Yes, that tirade was so on-topic with the discussion we were having. Good job.
Heijelsberg was paraphrasing Newton, by the way, and I was first to mention the phrase in this conversation. Cure, though, how you bring it up as though it's your contribution to the discussion.
I really do hope you go back and read my posts in this discussion again. You might find that I was giving firm but constructive criticism, at least at the start. It did devolve from there, once you started trying to, and I paraphrase, "hand me my own ass on a platter".
I didn't even think you EXISTED around here anymore to be honest & not for years... not until you showed up starting your shit again
Our first interaction was months ago. How cold you think I've been gone for years? Here's a hint: someone here is delusional and it's not me.
As for having better things to do, well, I suppose my money's not gonna count itself, so I could go do that. That gets monotonous after a while, though.
I've never tried to belittle your work, I've flat out said it's good; I was merely pointing out that it also builds upon the work of others. That in no way takes away from the work you have done. What I have, however, done is to point out that you and your behavior patterns (for example, the way you lash out at people over a joke) are toxic, and that reflects on your work. Take the advice and, as you once told me, quit putting words in my mouth.
You're the only troll I see here. If you really look at my post history, and not just my posts to you, you'll see that I participate in discussions well above a trolling capacity, much unlike yourself, Alexnder. And yes, claiming that you can't show any code because it's all under NDA would certainly be a troll maneuver. However, that is not what I did; I prefaced the fact (oft stated before today) that I do have other code out there in the wild with the fact that I also have code protected by NDA. See the difference?
I wonder, if you calmed down a bit and went back to read through my posts again, if you'd find that you simply misunderstood a good portion of what I've written and that there is, in fact, no reason for you to be lashing out at me like this over a joke I posted months ago.
Like the POSIX hosts file functionality and the many lists others work hard to create, that your application merely combines and saves to disk in the proper location? You're certainly not biting off anyone else's work there. The shoulders of giants, friend; we all stand on them.
You keep bringing up my NDA code, ignoring all of the code I have out there in public view, not under NDA at all. Willful ignorance, that's what you're about. A willfully ignorant troll, Aleander, that's what you keep proving yourself to be.
You've never written code that was protected by an NDA? Nowhere did I say all of my code was under NDA, in fact my exact words were "most of my code is written under NDA", followed shortly by "That said, you also didn't look to hard". That is to say, I have code out there, in public view. At least make minimal effort to vet your own words before you say them.
As for trolling, well, I'm going to keep feeding your troll posts because A: I find it entertaining and B: the time you spend replying to me is time you're not spending annoying someone else who might not find it as amusing.
You must've stopped reading at "NDA" and not gotten to "That said, you also didn't look to hard" or I expect you would have, at a minimum, called out my typo. That means that yes, there is code of mine out there, with my name attached to it (both my username here, as well as my real name, which you know), a quick Google search will reveal it.
Then you're not looking. This isn't a place for posting code; my code resides in such places, in public view. Again, you're not looking, so of course you don't see it.
You're having the same conversation I am, here; it's not possible for two people having the same conversation to not either both be on-topic or both be off-topic. Wrap your head around that.
As for my trolling, why yes, it sure pays the bills, gets me excellent karma here, as well. Wait no, trolling does neither of those, yet my bills are well handled and I do have excellent karma here. I don't know your financial situation (much like you don't know mine yet still choose to comment on it) so I won't discuss it, but I know you have negative karma here.
Being mistaken is not the same as lying, though, nor did I apologize for it, though I did admit it. Thank you for acknowledging that, finally. As for sockpuppets, you'd know all about those, wouldn't you?
It's funny, you think I have to work for anyone but myself. You haven't been paying attention, friend. Close your mouth, open your eyes, and see the bullshit you're spewing for what it is. Everyone else here does.
Don't speak of things you don't DO yourself (I've never seen any programs by you so I base that statement on that... bet it's true!)
As explained months ago, most of my code is written under NDA. By your own admission, useful tools aren't always released; you, yourself, just said that you almost didn't release the Hosts File Engine. That said, you also didn't look to hard.
Using Delphi for statistical analysis is like using a CPU for graphics rendering. Can the CPU do it? Yes. Will it be as fast and efficient as a proper GPU? No. That's where R comes in; of course you wouldn't use it for your Hosts Engine, but it will blow the pants off of Delphi for statistical analysis. That said, see above where I came to your aid despite our little tiff yesterday. Now that's integrity. Be the bigger man and accept it.
So not a real APK post, and he hates having words put in his mouth. Watch yourself.
