"Keith Thompson" <ks***@mib.org> wrote in message
news:ln************@nuthaus.mib.org...
A little joking around is ok, but
could you *try* to talk about C?
Honestly, I don't know how you can answer the same crappy questions and
homework questions and pointer questions, day after day after day... ad
infinitum. Yet you have been doing a great job in doing so for years.
My hat is off to you, Keith, for your patience, understanding, and
willingness to work with early beginners. You are level-headed, and step
in to give the correct facts. You are cordial and thorough,
knowledgeable and nice. I admire you, and I truly believe you are akin
to Howard Cosell as an irreplaceable resource in comp.lang.c. Well done,
my friend, well done.
I pop in for a few weeks, take a look around, sniper a few idiots, and I
have to leave; it's just the same old crap. There must be decades of the
same boring, trivial, homework type programs that no one would really do
in the Real World. And any of them could just Google the same question
they are about to post and get 500 responses - many that actually DO the
homework!
I also have a problem with training up the very people who are taking
our jobs away. When I see these overseas posts that want to drain our
brains so they can better steal our jobs, I wonder at the people
answering the questions. This is a serious problem. In another thread
there was talk about stealing because someone put a book online. How
about the fact that you are helping the person who took my job
online...?! I know the answer to the question, and you know the answer,
but the person making $1.50 in India or China doesn't know the answer -
so let's use our 20 years experience to help them steal our jobs. I say,
"OSHI!" (When Mussolini asked Greece to join the Nazis, the Greek
ruler's one word answer was, "No!" They have a National Holiday about
it)
I would like to see some interesting C questions or debates (remember
the NULL vs 0 vs location 0 vs embedded devices not having a location 0,
etc. discussion we had; that was meaningful, interesting, and topical) I
just don't see anything like that when I check in (and I check in more
than I post, BTW) and after a while I just want to stir things up in
here to try to get something or someone interesting to comment.
I guess that when I see the forum doing the kids' homework for them, and
stupid questions about converting integers to floats or something, I
just want to post something irreverent to break up the monotony. Then I
get grief from people like you and it sucks the fun out of it... Please
lighten up. You can't prevent my humorous jocularity, and at most you
can only scold after the fact. Or you could just ignore it. I would
never want you to killfile me, and if it ever enters your mind
(...again?) please let me know first, as I DO appreciate your comments,
mostly...
Keith, you could take a page out of the book of ... duh duh duh dum ...
(seriously concerned about invoking the name... <shiver>) ... Dan Pop.
HE jumps upon the unrighteous with swift and sure Justice, however not
over trivial things; you must incur the wrath of the Pop. You are much
more free with your critisms over a cute "bon mot" or turn of phrase.
Perhaps you should get laid more often...
--
Mabden