3/2 so, do you think i could get off on the grounds of justifiable
homicide if i were to murder my project partners? they'd be more
useful as corpses.
\_ you have no idea what bad project partners are. i've had
partners that were so flat out lazy they didn't touch a single
line of code the entire semester, partners that dropped the class
without telling, partners that switched groups without telling,
and partners that were so stupid that it makes you wonder how
they ever got into this school. and then there was my 152 partner
who was just about the worst partner ever. be happy that you
have bad partners, not sadistic shity ones. -jeff
\_ haven't a couple of people have had project partners who
were in jail?
\_ poor thing. So what did they do?
\_ Easily. Just call Paolo as a character witness. -dans
\_ paolo would be more useful as a corpse.
\_ Hey, that's mean!
\_ CSUA, we're petty and vindictive so you don't have to
be. But seriously, ask Paolo about the PhilipBox or
the Walrus some time. Two of the more heinous
partners in the history of CS. -dans
\_ you are not allowed to complain until you have randi as a
partner. Or that stupid bitch who deleted all of our 162
mutlprocessing project 2 days before it was due.
\_ When I was a lab assistant for 60A this chick goes into a
panic and is so desperate she insists on dragging me away
from my netrek game. She's typed "rm * .bak" in their
\_ She typed
shared project directory. She's lucky that A) I don't kill
\_ I didn't
her, B) her partner isn't around to see this, C) she had
every single file loaded in emacs, D) I was kind enough to
save them out for her and E) not kill her for screwing up
\_ save them for her \_ that I didn't kill her
a perfectly good base ogg. She asks me to walk her home
\_ what the hell is a "base ogg"
\_ learn to speak english.
DOOSH!
then panics at the door. Never help a Sterny.
\_ How good she speak English?
\_ Korean but not ESL.
\_ I think (s)he was making fun of your English.
\_ s/he needs to try again. Compared to most
of the crap on the motd, my English was
perfect. Don't even get me started on this
as "Standard American English" is only an
ideal in both written and spoken forms.
-linguistics alumni
\_ I'm using the present tense so that stuff
is bullshit. If you don't know what a base
ogg is, maybe one of the other 50+ netrek
players can help you. Still waiting to see
a real problem with what I wrote.
\_ Well, you seem to be mixing tenses
and "she's typed" isn't proper English.
\_ Yes it is. It is a contraction of "She
has typed" and is perfectly fine in the
present tense. It is very common in
\_ at least she just didn't do squat, instead of destroying
your project. And nick, I seem to remember she sorta
joined our group after the second project or so. (I say
sorta cause noone wanted her around but the idiot who nuked
our directory that one time, but hey, she kept on comming
to our group meetings).
informal narratives to revert to
present tense. Annoying, but common
usage.
\_ Sorry for being annoying but it's
still acceptable/common.
\_ Korean? Was it sky's gf?
\_ You helped her? That's just wrong. Idiots should pay
the idiot penalty carried by their actions until such
time that they learn something, thus ceasing to be an
idiot, or they make a mistake so horrible that they die
from it. Either way, one less idiot. -dans
\_ Of course. She was better looking than the girl I
was with at the time. Virginal, though. Hate that.
\_ How long have pretty girls been taking
advantage of your idiocy?
\_ Nah, I was there. She turned pale and
panicked at the key moment. She was too
naive to know what she was doing. I've
been an idiot before but this wasn't it.
\_ Your quest to decrease the number of virgins in
the world is a noble one. Nevertheless, since
you failed in this particular instance, I think
you should have sided with my quest to rid the
world of idiots. -dans
\_ Hey, I had to try. How else to know? I
didn't help her after that if it makes you
feel any better.
\_ randi was my partner in 162. I think this tops anything anyone
could possibly complain about.
\_ Hi andrew
\_ Hi nick
\_ Some of the blame rests on classes which _require_ you to work in
a group, creating artificial demand for the stupid as project
partners.
\_ OK, I will toss in Donald Horton, who didn't nothing but write
C++ .h files defining how his beautiful, elegant, and totally
worthless classes would interface, then when asked to write
one trivial piece of code, decided he didn't need to cvs update
first, and when it complained about conflicts putting his 10
lines of code into the multi-thousand-line file, he just
nazi's his copy (without the weeks worth of changes) over the
top of it and checks it in. Needless to say, his account went
bye-bye.
\_ CVS? In the old days we could only dream of having a stupid
partner munch our files with CVS.... |