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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alternative to thunderbird?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3RSjvjPGa0qWghSK6_+Ne0hZXg94r9O6Ug20QYi-0kqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120222085533.243910a5@khamul.example.com>

>> Likewise for debugging the kdepim mess when it was already working
>> well in the old kde.  What ARE they thinking?  Reminds me of our US
>> Congress, all advertising and no product.
>
> kdepim devs are just making a simple classic mistake that's
> been made over and over and over again. Developers do not learn from
> history, every time this mistake is made the team doing it thinks *they*
> will be different.

What is that classic mistake?  Is it the shark jumping thing?

- Grant


> This is their second big project - the most dangerous one a dev will
> ever work on. Frederick P. Brooks has it all covered since the 70s.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-18 20:28 [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird? Grant
2012-02-18 20:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:44   ` Michael Mol
2012-02-18 21:06   ` Grant
2012-02-19  0:40     ` Grant
2012-02-19 11:26       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:37 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-18 21:26   ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-18 22:02     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-18 20:42 ` Alecks Gates
2012-02-19  1:30 ` Michael Trausch
2012-02-19  1:38   ` Grant
2012-02-20  6:58   ` Fuzz
2012-02-20 18:11     ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-02-20 21:33       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-20 23:24         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-20 23:39           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22  0:56         ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-02-22  6:55           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22 17:26             ` Grant [this message]
2012-02-22 20:14               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-22 20:56                 ` Grant
2012-02-23  0:21                 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-02-23 14:23                   ` Juan Diego Tascón
2012-02-19  3:09 ` [gentoo-user] " ny6p01
2012-02-19 10:09   ` Mick
2012-02-19 16:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-02-19 18:01   ` Michael Orlitzky

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