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Comment Questions for GNU Kind Communications Guidelines (Score 1) 448

On another note, here are my thirty questions due to the loaded, lossy, and opinionated terminology dictating the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html). Please let me know if there is any confusion because I am totally confused and as a user and modder of GNU software in the past, present, and future, I feel it is not only my obligation but my duty to respond to this post on the gnu.org website. 1. What do you mean by advance? 2. What do you certain patterns of communication mean? 3. What do you mean by conscious effort? 4. What do you mean by specific? 5. What do you mean by good faith? 6. What do you mean by wrongs? 7. What do you mean by harsh tone? 8. What do you mean by accept it? 9. What do you mean by actually say and actually do? 10. What do you mean by preferences? 11. What do you mean by personal attacks? 12. What do you mean by hit back? 13. What do you mean by feelings? 14. What do you mean by private? 15. What do you mean by peace? 16. What do you mean by anger? 17. What do you mean by typical desires, capabilities, or actions? 18. What do you mean by kind? 19. What do you mean by conscientious? 20. What do you mean by mistakes? 21. What do you mean by nonfree? 22. What do you mean by not allowed? 23. What do you mean by exaggerations? 24. What do you mean by constructive criticism? 25. What do you mean by real views? 26. What do you mean by tangent? 27. Why not have a special hotline for GNU software w.r.t. that repository? 28. What do you mean by comfortable? 29. What do you mean by cater? 30. What do you mean by friendlier?

Comment Questions for Malcolm Gladwell! (Score 4, Interesting) 111

Ten-thousand hours (~3.4 years if a regular job) is Gladwell's estimate of temporal mastery. With that being said, the Mozarts like Carlsen or Fischer learn faster and become World Champion. What is the difference between the Mozarts and 3.4 years? Is it there some passionate rage to absorb and decipher patterns that magnetizes them to a particular domain or is it their consistent, well-designed regimen for reaching the upper echelons (like Lalzo Polgar's systemic approach with Judith and Susan)? If it is "pure" passion, then will people who find their true calling and invest appropriate time (e.g. have an OCD mentality) always see the unquestionable results? If it is "pure" regimen, then will following the same systematic approach always see the overarching performance? One thing to keep in mind is are these skills transferable to other domains? Is there a way to tackle a number of domains in the same 10,000 hours with an abstract approach? What about the time to create "new" domains rather than to "solve" problems in a particular domain? Is there some sort of estimate for that? Malcolm could possibly use those clues for his sequel to "Outliers" appropriately called "Pioneers". Any thoughts?

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