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I like the personal touch you see in these old letters. It'd be nice to see more technical blog posts/comments these days that open with a paragraph asking afte
by Cushman 16y ago
I like the personal touch you see in these old letters. It'd be nice to see more technical blog posts/comments these days that open with a paragraph asking after the recipient's health, and close with sincere best wishes and congratulations for a recent success.
- thwarted 16y agoThat would only make the use of TL;DR more appropriate. Blog posts are rarely targeted at an individual, and those that are are often written in a confrontational or sarcastic tone.
- Cushman 16y agoThat's a fair point-- and exactly what I'm talking about. This idea that it's a waste of time to write or read anything nice about someone else is a cancer on our community.
- thwarted 16y agoConsidering the quality of the average blog post, this would only serve to decrease the signal to noise ratio, especially when what is actually the meat of many posts are already so devoid of useful content. I notice that you didn't start your response with concern about my health nor wished me well on my future endeavors in your sign off.
- cgs1019 16y agoThis thread seems possessed of an almost Gödelian self-referentiality.
- sukuriant 16y agoThis is a personal letter between two people, though, and responses took days. Sending memos back and forth (in a sense what we're doing now), would be wasteful, likely rude, and expensive. For those of you with family in the military, do y'all send long messages to one another, sometimes going at great length to ask a question in the middle of them, like this email? Why?