On 9/27/2010 10:23 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
Is there any chance new people with some ideas could be given some quarter
and perhaps some mentoring by those of us who've been around for a while
rather than bullied into putting their innovative energies elsewhere?
Stray question: if someone showed up in a senior research environment for an
activity that has a long history and then said that they had created a mechanism
that greatly reduced computational overhead for large-scale data activity and it
turned out merely to be a basic hashing algorithm, would you be equally
concerned that they be treated delicately?
Stated differently: Are there reasonable expectations that should apply to
participants, in terms of their doing prior due diligence? If they fail to do
it, is the group prohibited from expressing unhappiness at having its time wasted?
Calling someone an asshole crosses a line, pretty much no matter the content or
the people.
Telling someone that they need to do their homework before presenting a
'solution' strikes me as merely appropriate. Telling them this in a way that
indicates pique at their having been immature in their effort might, itself, be
immature, but really, it is little more than scolding a wayward child.
IMO.
d/
ps. Over the course of my career and especially in the early years, I've been
that wayward -- ie, arrogant and ignorant -- child many times and while being
scolded stung, it was deserved.
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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