He deserves a fair bit of criticism, but that should be restricted to actually deserved criticism, such as his calling out of marketers in his own marketing materials. That hypocrisy should be called out, there is no need to invent reasons to jump on him.
Seriously. I can't believe I'm standing up for him right now, after yesterday's "conversation", but here we are.
Flexing the cable when you're packing the thing two or three times a day, every day, is going to break it pretty quick, no matter how well it is made.
This. And, since the cables in question can be had for $2/dozen, give or take, it makes sense to leave one plugged in wherever you're likely to need it and just unplug it from the charger.
Or cue all the people who treat their chargers with some respect and yet still have these issues. I don't wrap my MacBook charger cables around the provided wrap tines because even those are too tight, with sharp 90 degree corners at the inner wrapping; I loop the cord slightly larger than the charger itself and use a proper velcro wrap to hold it together and have never had an issue with cable breakage. However, though I also always unplug the charger by the connector, and never by the cable, between my wife and I we've bought 5 chargers, just to have 4 for our 3 MacBooks (when you add in the ones that were included with the MacBooks themselves, you'll note that we've had 4 failures out of 8 chargers).
Of the 4 failed chargers, 3 were due to cable deterioration and one was due to the charger finally giving up the ghost due to the cable having been mangled in the workings of a recliner, then repaired, several times. Note that this charger is the only one that we had at the same time as the recliner, so the others were not possibly exposed to that abuse. Something tells me that charger, which predates the other by at least a year, was build with some quality, while the current crop are not. It's also worth noting that, of the 4 chargers we currently have, the one on my desk sits, unplugged, because the insulation near the connector is browning, the one I'm using currently is developing a crack near the connector, the one my wife is currently using has a flake of insulation that cracked right out next to the connector, and our other spare has several layers of shrink-wrap holding the insulation together at the connector.
I might be inclined to say that, perhaps, my wife is not as careful with the chargers as I am, if not for the fact that the failing one on my desk is MagSafe 2, which she can't use, the one I'm using now is the one that I, and only I, use for both my 17" MBP and my Retina (via Apple-supplied MS->MS2 adapter), and the one with the shrink wrap on it is the one that resided at my desk prior to getting the Retina and, thus, was only used by me. That rules out abuse by her that I am not aware of.
For reference, I also use a few PC laptops, which require significantly more force to unplug, some of which aren't as easy to grip and do get pulled out by the roots. I keep a spare charger for each, so one can stay at my desk and the other can be used elsewhere in the house, or when traveling, and have literally never (in 20 years of laptop ownership) had a cable failure except with Apple products. Likewise with USB cables; I think I might have had one fail when I used it as a tie-down when I couldn't find any rope, bot aside from that, I've had a handful of lightning (both Apple and 3rd-party) fail, though the 3rd party failures were due to abuse and being stepped on in the car I can't say the same about the Apple cable failures. I've also had a few 30-pin cables fail, all Apple cables, my aftermarket cables are still holding up for my 1st-gen iPad, iPod Classic, and 1st-gen Nano.
TL;DR: I hope you were being facetious when you implied that Apple got their cables and chargers right. Also, charger plug recall.
Your last sentence was basically a summary of my entire point. Almost. What it would actually do is force everyone, ad blocker user or not, to choose between visiting the site at all and security because, by the time we reach that point, the ad companies themselves will have made such a fuss about it that even grandma who doesn't even own a computer will know and understand about these issues.
I say fuck 'em, let them dig their own graves, climb in, and bury themselves. Or adapt, they could always do that. We know they won't, but they could.
Also, despite the above, APK thinks I have ties to the advertising industry. Isn't that funny?
You talk about integrity, Alexander, but then you masquerade behind the Anonymous Coward moniker and pretend to be other people, using a network of "bridges" (not that you know what those even are or you'd know, simply, that the term you are looking for is "proxy") to evade an ever-growing collection of IP bans in order to post your messages. Yeah, that's integrity, and just the kind of ethics I like to see displayed by the people whose software I allow to run on my system. Yup.
No, wait, actually, it's unethical, disingenuous, and toxic behavior. Alexander, just leave it alone, lest I start campaigning for your Hosts File Engine on your behalf, pointing would-be users of your software to threads like this where you show your true colors. And there won't be a thing you can do about it because, legally, facts are fair game, and the written record of your words here is a matter of fact.
I'll advise you once more to just leave it alone. Here we are, both acting like 5 year olds, the difference is I'm admitting it; I'm openly admitting that I'm not letting this go until you do, simply because it is for your own good. Seriously. This is for you, not me; it is only with people like you that I get like this, and people like you aren't the type of people I'd ever have as clients, so I'm not concerned with my reputation here, but you should certainly be concerned for yours.
