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Given what I saw for his code at the time, I couldn't understand what he said. I asked what he meant, giving my interpretation so he could correct it or let me know what I missed.

How is that derisive or treating someone (other than myself) as stupid?

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Re^4: Perl && threads && queues - how to make all this work together
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 14, 2010 at 22:51 UTC
    Given what I saw for his code at the time

    and therein lies the problem. you did not see because you did not look. rather, you ASS-U-MEd that the OP was doing something St00Pid when you could have easily checked whether binmode was used (hint: your browser has a FIND capability that would let you search for binmode in the OPs posted code.

    imo, you did not treat yourself as stupid. whether you acted stupidly is a matter of interpretation. for my money, you were a duckhead for shooting off your keyboard before you really checked what was in the OPs post.

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      Why would I assume he didn't use binmode when he said he did? Sure I usually skim the post. But if I pointed something very specific was missing, it's because I looked for that very specific item and I didn't see it. I remember checking twice before posting, which is why I said I was blind: I looked twice, but I didn't see.
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      Hm. I was in tune with your initial admonishment, but now you're belabouring the point. Ike is hardly the first, nor the most frequent (that'd probably be me!), person to have misread a post.

      You'd do well to remember, that given 99 times out of 100 (made up statistic), you get the (correct) gist of a post at the first reading, (and he does), there is no trigger to cause you to doubt your interpretation of it. So why would you?

      He acknowledged his error, so back off!

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        not sure how responding to a direct question is belabouring the point (granted the response was not so direct, but it was a somewhat-indirect response to a rather-indirect response to my initial comments). nonetheless, i do understand that it is possible to jump to the wrong conclusion when making a quick read (and even re-read) of posted code. and what i'm suggesting is that there are other helpful tools that one should use to verify one's initial diagnosis. and using those tools is especially appropriate when preparing to post a response that says that the OP is doing something wrong.
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