Re: Seeking computer-programming job (Sunnyvale, CA)

[Nick Keighley]

He is not. I am neither a troll nor insane.


There are three problems with your insinuation above:

1. It is rude.

not something I see as a problem. I operate iterated prisoner's
dilemma. You behave reasonably and I behave reasonably.
I was polite to you. You were rude to me. I no longer
see a reason to be polite to you.

2. I have not been "badly behaved".

foaming at the mouth just because you were unable
to admit you were wrong about an easily verifiable technical issue
seems pretty badly behaved to me.

3. In this instance, "getting my way" means having my rights of privacy

you are on public news group. Deal with it.

    and publicity respected,

I'm not sure how you respect publicity. Send a letter
to the newspapers?

not to mention the charters of three
    newsgroups.

which charters of which news groups? I'm on comp.programming

Is that a threat?

no, just an observation. In the real world people don't put
up with this sort of bratty behaviour.

 

[Willem]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) Willem wrote:
)> Seamus MacRae wrote:
)> ) Evidently. I tried being reasonable with both you and Heathfield, but to
)> ) no avail.
)>
)> When ?
)
) More than a week ago, but no more than three.

Do you have a message-ID ? I seem to have missed that post.


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

 

[Seamus MacRae]

There is nothing pitiable about me.

[childish response deleted]

As explained previously, you're discovering an intentional deterrence.

a what?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deterrence

He's supposed to react to it by knowing better than to argue with me in
the future.

or?

Or he continues to endure the pain and frustration that he noted. It's
his choice.

Unfortunately, the deterrence only works on people that are
intelligent enough to be capable of pattern recognition and learning
from the results of their actions.

but the only result is that [childish namecalling deleted]

You clearly require more assistance than I can presently provide.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=england psychiatrist

 

[Seamus MacRae]

Here are some excerpts that clearly indicate the nature of Seamus.

Yes, an intelligent man but one with little patience for certain sorts
of nonsense coming from other people.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

Which is irrelevant

Clearly not, as demonstrated.

Your fraudulent [rest deleted]

Nothing about me is fraudulent, so the rest of your missive is null
and void. Have a nice day.

It's obvious that you are a fraud.

I am not.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

* Seamus MacRae:

The evidence (misquoting, ignoring facts, using inflaming phrases,
reinterpreting everything and anything as personal, etc.) indicates that
you're trolling.

Yes, that evidence certainly does indicate that Richard Heathfield is
trolling. But what shall we do about it?

 

[Willem]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) Lars Enderin wrote:
)> Seamus MacRae wrote:
)>> Except nothing. C99 did, indeed, add variable-length arrays.
)>
)> Which is irrelevant
)
) Clearly not, as demonstrated.

How ? A struct can not contain a VLA, if you recall.


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

 

[Seamus MacRae]

not something I see as a problem.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14314

I operate iterated prisoner's
dilemma. You behave reasonably and I behave reasonably.
I was polite to you. You were rude to me.

I am never rude in response to politeness, so you are in error. No doubt
you were rude to me, but mistakenly thought you were being polite.

Helpful hint: Any personal criticisms, expressed or implied, would have
sufficed to make your post impolite.

foaming at the mouth

I have not done that.

you were wrong

I was not.

you are on public news group. Deal with it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rights


I'm not sure how you respect publicity. Send a letter
to the newspapers?

My rights of privacy and publicity. My right to control how I am
portrayed in public. "The right of privacy (noun) has one meaning: a
legal right (not explicitly provided in the US Constitution) to be left
alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity."
(http://ezinearticles.com/?Oprah-Right-To-Privacy-or-Secrecy?&id=425547)

You do seem to need a lot of help with commonplace concepts,
definitions, and turns. Perhaps you should bookmark google and
dictionary.com in your browser.

which charters of which news groups? I'm on comp.programming

Those'd be comp.programming, comp.lang.lisp, and
comp.lang.java.programmer, all of which have topic bounds that exclude
posting for the purpose of personally attacking, harassing, or
discussing another person.

Insulting Lisp is on topic in two of them. Discussing/insulting Seamus
MacRae is on topic in zero of them.

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/comp.programming
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...read/thread/e93c6d8a93f57090/923dbc0091af3f75
(the latter covers clj*)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/about?hl=en

(Curiously, the Google Groups about page for cll is the closest thing I
could find on the net to a charter for that group.)

no, just an observation. In the real world people don't put
up with this sort of bratty behaviour.

In other words, if you behaved in the real world the way you've behaved
towards me online, you'd get a punch in the nose? I'm glad you realize
that. Admitting your behavior is a problem is always the first step.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

You are, obviously, seriously disturbed.

