[CentOS] Re: Contemplating Move -- [OT] Fedora Core

[Preston Crawford]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the resume...
>
> I don't know how to take that, but just so you know ...
> That's only a _minority_ portion of my career (~4-5 years).

You're supposed to take it like half your post consisted of telling 
everybody about your experience. Shouldn't your arguments stand on their 
own feet, without the resume attachment?

BTW, you just did it again, pointing out that that was only one small 
portion of your illustrious career.

> If you want my resume, I'll send it to you off-line.
> Until then, I point out things so people know where I'm
> coming from, and I understand many of their processes, not to
> be "arrogant."

It comes off as arrogant, at least to me. Your points should stand on 
their own feet. If people don't get it, then what's the point?

> Why?  Because there's always people who have more
> credentials.
> If I wanted to flaunt my credentials, just me, I can get
> rediculous.  There's no need to do that, because we're all
> here to help each other, not to show "I am the authority" on
> something.

Except you just did it again. :-)

You don't want to flaunt your credentials, but then say if you did you 
could get "rediculous". Or maybe that should be "ridiculous", I 
was an English major after all, I wrote some pretty sweet papers. Whether 
my extremely awesome command of spelling is the issue, isn't really the 
issue. The issue is the irony of what you said. Or what I just said. 
Nevermind...

> I'd rather people take me on the value of my actual technical
> statements -- and that has to be earned over _years_.

Yes. And those can stand alone from the resume part.

> Credentials are a "shortcut" that I despise.  So don't read
> into things when I point them out to show that I understand
> where people are coming from.
>
> Such as engineering processes.

That's fine. I was just trying to add levity to the discussion. This is a 
mailing list that by and large is very pleasant. CentOS is a very pleasant 
distro. It just works, well. I pointed out earlier how I tried Ubuntu and 
had problems with the distro. Same with Fedora Core 4. It crashed on 
install. And visit #freebsd on a GOOD night and you're likely to witness 
some pretty surly behavior.

CentOS isn't like that. The community is practical and nice and really 
pretty much focused on using the distro to get stuff done. It's an island 
in the Linux world, IMHO. Relatively shielded from arguments about 
licensing, good and evil, etc.

So the flaunting...? I found it both annoying and funny.

You can send me your resume, but I'd rather not read it here, nor in my 
inbox.

Preston