Subj : Re: I'm still waiting for somebody to offer constructive criticism To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : use-reply-to Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 12:06 pm Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: > It's been more than 24 hours since I asked for suggestions about the > wording in this explanation why I'm discontinuing my work on WAP and > dismantling most of what I previously did. So-far I haven't seen any > followup that gives any specific comments about anything I may have > worded wrong that needs improvement. If I don't get any feedback soon, > I don't know what I'll do. > http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/WAP/WhyInactive.html > Please, everybody, hurry up and tell me any improvements in wording > that you can suggest. You really are an ass, Robert. You're waiting for constructive criticism because you couldn't recognize constructive criticism if it was a shark that swallowed you whole. You've gotten so much more than you deserve, from people who persist in giving you real informatin and suggestions in the face of your bitching and moaning about what they say to you. It's not anybody's job here to edit your fucking wording. Did you grow up rich with a bunch of servants around or something? Or have you been catered to by a wife/mother/brother/whatever for your whole life? Take responsibility for your own shit. When you ask a question on a newsgroup and nobody answers, that means nobody gives a shit, and they have every right not to give a shit. Do you really think that because you beg and plead, you are being any more polite than if you were ordering people around? You're asking a favor. Apparently few people care about why you aren't doing WAP anymore. Which makes sense, because if I read your page correctly, you're not doing it essentially because nobody cared when you *were* doing it. I'm amazed at the lengths you go build the case for a world in which your huge talents go untapped because of the stupidity/malice/whatever of hiring managers. If you had put half that much energy into thinking what people actually want and where it intersects with your skills/wants, instead of looking for exactly and precisely the kind of work that you have done in the distant past, I'm quite sure you wouldn't be where you are. Go work at McDonalds or a factory for crying out loud. You want a job where people define the exact parameters of what you have do as if you aren't much more aware of business and culture than the computers you program, and that's that. Well, there aren't any programming jobs like that anymore. Not in the US anyway. Because a lot more brainpower goes into defining the problems that explicitly than into the actual coding, and once you've done that part -- Indians and Chinese can and will finish the code just as well for 1/10th the money. Tough luck. Buggy whip makers and weavers have been having trouble finding work too, I hear. The world doesn't owe you a living. Frankly I'd rather have my taxes paying you a welfare check than listen to your faux self-righteous whiny-ass moocher bitching as an employer. Michael .