haha you ask anyone who was around in 2004
same person, different thinking (more open, i think/hope)
are you offended by my statement?
there was no ill intent, you know
just a general view that i noticed the change in your posts
Having my well deserved break now! Hard work this morning!
No, not at all. I am not offended at all.
I very rarely get offended by comments directed to me on a personal level. I know my place in the sun, and no personal attacks on me will make a ding in me.
But I get annoyed very easily and I get pissed off quickly at nonsense - or at least what I perceive as nonsense.
I am the same. You may not like me if you had known me in my much younger days! My Uni classmates from 1977 still love to remind me what an obnoxious ar*****e I was, and still am!
When I joined CS in 2004, the climate was a little different. There have always been nonsense around, including mine! But over the last 2-3 years, due to some obvious influences, the amount of nonsense had mushroomed like the atomic blow-up. People had become crass, thinking that politeness and proper communication is unimportant. Too many people so full of themselves, when in actual fact what they knew are so miniscule.
A lot of critiques were brandished like dogmas. While comments will always have merit, it is misleading to put it in such manner that they appear like dogmas. And the worse thing is that some of these people are pure hypocrites!
Hence, my postings changed. I try to give another perspective to these dogmas.
Now instead of saying I "changed", I think it is better to read what I wrote and see if what I wrote had substance.
Engage me on that!