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Re: order of engravers
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Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: order of engravers |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:53:33 -0600 |
On 4/28/10 11:15 AM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In Carl's defense, he's horribly busy with end-of-term teaching (which
>> always penalizes one's real work, namely research) and then has a
>> conference to deal with. When we deal with open-source volunteer
>> projects while we have that much stress in our lives, we all get
>> short-tempered. I'm certain that you can think of examples from my
>> own emails.
>
> Sure. But there is always the option to not reply at all. That takes
> even less time. Or the mixed strategy: postpone answering (mark as
> unread or similar) and see if somebody else does it in time. And I was
> not entirely joking when providing Carl with a stock answer I consider
> more conducive in most of the situations where he would answer like he
> did.
>
> Yes, a stock answer is never a fabulous thing to get, but if a stock
> answer it is going to be, putting something nice into ~/stock might give
> slightly better payoff.
>
> Whatever. I have currently a few syntax projects in my Lilypond pipe,
> so it is unlikely that I will work on topological sorting anytime soon
> (which is basically what this is about).
This is what I was assuming when I wrote my initial response. It seemed
like "a good idea for somebody to do", not an offer of somebody wanting to
make the change.
Now, I was wrong in jumping to that assumption and responding accordingly.
But it appears that my assumption was, in fact, correct.
Carl
- order of engravers, Graham Percival, 2010/04/27
- Re: order of engravers, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, Graham Percival, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers,
Carl Sorensen <=
- Re: order of engravers, David Kastrup, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, Graham Percival, 2010/04/28
- Re: order of engravers, Neil Puttock, 2010/04/28
Re: order of engravers, Graham Percival, 2010/04/28