Talk:Schlemiel the Painter's algorithm: Difference between revisions

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:Had a pop at fleshing out the intro, making the significance of the term clearer to a layman (e.g., me). Hope that helps... only one of the footnotes appeared at the bottom, but I can't see what I've done wrong. If anyone knows how to fix it, that'd be great.[[User:Señor Service|Señor Service]] ([[User talk:Señor Service|talk]]) 15:56, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

::Something else occurs - the original blog article spelled it "Shlemiel" or something (certainly without a C). Don't know if that means we should use that spelling in the article...?[[User:Señor Service|Señor Service]] ([[User talk:Señor Service|talk]]) 16:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Think the new version is on the whole good, but the line at the beginning sounds a tiny bit holier-than-thou. If someone reverts or changes this, I think key points for inclusion at the beginning are:

The widespread nature of the problem (Spolsky saw it as a pandemic), and

The fact that Spolsky blamed poor Computer Science programs for failing to start with the basics - not individual idiots.

As it was, it sounded a little bit like "A Schlemiel the Painter algorithm is something that losers do because they're stupid and don't know the first thing about progamming." [[Special:Contributions/81.156.111.254|81.156.111.254]] ([[User talk:81.156.111.254|talk]]) 21:46, 30 May 2008 (UTC)