Jesse Lackey wrote:
> I don't see any need for you to flame the poster.

I didn't.  I said nothing about Richard, only that this particular idea was
bad design.

> He did not ask for your design review opinions.

Actually by posting here he essentially did.  If you don't want someone to
comment on what you say, don't say it to 2000 people.

> What you consider "design error" others
> may consider cleverly getting a feature for free.

True, but I stand by my assesment.

> The poster may not
> have even designed the circuit, and is instead trying to get more life
> out of something 10 years old.  You have no context to make your
> assertion that he has to either rework or redesign: is this a first
> proto or are there 5000 boards already produced?  What is the failure
> rate of the last 10,000 sold in the last 10 years?  Maybe this trick has
> worked great.  You don't know.

Since I wasn't judging the poster, only the idea, it doesn't matter who
designed the original circuit.  As for this trick working, apparently not,
else he wouldn't be here asking.  And even if it appears to work in a few
test cases, there is no guarantee that it will continue to work for any of
the next 1000 units.

> I would like PIClist to remain reasonably friendly for everyone to ask
> questions, particularly somewhat unusual things like the OP did, without
> getting flamed for doing a design (or trying to fix someone else's
> design) that you dismiss out of hand as (apparently) so poor that they
> need to be commanded to go fix, as though they are your junior employee.
>
> Tone matters.  Even in engineering.

Oh get over it.  Bad ideas are going to get trounced on and picked apart on
their technical merits.  This is a good thing.  If you disagree that the
idea was bad you can defend it on technical merits and pick apart the
criticism.  Anyone that can't handle this kind of discourse or gets offended
by it should probably find a different profession.


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