Re: Advice to adult victims of cyberbullying

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 07:38:33 -0600, spinoza1111 wrote
(in article
<f3143bee-73e0-42b7-abc9-04ef1dac1685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On Jan 3, 7:55 pm, Ico <use...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm going to repost this from my blog here.

Don't let the bullies [ ... ] innocent as doves

Rather off-topic for this newsgroup, no ?

When code is posted, people ignore it, because the resident vandals
and bullies descend on them when they violate what the resident
bullies think they know.

Not true generally. When you post code, along with disclaimer that
says, "by the way, the code below is far slower than the code I am
attempting to rip to shreds", the logical response is... "Why bother?"

Hope that helps, have a nice day.

The thread "Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum" has
been vandalized by dozens of off-topic postings in which people who
could not score above 85% on areas in which they claim professional
qualifications have attacked a person not for his knowledge, but his
views.

More lies. Note that none of those people have laughed at you or said
anything about your qualifications for scoring lower, despite your
admission that you are actively studying the topic of the test. It
could have been done, but it would have been unreasonable for a few
reasons.

1. You are a student, and thereby can't be expected to score well.

2. The test has some serious flaws, which we detected while taking the
test, and which you did not. If you had, you probably would have
mentioned them before issuing the challenge, or hopefully, found a
better test to use instead. You didn't do so. Perhaps because of #1.
Perhaps because you wanted the very result achieved, another flame
fest.

3. None of us you are upset with are under any misapprehension that
you have any motive here other than troll.

4. None of us you are upset with even claim expertise in C++, the
subject of this "test".

I've spent a couple of hours on topic, verifying that a C sharp
solution to the problem Kernighan presents isn't effectively slower
than the "efficient" C solution, but nobody wants even to attack my
methodology. It's much more fun to be way off topic and way out of
line.

You provided no methodology. You didn't even provide any method of
verifying your results. And 4X as long to complete is "effectively
slower" by any reasonable standard.

It's not flaming, and there are no such things as "trolls".

Of, that's incredibly wrong, and you know it.

I am sickened by what goes on here, and I am on topic. Prove me wrong
about the comparative performance of C sharp, or zip up.

You haven't even argued anything about the comparative performance of C
sharp. You've claimed that some code you posted runs 4X slower than
some mystery code, compiled on a mystery compiler, with mystery command
line options, and a mystery piece of hardware. There's nothing to
prove, or disprove, because it is for all practical purposes,
content-free.



--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those
who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw





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