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On the lighter side :
« on: June 02, 2012, 07:48:30 AM »

Came across a definition today that was interesting

Deadline :
 a line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot


I'll be wary next time someone tells me I'm on a deadline .


ps The quote was from 'The Pragmatic Programmer'
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X
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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2012, 04:53:27 AM »

I was reminded of this today

Quote from: Alice through the Looking Glass

"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2012, 04:39:37 AM »

Quote from: Wally to Dilbert

WOW. You are the wind beneath my seat cushion.

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 05:20:59 PM »
Reading Aesop's Fables on my transit this morning.

'Birds of a feather flock together' is not really such a pretty story. :)

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2012, 06:31:10 PM »

Quote from: http://www.codecademy.com/docs/forum_guidelines

Make your questions as specific as possible. Don't ask things like "Need help" or "What's wrong?" Do ask things like "2.2 Why won't my boomerang come back in method throwAndCatch?"

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 06:58:07 PM »

Quote from: Albert Einstein

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?


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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2012, 03:23:49 AM »

Quote from: 'uncle' Bob Martin - Clean Code video's

Grandchildren are the desert of life.

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2012, 12:02:49 AM »
Quote from:  comparison of strings

Remember, when we program we are talking with a computer.
It probably won't know that "car" is equal to "automobile",
or that "pizza" is greater than "day-old sushi".

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2012, 10:39:12 AM »
Quote from: Kerry on September 16, 2012, 12:02:49 AM
Quote from:  comparison of strings

Remember, when we program we are talking with a computer.
It probably won't know that "car" is equal to "automobile",
or that "pizza" is greater than "day-old sushi".


If one wrote: "Car is equal to automobile", he would be writing the truth, well, more or less...
If on the other hand one wrote: ""car" is equal to "automobile"", he would be writing a falsehood, be it for the simple reason that "car" contains three letters and "automobile" contains more than three letters.

W.V.O Quine: To mention x, we use a name of x (the old use vs. mention problem) :lmao:
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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2012, 06:58:29 PM »
Quote from: codecademy
A wife asks her husband,
 "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6."

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"

He replied, "They had eggs."
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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2012, 07:39:42 AM »
Reminds me of the guy who came to an untimely end,
he asked his wife if she'd run over to the store and get him some beer,
when she said No,
he ran over himself....


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Re: On the lighter side :
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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2012, 09:05:27 PM »
With Python and F#, when your punctuation's off, your meaning can change entirely.

Code - F#: [Select]
  1. The peasant said, "The witch turned me into a newt!"

Code - F#: [Select]
  1. "The peasant," said the witch, "turned me into a newt!"


... a silly example, but I thought it was amusing ...
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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2012, 03:40:25 AM »

Quote

God is Real, unless declared Integer.

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Re: On the lighter side :
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2012, 10:52:20 AM »
Quote from: Kerry on September 30, 2012, 09:05:27 PM
Code - F#: [Select]
  1. The peasant said, "The witch turned me into a newt!"

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