Haha, you speak just like one of the advertisers you claim to despise. Doubletalk. Seriously? You have proven nothing, you can't prove anything, because there is nothing to prove and I'm not convinced you even know what a fact is, Alexander. Just. Give. Up.
A boycott is more or less permanent, I was merely suggesting that the change in ownership downgrade the level of avoidance to something potentially temporary. Indeed, if the new owners don't keep to their word, or manage to do something worse, the boycott should be reinstated. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was not suggesting at all that you reverse course.
Wow, I had all that time to proofread that post and I didn't. That's a fail in my part and I'll own it (because that's what I do when I fail; notice how I haven't owned any of the "failures" you keep trying to point out, Alexander). The last paragraph should read:
Honestly, I've been telling her to just lose the ads, as they cost more (in terms of the time I spend helping her with them) than they bring in, by several orders of magnitude. But you're clearly right, I'm profiting from those ads. Pity me, looks like I lost.
And the last two sentences are dripping with so much sarcasm you should need a towel after you read them, in case you didn't notice.
I wonder... do you waste so much of your time on me because you haven't yet figured out how to beat me? Here's a helpful hint: we need not be enemies and you need not beat me. Just stop. You've been entertaining and, because of that, I'm willing to forgive and forget. So just... stop. You won't win, because there is nothing to win; you'll never prove what you're trying to prove because there is nothing to prove. Yes, my wife's blog has ads on it, she's made a grand total of $3.24 in the past 4 years. Oh, you got me, I'm making so much bank on ads. Yup. Really profiting, since hosting for 4 years clearly cost less than that.
Honestly, I've been telling he to just lose the ads, as they cost more (in terms of the time I spend helping her with them) than they bring in, but several orders of magnitude. But you're clearly right, I'm profiting from those ads. Pity me, looks like I lost.
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I don't keep track of you.
Really? Sounds like you've been doing so for years, by your own admission.
Yes, that tirade was so on-topic with the discussion we were having. Good job.
Heijelsberg was paraphrasing Newton, by the way, and I was first to mention the phrase in this conversation. Cure, though, how you bring it up as though it's your contribution to the discussion.
I really do hope you go back and read my posts in this discussion again. You might find that I was giving firm but constructive criticism, at least at the start. It did devolve from there, once you started trying to, and I paraphrase, "hand me my own ass on a platter".
I didn't even think you EXISTED around here anymore to be honest & not for years... not until you showed up starting your shit again
Our first interaction was months ago. How cold you think I've been gone for years? Here's a hint: someone here is delusional and it's not me.
As for having better things to do, well, I suppose my money's not gonna count itself, so I could go do that. That gets monotonous after a while, though.
I've never tried to belittle your work, I've flat out said it's good; I was merely pointing out that it also builds upon the work of others. That in no way takes away from the work you have done. What I have, however, done is to point out that you and your behavior patterns (for example, the way you lash out at people over a joke) are toxic, and that reflects on your work. Take the advice and, as you once told me, quit putting words in my mouth.
You're the only troll I see here. If you really look at my post history, and not just my posts to you, you'll see that I participate in discussions well above a trolling capacity, much unlike yourself, Alexnder. And yes, claiming that you can't show any code because it's all under NDA would certainly be a troll maneuver. However, that is not what I did; I prefaced the fact (oft stated before today) that I do have other code out there in the wild with the fact that I also have code protected by NDA. See the difference?
I wonder, if you calmed down a bit and went back to read through my posts again, if you'd find that you simply misunderstood a good portion of what I've written and that there is, in fact, no reason for you to be lashing out at me like this over a joke I posted months ago.
But yeah, I'm the one who needs to grow up.
bite off others' work calling it "your own"
Like the POSIX hosts file functionality and the many lists others work hard to create, that your application merely combines and saves to disk in the proper location? You're certainly not biting off anyone else's work there. The shoulders of giants, friend; we all stand on them.
You keep bringing up my NDA code, ignoring all of the code I have out there in public view, not under NDA at all. Willful ignorance, that's what you're about. A willfully ignorant troll, Aleander, that's what you keep proving yourself to be.
You've never written code that was protected by an NDA? Nowhere did I say all of my code was under NDA, in fact my exact words were "most of my code is written under NDA", followed shortly by "That said, you also didn't look to hard". That is to say, I have code out there, in public view. At least make minimal effort to vet your own words before you say them.
As for trolling, well, I'm going to keep feeding your troll posts because A: I find it entertaining and B: the time you spend replying to me is time you're not spending annoying someone else who might not find it as amusing.
