Im a firm believer in rants for several reasons... theyre entertaining most importantly. I mean I would get some joy out of reading one of the more experienced users post something like:
You know I was paging through some posts today and saw a guy who said he was new to VB and wants to write a program that will take an image of a scanned coin and compare it to other images of scanned coined in a database and be able to retrieve the type of coin, the year, and its condition.... ! (who wants to work on that?)
Im sure weve all seen posts, not quite to that extreme, but you really make you ask yourself... Where is the common sense? What is this guy/girl thinking? This guy should not be programming!
Rants are also nice for learning experience; in my few 4 odd years in programming Ive had my rear handed to me on a silver platter several times, and Ive deffinitely felt like a fool at times by asking stupid questions... and yes there are such things... or having someone point out stupid things like (and Im sure Ill have some all-knowing nods on this) have a 60 line If..ElseIf..Else..statement nested 20 times over rather than a well wrote loop and switch statement - or even better just some better OO to begin with and have no statement at all) but you know what... I learned... I learned... and I learned. IMO to be a successful programmer you have to have a competitve side... if your doing this for a living, then you deffinitely should... how else are you going to get your product sold? Nobody is going to buy a mediocure program that was written poorly, runs slow, and hogs bandwidth or has over-used controls (like DataGrids). Being mocked I feel really brings out the competitiveness... your either going to get better, or your going to realize programming isnt for you.
Im not saying have a forum to be a-holes to everyone, or to be that way... we all need help, we all are learning, and nobody, especially I, knows it all... and if theyre saying otherwise then theyre fooling themselves... there are a few true gods out there... but Ive only come across two in all the people Ive met and theyve both been programming since the 80s.
What Im saying is sometimes you read some of these post and see someone who should obviously not be anywhere near a computer, much less trying to write a program for it, we need not mock them directly or ridicule them, as I said no-one should be a d*ck, but a forum where we could vent and share some all-knowing laughter would be nice.
You know I was paging through some posts today and saw a guy who said he was new to VB and wants to write a program that will take an image of a scanned coin and compare it to other images of scanned coined in a database and be able to retrieve the type of coin, the year, and its condition.... ! (who wants to work on that?)
Im sure weve all seen posts, not quite to that extreme, but you really make you ask yourself... Where is the common sense? What is this guy/girl thinking? This guy should not be programming!
Rants are also nice for learning experience; in my few 4 odd years in programming Ive had my rear handed to me on a silver platter several times, and Ive deffinitely felt like a fool at times by asking stupid questions... and yes there are such things... or having someone point out stupid things like (and Im sure Ill have some all-knowing nods on this) have a 60 line If..ElseIf..Else..statement nested 20 times over rather than a well wrote loop and switch statement - or even better just some better OO to begin with and have no statement at all) but you know what... I learned... I learned... and I learned. IMO to be a successful programmer you have to have a competitve side... if your doing this for a living, then you deffinitely should... how else are you going to get your product sold? Nobody is going to buy a mediocure program that was written poorly, runs slow, and hogs bandwidth or has over-used controls (like DataGrids). Being mocked I feel really brings out the competitiveness... your either going to get better, or your going to realize programming isnt for you.
Im not saying have a forum to be a-holes to everyone, or to be that way... we all need help, we all are learning, and nobody, especially I, knows it all... and if theyre saying otherwise then theyre fooling themselves... there are a few true gods out there... but Ive only come across two in all the people Ive met and theyve both been programming since the 80s.
What Im saying is sometimes you read some of these post and see someone who should obviously not be anywhere near a computer, much less trying to write a program for it, we need not mock them directly or ridicule them, as I said no-one should be a d*ck, but a forum where we could vent and share some all-knowing laughter would be nice.
