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From: Rob Warnock on 7 May 2008 08:44
Robert Maas, <lisp2.3.CalRobert(a)SpamGourmet.Com> wrote:
+---------------
| > From: Duane Rettig <du...(a)franz.com>
| > We definitely need a meta-question protocol.
|
| I propose the following protocol. Anyone who posts a question which
| is obviously their homework, on which they have done no work
| whatsoever, and are expecting one or more volunteers in the
| newsgroup to do the work for him/her, should be waterboarded until
| he/she confesses that this isn't the first time he/she has tried to
| cheat in school by getting others to do his/her homework for him/her.
+---------------

I prefer the protocol practiced over in "comp.arch", which is that,
upon detecting such an obviously blatent homework question, the
regular denizens of the newsgroup vie for seeing who can construct
the most plausable-sounding answer which is nevertheless complete
nonsense. Said another way, "trying to give as wrong answer as
possible while making it in such subtle ways that you might even
use it." [Jouni Osmala, Sept. 2002.] Extra points are given for
the answer being hilariously funny to insiders.


-Rob

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From: Thomas A. Russ on 7 May 2008 12:15
rpw3(a)rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:

> Robert Maas, <lisp2.3.CalRobert(a)SpamGourmet.Com> wrote:
> +---------------
> | > From: Duane Rettig <du...(a)franz.com>
> | > We definitely need a meta-question protocol.
> |
> | I propose the following protocol. Anyone who posts a question which
> | is obviously their homework, on which they have done no work
> | whatsoever, and are expecting one or more volunteers in the
> | newsgroup to do the work for him/her, should be waterboarded until
> | he/she confesses that this isn't the first time he/she has tried to
> | cheat in school by getting others to do his/her homework for him/her.
> +---------------
>
> I prefer the protocol practiced over in "comp.arch", which is that,
> upon detecting such an obviously blatent homework question, the
> regular denizens of the newsgroup vie for seeing who can construct
> the most plausable-sounding answer which is nevertheless complete
> nonsense. Said another way, "trying to give as wrong answer as
> possible while making it in such subtle ways that you might even
> use it." [Jouni Osmala, Sept. 2002.] Extra points are given for
> the answer being hilariously funny to insiders.

I have certainly seen variants of that method used here, but with an
interestingly subtle twist: The solutions are actually correct. But so
convoluted or making use of more advanced CL features than one expects
the poster to know about.

I recall seeing some amazing use of higher order functions to solve some
of these homework assignments. The code works great, solves the problem
and is still impossible to submit as one's own work.

--
Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute








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