While I was on the forums I didn't post a lot of software-related things here because usually there was a relevant discussion on the forums, and I felt that it would be easier and more useful to post things in the context of a meaningful discussion rather than in the context of my personal windbaggery, and possibly help some people with details along the way.
Apparently for Dr.Fred it's more important to keep his Microsoft Pride from being occasionally hurt than to have me contributing to the forum, and admins see nothing wrong with this choice. If they want to turn Microsoft into a sacred cow, I guess, I don't have much to say there anyway -- even if Dr.Fred/Sasquatch!/... team does not realize that, a lot of things that I criticize are used, promoted or encouraged by Microsoft, so if they want to be consistent, they should better censor that, too.
On one hand, I have seen enough pointless posts and mountains built out of molehills on software-related personal blogs -- I don't want to look like Joel Spolsky, but the format of personal blog about software calls for more pompous presentation of the ideas than I am accustomed to, and a choice of subject is better done when people have a discussion rather than when I have an inspiration to write an entry on the current state of ATI drivers for Linux or what things I consider to be important holes in the knowledge of programmers raised on massive, recently developed environments such as Java. On the other hand, maybe it will be better to post some things as standalone pieces, so they will be more readable later for people who don't want to read old megathreads. Not to say that I consider everything I write to be valuable as something standalone, but maybe it will be better to write some things intended to be that way.
If anyone has a suggestion of a better place to discuss those things, I can join another forum, too.
Apparently for Dr.Fred it's more important to keep his Microsoft Pride from being occasionally hurt than to have me contributing to the forum, and admins see nothing wrong with this choice. If they want to turn Microsoft into a sacred cow, I guess, I don't have much to say there anyway -- even if Dr.Fred/Sasquatch!/... team does not realize that, a lot of things that I criticize are used, promoted or encouraged by Microsoft, so if they want to be consistent, they should better censor that, too.
On one hand, I have seen enough pointless posts and mountains built out of molehills on software-related personal blogs -- I don't want to look like Joel Spolsky, but the format of personal blog about software calls for more pompous presentation of the ideas than I am accustomed to, and a choice of subject is better done when people have a discussion rather than when I have an inspiration to write an entry on the current state of ATI drivers for Linux or what things I consider to be important holes in the knowledge of programmers raised on massive, recently developed environments such as Java. On the other hand, maybe it will be better to post some things as standalone pieces, so they will be more readable later for people who don't want to read old megathreads. Not to say that I consider everything I write to be valuable as something standalone, but maybe it will be better to write some things intended to be that way.
If anyone has a suggestion of a better place to discuss those things, I can join another forum, too.
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