On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Russell McMahon <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>>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 =
in the long
>> term, even though he seemed to think he was brainy enough to go to medic=
al
>> college. I ended up setting up a mail rule that sent messages from him
>> straight into the deleted items folder.

I would not do that. He is a bright young man and learns
fast.

> >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.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0R
>

Good observations!

References:
http://solar-blogg.blogspot.com/



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