Thanks for the free entertainment, buddy.
You must've stopped reading at "NDA" and not gotten to "That said, you also didn't look to hard" or I expect you would have, at a minimum, called out my typo. That means that yes, there is code of mine out there, with my name attached to it (both my username here, as well as my real name, which you know), a quick Google search will reveal it.
RE: Laughs - Likewise.
You don't have any code I see
Then you're not looking. This isn't a place for posting code; my code resides in such places, in public view. Again, you're not looking, so of course you don't see it.
You're having the same conversation I am, here; it's not possible for two people having the same conversation to not either both be on-topic or both be off-topic. Wrap your head around that.
As for my trolling, why yes, it sure pays the bills, gets me excellent karma here, as well. Wait no, trolling does neither of those, yet my bills are well handled and I do have excellent karma here. I don't know your financial situation (much like you don't know mine yet still choose to comment on it) so I won't discuss it, but I know you have negative karma here.
Being mistaken is not the same as lying, though, nor did I apologize for it, though I did admit it. Thank you for acknowledging that, finally. As for sockpuppets, you'd know all about those, wouldn't you?
It's funny, you think I have to work for anyone but myself. You haven't been paying attention, friend. Close your mouth, open your eyes, and see the bullshit you're spewing for what it is. Everyone else here does.
Don't speak of things you don't DO yourself (I've never seen any programs by you so I base that statement on that... bet it's true!)
As explained months ago, most of my code is written under NDA. By your own admission, useful tools aren't always released; you, yourself, just said that you almost didn't release the Hosts File Engine. That said, you also didn't look to hard.
Quick poll, APK and I will (necessarily) abstain: Who thinks I was "caught lying", or that I "admitted it", as per those two links?
You know - it confirms my faith in things I've done... why? I've got people talking about me
I dunno, man, you sure talk about me a lot.
You keep thinking you busted me lying. You busted nothing, and my ass is still attached to my backside; hasn't been handed to anyone.
You're right, though, I do wish I was you, so I could shoot myself in the head.
And people still hire you? I guess it makes sense, most companies that hire "consultants" don't have a clue to begin with.
Using Delphi for statistical analysis is like using a CPU for graphics rendering. Can the CPU do it? Yes. Will it be as fast and efficient as a proper GPU? No. That's where R comes in; of course you wouldn't use it for your Hosts Engine, but it will blow the pants off of Delphi for statistical analysis. That said, see above where I came to your aid despite our little tiff yesterday. Now that's integrity. Be the bigger man and accept it.
So not a real APK post, and he hates having words put in his mouth. Watch yourself.
He deserves a fair bit of criticism, but that should be restricted to actually deserved criticism, such as his calling out of marketers in his own marketing materials. That hypocrisy should be called out, there is no need to invent reasons to jump on him.
Seriously. I can't believe I'm standing up for him right now, after yesterday's "conversation", but here we are.
Flexing the cable when you're packing the thing two or three times a day, every day, is going to break it pretty quick, no matter how well it is made.
This. And, since the cables in question can be had for $2/dozen, give or take, it makes sense to leave one plugged in wherever you're likely to need it and just unplug it from the charger.
Or cue all the people who treat their chargers with some respect and yet still have these issues. I don't wrap my MacBook charger cables around the provided wrap tines because even those are too tight, with sharp 90 degree corners at the inner wrapping; I loop the cord slightly larger than the charger itself and use a proper velcro wrap to hold it together and have never had an issue with cable breakage. However, though I also always unplug the charger by the connector, and never by the cable, between my wife and I we've bought 5 chargers, just to have 4 for our 3 MacBooks (when you add in the ones that were included with the MacBooks themselves, you'll note that we've had 4 failures out of 8 chargers).
Of the 4 failed chargers, 3 were due to cable deterioration and one was due to the charger finally giving up the ghost due to the cable having been mangled in the workings of a recliner, then repaired, several times. Note that this charger is the only one that we had at the same time as the recliner, so the others were not possibly exposed to that abuse. Something tells me that charger, which predates the other by at least a year, was build with some quality, while the current crop are not. It's also worth noting that, of the 4 chargers we currently have, the one on my desk sits, unplugged, because the insulation near the connector is browning, the one I'm using currently is developing a crack near the connector, the one my wife is currently using has a flake of insulation that cracked right out next to the connector, and our other spare has several layers of shrink-wrap holding the insulation together at the connector.
