<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Ed Greshko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ed.Greshko@greshko.com">Ed.Greshko@greshko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/08/2010 11:24 AM, Robert Myers wrote:<br>
> If you think you know what you are talking about, perhaps you would<br>
> consider a fixed-fee contract on a perpetual motion machine.<br>
><br>
> From a practical point of view, all possible states of a program<br>
> cannot be examined and tested. If you want to think of some extreme<br>
> state (the assumed hardware gives misleading answers, for example) as<br>
> a "bug," so be it, but I wouldn't be hiring you to manage anything.<br></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">
</div>I hope you realize that you lose a lot of credibility when you stray<br>
from discussing technical matters to sarcasm in order to debase a fellow<br>
poster.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A veteran of many Internet wars, I am long past worrying about what people think of my "tone."</div><div><br></div><div>Someone will *always* find a reason to take exception. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As to self-righteousness, I deal with that on lists that address theology. It's a big no-no, but my telling you so makes *me* self-righteous. Finding a way out of that trap is roughly like violating the Halting Theorem.. If you don't want people pointing fingers at you, then don't point fingers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert. </div><div><br></div></div>