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[Colin Law]

Please, Xen, your emails would be much easier to read, and physically
much shorter and cause less wear on my scroll wheel, if you wrote one
sentence after another rather than putting a blank line between every
sentence, where generally just a full stop will do.

Colin

On 27 November 2017 at 05:50, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Liam Proven schreef op 26-11-2017 20:26:
>
>> Now, this poor angry person Xen is shouting angrily at me, because
>> modern Internet standards don't work the way he wants, and he wants it
>> his way, and he can't have it, so he is spamming his ISP with DNS
>> requests for internal names that the external DNS can't resolve, and
>> it's my fault and Apple's fault and those hideous evil nasty bad tech
>> companies who BROKE HIS SYSTEM... because he doesn't really know what
>> he's doing, but he wants it his way, without learning to do it the
>> right way.
>
>
> No I'm not, those .local queries get handled and blocked by dnsmasq running
> on a local small device.
>
> You keep saying I don't know what I'm doing, but you don't even _know_ what
> I'm doing.
>
> I mean drop the attitude you know.
>
>> And because I do know how to do it, I am bad and evil and one of Them
>> and I keep using my age and knowledge to make him look bad.
>
>
> No I'm not saying you are trying to humiliate me, you are not that kind of
> person.
>
> Although you often condescend, but that's minimal.
>
> I'm just saying there is not just "one way" to do things.
>
> As you explain here, you want to find the ONE PATH that offers the least
> resistance, and stick with it. And that then, is "how to do it".
>
>> All my fault.
>
>
> Maybe not be so forceful in your advice.
>
> I mean you say Gene has also been the subject of your advice ;-).
>
> Gene also wanted to do it his way and probably succeeded.
>
> Gene wanted to do it his way, for himself.
>
> You wanted him to do it your way.... for... ? For him or for you?
>
> For him of course, but that makes no sense.
>
>> I'm not a programmer. I can't provide code to Linux.
>
>
> But that's the difference between you and me Liam.
>
>
> I was once on the Drupal forums complaining about how I couldn't figure out
> to change stuff in some easy, code-like fashion.
>
> You know, like is possible with WordPress because you can just change the
> template file (that is an executable PHP file) but Drupal insists you do it
> through a series of components that all provide a form of mapping and you
> can really only change it through the GUI.
>
> That means you first need to read a freaking book on it before you can do
> anything to it, at least programming wise, I mean unless you experiment a
> lot with the GUI to see what it does.
>
> They also increased from 7 to 8 the programmatic burden of writing
> extensions by a factor 4.
>
> When I was upset that I couldn't do the simplest things (like run Drupal in
> a sub-folder) and there was also no way to hack around it (they blocked that
> way on purpose)
>
>
>
> some none-programmer started fuming at me that I had to go with the flow
>
> The move from 7 to 8 is systemd-like, high-level constructs, a complicated
> design.
>
> But unchangeable by the user.
>
> It's impossible as a novice to find a place to put some code.
>
> But because 8 was latest and I just got started with Drupal, I didn't want
> to start out with an older version.
>
> It took me some time to realize that most of the guides I was reading were
> for Drupal 7 and didn't work, banging my head against a wall.
>
>> But some people will still write you 3 or 4 emails in a row, shouting
>> at you, cursing you, calling you names, saying you're cheating by
>> claiming special knowledge, or calling you a liar, for offering free
>> help.
>
>
> Look you are shouting at ME.
>
> And I'm not saying you're cheating but you might not know everything even
> when you think you do,
>
> ...
>
> And you're also not thinking in creative solutions because you cannot create
> them because you are not a programmer...
>
> If you are not a programmer then you don't see certain options.
>
>
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