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Tell me about it 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Sir:
I refer you to the Department of Redundancy Department.[^]
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Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A SUPER LESLIE !
You just replied to an email with a link that is the same link as was in the email to which you replied.
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Obligatory Dilbert[^] 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It is acceptable to answer one in QA along the line 'go back to the school'?
(It is very polite now that I wrote it down, I was thinking more about !%&@!@#&*^)
But seriously how you should answer someone, who try to write a peace of software and missing all the basics of how things are moving around. They maybe got a course or book on how to write loops and methods and classes, but that's all... After one and a half of such questions a have a feeling in my fingertips that says to me - be rude and rive them home...
Sorry. I had to.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No, that's what drove people away from StackOverflow, always be a gentleman (or pretend)
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Yeah - that's why I wrote it here. The Lounge is full of crap anyway, I add mine...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: and missing all the basics of how things are moving around.
Gently suggest that they find a different career. 
Marc
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Something along the lines of...
"Wow! I never would have looked at it that way. Have you ever considered a career as a Sanitation Engineer?"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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What exactly 'Sanitation Engineer' does? And do not tell me if it is something I don't want to know...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Fancy name for the garbage man (AKA refuse collector).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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I was thinking on "cleaning toilette's" but your option does the job too  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A recycling manager? A refuse analyst? A rest material ramp agent?
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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A Gong Scourer? And you're safe if they don't know how to use Google. 
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Usually they don't and think a google is something to eat. I just found this in Q&A:
Quote: Windows API is black magic for me now.
Now we know what they think they are. Wizard apprentices, all of them. 
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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Yes. No. Maybe.
Depends on the circumstances. It is acceptable to reject question son the basis that it is plainly a homework question and reasonably acceptable to reject on the basis that the questioner is asking you to do their job. Other than that, just ignore it if you're not sure.
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I say just move on and ignore it and let natural selection take care of it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: let natural selection take care of it.
Tech Darwinism! 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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Sorry, this way you don't help the poster.
Probably it's true: he/she must go back. Anyway I would recommend another school.
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I have seen the response for them to get a specific book and work through the examples, this seems to be acceptable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My son, in a college course on energy systems, asked me why we don't add wind generators on our cars to recover energy and extend our endurance. I suggested he should wait for the next semester to re-ask the question. He didn't, but I did ask him if he understood and asked me to forget the question...
In short, I think the teaching method nowadays is to get them moving then get them to understand the background, where a bunch of years ago it was crawl, walk, run. At issue is the sense of success, and attention span.
Can we build better engineers using the older crawl, walk, run paradigm or the newer walk, build background, run paradigm.
Personally, I am a bit older, and I have always learned on the first, but am experiencing the latter as I see new things evolve (and try to learn Python), and am not sure of how effective it is.
I leave it to the younger generation to decide....
Ken
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