About software quality and programming

[Ramine]

Hello,

I was thinking more, and i have noticed that you haven't agreed with
me that my parallel varfiler can be called an invention... and that
other of my programming projects are inventions too, but anyway my
inventions have to be judged on the critera of "quality" i think, and
speaking about software "quality", i have to define what's the
"criterions" that allow us to judge software quality, we have the
following criterons that permit us to judge software quality:

- Reliability
- Efficiency
- Security
- Maintainability
- Identifying critical programming errors
- and portability
- expressivness

But i have to be frank with you, what i have found difficult is when
only one individual must fulfill the goal alone of attaining a high
level degree of software quality , i mean when you are implementing a
programming project alone , you have to take into account all the above
criteria alone, and to fullfil the most important goal of programming
that is a high degree of "quality" alone... but when you are working in
a team , the manager of the team has to divide the work efficiently
between members of the team so that each one have not to take into
account all the above criteria alone, but has to fullfil this goal only
for some of the above criterions, so that programming becomes much
easier and efficient, this is what i have tried to achieve alone by
implementing my parallel varfiler, so the question is then: does my
parallel varfiler fulfill this goal of a high degree of software quality
? i think that my parallel varfiler is good, cause on the criterion of
reliability it is good, cause it is stable and it is even fault tolerant
to power failures, and to "disk full" errors etc.
and on the criterion of efficiency it is good also, because it is fast
and efficient, and on the criterion of maintainability, it is good also,
because it is easy to maintain, and on the criteria of expressivness it
is good also, cause my parallel varfiler is
a parallel hashtable that works from the memory and it can also work
from memory and from the hardisk, and you can easily save manually the
parallel hashtable to a hardisk's file, or you can configure parallel
varfiler to save "automaticly" your keys and corresponding datas to a
hardisk's file at realtime, i mean when you call update() or delete() or
add()... it can do it at realtime on memory and on the hardisk's file,
and my parallel varfiler is a parallel hashtable that uses lock striping
so it is good... and on the portability criterion my parallel varfiler
is portable to other operating systems such us windows, linux and MacOSX
on x86 systems. This is why i have told you that you will not find this
concept that i have designed and called parallel varfiler
on C++ and C# or Java, if you are not convinced , can you show me
were my parallel varfiler has been implemented on C++ or C# or Java ?
so this is why i have told you that my parallel varfiler is a good
candidate to be called an invention, and i think that my other projects
such us my parallel conjugate gradient linear system solver library that
is cache-aware and scalable on NUMA architecture, and my other projects
and inventions too , are good also...


You can download my projects from here:

https://sites.google.com/site/aminer68/



Thank you for your time.


Amine Moulay Ramdane.

[Chris Vine]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:45:45 -0800
Ramine <ramine@1.1> wrote:
[snip lots of rubbish]

You said in your post entitled "That was my last post here in this
forum" that you were not going to post to this newsgroup. (It is a
newsgroup by the way, not a "forum".)

Please stick to what you said. This is a C++ newsgroup. Your posts
have had nothing to do with C++. You are an egocentric, self-obsessed
pest, probably a manic-depressive, who thinks everyone wants to read
your utterances as if the newsgroup were your private blog.

However, this is not your private blog. Go away.

[Bonita Montero]

Chris Vine wrote:

> ..., probably a manic-depressive, ...

At least manic - that's what I also thought.
Manic people often have a communicativeness that completely
ignores their social environment.

[Chris Vine]

Sadly for him, he seems to go in 6 to 8 month cycles. He used to
post as "aminer" if you look on the archives. When he used to give his
email address with his postings it showed him to be located in Canada
(or at least, his smtp/pop provider was), and from personal information
he has posted to newsgroups when he is at his most active he seems to
have family in Morocco, including a female cousin who is a singer there
(or so he says). This will be interspersed with a period of two or
three months when he doesn't post at all. At his worst he can post up
to 10 to 20 posts a day, in a cycle of correcting previous postings or
of expanding on his world view. I say this because I used to follow
another programming newsgroup which he pretty well single-handedly
destroyed.

I do have some sympathy for him. It cannot be easy. And this
newsgroup probably has sufficient traffic to withstand one of his
onslaughts, so a killfile would probably do what is required for those
who are prepared to remain on it.

Chris

[JiiPee]

On 23/02/2015 21:54, Chris Vine wrote:
> I do have some sympathy for him. It cannot be easy. And this newsgroup
> probably has sufficient traffic to withstand one of his onslaughts,


> so a killfile would probably do what is required for those who are
> prepared to remain on it. Chris

he might keep changing his email, so killfile not working

[Marcel Mueller]

On 23.02.15 22.16, Chris Vine wrote:
> You said in your post entitled "That was my last post here in this
> forum" that you were not going to post to this newsgroup.

Don't waste your time. Adjust your killfile. ;-)


Marcel

[Robert Wessel]

I don't have many people in my killfile, most people are just a
keystroke to ignore, but he's one of the lucky ones. But at least he
has only occasionally changed his email address, looks like only two
in the last year or so.

[Stuart Redmann]

Chris Vine wrote:
I say this because I used to follow
> another programming newsgroup which he pretty well single-handedly
> destroyed.

I'm intrigued. Do you mind telling us, which group it happened to be?

Thank you,
Stuart

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

Have a look at e.g. comp.programming. It was no high-traffic
group but a good place for discussions of topics which didn't
fit into any other category. Until this guy started to post
insane amounts of messages, bringing the S/N down to nearly
zero. Another of his victims is comp.programming.threads.

Best regards, Jens
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[Geoff]

I don't know what group Chris Vine might be talking about but I've got
him killfiled globally and he's fond of comp.programming.

