Noyau (2)

…the noyau, an animal society held together by mutual animosity rather than co-operation

Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative.

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  2. I can’t get over how much design detection is going on over at UD these days. It’s like a production line. Well done boys, you’ve cracked it.

  3. Richardthughes:
    I can’t get over how much design detection is going on over at UD these days. It’s like a production line. Well done boys, you’ve cracked it.

    The quotations from scripture just add to the scientific credibility.

  4. I’ve not been to Untelligent Reasoning recently. Can someone tell me how the comment count is going?

  5. Richardthughes:
    I’ve not been to Untelligent Reasoning recently. Can someone tell me how the comment count is going?

    Here is a random selection from Joke’s most recent OP.:

    ”

    No one knows how ATP synthase arose and no one knows how to test the claim that natural selection, drift and neutral construction did it.”

    OK, parrot mode is still in operation.

  7. Tom English: I’m pretty sure that a certain participant is an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

    I’ve wondered, in the past, about the possibility of Asperger’s.

  8. Mirrors seem to be scarce in certain precincts of the Internet.

    Perhaps this will do in the meantime.

  10. keiths:

    Want to be seen as a competent programmer? Then learn to be a competent programmer.

    You’re hilarious. And ignorant. I bet the two are related.

    Software that I have written saves people in my company untold hours. They are used on a daily basis. I neither seek nor need your approval. I’ve written software that you couldn’t even begin to understand.

  11. Tom English: I’ve clicked “Ignore Commenter” for keiths.

    Kantian Naturalist, and now Tom English. But it’s no reflection on keiths at all. After all, there are no mirrors on the internet!

    I came oh so close to putting keiths on Ignore when he made false claims about my Ruby program and refused to admit he was wrong. But finally he did admit he was wrong, even though he was utterly vague about just what it was he was wrong about.

    What a dick. I wonder how many people will have to put him on Ignore before he gets it. Or, people only put keiths on Ignore because they can’t handle the truth. Sure. That must be it.

    #Ignorekeiths

  12. Mung,

    I notice that you didn’t link to the comment of mine that you’re quoting. Why is that?

    (Rhetorical question. Anyone who reads it will know exactly why.)

    Mung,

    If you want respect, you’ll have to earn it like everyone else.

    Want to be seen as honest? Then be honest.

    When you get caught lying, and then lie about lying, and then lie about getting caught lying, you aren’t doing yourself any favors.

    Want to be seen as a competent programmer? Then learn to be a competent programmer.

    You’ve learned some languages and some tools, which is good. But that doesn’t make you a competent programmer, any more than knowing English and how to type makes you a competent novelist.

    You gave up when your program failed due to running out of memory. Good programmers know how to debug and fix problems. Dazz and I had to do it for you.

    And again, lying about all of this isn’t doing your tattered reputation any good.

    Crave respect? Then be worthy of it for a change.

  13. Regarding KN’s and Tom’s decisions to put me on ignore, I’m happy to let readers judge for themselves:

    KN – Starting here.

    Tom: Starting here.

  14. Mung: I’ve written software that you couldn’t even begin to understand.

    You’d make a great straight-man, Mung.

  19. Mung: I’ve written software that you couldn’t even begin to understand.

    Just to pile on, and I’m going to try the nice version:

    Don’t be like Davescott or JoeG. No one here is living on past glories, imaginary or otherwise.

  20. Rich, to Mung:

    Don’t be like Davescott or JoeG. No one here is living on past glories, imaginary or otherwise.

    Well, except for Tom:

    When I won the student programming competition at Mississippi State, I completed 5 problems in 2.5 hours (30 minutes apiece), and the second-place finisher (a very bright computer engineering student, and a friend of mine) completed 3 of those 5 problems in 3 hours (60 minutes apiece). Put simply, I completed problems twice as fast as the guy who came in second. I have a vivid memory of the sound of others pounding away at keyboards, while I was working out designs on paper.

    He can still hear the sound of those keyboards clattering away, all these years later.

  21. I wrote something quite brilliant in the autumn. Don’t like to talk about it. I’m no hero, just one of the grunts trying to make the world a better place through coding excellence.

  24. Patrick: Have you considered adding comments?

    That’s what tests are for. In my current project I’m running over 1500 tests.

  25. Rich, to Mung::

    Don’t be like Davescott or JoeG. No one here is living on past glories, imaginary or otherwise.

    Acartia:

    How dare you presume to speak for me.

    Heh. Maybe we should start a “past glories” thread.

  26. Richardthughes: No one here is living on past glories, imaginary or otherwise.

    I’ve no idea what you’re talking about. I’m in the process right now of developing a new web application that will save hundreds of hours per year by automating some things that are currently being done manually. And that doesn’t even take into account the mistakes that will be avoided due to human error.

    Oh, and software development isn’t even my full time job. It’s not even in my job description at all. Yet they come to me. Go figure. Must be they just can’t find anyone else incompetent enough to take it on. 🙂

    #DontBeLikeKeiths

  27. Patrick:

    Have you considered adding comments?

    Mung:

    That’s what tests are for. In my current project I’m running over 1500 tests.

    And with that, the last remaining drop of Mung’s software cred evaporates.

  28. Mung:

    I’ve written software that you couldn’t even begin to understand.

    Oh, man, that’s a keeper.

  30. Allan Miller: I wrote something quite brilliant in the autumn. Don’t like to talk about it. I’m no hero, just one of the grunts trying to make the world a better place through coding excellence.

    Yeah. My best stuff was for the NSA. I could tell you about it, but then I’d have to…

    (I actually did have a computer-scientist buddy who went to work for the NSA, right out of grad school. He came back to town, having been out of the country for a couple months, with gifts of coffee for everyone. I brewed a pot, and when another pal of mine took a sip, he immediately said, “U-m-mm, Guatemalan!” I’ve never seen another man blush the way my NSA buddy did. It’s been more than 30 years, and I still have the clearest recollection of the look on that guy’s face. Eventually he managed to blurt out, “I can neither confirm nor deny.” As it happens, he specialized in communication systems, and when the U.S. invaded Panama, I heard on the news that the military was using networks in — you guessed it — Guatemala.)

  32. keiths: Heh. Maybe we should start a “past glories” thread.

    Oops. I thought he said future glories. I have no past glories to live on.

  33. Acartia: Oops. I thought he said future glories. I have no past glories to live on.

    I imagine that my future glories will be greater than my past (which is a silly thing for me to imagine, having reached 60).

    [I am still capable of learning, and having learned that the greatest defect of keiths-bot is in recognizing humor…]

    LOL.

  39. Follow my link, Alan. I’ll bet that even you can figure out that Tom wasn’t joking, though you’re likely to deny it, of course.

  41. keiths,

    I was making a general comment. My impression is that you can’t laugh with people but find it very easy to laugh at them.

  42. Alan,

    My impression is that you can’t laugh with people but find it very easy to laugh at them.

    Given your generally poor judgment, it’s not surprising that you would get that false impression. Remember when you accused me of never admitting my mistakes? Or of quote-mining Ernst Mayr?

  43. Rich:

    No-one is buying your “hot night with twin sisters in Helsinki” story, Tom. 😛

    They were triplets.

  46. Alan,

    It’s an example of you laughing at people. A few examples of you laughing with people?

    The fact that you woke up with a hard-on is no reason for me to run around collecting evidence for you.

    Why not take a cold shower, go back to bed, and give the day a new start?

  50. GlenDavidson: Why not do both?

    Glen Davidson

    Sure. On the other hand, if you intend to persuade someone on a point of disagreement, mocking them is likely to prove counter-productive. This has long been my issue with Keiths’ posting style.

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