OH NO! There's something wrong on the Internet!
It is often me. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I'm only human.
But this is a blog, not a reference manual. I use it to organize my thoughts, get things off my chest, provoke discussion, maybe entertain a few fellow hackers, and show others how much fun I'm having playing with computers. Accuracy and precision aren't the primary objectives although I try not to be egregiously incorrect.
Mostly I see people misinterpreting something I say casually. I gloss over some details that some find important but I consider boring. I make the first-order error of assuming everyone has the same backgroud as I do and will interpret what I say in the way I had in mind. Clearly this isn't the case, yet I persist in thinking this way. Oh well.
I'll try to correct errors that are brought to my attention and will elaborate things in more detail if asked, but if my blog irritates you with its broad generalizations, inattention to detail, omission of specifics, and things that are just plain wrong, why are you reading it?
5 comments:
To the question of why do people read your blog, I could be wrong but I suspect "because it's on Planet Lisp" may be the answer in nearly 100% of cases.
(These days, maybe it should be renamed "Planet Marshall", though. ;P)
I was vaguely aware they syndicated my blog. I apologize for taking up so much bandwidth!
The probability of one person being a jerk to another is inversely proportional to the two party's physical presence. This is why there's road rage but people are apologetic in the grocery aisle.
I'm lucky. I get a hundred positive comments for every negative one. But the negative ones are still bummers.
Yeah, it's one thing to try to add information to the conversation, something else to just engage in shit-flinging.
But apropos road rage vs grocery aisle, I'm reminded of this attitude campaign from the Norwegian public roads agency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDfRl2Vj98
(The text says: "70% of cyclists have experienced aggressive behaviour from motorists. We tested the same behaviour in a store. … Cyclists and motorists have the same right to the road.")
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