Re: Puppy Mastiff wants to Nip at Faces


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On Aug 11, 3:36 pm, "the.longest.username.availa...@xxxxxxxxx"
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On Aug 11, 3:07 pm, "Paul E. Schoen" <pst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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On Aug 11, 1:20 pm, "Paul E. Schoen" <pst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On Aug 9, 3:37 pm, sh...@xxxxxxxxx (Melinda Shore) wrote:

I first learned "Structured Programming" in Pascal at Towson
University
in
1987.

If you'd *learned* structured programming you'd have learned
how to loop through an array, something that's covered in the
first couple of weeks of an introductory data structures
course. It's more accurate to say that you took a class.

Yeah, it seems to me by my recollection that loops were... chapter
two
I believe, in my first college textbook on structured programming. I
believe arrays were covered in chapter 3, and the very first thing
they did was loop through an array to show how you could easily
access
the data. All this was of course covered in the first week of class.
And this was just an introductory programming course CS 101 that I
took my first term at college. It was of course all old knowledge to
me as like most of my other class mates (the ones who didn't switch
to
a management major after the first term), we had taught ourselves all
of that before high school and had similar courses in high school. Of
course, the formal instruction on it was very important, as we
learned
the right ways to do things we might not have been using all along.

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Apparently all of this childish and off-topic snarking was based on
an
old
version of my on-line form, which I had just cobbed together quickly
as
an
example. I later used some of the same techniques that you are
claiming I
don't know, and the newer version is:

http://www.smart.net/~pstech/DogLicenseJS.htm

This is still not a finished work, and I am not going to devote any
more
time and effort to it unless someone would like to implement it for
the
purpose intended. I still think it is a viable idea. The details are
open
to discussion. If you want to contribute to that, you are welcome to
do
so.
Otherwise you are simply being ignorant and confrontational. I tried
to
contribute something to address a problem, and criticism of the code
is
an
entirely separate issue, unless your goal is just a childish attack.
You
probably cannot do better without investing a lot of time, so either
make
a
significant improvement, or make some other sort of positive
contribution.

If you really want to help improve the code, please advise how to do
an
enumeration in JavaScript, so that array elements may be addressed by
name
rather than number. If you care enough to look at the code, you will
see
how I attempted to do this. As I said before, I am used to Borland C
and
Borland Delphi, in which I could have done some of this more
elegantly.

Paul and Muttley

If I had the spare time to "cob" something together, I would have used
arrays and loops because it makes for less work. No, I will not try
and improve your crack pot licensing fee calculator. I disagree with
the theory behind the pricing scheme and as such will not contribute
to it in any way shape or form. If I was working on something I truly
thought I could con some politician into implementing, I would have
put more effort into it then "cobbing" it together.

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If you had followed the original premise of the on-line form, you would
see
that it originally did not lend itself to arrays and loops. As I added
some
features, it became more efficient to do so, and eventually I added
them. I
presented the concept here to get opinions and input about the concept,
and
had no intentions of showing it to "some politician" until there were
some
some consensus about how it should work. I think it still has some
merit,
but the discussion deteriorated into a catty exchange over programming
style rather than content. And it was started, pedictably, by "one
trick
pony" who loves to flaunt her incredible depth of knowledge in a narrow
niche of programming, and I doubt that she has any credible expertise
in,
for instance, electrical power circuitry, microcontrollers, transformer
design, PIC code, and real time programming. And what are your
qualifications, exactly, that make you feel compelled to assume a
superior
attitude and pass judgment?

Paul and Muttley

I have experience with embedded systems, multiple microprocessor
families(including PIC), PCB design, as well as real time
programming. I can and have programed in machine code, Assembly, C/C+
+. I have written my owner personal real time operating system that I
use in my spare time where I do things the right way or I do not do
them. If it is worth spending my time on, it is worth doing right.
With that I am working on a prototype of something that I do not care
to share with you, again, in my spare time so forgive me if I don't
want to waste my time working on your 'project'. I have a B.S. in
Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. I am currently
doing development work for a fairly large financial corporation for
their Sales Division. I do not have patents at the moment, but being
one of the younger people here I feel that is understandable.

I also plan to at least get my Masters in Engineering once I have
finished putting my wife through school.

Nick

Oh, and it should be noted that I do not program using my language of
choice(C++) where I work, but I am still fluent in it. Most languages
in use today share so much that it doesn't take much time at all to at
least develop competency in them.

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Well, good for you. I'm glad that your career track is rewarding for you,
and I hope you are happy with your job and your accomplishments. You may be
qualified to critique other peoples' programs, but it would be rather
presumptious of you to make disparaging remarks about someone's code unless
your opinions were solicited. In Melinda's case, she took a cheap shot by
harshly criticizing an admitted work in progress, where I was trying to
present a concept rather than win an award for elegant programming skills
in a language in which at that time and currently I have no need to excel.

The field in which I have worked for most of my career requires a multitude
of skills in hardware as well as software, and also the ability to do
mechanical and electrical designs that are quite unique. Your present
employment in the sales department of a financial institution may be
lucrative, but it does not sound very interesting to me.

You have chosen to hide your present part-time engineering project from the
scrutiny of others, and that is your right. Sometimes secrecy is necessary
to protect a novel idea from imitation, and sometimes it can be used to
prevent criticism. I feel confident enough in my abilities to post
references to products I have designed, and those I am currently working
on.

In the period from 1976 through 1988 while I worked for EIL (later sold to
AVO/Multi-Amp/Megger), I either designed from the concept through
production, or had major input in conjunction with one or two other
engineers, the following: PSA-100, PAM-360, RTS-150, ORT-15, ORT-560,
RM-100, ORT-1000, FTS-300, PS-250, PS-600, PLC-2000, Accu-Amp, and
BTS-1000. From 1989 through 1992 I worked with Phenix Technologies to
develop their high current test sets HC-100, HC-30, and HC-10, which are
still made today. Later, I designed the Ortmaster, and for ETI, I designed
the MAC-20, , PI-4000, PI-800, PI-1600.

Many of these test sets are still being used today:
http://www.electricnet.com/article.mvc/On-Line-Measurement-and-Test-Equipment-Rental-0002
http://www.compelecunltd.com/9ceu_specific_list_alt.html
http://www.madisontesting.com/Scripts/default.asp

Some of the names were changed, but many of these test sets were originally
my design:
http://www.megger.com/us/products/ProductDetailsBySubGroup.php?PSGC=P101&BS=P

Many customers who have test sets made by the competition call on ETI, and
ultimately me, when they have serious problems with the newer versions, and
we have retrofitted many of them with our improved instrumentation packages
that I designed.

They also list my Ortmaster as an accessory for their recloser test sets,
which use technology for which I hold the (now expired) patent:
http://www.megger.com/us/products/ProductDetailsBySubGroup.php?PSGC=P1001&BS=P

Here is the website for Phenix. They make good products, but we have
retrofitted many of them with my improved instrumentation.
http://www.phenixtech.com/P12d-Comp_Cont_HCTS.asp

Of course, this is way off-topic in a thread on a nippy Mastiff puppy, but
it was not I that shifted focus to educational and professional
credentials. Obviously there are some that have an agenda...

Paul and Muttley




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