Well, I've already apologized. You are right, I was oblivious to extra-cultural thinking, to which I plead ignorance. Now that I know better, I shall do better. Please remember, I'm a volunteer. I stepped up when no one else would. Am I the best man for the job? Probably not, *but who is??* I will make mistakes. Hopefully, I will learn from my mistakes. Hopefully, I will do a good job for you. As per Jimmie's advice, I have prepared a note that explains where I'm coming from, so that no one in the future should ever misconstrue my writings: http://horridohobbies.tumblr.com/ I still don't think there's anything wrong with me being a WWII buff, so I shall never apologize for that. However, I shall endeavour to be sensitive to people in other parts of the world. Where I stumble, I will expect you to correct me. After all, I *am* human. If you prick me, do I not bleed? Alain Rastoul-2 wrote
I agree fully with all of what Ben said, but I would like to say a last word before stopping me too, because that bother me and very probably other people.
I thought about that thread in the train this morning, I was reading charlie hebdo "message de Cabu: allez les gars ne vous laissez pas abattre" bad translation: "come on guys dont let yourself be down (shot down in french)" Cabu was one of the charlie hebo magazine guys shot last week and very well known and loved in france. the epitaph was : "rions aux larmes" (let's laught to tears") That was really hard. Here I couldn't laugh at all even if I like to joke about everything (me, my bike, my code, things I like, the awkward and stupid the more I like - people do not always appreciate, they think I'm stupid and I am, so it's ok)
I hate people who think they have rights over others. In the past I talked to several much older people (all dead now) whose lives where completely broken by war.
That you are WWII buff is fine for you if you like that, for me I don't, even if my son liked to play war with soldiers figurines when he was 8 and I liked to played with him. He grew up, I did too (....... not completely sure for that one :) ),
these are things I hate and I will allways be against. I will *never* rally up with a "blitzkrieg smalltalk" or "horiirod" or "generalisimo" whatever ... Even if I love smalltalk. As a PR campain Richard, this is upmost too bad taste for me.
On the other hand, I think a carefully driven PR campaign could be good a thing, and it's great to see involved people, you worked hard on that. We could also talk of lot interesting things related to software evolution. For example that : - dinausors died because they where not agile enough to handle meteorits, should they have learned scrum in order to diversify ? :) - the graal quest seems to have failed in life, and in software too ? - smalltalk is mostly about implementing and refactoring living systems ? there are very actual great examples of that in software .
-- Regards,
Alain
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