Scott, notice the big sign: "Don't feed the trolls" Black Helicopter paranoia side thought. (It's been a week): Could this be the new MS strategy to finally kill CF once and for all? Hire people to write inane questions on developer lists, drive their productivity down through the floor, get people angry and making silly comments, and then use all this in their next ad campaign (cf users are mean, their productivity is bad, and they way you cannot do a high volume website in cf).
On 2/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted a serious answer yesterday, and got no response... there's > nothing "little" about what you want to do. > If you want to compete with these sites (myspace, amazon etc.) It's going > to take alot of time and money to do it the right way. > > Why don't you put up a set of requirements, stating what you want in more > detail, and how big you estimate you're audience to be and you might get > some serious responses. > When you post something as vague as you did, you're not going to get the > responses you want. > > Scott A. Stewart > REAC/PASS-IT > (202)-475-8875 > > > > > "Ima Retard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 02/07/2007 02:23 PM > Please respond to cf-community > > > To: CF-Community <[email protected]> > cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) > Subject: Re: Need Cold Fusion help > > > Okay, now you've upset me. Why are you all like, "Who is this guy?" and > "Is > this a joke?" and "Is this a caricature?" and stuff like that? > > The answer is simple: Ima Retard is my name, and I have a simple question > about simple stuff like a little community site with some e-commerce stuff > as well. And you are all, "Oh this is so stupid" and "Let's make fun of > him" and all. Well you've won. Now I'm sitting here crying my eyes out, > just like I did in summer camp when the counsellors made fun of me for my > macaroni art where I tried to glue a frog on it because I liked frogs (and > I > still do). How did I know that frogs don't like sitting still for that > long, and besides they don't even like macaroni? You guys are being just > as > mean to me as they were. > > I see lots of people on this and CF-Talk talking about lots of stuff like > putting huge database query result sets into each user's Session scope and > they using Query of Queries to retrieve information on every page request. > Now I don't know what that means, but it sure sounds impressive, and they > get serious comments from just about everybody on the list. So I thought > I > could at least ask where I can find some code that someone might have done > before. I was wrong, I guess. > > And how about optimizing code by using EQ instead of IS (or vice versa -- > I > forget which). I myself spent a full week going through everything I'd > ever > written and modified all the IS to EQ so that it would be screaming fast. > It didn't make a difference after all, but I wasn't upset with this list > for > that. What's a Retard to do? > > I hope the next time I post you'll have learned your lessons and treat me > nicer. > > > On 2/7/07, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > what do you think? Unless of course someone else wants credit for such a > > "retarded" post ... > > > > Well was this a "retarded" post, or a spoof of a retarded post that I > had > > missed. That is the way I first read it, as somebody making fun of this > > kind of unreasonable request by writing a caricature of it. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
