I don't HAVE to say that your Hosts File Engine is crap, Spanky. Half the freaking Internet has already said it for me.
Your app doesn't do anything that any text editor with basic regular expression support can't do better already, and do so WITHOUT pegging a 4-core CPU.
And there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm EVER going to let such an abomination override the OS task scheduler on any system I administer. That's just insane.
Your demonstrated chronic inability to appreciate any kind of humour whatsoever has absolutely no bearing on my qualifications or credentials as a writer. (And just because I don't normally bold every other word that I post does not mean that I don't know how to use bold tags.)
BTW, if you look far enough back in my posting history, you'll see where I responded to comments about a book that I co-authored, and that was reviewed right here on Slashdot. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005, IIRC. I'm happy to wait while you go find the review and comments. I'm sure with your mighty sleuthing skills (*eyeroll*) it won't take you long.
You DO realise that I can't post and moderate in the same discussion, don't you? In any case...
APK, I absolutely do not now, and I am not *ever* going to be convinced you've ever worked anywhere except maybe Burger King.
However, I AM convinced that you are a lying, bullying, spamming, crapflooding troll.
You make increasingly grandiose and decreasingly believable claims about yourself. Whenever you're questioned about these, your lies get even bigger. When you're called out on them, you start attacking people.
When you make idiotic claims about programming, and get called out on those... That's right, you start attacking people.
You also apparently think that linking to any old thing proves your lies and mischaracterisations. Like when you linked to a joke you plainly didn't understand, claiming it was proof that I have MPD. Or when you linked to ANOTHER joke of mine that you ALSO plainly did not "get", and claimed this was "proof" that I'm not a writer.
When your attempts at intimidation and mischaracterisation don't work, you just start repeating them... well, MINDLESSLY... in an attempt to turn up the volume and drown out dissenting voices.
You have been doing this again and again and again and again for over a decade. It's all over the WWW. I'm not even going to bother to link to anything, because anyone with one good finger and half a clue can type "Alexander Peter Kowalski" into Google and read for themselves all about your little escapades.
For those of you playing along with us at home, it's up 212 messages this morning. Looks like 5-10 of those are from non-AC replies to my posts. Pretty sure at least 90% of the remainder are from APK.
Andy, perhaps you've forgotten about this, so here's a little reminder. You're pulling exactly the same shit here now as you did on Ars 13 years ago...
Alexander,... I see you using yet another persona (for at least the 4th time) and bringing total mayhem to the forum.
You lost your creds a long time ago and made quite a name for yourself, I don't see how you can get it back here.
I think it's clear you have to go.
Looks like you were banned for the 4th time a couple days afterwards.
When you get caught in a lie, you make up a bigger one to try to distract from it. Your pattern never changes in any appreciable way.
And I'm pretty sure you don't have a degree in anything.
BTW, you never answered my question about whether or not I've really been trolling Slashdot for the last 10,000 years.
Was that a few too many zeroes for you to deal with?
That Ars convo with GOD and MWHN wraps up the first page of results for you on Google. I'm ready to move on to the second page any time now, just let me know when you'd like to take another stroll down Memory Lane.
Speaking of my work as a writer... I was going to ask you whether maybe you used the VB6 book I co-wrote back in 1999, but apparently you never made it quite that far... So... I guess that question's been answered.
No, I was just pointing out how sad it is that you think posting nonsense 150 times will make it anything other than nonsense, or that you think there's so much as a snowball's chance in Hell that you are going to be able to intimidate me that way.
And what's this about a GUI? Why do I need one of those, when I can work with real software instead? (You've heard of the LAMP stack, right? Well, to put what I do for a living into terms that you might hope to understand: I work for a company that provides one of the "letters" in "LAMP", and I'm a contributor to a project that provides one of the others.)
Let's see... You're a troll, a stalker, a liar, a bully, and... not only does it appear that you can't really code, you are so foolish as to *brag about how horribly your code performs*.
But you're the perfect Slashdotter in that you really do live in your mother's basement, eh? Aw man, this just gets better and better.
So how does it feel to be known as the Uwe Boll of Visual Basic, Sparky?
SPEED UP FAVORITE SITES = 20 seconds (I do 20 of them)
SAVE = 10 seconds
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Over 145,000 new records... around 11 minutes total runtime!
I had to stop reading at this point, I was laughing so hard that I was about to hyperventilate.
APK, not only are you a troll, a bully, and a liar... You are also INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID if you think this is something you should be boasting about--this is like bragging about running a 3-month mile.
ROFLMAO here. UN-fucking-believable. This is the most fun I've had yet this week.
Even better---This looks like a strong candidate for the link I'll use in my next sig. I'll bet you can't wait.
Zontar needs to stop criticizing APK as truly he's one of the world's greatest programmers. His Hosts file generator spends 4 million processor cycles per entry...
OMG, how did I manage to miss this? Thank you for making my day.:D
At the risk of putting words in T.E.D.'s mouth (feel free to correct me if that's the case), I think what he's saying is that when an election is decided by a 99-to-1 margin, the odds are about 99 out of 100 that the deck's been stacked.
