace and harmony" of choose-your-cult-here before you get the idea
that wrong is wrong and needs to be pointed out even if everyone there
has glazed eyes and a glowing (but falsely gained) sense of happiness.
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But why am I saying this? Shouldn't I just see that [jynx] cannot
listen to reason? Shouldn't I give up on him? he is
narrow-minded. one-viewed. short-sighted. No amount of reason will
change him. But then again, why should Ido to him what [tilly] does to
me. I have to keep the [merlyn] spirit. Keep chugging away at the
dense. Keep trying to save them
</small>
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And now that [merlyn] answered by criticisms rationally, I think he
does have a case and I feel sorry for him. But had I held my tongue
and not lashed out at him, we would not have come to this
understanding. Perhaps I might learn a better way to present my
arguments or perhaps I might like to post as a cowardly Anonymous
Monk, but the fight for truth must continue.
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But the final issue we need to deal with is your presentation. You
presented an outside link to a case that we are all vaguely familiar
with instead of a detailed document which would answer questions such
as the ones I posted. [merlyn] is a smart person who has done all his
homework. he knows the Perl manpages and more. But in being so
knowledgeable, you are in huge minority at this monestary. Only 1
percent of the people here can see things at your level of
clarity. The other 99 percent will not understand you. Thus, when you
get downvoted, it mainly means that a bunch of less-brilliant people
cannot relate to a brilliant one... Einstein was another person who
had a lot of problems integrating into society. so you have a choice,
continue with "one sentence of mine, and 4 relevant URLS is worth your
time to go figure things out" or you can be like [Ovid] and explain
everything from the ground up. As long as you maintain the latter
attitude, you will get downvoted by people who simply dont have the
time or background to fathom that approach. And people who take the
time to reformulate everything from the ground up (and [Ovid] seemsto
be the best at this), will receive the accolades from the masses that
they deserve.
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all the best [merlyn]