Some more questions about C

[John Bode]

John wrote:

)> None of these goddam answers are right.
)
) If you know that much, why did you need to ask for help in the first
) place?

Maybe he found out because he handed them in. That's might be why he
reacted so pissed off. But I doubt that the universe would be that just.

Oh, that would have been just too damned sweet. That's a level of
cluelessness rarely seen in the wild.

 

[Flash Gordon]

Willem wrote, On 27/11/07 21:50:

John wrote:
)> None of these goddam answers are right.
)
) If you know that much, why did you need to ask for help in the first
) place?

Maybe he found out because he handed them in. That's might be why he
reacted so pissed off. But I doubt that the universe would be that just.

I think that either it did or he missed the deadline for handing in the
homework whilst waiting for us to do it. Either way it will help keep
the number of incompetent programmers down.

 

[CBFalconer]

And what exactly were you thinking? That nobody here would
recognize what was *obviously* a homework problem? Here's a clue,
Bubba; don't just cut and paste the assignment.


If you know that much, why did you need to ask for help in the
first place?
.... snip ...

The joke is you're the 8,543,981,259th clueless larva who somehow
believes that a bunch of professional programmers can't recognize
a "do my homework for me" post.

He didn't know better. He posted the original answer, and Jacob
'answered' almost immediately. He apparently took the result and
passed it in. About a week later he returned here with his
diatribe, probably after getting his paper back with a zero mark.
Jacob did well.

However, it looks as if he hasn't learned much. List him under "Do
not hire under any circumstance".

 

[Dik T. Winter]

>
> HP> Hey shit-for-brains What the hell were you thinking here? None
> HP> of these goddam answers are right. Why did you post if you
> HP> don't know a goddam thing about the subject? It's also
> HP> incredible that noone else noticed the mistakes and corrected
> HP> them.
>
> He, and we, noticed that this looked an awful lot like homework, and
> gave you appropriate answers. One hopes you got an appropriate grade.

Considering his response, I think it was an F.

 

[J. J. Farrell]

...

However, it looks as if he hasn't learned much. List him under "Do
not hire under any circumstance".

I'm going to have to find a faster algorithm for searching that list ...

 

[Richard Harter]

Considering his response, I think it was an F.

{OT] Definitely off topic but afficianados of this sort of thing
might enjoy the following links from my web site:

http://home.tiac.net/~cri_c/letters/2005/let05jan.html#barb/
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2001/austinbib.html

The internet is not always a reliable source of knowledge.



Richard Harter, (e-mail address removed)
http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com
In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die

 

[Philip Potter]

I'm going to have to find a faster algorithm for searching that list ...

I suggest using a heap. Don't hire anyone from the bottom of the heap.

Phil

 

[CBFalconer]

I suggest using a heap. Don't hire anyone from the bottom of the
heap.

You can put my hashlib library to work!

 

[Eric Sosman]

Flash Gordon wrote On 11/27/07 17:26,:

Willem wrote, On 27/11/07 21:50:



I think that either it did or he missed the deadline for handing in the
homework whilst waiting for us to do it. Either way it will help keep
the number of incompetent programmers down.

It's already below ULONG_MAX, despite appearances.

Getting it below INT_MAX (for all implementations)
would be a challenge. Getting it below INT_MIN would
be a *real* challenge.

 

[Philip Potter]

Flash Gordon wrote On 11/27/07 17:26,:

It's already below ULONG_MAX, despite appearances.

Getting it below INT_MAX (for all implementations)
would be a challenge. Getting it below INT_MIN would
be a *real* challenge.

All it requires is a cast to unsigned long.