[PUBLIC] What Network Code Architecture Can Teach Us About Life

[bronzite]

I've been writing network code for well over a decade now. Early on, I was writing straight off the RFC's, so I got to see the protocols that make up the Internet as we know it in their original state. In RFC793, Transmission Control Protocol (arguably one of the most influential standards ever to come out of IANA), Jon Postel, the editor of the

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[jalawingedone]

I dunno. I lived under the concept for years, although not so nearly well articulated, and some of my neuroses spring from the fact that I have trouble letting someone else know that their behavior is out of line. I used to just take it until I exploded without warning rather then give the gentlest of hints.

[nerdx111]

I have a lot of thoughts about this that I am unable to articulate. Suffice to say for now that the neuroticism you describe (or something very akin to it) is absolutely central to my image of myself. Sometimes that worries me a great deal, but most of the time I consider it the greatest strength of my character, so I'm very very reluctant to even consider backing down from it.

[jalawingedone]

If you are capable of taking it and taking it and taking it and disposing of the toxicity in private, then more power to you. But I have chosen to be less gracious in exchange for my sanity and well-being. I am near incapable of handling the fallout myself, although I've gotten better at articulating issues that bug me better, and talking with people I trust and have proved willing to help me clean out my mental garbage. But angry is a short path to tears with me. It's better if I speak up while I am merely irritated.