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Shakespeare has mentioned reputation hunting prominently:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
I prefer his essay on Higher Order Measures —
Could great men thunder
As Jove himself does, Jove would never be quiet,
For every pelting petty officer
Would use his heaven for thunder, nothing but thunder.
Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle. But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep, who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Sorry for sidetracking. I have also thought about reputation matters. This thread gave me ideas, and I just now googled for the guy mentioned therein, and it turns out that he blogged about his achievements here.
There are suggestions there for increasing rep.
There are more links about that guy in my post in the thread you mentioned.
Yes I had seen all that. I acknowledge your claim to your precedence. Here I was specifically addressing the point, "How to amass reputation", and that guy is the master, and I just followed Abel's dictum. For math specific stuff, though, the local masters can contribute additional tips suiting the needs of this abstruse subject..
Apparently not very often. See this meta.SO post.
@Anweshi, sorry for "asserting the precedence": actually I just wanted to make sure nobody interested missed the fact that the guy also writes poems :)
@Harry. I know, you are not rep hunting. Your reputation could have been higher, if you were trying for that. Even I am able to understand that. I just made use of the opportunity to contribute the poem, and the link to a good strategy. It is not out of issues with you. I too have deleted absurd answers of mine, so I am also waiting for the other shoe to fall on some day..
However since you seem to be the strongest critic here of soft questions, I must say I was surprised a bit to see one on a famous exercise. :) I was like, Oh wow, here Harry the purist is asking this question? Again of course, I am not saying that it is for reputation hunting. It's just ironic, that is all. Hush this child for that objection too, if you please.
@Ilya. He seems very helpful to other programmers, is a methodist preacher, and writes poems. Interesting enough.
@Harry. I am not however questioning your outspokenness in favor of purity. It is a worthy cause and somebody should take it up forcefully without mincing the words. It is good to see you doing it. So I am not questioning you; in fact I do not want to see you going lax on it. However the power of your arguments diminish when you are seen going against them yourself. I must remark that.
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