Re: what does "serialization" mean?
From: Edward G. Nilges (spinoza1111_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: 23 Jun 2004 16:57:36 -0700
"Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.58-035.0406231305110.10826@unix42.andrew.cmu.edu>...
> [Bcc to Randy and to comp.programming]
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> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Randy Howard wrote:
> >
> > spinoza1111@yahoo.com says...
> > > I have only an evil henchwoman, nerdgerl, who lives in rec.arts.fine
> > > and likes to blast people like you for sport after I've carpet bombed.
> >
> > I survey the group population <snip>
>
> The group population is sick and tired of your filling up the newsgroup
> with Nilgewater threads. While everyone recognizes that Edward Nilges
> is an idiot,
Not everyone. Furthermore, here you undercut an appeal which I in fact
support.
Since December 2000, when I initiated a popular thread on Steve
McConnell's book "After the Gold Rush" (as a published author on
computing since 1976), I have been subject to a barrage of attacks by
competence-challenged mere programmers who seem to regard a populist
Internet as a license for monopolizing this newsgroup with their
flawed views.
One of these individuals advised a newbie recently that he needs to
use a nonexistent statement in a popular programming language. Another
recently advised a newbie that projects and interactive development
environments are useless because the advisor is unfamiliiar with them,
and he said the newbie should use crude make files.
The former individual is a major Nemesis, who filibustered example C
code posted in May 2002 to show C's drawbacks. The latter individual
is a minor Nemesis who posts me-too style libel from time to time.
I have developed and published a methodology for core object design;
nonetheless when I attempt to initiate a discussion of OOD I am
filibustered and libeled with irrelevancies by people who are
threatened by their own ignorance of OOD.
One of these individuals posted an absurd claim that confused a
necessary part of OOD (automatic memory management) with OOD. In
general, this newsgroup is dominated by a combination of autodidacts
and bitter, twisted, and prematurely aged graduate students.
I fully support your call and in fact and as you state, the onus is on
these competence-challenged trolls to cease and desist, for as you
state, when they do not attack I do not try to restart the flame wars.
However, you completely undercut your appeal by calling me an "idiot".
In terms of what there is to learn, humility would call us all to
admit that from time to time we are all "idiots". But you're just a
part of the "Nilgewater bashing" you decry and because of your libel,
your appeal shall probably be ineffective.
Nonetheless I shall continue to not initiate these types of
discussions you decry.
In addition, based on a recent change in Randy Howard's behavior,
which hasn't, unfortunately, been consistent, I shall in a technical
discussion eliminate leading comments on politics and personalities:
for I note that in certain of Howard's (and Sonnack's) technical
replies they do not engage in "Nilgewater bashing".
Some conflict is unavoidable. This is because despite the fact that
I'm a published author with thirty years of experience, commencing
with debugging a compiler in object form, I feel that today a major
purpose of data systems development in the USA is the manufacture of
ideological consent to intolerable lives. For this reason, I feel that
the culture of "competence" to which posters here adhere is a bit of a
joke insofar as correctness and "competence" in the subartisan
construction of rhetorical claptrap are dispensible.
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