Sampling the headers of comp.programming for the last 30 days:

Posts by Ramine: 67
Posts by others on other topics: 9 (4 by fir)
Replies to Ramine: 8

Posts by Ramine usually consist of explanations of some topic of
interest to him, typically "inventing" some technique that already
exists but he feels he has improved upon, followed by followups to his
own posts consisting of corrections, re-writes and errata to his code
or fixing incomplete or erroneous implementations.

What's particularly annoying about his projects is that he publishes
an announcement about some version of a project, only to be followed
an hour later with the announcement of an update, followed the next
day by another update to the project. All perfectly pointless
announcements since anyone interested in his projects would have
followed the link in the first announcement and be looking _there_ for
updates.

[Chris Vine]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:44:04 +0000 (UTC)

I used to follow comp.programming.threads, which 10 years ago was a
great newsgroup. Traffic was falling before aminer arrived: the
newsgroup was quite thread-techy and interest was shifting to higher
level task-centred programming and parallelization, which the newsgroup
didn't really cater for. It quickly died after he arrived.

He is actually a serial multi-poster, with identical postings to
multiple groups. I believe he continually multi-spams
comp.programming.threads, comp.programming and one or two pascal
newsgroups, and I have noticed that he has now turned his attention to C
and C++ newsgroups. They may be a harder nut for him to crack.

His main feature is that he has no interest in getting responses to his
postings - he just ignores them - or indulging in conversation about
them. He just seems to have an urge he can't control to vent his ego.

Chris

[JiiPee]

On 24/02/2015 16:46, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> Stuart Redmann <dert...@web.de> wrote:
>> Chris Vine wrote:
>> I say this because I used to follow
>>> another programming newsgroup which he pretty well single-handedly
>>> destroyed.
>> I'm intrigued. Do you mind telling us, which group it happened to be?
> Have a look at e.g. comp.programming. It was no high-traffic
> group but a good place for discussions of topics which didn't
> fit into any other category. Until this guy started to post
> insane amounts of messages, bringing the S/N down to nearly
> zero. Another of his victims is comp.programming.threads.
>
> Best regards, Jens

Moderated group might be good, but really dont like moderators who kill
posts just because they do not like the person or they do not like what
he says. They should only really delete spam posts and not posts they
dont like. I mean killing the freedom....

Obviously people who post random stuff and do not reply and
communicate... those surely are ones to be deleted. But there are many
who do communicate and many do not like them, but imo they should still
be allowed to post. Freedom of speech is based just on that: we dont
like what they say but we let them express themselves.

[David Brown]

The principle of freedom of speech is important, but it always has its
limits. This guy is so prolific in his nonsense post that many have
found him extremely annoying in several other groups - and I've never
seen anyone successfully having a discussion with him. With luck, he
will move on from c.l.c++ (and c.l.c) soon enough. If not, we ask him
politely to limit his posting and to use Usenet groups for discussion,
not as a an outlet for all thoughts that pass through his head. If that
fails, we ask eternal-september to cut his cord.

[JiiPee]

so he is not replying and communicating? yes, thats why I mentioned that
they should communicate (politely).
I agree that somebody just "preaching" and not replying /communicating
(on a long hold) could possible be banned. But not after 1-2 messages.
If its a long term thing, then. But you are saying here is one those....
maybe....Looks like he is not replying to people.

> With luck, he
> will move on from c.l.c++ (and c.l.c) soon enough. If not, we ask him
> politely to limit his posting and to use Usenet groups for discussion,
> not as a an outlet for all thoughts that pass through his head. If that
> fails, we ask eternal-september to cut his cord.

yes, if this is true then you are right.... then he would be one
potential person who should be banned :)

But I mean even if somebody is a bit rude, I would not ban them as long
as they do not constantly swear or use bad language. If rules are not to
use bad language (rasism etc) then obviously its ok to ban those who do
do that. But somebody asnwering to me "I think you are horribly wrong
You do not seem to understand anything about this!! I think you should
not even post here" or similar.... even though it does not feel good, in
the name of free speech I would let him continue as long as he is not
breaking rules. Moderator should not ban this kind of thing.

[JiiPee]

On 25/02/2015 09:05, David Brown wrote:

its not even about limits.... here its "breaking the rules" I would say.
Because the forum might have a rule "this is about discussion, not
sharing information only". So he would be breaking that rule in this case.

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

JiiPee <n...@notvalid.com> wrote:
> On 25/02/2015 09:05, David Brown wrote:
> > On 25/02/15 01:07, JiiPee wrote:
> I agree that somebody just "preaching" and not replying /communicating
> (on a long hold) could possible be banned. But not after 1-2 messages.
> If its a long term thing, then. But you are saying here is one those....
> maybe....Looks like he is not replying to people.

Have you ever taken a short look at comp.programming or
comp.programming.threads? Then you can see immediately that this
is not a 1-2 messages thing. He's like someone in a restaurant
where you want a nice meal and an enjoyable conversation, who
is shouting at the top of his voice what a fine picker of his
nose he is and that he wants us all to gather around him to
admire his last harvest and that he just retrieved a further
bit of the marvelous specimen of snot he's so proud of to
have produced and that we all should taste how good it is,
and so on without a break. Other guests politely asking him
to tone it down a bit are completely ignored. Of course, new
customers coming in turn around on their heels and leave for
different places.

Then, if you go to a different restaunt the next time and this
guy wanders in with his finger in his nose you probably also
wouldn't greet him with great friendliness but ask for him to
be expelled before he ruins another evening.

Regards, Jens

[JiiPee]

yes I agree, seems like you are right :).... even now he keeps sending
those messages, many of them in one day.