Here's what my Message Centre looks like right now:
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He has spammed me ~150 times since I last logged in this morning (evening now where I am). The usual, working through my history in reverse order. He apparently thinks I can't tell this is exactly what he's doing.
Um, no. That's not quite what happened, AlexAndy, and you bloody well know it. (And don't bother pretending you're not him.)
What actually happened was that you spent a day or two going through about 2 weeks' worth of my posts *in reverse order*, and posting off-topic trolls in reply to each and every one of them.
You might not be aware of how things actually work around here, since you never log in, so let me explain a couple of things... You get to see my account's posting history (anybody can, even AC trolls). As a logged-in user, I receive a notification of each and every response made to any of my posts. Starting a couple of weeks ago, every time I've posted, I've got a message in my account's Message Centre informing me of an AC reply to that post shortly thereafter. For EVERY post I've made during that span, there's been at least one AC reply from you. Sometimes more than one. None of these replies have had anything to do with the topic at hand, but they've all contained all manner of personal attacks against me.
This is known as "harassment". It might also qualify as "stalking". Since you're fond of legal terms like "libel", I suggest you consider those as well, Smart Guy.
I am a full-time professional writer and editor of software documentation with nearly two decades of experience in my field... who's having a hard time believing that anyone could be that incredibly stupid and/or that completely devoid of any sense of humour whatsoever.
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I don't HAVE to say that your Hosts File Engine is crap, Spanky. Half the freaking Internet has already said it for me.
Your app doesn't do anything that any text editor with basic regular expression support can't do better already, and do so WITHOUT pegging a 4-core CPU.
And there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm EVER going to let such an abomination override the OS task scheduler on any system I administer. That's just insane.
Your demonstrated chronic inability to appreciate any kind of humour whatsoever has absolutely no bearing on my qualifications or credentials as a writer. (And just because I don't normally bold every other word that I post does not mean that I don't know how to use bold tags.)
BTW, if you look far enough back in my posting history, you'll see where I responded to comments about a book that I co-authored, and that was reviewed right here on Slashdot. This would have been late 2004 or early 2005, IIRC. I'm happy to wait while you go find the review and comments. I'm sure with your mighty sleuthing skills (*eyeroll*) it won't take you long.
Let's put it this way: If APK writes that the sky is blue, I'm going to look out my window and check it for myself before believing him.
You DO realise that I can't post and moderate in the same discussion, don't you? In any case...
APK, I absolutely do not now, and I am not *ever* going to be convinced you've ever worked anywhere except maybe Burger King.
However, I AM convinced that you are a lying, bullying, spamming, crapflooding troll.
You make increasingly grandiose and decreasingly believable claims about yourself. Whenever you're questioned about these, your lies get even bigger. When you're called out on them, you start attacking people.
When you make idiotic claims about programming, and get called out on those... That's right, you start attacking people.
You also apparently think that linking to any old thing proves your lies and mischaracterisations. Like when you linked to a joke you plainly didn't understand, claiming it was proof that I have MPD. Or when you linked to ANOTHER joke of mine that you ALSO plainly did not "get", and claimed this was "proof" that I'm not a writer.
When your attempts at intimidation and mischaracterisation don't work, you just start repeating them... well, MINDLESSLY... in an attempt to turn up the volume and drown out dissenting voices.
You have been doing this again and again and again and again for over a decade. It's all over the WWW. I'm not even going to bother to link to anything, because anyone with one good finger and half a clue can type "Alexander Peter Kowalski" into Google and read for themselves all about your little escapades.
(150 + posts today alone, I hear)
For those of you playing along with us at home, it's up 212 messages this morning. Looks like 5-10 of those are from non-AC replies to my posts. Pretty sure at least 90% of the remainder are from APK.
Are you getting this? Are you? He's effectively turning off the Windows process scheduler to make his process run faster.
OMG. And he wonders why his stuff gets flagged as malware?
You've merely demonstrated there (and countless other times elsewhere) that you are chronically incapable of understanding humour even when it is explained to you in exquisite detail.
Andy, perhaps you've forgotten about this, so here's a little reminder. You're pulling exactly the same shit here now as you did on Ars 13 years ago...
Alexander, ... I see you using yet another persona (for at least the 4th time) and bringing total mayhem to the forum.
You lost your creds a long time ago and made quite a name for yourself, I don't see how you can get it back here.
I think it's clear you have to go.
Looks like you were banned for the 4th time a couple days afterwards.
When you get caught in a lie, you make up a bigger one to try to distract from it. Your pattern never changes in any appreciable way.
And I'm pretty sure you don't have a degree in anything.
BTW, you never answered my question about whether or not I've really been trolling Slashdot for the last 10,000 years.
Was that a few too many zeroes for you to deal with?
That Ars convo with GOD and MWHN wraps up the first page of results for you on Google. I'm ready to move on to the second page any time now, just let me know when you'd like to take another stroll down Memory Lane.
Q: How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion?
A: It doesn't. OSS is purported to be a *better* software development methodology. "Better" != "perfect". TFS is a troll.
