Comment Re:Literate Programming (Score 1) 477
Reading carefully the piece they want to comment, is not a question of changing behavior, is a question of respect.
I wont argue this at all, but this is slashdot where you are lucky people even read the article. Everybody is an asshole here and everybody cherry picks from everybody else--including myself.
The problem then becomes, to be very blunt, if this wasn't Slashdot and everybody was respectful then nobody would have responded to you because quite honestly it was almost impossible to follow you. I honestly read your posts twice before attempting to reply--and quite frankly even that alone was more trouble than I really needed to spend. If I wasn't doing laundry right now, I wouldn't have even made it past the first sentance of your initial posts and gave up thinking "waste of time to figure out what the guy meant".
That translates into the real world too. My inbox is full of crap and maybe only 5% is useful and actionable. Given I can't spend the day sorting it--you think I'm even going to bother wasting time parsing stuff that is hard to follow?
How would you like if it was you?
I'd blame it on myself and figure out what I did wrong and how I can change my behavior.
The best advice on this topic comes from a religious text and while I dont usually quote from such things, quite frankly I've never seen this nugget better phrased:
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
You can't change how people read your writing. You can get angry at them for never understanding you and consequentially never actioning on your great ideas. Instead of always being angry, you can also realize maybe the fault lies within and it would be more productive to use your energy improving your communication.
How would you like if you were condemned to jail without an investigation?
But you aren't. You are posting a comment on slashdot that most people aren't reading, and those that do misunderstand.