Too many times now ive made statements that were placed at an insignificant level. I ask for assistance in converting a sql statement to check a couple things and decide what record to bring, and i still havent heard mention of it since.
You want to accuse me of being an arrogant European? Yes, I'm arrogant at times. Usually it's because I end up bring proved right so often. Now you're condemning me because I have neither the time nor inclination to sit and write your code for you and that it's also my fault that NO-ONE ELSE IS. How the fuck does that work?
The communities around smf and wedge dont have time for me
I can't speak for the other dozens of members here or the thousands of members on sm.org, but you're expecting people to help you in a specialist situation and most of those who do have the skill don't have the time.
This question I ask everyone here: which would you rather I do? Spend an hour going through code for one person, or spend an hour designing/planning/building something that benefits a lot of people? I only have so many hours in the day, and I have to make a hard choice as to what I put my time into. Selfishness doesn't even come in to it - you want to suggest I'm selfish?! Look at yourself first.
And i have been no more harsh than you chose to be
No, you started out by telling us how we should be doing things without considering for a moment that maybe, just maybe, we were already planning to do it that way and hadn't finished rewriting the other thousands and thousands of lines that need to be modified to make it happen.
Ill prolly fork wedge, cause i know yall have made leaps and bounds from smf, but with my clean slate and the improvements yall have made, ill write a fork specific for my website
Go nuts, provided you're keeping to the licence. Prove that you're so much better than we are at it, since you obviously think we can't possibly bring anything of value to the table.
Tell you what, I'm tempted to give you the code right now. Not commit access, mind, but the ability to read it and see if you can actually put your money where your mouth is. Maybe it'll shut your whining up.
Every idea is fresh and clean for me, and all i see is possibilities
Except you don't bother to see if we'd considered them and instead proceed to tell us that's how we should do it like we're little kids and clearly not up to your level. You said that you treated us like equals. Equals do not talk down to people, you did, more than once.
When i said $context = new wedge(); i visuallized the entire platform running in class constructors with all the different sub classes, boardindex, adminpanel, calendar, etc. How easy it would be to substitue a function in that world.
It doesn't work like that in PHP. The entire platform cannot be in class constructors because it actually makes it harder, not easier, to achieve things then.
Maybe all this is language barriers or cultural differences, or maybe im excentric or an asshole, but i can assure you, respecting me as much as i respect you, can only benefit you, and me as well.
If you respect me, why have you more than once felt the need to explain concepts to me as though I've not been programming for most of a decade?
I may never could write the code you can, but i damn sure can challenge you to see a different point of view.
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