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deanh77 Mar 28, 2001

OK thats not a back pack. You carry it like a briefcase or use the shoulder strap. *You* try strapping an ATX case with power supply and hard drives to your back. hahaha. (OK, that was really la...

iwz Mar 28, 2001

Oh, dean, give me your best guess as to how I wrote the comment threading algorithm on here to work.

deanh77 Mar 28, 2001

(Note: I did not look at your database structure diagram so I assumed some things) OK. Each comment is stored in a database by 'News Item Number' and 'Comment Number' (these two fields compose...

iwz Mar 28, 2001

Hey, that was too hard for me to understand, could you please express your logic in a C++ program? Just kidding. Anyway, wow, Dean! Great job, man. You came very very close to figuring ou...

deanh77 Mar 28, 2001

I could do it another way if I do incremental "Selects" to the database, instead of my one "Select * from comment" at the very beginning. Do you query the database multiple times during the al...

iwz Mar 28, 2001

You got it, dean. I went the database-intensive route. I'm not exactly sure which is the best way, but for now, it was the easiest way for me to accomplish the task in ColdFusion, which is not obje...

thefunkyfresh Mar 28, 2001

Guys...i know ian is definitely a certified genius, and dean...well, he's proving himself to me as well. But all this java junk doesn't get you nowhere. to be really smart, you have to know calcu...

deanh77 deanh77Founder

actually the really funny thing is, I have done this. I took a class called Numerical Methods of Computation in College, cause I was a minoring in Applied Mathematics. And we had to write all these programs in C that would produce tables of figures for differential equations (which is like calculus on acid) using different aproximation algorithms. Anyway.

iwz iwz

Actually, I wonder if the funny thing is that you had to do it for a class... and I did it for fun. Heh...

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

ian, you can take all my classes for fun if you want, and I'll take care of ezabel for a while...nobody will be the wiser.

katiedid katiedidFounder

Matt, you'd give up the opportunity to further your C++ knowledge?.......I'm ashamed to know you. :)

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

ohhh i most definitely would!

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