I might be inclined to say that, perhaps, my wife is not as careful with the chargers as I am, if not for the fact that the failing one on my desk is MagSafe 2, which she can't use, the one I'm using now is the one that I, and only I, use for both my 17" MBP and my Retina (via Apple-supplied MS->MS2 adapter), and the one with the shrink wrap on it is the one that resided at my desk prior to getting the Retina and, thus, was only used by me. That rules out abuse by her that I am not aware of.
For reference, I also use a few PC laptops, which require significantly more force to unplug, some of which aren't as easy to grip and do get pulled out by the roots. I keep a spare charger for each, so one can stay at my desk and the other can be used elsewhere in the house, or when traveling, and have literally never (in 20 years of laptop ownership) had a cable failure except with Apple products. Likewise with USB cables; I think I might have had one fail when I used it as a tie-down when I couldn't find any rope, bot aside from that, I've had a handful of lightning (both Apple and 3rd-party) fail, though the 3rd party failures were due to abuse and being stepped on in the car I can't say the same about the Apple cable failures. I've also had a few 30-pin cables fail, all Apple cables, my aftermarket cables are still holding up for my 1st-gen iPad, iPod Classic, and 1st-gen Nano.
TL;DR: I hope you were being facetious when you implied that Apple got their cables and chargers right. Also, charger plug recall.
Your last sentence was basically a summary of my entire point. Almost. What it would actually do is force everyone, ad blocker user or not, to choose between visiting the site at all and security because, by the time we reach that point, the ad companies themselves will have made such a fuss about it that even grandma who doesn't even own a computer will know and understand about these issues.
I say fuck 'em, let them dig their own graves, climb in, and bury themselves. Or adapt, they could always do that. We know they won't, but they could.
Also, despite the above, APK thinks I have ties to the advertising industry. Isn't that funny?
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You talk about integrity, Alexander, but then you masquerade behind the Anonymous Coward moniker and pretend to be other people, using a network of "bridges" (not that you know what those even are or you'd know, simply, that the term you are looking for is "proxy") to evade an ever-growing collection of IP bans in order to post your messages. Yeah, that's integrity, and just the kind of ethics I like to see displayed by the people whose software I allow to run on my system. Yup.
No, wait, actually, it's unethical, disingenuous, and toxic behavior. Alexander, just leave it alone, lest I start campaigning for your Hosts File Engine on your behalf, pointing would-be users of your software to threads like this where you show your true colors. And there won't be a thing you can do about it because, legally, facts are fair game, and the written record of your words here is a matter of fact.
I'll advise you once more to just leave it alone. Here we are, both acting like 5 year olds, the difference is I'm admitting it; I'm openly admitting that I'm not letting this go until you do, simply because it is for your own good. Seriously. This is for you, not me; it is only with people like you that I get like this, and people like you aren't the type of people I'd ever have as clients, so I'm not concerned with my reputation here, but you should certainly be concerned for yours.
Haha, you speak just like one of the advertisers you claim to despise. Doubletalk. Seriously? You have proven nothing, you can't prove anything, because there is nothing to prove and I'm not convinced you even know what a fact is, Alexander. Just. Give. Up.
A boycott is more or less permanent, I was merely suggesting that the change in ownership downgrade the level of avoidance to something potentially temporary. Indeed, if the new owners don't keep to their word, or manage to do something worse, the boycott should be reinstated. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was not suggesting at all that you reverse course.
Wow, I had all that time to proofread that post and I didn't. That's a fail in my part and I'll own it (because that's what I do when I fail; notice how I haven't owned any of the "failures" you keep trying to point out, Alexander). The last paragraph should read:
Honestly, I've been telling her to just lose the ads, as they cost more (in terms of the time I spend helping her with them) than they bring in, by several orders of magnitude. But you're clearly right, I'm profiting from those ads. Pity me, looks like I lost.
And the last two sentences are dripping with so much sarcasm you should need a towel after you read them, in case you didn't notice.
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Shitpost copy #4. Beautiful.
I wonder... do you waste so much of your time on me because you haven't yet figured out how to beat me? Here's a helpful hint: we need not be enemies and you need not beat me. Just stop. You've been entertaining and, because of that, I'm willing to forgive and forget. So just... stop. You won't win, because there is nothing to win; you'll never prove what you're trying to prove because there is nothing to prove. Yes, my wife's blog has ads on it, she's made a grand total of $3.24 in the past 4 years. Oh, you got me, I'm making so much bank on ads. Yup. Really profiting, since hosting for 4 years clearly cost less than that.
Honestly, I've been telling he to just lose the ads, as they cost more (in terms of the time I spend helping her with them) than they bring in, but several orders of magnitude. But you're clearly right, I'm profiting from those ads. Pity me, looks like I lost.
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