Rants Forum

[bri189a]

I'm a firm believer in rants for several reasons... they're 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 it's condition.... ! (who wants to work on that?)

 

I'm sure we've 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 I've had my rear handed to me on a silver platter several times, and I've 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 I'm sure I'll 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 isn't for you.

 

I'm 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 they're saying otherwise then they're fooling themselves... there are a few true 'gods' out there... but I've only come across two in all the people I've met and they've both been programming since the 80's.

 

What I'm 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.

[Volte]

Sorry, not going to happen. Having a forum for this is not only unnecessary, but it would just lead to hurt feelings and insults being thrown around.

[Bucky]

If you want to rant, click no further.

[Mike Bailey]

Rant

 

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 it's condition.... ! (who wants to work on that?)

 

 

I have posted need for help on some pretty silly programs that no one would won�t to work on infact there would be no real world need for some of the programs I�ve asked for help on. You see programs like that are for learning and nothing else.

 

That is what a forum is for after all don�t you think?????????

 

So in conclusion if you don�t like the posts and aren�t willing to help others no matter how silly it might be maybe you should find a different forum.

 

in my few 4 odd years in programming I've had my rear handed to me on a silver platter several times, and I've deffinitely felt like a fool at times by asking stupid questions...

 

You see we ask the stupid questions in the forum and not at work.

[samsmithnz]

I learnt early on while studying Computer Science all those years ago that the people who don't ask the stupid questions don't tend to make it in this industry...