[Python-ideas] Iterative development

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 04:42:04AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 31/01/2014 16:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Asperger Syndrome sufferers are always honest.  Sadly I find it a major
> >>> weakness that I have to live with.  We also take things literally and
> >>> write
> >>> things literally.  So your "obvious to everyone what you were saying" to
> >>> me
> >>> is clearly incorrect.  Please withdraw the comment.
> >>
> >>
> >> I know what it's like to live with Aspergers, I have it myself (at
> >> least, not formally diagnosed but it seems pretty likely). And I do
> >> put my foot in my mouth pretty often. But that doesn't mean that I can
> >> hide behind it as a shield when it's this obvious. You knew full well
> >> what you were saying when you said you wouldn't mention any names.
> >>
> >
> > Once again I most certainly *DID NOT*.  I knew full well what I was writing.
> > I quite deliberately used plurals for that very purpose. Please in future
> > stick to your bible bashing as you clearly know far more about that than you
> > know about Asperger, with myself having a formal diagnosis.
> >
> > And please don't bother to withdraw your comment now or apologise, I
> > wouldn't accept either as being in any way, shape or form genuine.
> 
> I wouldn't withdraw my comment, because I still stand by it. If you
> genuinely meant no specifics, then when someone pointed out how they
> interpreted your statement, you would have apologized and made a
> correction: "I didn't mean anyone in particular, I meant the way
> there've been 50 issues reopened unnecessarily by 30 different people
> lately", or something. But that wouldn't be true, would it? You really
> did mean Anatoly, and that's why you said what you did. Believe you
> me, I know more than you think I do. Think of Emma from "Once Upon A
> Time" if you like - a strong ability to detect lying, based on a
> metric ton of experience with it.

Hi all,

this is getting rather meta, in a profoundly unproductive way.  Can we stick to
software development, Python, and non-personal-or-plural insults, please?

thanks,
--titus [ <-- wearing moderator hat ]
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu