From: Andrea Dallera <andrea@...>
Date: 2010-04-02T02:04:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Playing Games with "Ruids"

Please everyone stop feeding the troll (or whatever he is). 
I appreciate the effort but please just leave him alone, he'll run out
of gas soon.

-- 
Andrea Dallera
http://github.com/bolthar/freightrain
http://usingimho.wordpress.com


On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 01:55 +0900, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-04-01, thunk <gmkoller@gmail.com> wrote:
> > bottom.bottom.bottom line...
> 
> Is that you aren't going to tell us what you're doing.
> 
> > With respect to the documentation that _why produced for shoes, I
> > really just wanted "simple definitions" and he was giving me
> > cartoons.
> 
> Two major differences:
> 1.  He had working code that could be used, which made it possible for
> people who were curious to mess with it.
> 2.  The cartoons and such were a very useful way of communicating some
> things, but useful ONLY once you had seen the "simple definitions".
> 
> Back in the day, the first time someone pointed me at the poigniant guide,
> when I had no other information about Ruby, I spent about five minutes on
> it and concluded that this was some kind of crazy empty fad without any
> substance, because the best thing people could point me at on it was only
> marginally lucid.  Later, once I'd gotten pointed at a basic summary of the
> approximate general area of human endeavor in which Ruby existed, I found
> the poigniant guide quite enlightening.
> 
> That kind of communication works ONLY when you have first given people a
> ballpark feel for what kind of thing you're talking about.  Without that
> initial ranging information, it's largely useless.
> 
> -s