On 2023-12-10 10:12 a.m., DFS wrote:
On 12/10/2023 9:15 AM, RabidPedagog wrote:
On 2023-12-09 10:19 p.m., DFS wrote:
On 12/9/2023 9:44 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
Le 05-12-2023, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :
On 12/1/2023 7:42 AM, Lester Thorpe wrote:
It's uncommon for a GuhNoo developer
You consider him to be a developer. I'm surprised.
Of course not. He doesn't have the skill to program anything but
tiny, trivial programs (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The problem is Feeb's a loudmouth braggart:
* I can program ANYTHING
* programming wizard
* computing virtuoso
* computer scientist
* An x86 BIOS runs in 16-bit real mode, which is candy-ass, chicken-
shit programming.
* Perl guru
* C programmer extraordinaire
* Assembly language genius
* I program only in GNU C (but more and more assembly).
* Give me C, simple and unchanging C, and I shall bury these
Microslop cronies.
and a dozen more silly brags
And he often claims his short, faulty code snippets are "perfect,
infallible and efficient."
None of it is true. He's a very untalented, dishonest programming
fraud. That's why he denigrates actual programmers that do it for a
living.
Challenge him to a small programming contest. Watch him make an
excuse and run away, or just ignore you.
I've come across a bunch of guys like Larry Pietraskiewicz throughout
my life. Most of them thought that merely learning how to program was
going to give them some sort of superpower where they would create an
operating system to challenge and defeat Microsoft. It was rather sad,
especially considering how other people I met, who were _truly_
brilliant people, ended up actually working at big companies like
Microsoft but worked on a component of the system at most. These
people are so delusional that they are unable to comprehend how
complicated an operating system actually is and how something as
simple as Windows 1.0 still required years of development.
You got it! Funny how you, a non-programmer, have a far better grasp on
the reality of building an OS than "GNU/Linux master, computing
virtuoso, and C programming wizard" Larry Pietraskiewicz AKA Feeb Russell.
You saw this exchange?
FitFreak: "it's a piece of cake to write an operating system."
Feeb: "Very nicely stated."
LMAO!
Lucky for those bozos there's no real-life repercussions for posting
lies and fantasies on Usenet. They also know they'll never be expected
to back up their ludicrous claims.
If you need reinforcement of how difficult an OS is, just look at some
of the Linux kernel code. There's a tiny, tiny few people in the world
that can actually code a file system on their own.
The reason I even made the statement is because I've worked with, am
related to and been friends with both extremes. My cousin is a
programmer whose work was generally done in Assembly. He started coding
in BASIC at the age of 5 and learned ASM at the age of 12. Learning any
other language is therefore very simple for him. Because of this
achievement, his head grew very big (I am to blame for this because of
my incessant praise of his achievement) and he opted not to go further
in his studies to _prove_, with a diploma, that he is an accomplished programmer. He instead decided that he would spend his life working a
few programming odd jobs, making the minimum amount of money necessary
to live in the inexpensive country of Thailand. Here's something he made
back in 1995 in a 100KB intro competition: <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlkTIN7SWjk> . Yes, the music sucks,
but it was impressive enough at the time to win the North American
competition. It's already a lot more than Larry Pietraskiewicz would be
able to accomplish with thousands of times more resources. He did this
the following year but got second place. Once again, 100KB <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR153ZtguuM>
At the same time, I was going to school with a guy who, admittedly,
didn't program at all in high school. If anything, I knew a lot more
than he did but he was constantly studying and insisting on getting the
highest grade in whatever subject he was in. He finished on the honour
roll in high school, then CÉGEP (a Quebec replacement of 12th grade and
U0 in University) and then University. By the time he was done with his
diploma in Computer Systems Engineering or whatever, he had NVIDIA and Microsoft looking to hire him and had already interned at Matrox. He
ended up working on security for Windows, the Xbox One and now makes a
shitload of money at Google. Unlike my cousin who boasted that he would eventually produce nano-robots which would cure diseases, he never
expected that he would do anything revolutionary; he simply worked on
the components of great systems and got handsomely compensated for it.
My cousin lives like a hobo and had to rely on his parents to shelter
him in the vacant apartment of their duplex the last time he was in
Canada; my former best friend lives in Redmond in an enormous house with
his wife and three kids. There is no doubt to me that my cousin could
have done the same but like many talented programmers, he thought he was
too good to be a team player because nobody would ever be at his level.
One decided that he was so good that he would conquer the world on his
own and got nowhere; the other _became_ good and continues to lead
lesser programmers into conquering the world for Google. By the time my
cousin reaches the age of retirement, he will have to rely on the
government to finance his scrawny, pale ass... assuming he even lives
that long on his diet of cheese pizza and potato chips. By the age of 55
or so, my high school acquaintance will not only be able to retire
comfortably, but he will be able to afford a boat, jet skis, a huge
cottage somwhere in the woods of Washington state and whatever else he
wishes to own.
Which way will you go, Larry Pietraskiewicz, once you can finally move
out of your mom's hamper?
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