Journal: Very funny 2
Journal: WTF? 2
Journal: So sad...
Not a big deal. Except my post continued to accumulate "informative" mods after I admitted I was wrong! Now that's sad.
Journal: Love and Hate 3
I don't give a shit about the mods. (And as usual, I ask people not to waste their mod points "fixing" the situation.) But something else does bother me. A dozen or so people responded, and not a single one of them seems able to grasp the idea that I admire Google, but am still critical of their screwups. Apparently you're only allowed to love or hate.
Journal: Mod Storm! 1
Maybe it's time we injected some honesty into the system, and changed "troll" to "stupid"!
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (2).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (3).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Interesting (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Overrated (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (3).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Funny (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (5).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Troll (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (5).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Overrated (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Troll (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (3).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (5).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Overrated (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Troll (-1).
It is currently scored Insightful (3).
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Rather appropriate, posted to RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today, has been moderated Insightful (+1).
It is currently scored Insightful (4).
Journal: The Funny Troll 3
Journal: A Job, at Last 6
I got this job partially because of my experience with API work at Borland, but mainly (I think) because I had some heavy experience with JavaDoc, which experience translates nicely to working with Doxygen. Doxygen is supposed to be a language agnostic answer to JavaDoc, but in practice it's mainly used for C++. To support other languages, you need to writer a parser. (JavaDoc uses the Introspection API to pull signatures out of Java class files, so it doesn't need to do any real parsing.)
I actually have some technical issues with Doxygen. It generates some very weird HTML. And the way it generates XML (assembling all the markup strings by hand, instead of using a standard API, such as SAX) makes me very nervous. But Doxygen's markup language is 10 times more powerful than JavaDoc. And JavaDoc doesn't even do XML. Wouldn't be very hard to do. Except certain people with the Java Division happen to be painfully XMLphobic. Which is why
Journal: Late Mods 5
Moderators need to concentrate more on raising the visibility of good posts (and helping bury bad ones), not on rewarding people they agree with.