Your bigotry is extremely insulting.
You're unable to find any holes in the logic of my post, so you've resorted to poking fun of me for what I am (young), rather than what I write (posts without logical errors). He might be older than me (I don't know for sure - "mac" isn't enough to use his real name or write a profile), but his childish insult of my limited (by my youth), albeit wildly successful, investment experience is also insulting. Furthermore, you've also insulted every other young person reading this thread. I believe the both of you owe me an apology, but I won't be holding my breath waiting for one.
I wish you were an engineer, so you'd know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of age discrimination. They consider you washed up after age 40.
My wealth puts me in the enviable position of being able to hire computer programmers. You'd probably prefer a society such as China where your position in life is largely determined by your age, rather than the content of your character. You're not in China any more, so don't expect me to kowtow merely because I'm younger than you. The most important job qualification for a programmer is reading comprehension. Programmers spend a substantial portion of their time reading technical documents and a bug is introduced into the system each time they misinterpret a passage or make a false assumption. Poor reading comprehension is such a pervasive problem among computer programmers and users that the MIT Usenet archive server is called "RTFM", which is an acronym for "Read The Fucking Manual".
Read my post again. My father was not a programmer. He was a project manager with a mechanical engineering background and an MBA.
Jim Privat didn't agree with you either. In fact, his well-written post also was entirely consistent and supportive of mac's - both challenging your lack of acceptance of the importance of COTS in embedded systems
Read my post again. It clearly states, "everyone in the real-time industry has known for a long time that RTOS products are mature and stable," so obviously I agree that there's no lack of technical acceptance of COTS in embedded systems. The slow acceptance is due purely to human nature and political factors. Read Jim Privat's post again:
While there may be some truth in your above statements (#2 in particular!), my opinion is that you are missing the point a bit, or at least missing the trend in software today.
It's true that my post didn't discuss the obvious 30 year old trend. I also didn't poke fun at Jerry Fiddler's age or tell him that he has met a lot of poor engineers (or was one of them). The #2 that Jim Privat referred to describes you and "mac" very well. Read my post again and you'll see what I mean!
I am certain that mac is fuming over an inexperienced novice having the gall to suggest wrongly that he failed a degrading test.
I certainly hope so. You reap what you sow! I'm fuming because he condescendingly said, "Jesus... you just don't know the real time industry" and "you've met some poor engineers (or were one of them)." I'm also fuming because you called me "an inexperienced novice" and dismissed me because of my youth. I treat you and mac a lot more nicely than you treat me!
I truly hope this helps.
Given all the other insults you sling at me, I find it very difficult to believe that statement. |
