Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime.

From: Edward G. Nilges (spinoza1111_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: 10 Dec 2003 13:41:08 -0800

Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote in message news:<3FD742C2.659A0577@Sonnack.com>...
> "Edward G. Nilges" wrote:
>
> >> Polynomials have the basic form: ax^0 + bx^1 + cx^2 ...
> >
> > HA HA HA HA HA
> >
> > Wolfram research: "A polynomial is a mathematical expression
> > involving a sum of powers in one or more variables multiplied
> > by coefficients."
> >
> > In this definition, the polynomial is not restricted to rank 2.
>
> Of course not. Your accuracy and attention to detail remains at

The phrase "your accuracy and attention to detail" is lifted whole
from a corporate performance review, and in these posts, Chris, I
believe you are dealing with your dehumanization by the corporation.

> its usual low level. You snipped (and I restored) the ellipses
> that means the series continues.
>
An ellipsis consists of three dots. One doesn't mean to nitpick but
when in Rome.
 
> >> It's *because* I do understand the theory that my versions
> >> blew the doors off yours (AND were far more maintainable
> > and readable).
> >
> > What understanding have you displayed above? You have made the
> > incorrect claim that "Polynomials have the basic form:
> > ax^0 + bx^1 + cx^2".
>
> Nope. You just read it wrong.
>
> > Quite apart from your nonstandard notation, which lists the
> > exponents in the wrong order, you have made the WRONG STATEMENT
> > that polynomials are restricted to a highest power of two.
>
> Nope. You just read it wrong. As for the order, it *was*
> deliberately reversed (not that it matters, as summation is
> commutative) exactly so I could add ellipses at the end to
> indicate a series.
>
> > A polynomial, FYI, is of the form
> >
> > K(n)x^n ... K(2)x^2 + K(1)x^1 + K(0)x^0
> >
> > where K(i) is a constant.
>
> Yep. That's another way to write the same thing. I wasn't sure
> you'd understand that more sophisticated notation, so I tried
> to make it easier for you. It seems that, in providing you with
> something you didn't quite recognize, you failed to understand
> it at all.
>
> Ironically, you indulge in the same "go for the throat" attitude
> you blame us for. Shame that high moral ground is so elusive for
> you, eh? (And this is exactly why I name you Vile Hypocrite.)
>
As I said, it is a case of when in Rome. I haven't destroyed this ng
as your behavior has.
 
> > And if terms are missing, or the exponents are out of sequence,
> > the normalized expression is STILL a polynomial.
>
> Obviously. That's why I felt free to reverse them from the
> usual order.
>
>
> Ed, I have to ask. Why do you persist in a place where *everyone*
> thinks you're a total idiot and utterly incompetent? No one here
> seems to have any shred of regard for you whatsoever, and it seems
> this is true in other groups you've visited. What do you get out
> of this? Is your life so empty and lonely that negative attention
> is better than whatever else you have in your life?
>
> I just don't get it. If I got the response from people you do,
> I'd be asking myself some very serious questions about why. And
> I sure don't think I'd hang out with people who had no regard
> for me.
>
> Why are you here?

I think the real question is why are you. I believe that you have
created a nightmare world, in which values are reversed, because you
are inadequate to the real world.

You and Richard were upset in late 2000 because of the popularity of
my thread on Steve McConnell's book After the Gold Rush. You and he
were offended by the fact that several posters said in public that
they'd not seen such a high level of discussion for several years, and
you were probably wounded by the implication that you thugs have
ruined this ng.

Therefore you waited your chance and took it when last year I posted
on the DQA to conduct a planned campaign of character assassination.

You may hypostatize, all you want, a bogus community of people who you
say don't like me. But what you remain are LonelyHearts in rooms and
isolated from each other.

I suggest you connect with your loneliness which is created by your
behavior and restore this ng to one informed by simple human
solidarity.

For fool's approval stings and honor stains.

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