On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:12:14 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > > Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > > > > entitled to have opinions, *BUT* the "Gospel According to > > > Wojciech" is -not- 'the answer' for everybody, in every > > > situation. *IF* you ever learn that, > > > > Seems like you have 45 years of experience in words. nothing more. > > It seems like all you know how to do is engage in ignorant, > uninformed, personal attacks/insults. > > Not that it matters, but -- in addition to having had a news story I > wrote published on the front page of the N.Y. Times (midwest edition) > -- I've: a) Designed and implemented trans-national, trans-atlantic > corporate data network for the trading arm of a major Japanese bank. > b) implemented "array of pointer to function" in FORTRAN 77 > applications. c) Written date parsing routines, originally in FORTRAN > 66, that would recognize virtually -any- 'rational' date expression > -- including the likes of "this 23rd day of June in the Year of Our > Lord 2012". had a switch for 'prefering' European-syle (DD MM YY) or > American-style (MM DD YY) dates when ambiguous. User-manual for the > free-form command parser merely specified a 'date' was required at a > particular point, would frequently generate user inquires 'what date > _format_ is required?' Answer: "Use what you prefer, it will probably > make sense out of it" d) Written the _first_ commodity-options > 'theoretical value' calculation routine that was fast enough to be > used in 'real time' in determining 'fair value' for exchange-traded > commodity options. When the source data may change in a fractiono of > a second, Doing 'Cox-Ross-Rubenstein' math *before* the underling > data changes -- invalidating the calculation- in-progress -- is > challenging. Doing it for the -entire- market, which requires > sub-millisecond timing, is far more than just 'challenging'. e) > Written the worlds fastest project scheduling software (merely 4000 > times faster than IBM's offering at the time). After I demoed the > software for over a dozen senior IBM construction executives, they > contracted with the firm I worked for, for project scheuling services > for -all- their major physicaal plant construction projects. U.S. > Army Corps of Engineers also bought a copy. f) Wrote the _first_ > PC-based software for 'off-line' creation of control-files for a > high-end video-tape editing suite. File format _entirely_ > undocumented, required 'reverse-engineering' of everthing. g) > Designed and implemented a complete _real-time_ market price data > distribution system (everything from the incoming feed processing to > the subroutinies that the 'user applications' used) for a major > Government Securities brokerage. Stand-alone code on dedicated > processors for each incoming feed, feeding a back-end server, with > multiplexing daemons on each workstation, to support multiple > simultaneous applications. Commplete with application-level > transparency for the crash/auto-restart of any system-level > component, and auto release of resources previousl allocated to > now-zombie clients. Everthing _guaranteed_, by architecture design to > be non-blocking, _impossible_ for one client app to adversely affect > quote delivery to other apps, even on the same machine. h) Designed > and built a complete 'subscription publiication' accounting system -- > complete 'subscriber management'. billing, payment, earned- income > handling, -and- 'fulfillment' processing. i) Written > 'hyupervisor' (for lack of a better term) code for a mini- computer > system, to automate a management task on that machine that the > _manufacturer_ of the hardare and O/S said could _not_ be automated.
Big deal; so what have you done lately. :-) Seriously though, I wish people would stop feeding this TROLL. There is absolutely no upside to it. As has been stated so eloquently many times before, "Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." > > Aggression is normal today from such people, that have "good > > position" in some companies and fear anyone could read any other > > than "established" opinions. > > That is an amazingly accurate description of _YOU_, Wociech -- You > might consider why you feel it necessary to _personally_attack_ > anyone and everyone who "has the nerve to disagree with your > _opinions_". -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"