Comments on: Rules for successful snarkiness http://www.scohen.org/scohen/2006/09/02/rules-for-successful-snarkiness/ This is the web site of Steve Cohen, programmer, motorcyclist, kayaker and all around geek Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dad http://www.scohen.org/scohen/2006/09/02/rules-for-successful-snarkiness/#comment-3757 Dad Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:06:45 +0000 http://www.scohen.org/scohen/archives/2006/09/02/rules-for-successful-snarkiness/#comment-3757 What a civil exchange of views and opinions. I wish we could agree and disagree this way on all issues. I hope Radar reads this. DAD<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> What a civil exchange of views and opinions. I wish we could agree and disagree this way on all issues. I hope Radar reads this.
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]]> By: Mskadu http://www.scohen.org/scohen/2006/09/02/rules-for-successful-snarkiness/#comment-3729 Mskadu Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:51:57 +0000 http://www.scohen.org/scohen/archives/2006/09/02/rules-for-successful-snarkiness/#comment-3729 Scohen, I am the one who wrote it. First of all thank you for porting the uploader to Ubuntu. Its better than not having anything at all. I have seen the alternatives and they are not even close. As for my being snarky - touche! Allow me an ounce of explanation. You see i am treating this migration as a Windows vs. Linux (more specifically Ubuntu) kind of a thing. I am trying to see it from the point of view of someone who isnt very techie and is trying to make the move. You see this person will have been using Windows for years! For him, its like second nature. While i know Linux introduces a fresh change, unfortunately, this change is not enjoyable. As a matter of fact its downright painful .. especially if you've not done a lot of command-line work before. So sometime i let my wife do the stuff i need. And whatever she cant figure out on her own, i crib about. This gives me an idea on the intuitiveness of the software i am looking at. So one suggestion for you is to make a package out of it. This will let you deliver updates to users automatically, plus free the users from sorting out dependencies on their own. In GUI, having a menu item created by a newly installed software is an assumed thing you know :) A one little correction. The software did not fail me. I used the windows version and the j-version did not act/behave the same. Thats all :) Anyway, thanks for the wonderful work. Without jUploader, i would have been using the flickr uploader form (ughhh .. perish the though). - My Techie Self.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: url dashes, 2 --> Scohen,

I am the one who wrote it. First of all thank you for porting the uploader to Ubuntu. Its better than not having anything at all. I have seen the alternatives and they are not even close.

As for my being snarky - touche!

Allow me an ounce of explanation. You see i am treating this migration as a Windows vs. Linux (more specifically Ubuntu) kind of a thing. I am trying to see it from the point of view of someone who isnt very techie and is trying to make the move. You see this person will have been using Windows for years! For him, its like second nature. While i know Linux introduces a fresh change, unfortunately, this change is not enjoyable. As a matter of fact its downright painful .. especially if you’ve not done a lot of command-line work before. So sometime i let my wife do the stuff i need. And whatever she cant figure out on her own, i crib about. This gives me an idea on the intuitiveness of the software i am looking at.

So one suggestion for you is to make a package out of it. This will let you deliver updates to users automatically, plus free the users from sorting out dependencies on their own. In GUI, having a menu item created by a newly installed software is an assumed thing you know :)

A one little correction. The software did not fail me. I used the windows version and the j-version did not act/behave the same. Thats all :)

Anyway, thanks for the wonderful work. Without jUploader, i would have been using the flickr uploader form (ughhh .. perish the though).

- My Techie Self.

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