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robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
From your post it sounds like you're now going to assume that every hint is not accurate or the best way to do it. For the most part, hints are well-written and accurate and a decent way to achieve the objective. However, rob can't test every single hint and can't make sure that every single hint is described in the best way possible. So while this hint really doesn't need sudo (and in fact isn't the best way to do it either), it certainly doesn't mean all other hints suffer the same problems.
robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
Thanks to those who clarified the grain of salt. I agree with the philosophy, and find the posters here to be remarkably straightforward and helpful.
robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
Mistakes will be made here by yours truly. It's happened before, and it will happen again -- it's a fact of life, and I won't promise that it's not going to happen again. There's simply too great a volume of information to deal with to commit to 100% mistake-free hints. Hence, I rely on the comment system to help catch those mistakes, so that future readers will see both the original hint and the follow on comments.
However, since I'm only one person, there's no way I can read every one of the thousands of comments that are posted to the site -- it's all I can do to try to keep up with the submissions and the email requests for help, pointers, references, etc. As much as I'd love to read every comment on the site, I'd much rather use my very sparse free time to visit with my wife and daughter. Hence, if you really want to get my attention about something, send me an email -- I wouldn't have even seen this thread if a user hadn't sent me an email. With all that said, yes, there's a mistake in this hint -- you don't need sudo. Now that it's been noted in the comments, I don't really see the point in changing the original article -- if I do that, I might as well then delete all the comments, since they'd be redundant. However, in those cases where a hint is (a) proven brutally wrong or (b) proven to be very dangerous, I will go back and either amend or delete the hint as appropriate. I do NOT feel this hint falls in to that category. If you don't like my approach, nor believe in my rationale, then you are, of course, free to start another hints site with a different approach. I'll just continue to do my best, and hope it's good enough for the majority... -rob.
robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
"However, in those cases where a hint is (a) proven brutally wrong or (b) proven to be very dangerous, I will go back and either amend or delete the hint as appropriate. I do NOT feel this hint falls in to that category."
robg: I can't believe you posted this "hint"!
4 months later it's still posted, but I'm glad it is. It may be brutally wrong but the response comments contain a ton of interesting information which I learned some useful and important things from. This is a more valuable site for having that post still on it than it would be without it. |
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