Are you failure with the HAM Story?

[David Sidrane <Da...@nscdg.com>]

All,

This is one of my favorite Lessons that I learned... reposted from Private

Are you failure with the HAM Story?

A husband and his wife were in their kitchen. The husband was sitting at the
kitchen table reading the newspaper while his wife was preparing a ham for
dinner. The husband watched the wife cut off about one inch from either end
of the ham. He asked why she cut the end off, proclaiming “that’s a waste of
good ham!” She said “that’s the way my mom prepared the ham.” The husband
asked “why did your mom cut the ends off?” The wife didn’t know.

Later, the wife called her mom to find out why she cut the ends of the ham
off. Her mom said “because that was the way my mom prepared ham.”

The wife’s grandma passed away several years earlier, but her Grandpa was
still living. She called her Grandpa and asked “Grandpa, why did Grandma cut
the ends off of the ham?” He was silent as he thought for a moment. Then he
replied, “so the ham could fit in the baking pan.”

It relates nicely to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Hartman [mailto:hartman.nathan@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:26 AM
To: private@nuttx.apache.org
Subject: Re: Email Attachments (Was Re: Masayuki Ishikawa added to NuttX
committers)

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:31 PM Alan Carvalho de Assis
<ac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the issue with .patch extension? This is default name
> generated by "git format-patch" command. Could you please explain the
> reason?

I don't know if there is an issue. I only mentioned it because I was
once told it makes it easier to review patches in some email clients:

On Wed Jul 31 11:11:11 CDT 2019 Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> By the way, in the future could you please name patches with a *.txt
> extension?  That should cause them to have a text/* MIME type which, in
> some email clients, makes the attachments easier to review.

Full message:
https://mailman.red-bean.com/pipermail/svnbook-dev/2019-July/017433.html

Nathan

Are you familiar with the HAM story? (Was Are you failure with the HAM Story?)

[David Sidrane <da...@apache.org>]

If I could only spell and see my errors. dyslexics untie[1]

1 http://www.specialcompass.ca/shakiras-blog/2017/10/23/dyslexic-untie

On 2019/12/20 21:09:17, David Sidrane <Da...@nscdg.com> wrote: 
> All,
> 
> This is one of my favorite Lessons that I learned... reposted from Private
> 
> Are you failure with the HAM Story?
> 
> A husband and his wife were in their kitchen. The husband was sitting at the
> kitchen table reading the newspaper while his wife was preparing a ham for
> dinner. The husband watched the wife cut off about one inch from either end
> of the ham. He asked why she cut the end off, proclaiming “that’s a waste of
> good ham!” She said “that’s the way my mom prepared the ham.” The husband
> asked “why did your mom cut the ends off?” The wife didn’t know.
> 
> Later, the wife called her mom to find out why she cut the ends of the ham
> off. Her mom said “because that was the way my mom prepared ham.”
> 
> The wife’s grandma passed away several years earlier, but her Grandpa was
> still living. She called her Grandpa and asked “Grandpa, why did Grandma cut
> the ends off of the ham?” He was silent as he thought for a moment. Then he
> replied, “so the ham could fit in the baking pan.”
> 
> It relates nicely to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
> 
> David
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Hartman [mailto:hartman.nathan@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:26 AM
> To: private@nuttx.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Email Attachments (Was Re: Masayuki Ishikawa added to NuttX
> committers)
> 
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:31 PM Alan Carvalho de Assis
> <ac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the issue with .patch extension? This is default name
> > generated by "git format-patch" command. Could you please explain the
> > reason?
> 
> I don't know if there is an issue. I only mentioned it because I was
> once told it makes it easier to review patches in some email clients:
> 
> On Wed Jul 31 11:11:11 CDT 2019 Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > By the way, in the future could you please name patches with a *.txt
> > extension?  That should cause them to have a text/* MIME type which, in
> > some email clients, makes the attachments easier to review.
> 
> Full message:
> https://mailman.red-bean.com/pipermail/svnbook-dev/2019-July/017433.html
> 
> Nathan
>