It’s Groundhog Day, folks, and the Loons are still behaving like it’s 1995.
Back then, Linux had a chance. (Well, it didn’t in 1995: it was crap.) Anyway, at some point in the 1990’s, there was a massive take-up by Unix sysadmins, and it coincided with Apache (for what that’s worth) and a nice, simple, set of essentially lock-down and unsophisticated applications (I’m definitely thinking LAMP here).
Consequently, Loons in the 1990s were definitely hardcore. They could baffle you with bullshit. They had comparisons, and all. But, basically, they made sense.
These days, we have, what? Adam King and Roy Schestowitz and Steven J Vaughan-Nichols and Krazy Kat Lady and that unemployable twerp Pogson.
I miss the hardcore loons. They were criminally insane, but at least they knew what they were talking about.
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I had the chance of reading some of last hardcore loons when I went all the way into Linux, back in 2001/2.
Looking back, they really were hardcore and made sense
Back in 2001/2?
Good lord. It’s like not being alive when Walter “Sweetness” Payton was making seriously talented linebackers look stupid, isn’t it?
It isn’t all that long ago, and I miss Walter. He was fun and he was just damn the best.
I played with Linux (and here comes the rim shot) but I beat the sh1t out of it on an end run every time.
Ho ho.
It’s actually like missing Richard Milhous Nixon.
You wish it hadn’t invaded an otherwise perfectly workable world in the first place, but you have to be honest: some things worked.
Early on.
And then the sh1t-storm kicked in.
I see plenty of hard core loons here.
You mean the guy who said this, Adam?
“Calculus lays the theoretical foundation while Discrete Mathematics describes the practical implementation.”
Adam, you’re more of a softcore loon. All noise, no signal.
Gawd, did Adam really say that?
Vaudeville is not dead.
@JoeMonco
I suppose you think this is because Calculus is totally irrelevant to Computer Science?
Let’s start from the basics. Can you find me any Computer Science program that doesn’t have Calculus (usually even two or three courses on it) as an academic requirement?
“Computer Science. It’s all based on $40,000 tuition fees. Then you use Discrete Math to interpret those fees.”
That would be the Stanford U way.
Can you see the logical flaw in your argument here, Adam?
@DrLose Adam King on calculus http://tmrepository.com/stream/archive/1306636389586719/#1306636389586719
Man, we should frame this.
It’s clear to me that I’m obviously the only one here with a formal education in Computer Science.
“It’s clear to me that I’m obviously the only one here with a formal education in Computer Science.
“
Then why are you here and not fixing the numerous problems people have with OSS?
“[A] formal education in Computer Science.”
Let me guess… Undergraduate, first-year?
Adam@MAY 29, 2011 10:01 PM:
I’m going to take you at your word and assume you’re telling the truth.
You obviously weren’t very good at it, were you?
“Let me guess… Undergraduate, first-year?”
Not like your going to believe any of this, but here goes anyway.
I already got a Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, and am currently employed as a Software Engineer for a very large and prestigious organization with massive impact.
I’m still a student though, currently at the Master’s level. A University that is in the top 15 according to US News. Employer pays my $3000+ per class tuition in full, and even gives paid time off to take courses.
Never got less then an A in any Computer Science course, and I get personally insulted if I get less then 100% on any test or assignment, which is very rare.
Basically I’m pretty confident that I am intellectually superior to just about everyone here. Obviously you’ll never agree, but I’m a GNU/Linux fanatic and that means I must be retarded (or “freetarded”) according to most Winbreds.
“I already got a Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, and am currently employed as a Software Engineer for a very large and prestigious organization with massive impact.”
Who is going to buy into this raging bullcrap? Right, me neither.
For someone who can’t even make a few lines of C code syntactically correct, you sure deserves a Ph.D of your own – in bluffing.
Seriously, Adam – get help.
As I said: “Not like your going to believe any of this, but here goes anyway.”
“As I said: 'Not like your going to believe any of this, but here goes anyway.’”
I think orangutans are amphibians, and I am a decorated biologist.
You don’t believe me? That’s tough.
I can’t exactly fault you on that. You have every reason to not believe what some random person on the Internet says.
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