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Re: I didnt ask for the socks 5 feature, someone else did, Imsupporting....



On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 11:43, Nuno Monteiro wrote:
> See, that has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on what Doug tried to 
> tell you. That is why people dont take you seriously and, I guess, never 
> will. You dont seem to grasp even the simplest of things! Please 
> understand that is extremely frustrating to try and enlighten you of you 
> are doing wrong, only to realize three minutes later that it was a pure 
> waste of time because you did it all the same again! And just so you 
> know, writing in capital letters is considered extremely rude, its akin 
> to screaming loudly in real life.
> 
> Pleaes, _PLEASE_ take people's advice.
           ^^^^^^
You were saying something about typing in all caps? ;)

> All of us can't be wrong, now, 
> can we?

Some people, I believe, are misprogrammed. Here's some pseudocode for
what normal people think like:

if (advice.provider.iq < me.iq)
  ignore(advice);

But, Dragoonkey's brain, like that of all human beings, is
self-optimizing. It will try to do things faster by using shortcuts if
possible. I suspect that Dragoonkey encountered a large number of people
whose IQ was low, so said brain recognized the pattern and optimized the
above pseudocode into:

if (advice.provider != me)
  ignore(advice);

In other words, Dragoonkey isn't an idiot, but just has bugs. ;)

Regards,

Alex.

P.S. I think about things like this too much. Can you tell?

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