Re: Documentation hiding

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:37:28 -0400

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On 07/11/2010 10:19 AM,

On 07/11/2010 05:02 AM,

Roedy Green wrote:

I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their
incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour
templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley
is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a
few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their
cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone
else.

Lew wrote:

I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is
false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find.

Screamin Lord Byron wrote:

Oh, come on. Loosen up. It has nothing to do with cleverness. Either you
get the joke (or humorous remark for that matter), or you don't. And
that's about it. Roedy's cleverness remark was yet another example of
such remark. At least to me it was, and I'm not even Canadian.

I know quite a few very clever and intelligent people with the sense of
humor comparable to that of your average Henny Youngman (which is to say
none).

Apparently you missed the dry humor (or humour) in my remark, wherein I
playfully picked up on the dry insult from Roedy, humorously (or humourously)
intended of course (and didn't that make me feel clever for catching it!), and
reflected it back just a drily humorously (or humourously), then drove to the
point he was really making about inaccessibility of information on the former
java.sun.com, and refuted it.

Methinks 'tis thou who needs must lighten up, o Screamin Lord Byron.

--
Lew