On 12/22/2014 06:59 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
Actually, your replies helped. I was not aware or in the mindset that
branchless_clip was a generally used method for clamping fixed or
floating point values. Because of that, I was limiting my searches to
gnuradio related stuff (googling "gnuradio branchless_clip"). Now I
know it is a general method of doing something.
Helping people who are getting comfortable is a good thing to do. It
will ensure they use the tools. There is a limit to this of course. No
one wants to see basic level questions being asked all day.
I've been on this mailing list for, gosh, a decade?
In that time, what I've noticed is that in the last couple of years,
there's a significant fraction of folks who are encountering not only
Gnu Radio and
SDR/DSP for the first time, but *software development in general*.
I'm not sure why that is, but I'm pretty sure that the list isn't, in
general, well-equipped to deal with that kind of thing.
My own patience for that type of thing varies considerably, and I try to
avoid giving any answers at all when my patience is perhaps not as
generous as it should be, and try to give cheerful answers when possible.
I certainly don't want people to leave with the impression that we're
unhelpful here, but on the other hand, I don't think it would be good for
the list (and the community) if we became a "free CS101 course" for
the huddled masses. Just my opinion....
...funny anecdote time.
I once helped run an internal help-desk doing Unix technical support
within the Nortel empire. We'd assembled a team of
pretty-darned-competent people to do front-line support. *Vastly*
better than your typical help-desk. Like, could debug shell scripts
for customers while waiting on the phone. So, we got a bit of a
reputation of being pretty-much the best at what we did. To the extent
that our phone number leaked out into the greater world, and we
started getting support calls from random not-Nortel places, which
we obviously couldn't support, since it wasn't our mandate.
Sometimes, I think we do that here...
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Marcus D. Leech <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 12/22/2014 06:45 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
On 12/22/2014 06:42 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
I'm not as smart as Marcus, so I googled "branchless clip",
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427477/fastest-way-to-clamp-a-real-fixed-floating-point-value
Philip
I think that at the end of the day, questions like this boil down
to "how do I get comfortable with the tools of the trade in
software development".
That's not something that the Gnu Radio community can economically
address.
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