I thought you were referring to the OP. :)

If this is a troll, he certainly is one of the most efficient in the monastery, even fooling experienced monks.

(@all please spare me with a psycho profile of his motives ... duck typing of his effects on the well being of the monastery is sufficient)

The "this" was the question — I have no doubts about bigup401 being an actual person because I have had the misfortune to work with outsource subcontractors who are like that guy. I once eventually gave up and rewrote an image-upload function that could not preserve aspect ratios for thumbnails. The rewrite collapsed half-a-dozen layers on the call stack to two, eliminating several wrapper functions that would accept thumbnail dimensions as arguments, ignore those arguments, and pass hard-coded values to the next function in the layer cake, which in turn ignores those values and passes different hard-coded values to the next function...

This questioner seems to chase fads, and I recently saw an article about item-scalping, so I suspect that he saw a similar article and decided to "get in the game" so to speak. It is one thing to be extremely thick, but bigup401 has combined being extremely thick with abusing the monastery as a free-as-in-beer code writing service and now seems to want code for less-than-honorable purposes. He is a blight upon our noble craft.

UPDATE: I had forgotten that each layer had different values, for that extra DailyWTF factor... — jcb

I was not criticizing you, just before knowing what "item-scalping" means this really read like a sarcastic analysis of the OP. :)

> I have no doubts about bigup401 being an actual person

My point is that eventually it doesn't matter.

If he's effecting the monastery like a troll, then we should treat him like such.

With "actual persons" one could at least have the hope of change, but that's unlikely with his history.

> misfortune to work with outsource subcontractors who are like that guy.

I have friends from India here and I was fortunate that they explained the traditional "Guru"° concept of education to me. It's very deeply rooted in the culture and capitalism is chasing for the cheapest workers with the least flexibility.

Cheers Rolf
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°) actually it's named after the disciple IIRC. But it isn't that compatible with western concepts.