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Taste

Posted Sep 13, 2007 3:06 UTC (Thu) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

If you aren't saying anything on the subject of garbage collection, why do you bother replying ? I don't know who you are or what your credentials are, so my opinion of you doesn't matter. And vice versa.

My point is clear enough - garbage collection, as it is experienced in practice in everyday life - is slow. There exist solutions, but they are proprietary and far from common.

Please, try to restrain your apparent urge to be rude and either say why you think my point isn't valid (or what your proposed solution is), or go away.

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Posted Sep 13, 2007 3:26 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

I didn't get as far as saying that your point wasn't valid. I said that your fact-checking was laughably unthorough, with the implication that your argument was founded primarily on personal prejudice and you weren't about to let a good fact get in the way. Generally, if I find one claim that's directly negated by the evidence presented in support of it, I don't hang around to see how much of the rest of someone's argument turns out to be a big pile of manure.

And your response to being caught in a falsehood (whether you like it or not, Monotone is unequivocally not non-free; "a commercial version is now available" != "it is not free") was to defend the falsehood and attack your challenger. The former undermines your credibility even further, and gives me no reason to change my initial assessment. The latter has no place in civilised debate, and you should be ashamed of yourself for doing it.

However, the fact that having done so, you then have the hypocrisy and presumption to upbraid me for an "apparent urge to be rude", demonstrates pretty clearly that you *have* no shame. You are not worth communicating woth, frankly, let alone debating. You want to know why I didn't see any good reason for wasting my time on you? Reread your own posts. You've given me no reason to think you're worth a damn, and plenty of cause to decide you aren't - and that's even *before* we consider the merits of your arguments.

I was hoping to avoid telling you exactly what I thought of you, but if you're going to accuse me of rudeness when I am showing restraint, I have nothing to lose. So here it is; I hope it justifies your every prejudice about me, and gives you a few you hadn't thought of. You're not the kind of person I *want* thinking well of me.

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Posted Sep 13, 2007 3:53 UTC (Thu) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

Another post without information. I did not expect that. You don't even have the decency to admit that:
- WebSphere Real Time is not free
- in any case that fact is irrelevant for the point I was making

At least we will both be confident in the knowledge of that.

Go away, troll.

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Posted Sep 13, 2007 11:59 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

You're still expecting *decency* from me? Weird.

And the funny thing is, for all your assertions that I'm a troll, *you* initially replied to *me*. And then threw a tantrum when I declined to respect your authoritah.

And now you won't stop, because you Just Have to have the last word, even though the sane thing to do would have been to stop responding at least two comments ago.

In real life, you'd be that kid on the playground who tries to butt into a conversation I'm having with my friends and then starts calling me names and complaining to the teachers because I gave you the brush-off.

And I haven't responded to an argument because you haven't MADE an argument. "Real-world GC is slow in my experience" is an assertion, and a subjective one at that, with a huge great amorphous blob of a term in the middle of it. (I've already mentioned hypocrisy, haven't I? Just checking.) Either put something objective and quantifiable on the table, or take your invisible ball and fuck off back to the infant playground.