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Yes, I think in Engineering notation. This comes from a lifetime of electronics engineering, where most calculations require one-and-a-bit significant digits precision and a huge exponential range. (In the good old days, a slide rule did the mantissa and you carried the exponent in your head.)
milli-ohms to megohms.
picofarads to farads.
... etc
A kilohm.nanofarad is a microsecond,for example.
So to me, 100,000 is really 0.1e6, not 1.0e5 (my mental mantissas range from 0.1 to 99).
In the dim distant past I wrote a couple of printf helpers to display numbers "my way".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Guido needs a good talking to when it comes to representing i as j.
What I mean: a complex number a + bi is written in Python as a + bj
cheers
Chris Maunder
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This would be a lot more convincing if it was accompanied by a video of said duck.
This could be anything.
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Are dice games banned in Germany in case you become a Yahtzee sympathiser?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Now you're really göring someone's ox.
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Coming up with that one Griff... must've taken some concentration.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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You shouldn't try to be camp.
(and I think I'll leave it at that, before this thread turns really sick )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well - I can see how rolling boxcars would be problematic.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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An frank answer is not recommended.
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A friend of mine just complained his coworker, a full-stack developer, writes crappy front-end and crappy back-end code.
He called him a non-stack developer.
Made me chuckle
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Sander Rossel wrote: He called him a non-stack developer.
I think "null-stack" would be more fitting, and it rhymes.
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It rhymes? In West Pond, full would rhyme with bull (IPA ʊ), but null would rhyme with dull (IPA ʌ).
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Which gives us an interesting progression:
Full stack ==> bull
Null stack ==> dull
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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About rhyming and pronunciation. Read <a href="https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/netsam/englishIsToughStuff.html">^this</a> at MIT.
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My brain cannot comprehend any of those words not rhyming with each other, but I will take your word for it.
And I would also like to change my original statement to:
and it rhymes has all the same letters except for the first one!
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Probably because of how they're pronounced.
Null vs. something that comes close to "fool".
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As a Brit you should be well able comprehend the pronunciation of all of them.
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In Original Pond, null does not rhyme with
full either.
I think it's called "English" and it's a PITA to learn (but way better than some!)
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It does where I come from (England).
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A stack-overflow developer, of course.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Or a full-slack developer?
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I'm waiting for the jokes in December about Santa being a "full sack" developer.
"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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