Re^7: Performance, Abstraction and HOP

I also think that something closer to an insult (whose weight I'm not able to measure in English) actually was in BrowserUk post - it was the word "shame".

For the record. My use of the word "shame", is a habitual colloquialism that is a contraction of the phrase; "That's a shame". It is (always) intended to convey my disappointment, and not as a slap to the recipient.

In this case, I was disappointed that I was not going to learn something useful, as I had genuinely thought I was going to from the earlier post.

For the rest of your post, I would say that you have hit the nail exactly on the head.

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.

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Re^8: Performance, Abstraction and HOP by polettix (Vicar) on Sep 08, 2005 at 03:04 UTC
Just misguided by a big "Shame on you" I once saw in a post. But I bet that the "on you" really makes the difference - and my TOEFL goes farther... Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
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Re^8: Performance, Abstraction and HOP by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2005 at 02:38 UTC
Quite obviously, that is what it usually means when people say something like "That's a shame". Just a way to express one's disappointment. We are living our own era, and daily expressions should be understood within context. Go back 200 years, the same expression could well put one down to the bottom of the society, but not nowadays. The fact is that you had every reason to feel disappointed. The monk started this sub-thread gave a reply that was full of pointless anger (only because someone claimed that his module was slow, which is a fact) and baseless false confidence, and that was quickly revealed in subsequent posts of his in the same thread. What a shame!	[reply]