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I think he's juiced up on something.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This topic is peachy but I have the distinct feeling that you're going nuts.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You're obviously a bad apple...
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It is rather common in organizations that use management by pear.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Man-go somewhere else with these puns. 
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You're forgetting the strawberry, fool! It was painful to watch the apple crumble though.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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A pitiful attempt that doesn't appeal to me. Yet, there stems from it a certain pithy charm not only to the other but tomato.
Ooops - I plum forget to say cheers!
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Perhaps it was a warning against "dumbing down" things for users to understand, or for users to see how we can "just make it work". The first we all know, the second deserves an example:
One of my past VIP users insisted that the reason for his site personnel's netbooks extreme slow performance was not the netbooks themselves, but the anti-virus and WPA2 encryption. That person had so much influence that we were forced to uninstall the anti-virus and remove all wireless encryption. Thanks to a good firewall and fair web filtering we escaped malware, but when the neighbours clogged the DHCP server with their mooching off free access, we had to cut down this nonsense - which, by the way, did not improve performance. The VIP's response? Ditched the project, buried the netbooks and the whole thing in a storage room, and never mentioned it again!
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Um...I don't think you meant to post this here! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I saw Einstein's famous quote about the need for simplicity on slashdot today:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
...but then realized that the quote itself as not as simple as possible, because the potentially simple sentence is complex - the ending clause is redundant, for if something is already as simple as possible, it's impossible to simplify it further.
Was he of the wild hair pulling our leg?
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But without the last bit the sentiment would have been lost.
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."
- Albert Einstein
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That was Newton.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thought it was Newton-John.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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No - he was making a point about not using an impossible explanation for something simply because it is "simpler"... like magic or supernatural occurrence.
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He's just applying Occam's Razor with a clause: don't oversimplify things by making up steps.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: ...but then realized that the quote itself as not as simple as possible, because the potentially simple sentence is complex
An example, please; "simple" does not mean the fewest possible characters as possible, that would be obfuscation in C++ style. That's why "not simpeler" is included.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Please... Obfuscation newbie-style is far more advanced.
In high school a (female, good-loking) classmate asked me for help for the laboratory classwork. Leaving apart the fact that there were over 40 variables and the task was trivial - they were named... A, B, C, D, E ... AA, AB, AC... Of course without comments or anything.
More obfuscated than THAT? Her brain.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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When I was as Comp.Sci student, one of the professors was really pushing 'descriptive variable names' to the extreme. I happened to look over the shoulder of the brightest guy in our class while he was working on a programming homework: His integer variables were named I00, I01, I02, ..., reals were R00, R01, ... and so on. I was shocked: "Do you really think Prof. C will accept that?"
"Oh, no", he replied, "Before I hand it in to Prof C., I will do a textual substitute, replacing all I01s with 'NumberOfOilCans', all R04s with 'WeightOfEachCanWhenEpty' and so on. But I couldn't possibly work with that kind of names - think of all that extra typing, how long that would take!"
His mental capacity was so that he didn't need any 'descriptive names' - he could easily map from R04 to the concept of WeightOfEachCanWhenEmpty without any visual reminder. Descriptive names are for people with less mental capacity 
The only negative thing about his style is that after making his substitutions, the code lines would be 100, maybe 120, maybe 130 characters long. (When substituting, he used really long descriptive names). End-of-line comments would of course end up mis-aligned - but this was in the Fortran days when EOL-comments were non-standard.
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Both are good for code that won't be used ever after. You just gave me a terrible idea: if I'll ever teach, I will make the students work on their code of 2-3 months before. THAT will teach them the importance of code readability 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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When I was teaching computer network software to last-year college students, I made myself the hate object of the year when I organized the group programming assignment in four stages throughout the full semester course: After each stage, each group handed their work over to another group, and were given another group's work as a base for the next stage.
Students hated revealing their own deficiencies to fellow students, and they hated having to struggle with that terrible code written by their completely incomptetent fellow students... Telling them that in a few months, this would be the normal working situation for them didn't really make it.
I have no regrets, even though the students hated me for it. An essential element in learning to code is learning to handle code from other programmers, and to make your own code so good that there is no reason to feel ashamed, no matter who reads it - both in plain readability and in other quality aspects.
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You have ALL my respect!  Also, a teacher can be hated for two reason: either he's incompetent or he's evil. Evil teachers are the only ones that really teach anything.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Yesterday's regex[^]
Geek & Poke has been my favorite "insider" comic strip for a the last year.
The jokes are suprisingly durable - this one is almost three years old, and nothing has changed.
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Ah, Fortran... Where we remember this phrase:
God is Real, unless declared otherwise!!!
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One of my first COBOL instructors would give us an assignment, due in 2 weeks. a couple of us would complete it in the next couple days...
about halfway thru the time-frame... he'd change what he wanted us to do.
We thought he was too dumb to make up his problems ahead of time
little did we realize - he was teaching us what life as a programmer was really about...
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