tummychow... why do you have to be so rude? it seems like every c++ forum i go to there are rude, stuck up people like you who act like you were never a beginner at this stuff. I've seen your posts on other topics and you ALWAYS have to get smart with somebody. no one gives a damn about how many years you've been doing this or how many programs you've made that can save the world... the reality is that some people are new to this stuff and you need to respect that. i can understand that this guy's plead for help is a little pathetic and that he shouldn't post topics like this but you come across like an arrogant prick. have a nice day now :) |
Well excuse me, but have you read the "read before posting"? In case you haven't yet noticed from the rules laid down therein, I have no obligation to help people, and homework assignments are explicitly excluded from acceptable posts. For some reason this forum puts up with them on a regular basis, and so do I. But I don't take urgent shit. I don't give crap if your project is due tomorrow. It's your damn project, not mine! You're supposed to do it! I don't care how inexperienced you are, you are still subject to the rules, and those are the rules. PERIOD. You take a look around here and you'll find that the people who give the best answers are also the ones who have the least tolerance for shit like this. If you have a legitimate question with errors that you need help with, and if you are willing to acknowledge the fact that this isn't some answer service where people will ask you "oh, is this the answer? here, why don't you hand this in so you don't need to do any work?", then I don't really mind the homework, because I can LIVE with that, even though I'm not supposed to. But you try to shit your problems on me and I'm going to shit them back double. It's what you deserve for whining, frankly. Is it my fault that his assignment is due tomorrow? Is it my fault that, by powers possibly out of his control, he ended up unable to complete it on time? No. I sympathize, because life is by no means an easy task, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be all kind and sweet. I will not be more willing to give you the answer because you didn't have the time to find one yourself like a normal student. All-nighters are a part of education, even though they shouldn't be, and it's not my job to avert the crises that spring up in your schooling/educational development. I have no problem with helping you, but I'm not some kind of superhero, and I'm certainly not tolerant of the desperate "omg haz no time pls answer these q asap i needz so bad". If you're pissed about your problems and you get a little terse, OK. I don't like it. But I can understand that, because I'm ticked off right now. But you can't throw it off on other people as if they are somehow, in some twisted evil of the world, responsible. I'm not responsible for your inability to complete your assignment and I never will be. I might be partially responsible for the acceleration of the completion of an assignment, if I'm feeling nice and you've got a fair request. Is this a fair request? Certainly not, because nobody is supposed to be just giving out the answer.
And by the way, I was once a beginner on this. But the operative word is "once". I no longer am (undoubtedly there are people better than I am, but that's how life is, I find), and if you want my help, you're going to have to accept that I could be better at this than you are. I don't care how hard your beginning programming life was because it's not mine. I'm giving you help (and that's if you're reasonable; help is a privilege and not a right) and not a psychiatric analysis.
See? I tend to edit most the posts that I write in arguments.