>By telling the OP that he's perceived as a jerk and why is actually
>doing him a favor, although he may not think that in the short term.

> =A0 =A0 We had one here recently who, I suspect, wouldn't even catch on i=
n the long
term, even though he seemed to think he was brainy enough to go to medical
college. I ended up setting up a mail rule that sent messages from him
straight into the deleted items folder.

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>From careful observation over some while:

He caught on moderately well.
Only moderately.
He is probably reasonably bright and reasonably capable.
He is probably going to make an OK doctor - it's been traditional here
for medical students to be chosen from the creme de la creme and if
they have with egos to match its not been a bar. Only more recently
have they specifically looked at a more "holistic": package and
actually reduced the net academic level, albeit marginally. You still
have to be very very good academically.
The person in question was both capable and helpful and well known
elsewhere before he came to PICList.
Despite some utterly utterly brain dead questions and an ongoing
tendency to try and get everyone else to do his research, he picked up
PICs in a practical sense possibly faster than anyone else we've seen
and was producing high level hardware and code in short order. The
reason was that he came from a C language world and being able to use
a C compiler on a PIC made it just part of his experience base. His
"what's a resistor for" hardware experience seemed to be overcome
along the way.
All fwiw.


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