At 03:41 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
So now I have to compile my jokes?
I have frequently uttered the phrase what a joke! when reading some
of the code I inherited that was written by others
John Fereira
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Ithaca, NY
How did you get my phone number?
-Ross.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:41 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
So now I have to compile my jokes?
I have frequently uttered the phrase what a joke! when reading some
of the code I inherited that was
01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 0010 0001 0110
01110101 0010 01110011 01110100 0111 01110010 01110100
0010 01110100 0110 0010 01100100 01110010 01100101
0111 01101101 0010 01101001 01101110 0010 01100010
01101001 01101110 0111 01110010 0001
I think between this and Walter's pebbles crushed under the wheels of wagons
we've just about reached the profitable end of this joke. But just to put
the nail in the coffin, what predated this was cave paintings in BASIC. Been
there, done that.
Roy
On 4/4/08 8:21 AM, Mark Sandford [EMAIL
The signal-to-noise ration is dropping on this list. Perhaps this
extremely humorous discussion could be taken off-list?
constructively,
Glen
Mark == Mark Sandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 0010 0001
Mark 0110 01110101 0010
:09 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] KR (was: Gartner on OSS)
I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ...
and
ex
for those rare times
He *says* it's open source. Notice he didn't give his phone number... :P
Carol
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All I use is a pen and legal size paper. Longhand is the real hacker's
IDE.
Then I feed my code in via a scanner and OCR.
Python's a
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I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378
Sebastian Hammer wrote:
A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for cosmic
radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing
and functional sequence of bits.
Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age
..- .-.. .-.. .. .. -- --. --- .. -. --. - --- ... .- -.-- .-
-... --- ..- - - .. ... - .-. . .- -.. .. ... - .- -
-. --- -. . --- ..-. -.-- --- ..- ... ..- ..-. ..-. . .-. ..-. .-.
--- -- .-. -- .. - . .-- .- -.-- .. -.. --- .-- .
---
David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] KR
. Schneider
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:09 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] KR (was: Gartner on OSS)
I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm
Actually, the whole reason my wrist is so bad is the stress on it from
writing out code -- wouldn't be so bad except for having to press down
hard to write it in triplicate through all that carbon paper.
Genny
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/03/08 08:54AM
..- .-.. .-.. .. .. -- --. --- .. -. --.
#include stdio.h
main(t,_,a)
char *a;
{
return!0t?t3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):
1,t_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)t==2?_13?
main(2,_+1,%s %d %d\n):9:16:t0?t-72?main(_,t,
@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l+,/n{n+,/+#n
+,/#\
;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/'r
So now I have to compile my jokes?
-t
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Ryan Ordway wrote:
#include stdio.h
main(t,_,a)
char *a;
{
return!0t?t3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):
1,t_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)t==2?_13?
main(2,_+1,%s %d %d\n):9:16:t0?t-72?main(_,t,
No, you could write them in J [1]. This is how you do quicksort in J:
quicksort=: (($:@(#[) , (=#[) , $:@(#[)) ({~ [EMAIL PROTECTED])) ^: (1#)
--Casey
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_programming_language
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Tim Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So now I
But if you're in a hurry, you can speed up the process by using a
random-number generator to output random files of code, test them with
a batch script, and discarding those that generate errors...
We should all be mindful that some vendors get really touchy when you
share their proprietary
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Kyle Banerjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should all be mindful that some vendors get really touchy when you
share their proprietary methods on open lists
I'm quite sure the 1 million monkeys method is not a proprietary method.
ranti.
--
Bulk mail.
We should all be mindful that some vendors get really touchy when you
share their proprietary methods on open lists
I'm quite sure the 1 million monkeys method is not a proprietary method.
It was originally, but the patent expired. The method would be be used
more often, but
I use pico too - but I use an alias to add command line switches
automatically (-imw), so that un-sissifies it (a bit).
Back when that was my choice, I used emacs exactly once, during which I
removed every instance of the letter m from a lengthy document. (When
I have to edit a file in my
At 01:09 PM 3/31/2008, you wrote:
I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ... and ex
for those rare times when you have to tip into a Solaris box to fix the
vfstab and your TERM is completely
I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ... and ex
for those rare times when you have to tip into a Solaris box to fix the
vfstab and your TERM is completely hosed)
-Joe
Back when that was my
pico++
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:09 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back when that was my choice, I used emacs exactly once, during which I
removed every instance of the letter m from a lengthy document. (When
I have to edit a file in my shell account, which is rare, I use
, 2008 10:09 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] KR (was: Gartner on OSS)
I now open up the vi vs. emacs discussion:
http://xkcd.com/378/
(personally, I'm a BBEdit user, but fall back to vi as needed ... and
ex
for those rare times when you have to tip into a Solaris
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Dr R. Sanderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my poor mailbox ;)
I now open up discussion of real smtp clients, and the pros/cons of
mail filtering ... Lets just get this all out of our system :-)
Yours,
//Ed
PS shouldn't the discussion list set the From header to
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Marin County Free Library
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Fiander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vi is just as programmable as emacs. It's possible to write a vi macro
that runs a turing machine.
Yeah, and XSLT is Turing complete but that doesn't mean it's actually
a good thing to use :-)
//Ed
PS does this thing go
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Ed Summers wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Dr R. Sanderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my poor mailbox ;)
I now open up discussion of real smtp clients, and the pros/cons of
mail filtering ... Lets just get this all out of our system :-)
[trimmed]
PSS is it
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