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
>