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And I decided to investigate the contents of the article I reported after seeing your post on his 3rd submission - the non-article bullet point list.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ah.
He has another in the queue as well - which makes it serial plagiarism...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Gone.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Check this post[^] where he/she abused me with the F word. And in case he/she edited here is a qouted link[^]
Your immediate action is requested...
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Is this how you handle your immediate action requests
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I wasn't aware that I was to drop everything when you give me an immediate action request.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Its how you treat your community and how they behave if you don't take action them Chaos will overtake.
Now I have your attention I'm waiting for your action regarding my report.
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No. It's a book review in a book review section.
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ok thanks. I updated my post. but it contains link to one ecommerce site?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Gone
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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this post[^] from her.[^]
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Perp is gone. Post needs another kick or two.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I don't think that he was happy being told to rewrite the app. While VB6 may be outdated tech, we shouldn't try and impose views on people and tell them that they are wrong. Where do we draw the line? Telling people that they should use node.js because ASP MVC is so last year? Or how about telling people that they should use Scala instead of Java? Or Clojure?
The point is, telling him that he should use a different technology for an already written piece of software isn't always the best option. I'm not surprised he was angry. I'd probably have been a bit peeved as well.
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Thank you for your opinion, Pete. Although i disagree with you. No one have got right to shout on the others, even if i told Him to rewrite application using .net programming language. My comment wasn't abusive and i don't attacked Him personally. Don't you think so?
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To be fair I've seen far more abusive comments directed to users of VB6 than ML's comment. The guy was a bit very OTT in his reaction ... but then fear and panic will do that to a soul, as will realising that he shouldn't have left it so elephanting late to do something about his legacy software! I've been in the same position. At least my excuse was that I wasn't high enough up the tree for the elephants to hear my shouting ... got me a couple of contracts afterwards though
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Maciej,
I do agree with you and strongly disagree with Pete and Dave. First of all, you did not tell this guy anything wrong. Dave's and Pete's (the guy was disappointed with your suggestion to rewrite the code; but this is only for the good of this inquirer, and is only a suggestion!) comments are ridiculous. You only gave some idea, and you never allowed yourself some personal characteristics.
I'm not sure it was worth reporting though. Almost every time I report things related to behavior of some inquirers, many members object against calling it an abuse. I personally make a big difference between criticism and rudeness, and between manners (which are always a matter of style and social agreement) and direct manifestation of unacceptable attitude and low morale. I can see many facts that in modern Western civilization, criminals and other low-morale people get more and more benefits over honest people under the mark of "tolerance". A person can rob you, but you can be arrested for calling this person rude. The tolerance is intended to protect weak people, but many weak people often develop low morale. A no-good engineer (weakness) spoils everyone's work but when you just tell him his work is no good, he will run to complain to your supervisor. On this way, decent people are going to be eaten by morons. (I'm not just going to discuss the usual objection "who decides who is moron and who is not?" I just won't.)
Look at the very last example example, pretty simple. I only told a person to move the code from comment to the body of the question. Look how much aggression it created:
how to draw a graph from an xml file[^].
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Like I suggested in my comments, he's getting aggressive because he is panicking. I guess if I'd been the "sole developer" for 10 years of XP with VB6 and 350k lines of code to convert I'd be panicking too ... oh, hang on a minute, nope - I DID know it was coming 10 years ago, wasn't in a position to influence the management ... ah, and it wasn't my own company :-P
I have to say that I never thought all of those compulsory "understand different cultures" *training* courses I had to suffer when I worked for a multi-national company, would ever come in useful. But here I am, thought the Russians were bad, then I came across the French, and now it's the Yanks! (Just kidding guys!)
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Thank you for you nice and wise comments. Your description of aggression under the feeling of panic is very accurate. (Speaking of which: remember the "tradition" of killing a messenger who brought bad news? )
As to the cultural difference. They are essential (and very interesting to me), but there are even more essential common human invariants. Speaking of which:
Every day, I receive standard daily package from Russian site of anecdotes: 10 new anecdotes, few new real stories, a block of aphorisms, and something else; I read only anecdotes and real stories. I want to tell just one of the brilliant anecdotes which I slightly adopted to the topic of the Q & A forums:
Ask a question on American Q & A forum, and, instead of an answer, you will receive… a short instruction on what buttons do you have to press.
Ask a question on Israel forum and, instead of an answer, you will receive… another question.
Ask a question on Russian forum, and instead of an answer, you will receive a well-grounded explanation of why your question characterized you as a complete moron. And I must admit that I've been in the situations when all sorts of such "answers" mentioned above (no exclusions) were really useful for me.
Conclusion: remember that our site is international. Always keep your sense of humor.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I really did "Laugh Out Loud" at that brilliant anecdote
SA: Always keep your sense of humor ... absolutely!
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