You know, maybe we could shape haloboy into a smart kid. Like, a DRLFF social experiment.

if that's your paradigm for a social experiment then you could consider 90% of the DRLFF userbase a social experiment

Guess I didn't phrase it as well as I wanted

It's pretty funny seeing Mackarel all upset at some new kid when he was in that chair not so long ago.

Anyways I don't see what all the fuss is about. Haloman is not a jerkbag trying to make people feel bad. Haloman is not an evil overlord trying to force his will upon us. Haloman didn't even wipe the forums. He is just a guy who doesn't have a lot of experience on forums and is a little messy with his organization and presentation of thoughts. We've dealt with people who are much, much worse- many of whom became integral members of the community.

Haloman is better than us in some ways. All of us have bad habits which we will keep forever, but not Haloman. His lack of experience means that he is still a bubbling cauldron of change and anything could emerge from the sociological ooze. He could be the next grif or Shook, or zalo. He could end up being another shitlord, but there's no telling. So I don't think it's time to bring out the torches and pitchforks just yet. Honestly I think he's genuinely funny at times, intentionally or not.

I find it unbelievable that you all still care that much about haloman.

In other news, Matlab is a giant pile of contradictory standards that make no sense in the realm of a modern programming language/environment.

so why are you using matlab if its so contradictory

I get paid to.

Uni classes will force you to use it (and it does have some pretty powerful matrix and math capabilities and libraries for CV and stuff)

It's also good for processing of large datasets

But I'm not too enamored with it either

I had no idea matlab had a GUI thing.

I still use matlab as a more powerful calculator for my classes.

It was recently added. I'm using it as part of a grant to show that GUIDE is a thing and it's cool.
Honestly it's no worse than VB, and a bunch of the language inconsistencies only surface if you try to do fancy things.

I wish VB6 had the syntax of .net, and I wish .net was as clean as VB6.

Move to another language.

Oh I did. I can still wish for it though.

You haven't moved far enough.

honestly, this. after reading back a few pages i feel like everyone should just leave him alone if they dont like him. he doesn't have to conform to your guys' grammatical standards. i understand if he's misbehaving to call him out on it, but there's no reason to respond with hostility, it just adds to the problem.