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]]>Let.'s me test the directory search path fix. I have never made any Perl module yet. Is it easy to make it? How to make it? Is there any good introduction to read for making simple part of Perl codes into a Perl module?
]]>use lib ' . '; has fixed my problem.
Thanks so much. I don't have the habit of reading error log.
/var/log/httpd/error_log
I should do so (reading error log more frequently). Thank you for all of your comments.
]]>Times have not changed, despite the fantasies of many. I am sure the first flame war was on the first day of the very first release of a BBS in the 1980's.
People who act badly on the 'Net are merely weak people attempting to assert dominance over another. In my time, this would have resulted in a punch to the nose, followed by beers shortly after.
There will always be trolls and men need to act like men. We must be stoic about it, or at least master stoicism to avoid allowing others to control our emotions. We should be able to handle such behavior, especially when we can turn off the conversation via the block button. Conversely, the trolls need to learn the kids' version of George Washington's "Rules of Civility" and realize that other men will enforce it.
This brings us to the crux of the problem: men are not enforcing civility. We can see the weak men as related to this topic who allow others to act badly. We should all look to Douglas Murray as an example: he goes to great lengths to be exceptionally polite right up until the first rude comment. He then gives that person a "verbal" punch in the nose. We should all unify against such trolls, give them their lumps, and quickly forgive after so long as the behavior stops.
Let's bring the Perl Community together by enforcing civility. We must learn to be polite, especially over technical issues that most people will never understand. Many could meet virtually or in person, or even end up working together, so it behooves everyone to maintain their reputations with polite behavior.
/dad
]]>Even in cases when the facts, presented with no further comment, spoke for themselves (as hopefully demonstrated in this example), I found no way to point out objectively flawed but emotionally invested decision-making of this kind without triggering an emotional response. This despite my pathological capacity to keep my emotions to myself and to keep strictly to the facts in my communication. Most people do not have my peculiarities and are therefore not capable of that to anywhere near the same extent. And most cases are not going to be as clear cut. So if there were a disagreement, I cannot conceive how anyone with a legitimate concern could in any fairness be expected not to run afoul of the fragility in question.
Would I express myself the way Mighty Buzzard did, no, but I can’t… claim absence of any sympathy for his point. (Though I would disagree about jerks masquerading as emotionally fragile: a lot of them are emotionally fragile. A lot of the time, being a victim and being a bully go hand in hand; without strenuous conscious effort, people will perpetuate their own suffering in others. (Apologies for handwaving many acres of the field of psychology here; the margin of this comment box is too small.)) I am well aware that there are people who hide behind this to justify straight-up asshole behavior, and I am wary of them riding on the coattails of what concerns me. But I cannot with honesty get on board with the tone policing program.
So what then does that make of me? Should I absent myself from the community for the good of it?
]]>You need to get out of the cubicle or your house and carry some tools for a while. It'll get rid of your fragility and desire to coddle those who run and cry to HR for being called a dumbass when they're objectively being a dumbass.
]]>That's where a lot of people read me wrong. It's not that I hate their breathing guts. It's that I don't care about them enough to give a damn if they take my complete indifference to their entire existence except as it applies to our working together as hostility.
I may not play soft and gentle with anyone's feelings but they always know exactly where they stand with me, because I also don't care enough about them to lie.
]]>Most of the overly fragile people are not in reality overly fragile anyway. They simply hate you and will use the weapon you're giving them every time you fail to slap them down for doing it to others against you.
The choice here is between demanding they act like a grownup who leaves his non-work feelings at home or letting them run everyone who gets things done off. There is not a middle ground, only an inevitable decline if you allow it.
]]>A community is defined by a set of common values and yes, a code of conduct of acceptable behavior. That's been part of human culture since before recorded history.
Every community eventually sets down rules for what is acceptable and what isn't, otherwise it falls apart and is no longer a community.
Some people don't like rules which limit how they behave towards others. Fine. But their behavior is not always welcomed by others in the community, and if the community decides that that conduct is inappropriate, then the community has a right to create rules of conduct.
That's what happens out in the real world.
If you don't like those rules, fine, you can disagree and fight against them, or get them amended, but don't disparage the people who want those rules. They are also part of this community. You don't know their experience or their lives, so any generalizations you make about them are ignorant.
If what you say or do makes me feel uncomfortable, why is it your right to make me feel that way and not my right to expect an environment where I'm not made to feel that way?
That's a real question. No one has unfettered rights. There's always a balance.
There's obviously no clear line you can draw which will make everyone happy, but you have to try and meet the needs of everyone in the community. An equitable society is one where everyone has to compromise to maintain a balance between people's rights, be they the right to express oneself or the right to feel safe.
I want a Perl community which is inclusive and where everyone feels safe.
I don't think that's too much to ask. And if the community needs to adopt rules to make that happen, as long as the rules are reasonable and balance the rights and needs of all of its members, I don't have a problem with that.
]]>Buzzard, Buzzard. If you go around accusing people of not knowing the difference between empathy and sympathy, maybe you should not be making the same mistake. 🙂
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