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Indeed, and so much more interesting than ∞. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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All natural integers are interesting.
(The proof is left as an exercise for the student)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's crackers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The TREE sequence begins TREE(1) = 1, TREE(2) = 3, then suddenly TREE(3) explodes to a value so enormously large that many other "large" combinatorial constants, such as Friedman's n(4),[*] are extremely small by comparison.[1] A lower bound for n(4), and hence an extremely weak lower bound for TREE(3), is A(A(...A(1)...)), where the number of As is A(187196),[2] and A() is a version of Ackermann's function: A(x) = 2 [x + 1] x in hyperoperation. Graham's number, for example, is approximately A^64(4) which is much smaller than the lower bound A^A(187196)(1).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal%27s_tree_theorem#Friedman.27s_finite_form[^]
I think it's time that we all went home...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I think it's time that we all went home...
Apart from those of us who work from home, who should all go down the pub. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Can you spell that sequence using only A, C, G, and T? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yes, but the representation is too large to fit in the margins of Code Project 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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So the U.S. debt is trying to surpass Graham's number?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Any mathematicians in the crowd are watching the children play with matches.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Any mathematicians in the crowd are watching the children play with matches.
For my next act, I will wrassle a bear, make peace with a feral Chtorran, and divide by zero!
[Bonus points for identifying the references]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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"Then for my first encore, I drink a whole bottle of trans-Lunar brandy, make love to a feral Chtorran, and kill a Martian woman-I think. Or maybe it's the other way around." David Gerrold in The Voyage of the Star Wolf.
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Correct!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think this is how mathematicians and astrophysists play "Mine's bigger than yours" 
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Spent an hour and half talking shop, covering Ruby, C#, etc., the fellow sounds like he's really grounded and experienced in balancing things like testing, idiomatic syntaxes, OOD, etc. I sounds like I would really enjoy working with him and his team. I'll let you all know if/when I get the actual offer!
Marc
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Good luck! 
Sounds like it's pretty much ideal for you.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good luck!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Good luck, Marc. Sounds like you feel good about the way things are moving.
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That sounds great ! Sorry if I draped any cobwebs of paranoia over your mental furniture with my suspicious take on the pre-interview conversation !
Wish I could hear a tape-recording of that interview: bet I would learn something.
cheers, Bill
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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BillWoodruff wrote: Sorry if I draped any cobwebs of paranoia over your mental furniture with my suspicious take on the pre-interview conversation !
It was good, because it clued me in to ask questions like "do you have some best practice guidelines on using CSS?" and similar stuff, which helped position in the right way, I think. Besides, I am genuinely interested in people's best practices.
BillWoodruff wrote: Wish I could hear a tape-recording of that interview: bet I would learn something.
Nah, it was basically two techy guys enjoying similar views and life experiences for an hour and half.
Marc
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Good luck!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Good luck!
But what did "wants to make sure that your strategies align more with Ruby best practices as opposed to a more traditionally .NET approach." mean?
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: But what did "wants to make sure that your strategies align more with Ruby best practices as opposed to a more traditionally .NET approach." mean?
Well, the message got lost in the translation between him and the recruiter (a non-tech person.) The original message was basically "what best practices have you developed working with RoR?" A much better question.
Marc
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