Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful

Started by Josh Berkusover 11 years ago6 messages
#1Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?

http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Shrug ... what I see there is a rant from a guy with no sense of humor.

regards, tom lane

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#3Stephen Frost
sfrost@snowman.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Shrug ... what I see there is a rant from a guy with no sense of humor.

+1

'pfffft', I say.

Thanks,

Stephen

#4Heikki Linnakangas
hlinnakangas@vmware.com
In reply to: Stephen Frost (#3)
Re: Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful

On 04/30/2014 01:27 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Shrug ... what I see there is a rant from a guy with no sense of humor.

+1

'pfffft', I say.

I wasn't sure if the whole article was a parody.

- Heikki

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#5Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Heikki Linnakangas (#4)
Re: Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful

On 04/30/2014 02:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

On 04/30/2014 01:27 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Shrug ... what I see there is a rant from a guy with no sense of humor.

+1

'pfffft', I say.

I wasn't sure if the whole article was a parody.

The rebuttal would be: "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful"
Considered Harmful.

Don't you just love recursion?

cheers

andrew

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#6Hannu Krosing
hannu@2ndQuadrant.com
In reply to: Andrew Dunstan (#5)
Re: "Considerer Harmful Considered Harmful" categorized as Mostly Harmless

On 04/30/2014 02:53 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

On 04/30/2014 02:35 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

On 04/30/2014 01:27 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

... so let's stop using that phrase, OK?
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Shrug ... what I see there is a rant from a guy with no sense of
humor.

+1

'pfffft', I say.

I wasn't sure if the whole article was a parody.

The rebuttal would be: "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful"
Considered Harmful.

Don't you just love recursion?

Nah, I'd categorize it as "Mostly Harmless" :)

Cheers

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