Mike, On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:27, Mike Grello wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:57 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dear Anonymous Coward,
On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:24, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
Oh pompous one
Pompous? I think we're using different dictionaries.
You, however, are displaying condescension and paternalism in your insistence in protecting people from something that you admit doesn't adversely affect you.
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That is what we do as programmers. We make the big scary system, which we have no problem dealing with, safe and comfortable for those of lesser understanding. Delivering a system on which your user can hurt himself is the quickest route to the unemployment line.
I have made my living as a programmer for over 25 years. I know what we do. And if your claim about losing a job for making an unsafe system were true (or were the rule rather than the exception), then software would probably more reliable (and usable, and free from unwanted or irreversible behaviors, etc.) than it now is. Nonetheless, daylight savings time is not a software system, nor is altering its starting and ending dates a software system.
I am sorry if our ingrained habits offend you.
Are you? If so, why? Randall Schulz