I am not.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

[I have refrained from replying to most of the recent spate of
nonsensical SMR replies

I don't know anything about "nonsensical SMR replies", but I guess the R
maybe stands for Richard, since you are the most voluminous current
source of nonsensical post-content in this thread.

Seamus MacRae said:
That would be a constraint violation

Excuses, excuses.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

A struct cannot contain a variable-length array.

I don't see why not. It can contain any other data type.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

A struct cannot contain a variable-length array.

I don't see why not. It can contain any other data type.

 

[Willem]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) Willem wrote:
)> Here are some excerpts that clearly indicate the nature of Seamus.
)
) Yes, an intelligent man but one with little patience for certain sorts
) of nonsense coming from other people.

Then why do you change around what other people write
when you are replying to them ?


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

 

[Seamus MacRae]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) I am neither.

Huh ? That doesn't make sense. What does 'I am neither'
have to do with my statement about your claim ?

It doesn't make sense when you misquote my post to make it not make sense.

Here is my actual post, as I actually wrote it:

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) <snip>
) I. Do. Not. Make. Mistakes.
) <snip>

[calls me a liar AND an idiot in one sentence]

I am neither.

Clearly, "neither" refers to "a liar" and "an idiot". It makes perfect
sense when it is not taken out of context and misquoted.

[calls me a liar AND a crazy person in one sentence]

I am neither.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

No, there's your problem. C.L.L will always be talking about your
fascist crimes

I have no fascist crimes, and you've already handed me a clear victory
by invoking Godwin's Law once already, twice already, and three times is
really rather overdoing it wouldn't you say? We get the message -- you
concede defeat. Time to move on.

Even if this thread goes away, we'll be sure to bring you up, laugh
behind your back every couple months or so.

As your pal Richard is so fond of saying: I don't respond well to threats.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

MarkH said:

His problems appear to be many and varied.

Yes, and these problems have names:

Richard Heathfield
MarkH
Ben Pfaff
Thomas Mertes
Lars Enderin
Nick Keighley
Paul Donnelly
Duane
Kaz Kylheku
ChrisF

Ten of you against one of me. Not very nice odds, or very fair play, is it?

Then again, that changes quickly when the team captain didn't pick
carefully and went instead for quantity over quality, with the result
that one or two of 'em are prone to scoring own-goals via Godwin's Law.

I *like* those odds!

No, his problems are that [vicious insults deleted]

No, I have none of the claimed problems. The incompetents are all on
your side, particularly those teammates of yours that keep scoring those
inconvenient own-goals.

 

[Seamus MacRae]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) Willem wrote:
)> Seamus MacRae wrote:
)> ) Evidently. I tried being reasonable with both you and Heathfield, but to
)> ) no avail.
)>
)> When ?
)
) More than a week ago, but no more than three.

Do you have a message-ID ? I seem to have missed that post.

<[email protected]>

Dated 30 May, roughly two weeks ago.

That's my initial response to the first potshot by Richard Heathfield.
As you can see, it tries to be calm and reasonable and polite, and
apparently succeeds. The only remark there that can possibly be taken
personally, other than quoted ones, is the very last line, and as I
subsequently explained, that was aimed at C coding shops that engage in
sloppy development practices, rather than at any particular person.
Anyone, however good, might find themselves working for such a company
and it therefore shouldn't reflect on them.

 

[Willem]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) I am never rude in response to politeness, so you are in error. No doubt
) you were rude to me, but mistakenly thought you were being polite.
)
) Helpful hint: Any personal criticisms, expressed or implied, would have
) sufficed to make your post impolite.

So, if I understand you correctly, if anybody disagrees
with you in any way, they are being impolite ?


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

 

[Willem]

Seamus MacRae wrote:
) It doesn't make sense when you misquote my post to make it not make sense.

*you* misquoted *my* post, remember ?
I just put back what I wrote in the first place.
You know, the bit where it sais 'Willem wrote' ?
That's me. Not you. So I get to decide what goes there. Not you.

Why are you misquoting other people's posts anyway ?


SaSW, Willem
--
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT

 

[Ben Pfaff]

I don't see why not. It can contain any other data type.

Because the C standard says so:

Only an ordinary identifier (as defined in 6.2.3) with both
block scope or function prototype scope and no linkage shall
have a variably modified type.

There's also a footnote that makes it more explicit:

102) A structure or union can not contain a member with a
variably modified type because member names are not
ordinary identifiers as defined in 6.2.3.

where "variably modified" is defined as:

If the nested sequence of declarators in a full declarator
contains a variable length array type, the type specified by
the full declarator is said to be variably modified.