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There's a group of mutual admiration...
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Revealing isn't it - the independent thinkers association?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Couldn't agree more. Being technically capable doesn't give anyone the right to look down on anyone else. My own philosophy is that I can learn something from someone else no matter what their background. I don't know everything. I may know lots of things but equally there are lots of things I don't know.
Being humble, patient and considerate are qualities that we all need to exercise judiciously.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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And he doesn't always get it right either. Of the very few questions I've posted he answered two of them wrong not very thought through, and when having proven it to him he removed his answers. 
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Half of his points are unwarranted. He posts comments pointing to his answers in the same question, in order to get twice as many as he should.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: He posts comments pointing to his answers in the same question, in order to get twice as many as he should.
Solution is 10 points, comment is 1 point. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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When said SAK becomes a QA Millionaire, imho, that is a sad day for CP: it is a testimony to how someone ... for whatever reasons ... can systematically "game the system."
Along the path to this "achievement:"
1. alienating hundreds of newcomers and beginners in CP with gratuitous personal insults, off-topic quibbling, rants, including, at times, re-labeling the titles of their posts with statements like "[I am lazy]," "[No effort]."
2. almost begging, at times, to have his posts accepted as the correct answer.
3. filling QA with off-topic posts that do not respond to the question(s) asked stuffed with links to other answers he has already posted which also do not respond to the question(s) asked.
4. quibbling, and often niggling, comments on other solutions offered.
A typical SAK response to a QA question is:
1. posting a derogatory comment on the OP suggesting the poster is ignorant, totally confused, and/or hopelessly stupid they would even mention a (your choice of ... Mdi ... PictureBox ... etc.).
2. followed by a quick post of a "Solution," many of which are obvious cut-and-pastes of previous answers, many of which are so far off-topic they could be science-fiction, padded with links to other off-topic solutions.
This is usually followed by someone(s) rapidly voting his solution #5.
Yes, some of his posts are worth-their-weight-in-gold, and are quite thoughtful; yes, he has technical skills, and knowledge, and he shows evidence of having had a kind of formal, theoretical, computer science education that I think is very rare today.
My estimate is that the true value of his "rep" score ... if QA were not the video-arcade ego-game it is now which is so easily "gamed" for rep-bloat ... is far less than 500k points.
I am, frankly, sad to see this happen because there are lots of other CP members trying to help out on QA who really try to relate to, and educate, newcomers, and provide solutions of enduring value.
The fact that some of the imho most-gifted, most skilled, most articulate, CP members, like Pete O'Hanlon and Marc Clifton, have, in the past, stated publicly on CP that they avoid QA because of the behavior of SAK is, to me, a reality I find incomprehensible.
SAK => QA millionaire makes about as much sense to me as some of the Presidents my country (USA) has elected 
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
modified 7-May-15 11:52am.
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I see a lot of animosity towards him and I can sort of understand it. That used to be my opinion of him as well until I went back and forth on a few things with him and feel I better understand him. I don't think he is intentionally insulting but does have an issue with people skills. I believe he is Russian so it could just simply be a cultural or language issue.
I've seen way too many good answers from him for me to bash him and I think he certainly deserves the 1M+ points. I have seen other high rep members give lousy answers so they (we) all should look in the mirror before pointing the finger.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So.... Leslie Nelson died...
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The first problem I can see is that what he put down on the counter was NOT a "Blackberry", but a "rasberry".
Dave.
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You do know that blackberries are red before they're ripe, right?
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Yes, but they do not have a hollow hole in the middle like rasberries.
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The wild blackberries that grew on my grandfather's property back when I was a kid must've all been defective then.
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Exam
In a college level advanced Biology exam, the last question was, 'Name eight (8) advantages of Mother's Milk'. This final question was worth 70 points or zero, none at all.
One male student, in particular, was hard put to think of eight advantages. However, after some serious contemplation, he wrote this answer:
1) It is a perfect formula for the child.
2) It provides immunity against several diseases.
3) It is always the right temperature.
4) It is inexpensive.
5) It bonds the child to the mother and vice versa.
6) It is always available as needed.
...and then, the student was dumb struck for two more answers. In desperation, & just before the bell rang, indicating the end of the exam he wrote:
7) It comes in two quite attractive containers, and
8) it's high enough off the floor where the cat can't get to it.
He got an A+
Will Rogers never met me.
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An awesome one[^]
and
a rather funny one[^].
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Paddy and his two friends are talking at a bar.
His first friend says, “I think my wife is having an affair with the electrician. The other day I came home and found wire cutters under our bed and they weren’t mine.”
His second friend says, “I think my wife is having an affair with the plumber the other day I found a wrench under the bed and it wasn’t mine.”
Paddy says, “I think my wife is having an affair with a horse.”
Both his friends look at him with utter disbelief.
“No, I’m serious,” Paddy says. “The other day I came home and found a jockey under our bed.”
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Hot Chocolate lead singer Errol Brown has died aged 71, his manager has said.
Hot Chocolate was me Uncle Willy's favourite band back in the day.
veni bibi saltavi
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But he believed in merkels, so you never know...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Very Freaky!
WTF?[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Boy, those ghosts are sure good at knocking stuff off of shelves. If only we could teach them to pick stuff up, and vacuum, and dust, and cook.....
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The guy in black at the end of the aisle needs to use thinner fishing line...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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well there goes my idea for a ghost house maid business.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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