Speaking of my work as a writer... I was going to ask you whether maybe you used the VB6 book I co-wrote back in 1999, but apparently you never made it quite that far... So... I guess that question's been answered.
No, I was just pointing out how sad it is that you think posting nonsense 150 times will make it anything other than nonsense, or that you think there's so much as a snowball's chance in Hell that you are going to be able to intimidate me that way.
And what's this about a GUI? Why do I need one of those, when I can work with real software instead? (You've heard of the LAMP stack, right? Well, to put what I do for a living into terms that you might hope to understand: I work for a company that provides one of the "letters" in "LAMP", and I'm a contributor to a project that provides one of the others.)
Let's see... You're a troll, a stalker, a liar, a bully, and... not only does it appear that you can't really code, you are so foolish as to *brag about how horribly your code performs*.
But you're the perfect Slashdotter in that you really do live in your mother's basement, eh? Aw man, this just gets better and better.
So how does it feel to be known as the Uwe Boll of Visual Basic, Sparky?
This is the Great App that you actually BRAG about? OMFG you sure do, don't ya:
For deduplication/normalization over its usual intake of fresh/new records. Doing it now, so might as well give you the breakdown of its process run:
Here is the screenshot of each tab noted below so you know where each stage occurs -> http://start64.com/images/win6... [start64.com]
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IMPORT = 1 min. 15 seconds
NORMALIZATION/DEDUPLICATION = 15 seconds
CONVERT & FILTER (longest part, touches every record) = 9 minutes
SPEED UP FAVORITE SITES = 20 seconds (I do 20 of them)
SAVE = 10 seconds
---
Over 145,000 new records... around 11 minutes total runtime!
I had to stop reading at this point, I was laughing so hard that I was about to hyperventilate.
APK, not only are you a troll, a bully, and a liar... You are also INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID if you think this is something you should be boasting about--this is like bragging about running a 3-month mile.
ROFLMAO here. UN-fucking-believable. This is the most fun I've had yet this week.
Even better---This looks like a strong candidate for the link I'll use in my next sig. I'll bet you can't wait.
Zontar needs to stop criticizing APK as truly he's one of the world's greatest programmers. His Hosts file generator spends 4 million processor cycles per entry...
OMG, how did I manage to miss this? Thank you for making my day. :D
At the risk of putting words in T.E.D.'s mouth (feel free to correct me if that's the case), I think what he's saying is that when an election is decided by a 99-to-1 margin, the odds are about 99 out of 100 that the deck's been stacked.
It was a friggin' joke, and you are a humourless and clueless troglodyte.
Bored now. Ignoring you now.
Here's what my Message Centre looks like right now:
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He has spammed me ~150 times since I last logged in this morning (evening now where I am). The usual, working through my history in reverse order. He apparently thinks I can't tell this is exactly what he's doing.
A friend of mine is coming by this arvo for help with his Windows 8.1 laptop which Windows Update apparently broke.
Looks like I have some bad news for him... but at least I know *what* to tell him now. Cheers.
I am fortunate enough to be married to a woman who has master's degrees in mechanical and chemical engineering AND looks like a swimsuit model.
So eat your hea---er, well, okay, she doesn't do much cooking.
I guess you can't have everything. :D
Sky & Telescope provides this chart that should answer your question.
Lucky sods--the moon will set here (Scandinavia) about 10 minutes before the eclipse begins. :P
It's quite entertaining to watch you talking to yourself, as if no-one could tell. Just so you know.
Um, no. That's not quite what happened, AlexAndy, and you bloody well know it. (And don't bother pretending you're not him.)
What actually happened was that you spent a day or two going through about 2 weeks' worth of my posts *in reverse order*, and posting off-topic trolls in reply to each and every one of them.
You might not be aware of how things actually work around here, since you never log in, so let me explain a couple of things... You get to see my account's posting history (anybody can, even AC trolls). As a logged-in user, I receive a notification of each and every response made to any of my posts. Starting a couple of weeks ago, every time I've posted, I've got a message in my account's Message Centre informing me of an AC reply to that post shortly thereafter. For EVERY post I've made during that span, there's been at least one AC reply from you. Sometimes more than one. None of these replies have had anything to do with the topic at hand, but they've all contained all manner of personal attacks against me.
This is known as "harassment". It might also qualify as "stalking". Since you're fond of legal terms like "libel", I suggest you consider those as well, Smart Guy.
you merely document - a child can do that
ONLY a non-professional or a complete moron would say this.
Good, effective, accessible documentation is absolutely essential to the success of our products. We know this because our customers tell us so.
And--guess what?--writing good software documentation is HARD.
If it were that easy, my employer wouldn't have paid to move me halfway around the world instead of hiring someone local.
So the whole world's out to get poor little AlexAndy because he's always right and everyone else is always wrong?
Nahhhh... I don't think so.
I am a full-time professional writer and editor of software documentation with nearly two decades of experience in my field... who's having a hard time believing that anyone could be that incredibly stupid and/or that completely devoid of any sense of humour whatsoever.