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.
next prev parent 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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