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A combination of simple cost benefit analysis and curiosity. Clearly, the shock wouldn't be strong enough to kill you, so why not?
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i will press it, just for curiousing, but not 190 times 
In code we trust !
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Maybe you would if they told you the one pressing it most would win? 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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no no, i dont like to give myself an electric shock
In code we trust !
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Nguyen.H.H.Dang wrote: but not 190 times
He was trying to activate Hulk mode. Or kept trying his skills as a electrokinetic. (cue Dilbert comic)
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lol
In code we trust !
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Maybe the first button press send him into an muscle spasm leading to the subsequent presses. He just couldn't get the finger away from the damn button earlier. 
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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I wonder if in the experiment, the participants had the opportunity before starting the 6 to 15 minutes of "thinking" to press the button to know for themselves that the shock would be administered, or if they were simply told that it would be and they had to take that on faith. I would think the conclusions could be very different depending on the answer.
If participants were simply told, their choice to press the button may be more rooted in a desire to explore the environment and learn for themselves what happens. One could conclude that the experiment results indicate more a repudiation of blind faith in what they've been told than an unwillingness to spend 15 minutes thinking.
On the other hand, if this was accounted for -- say, if the participants could test the button for themselves before beginning the experiment, and knew first-hand the shock that would occur -- then the results are much more interesting.
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So I just started my Open University course on Functional Programming (actually not my first time using a functional language, I looked at some F# about two years ago, but only a little little  ).
The course uses Haskell and the OU provided me with the book Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton[^].
One of my first throughts when starting: "No wonder functional programming is consise... C# could be a lot more consise too if every function and variable was abbreviated to one to three letters only!"
For example, there's the function 'fst'. What is fst? Had I named my function fst in C# it probably would've been Hall of Shame material.
fst is First and takes the first value of a tuple with two values.
Some function definitions:
fst :: (a, b) -> a
head :: [a] -> a
take :: Int -> [a] -> [a]
zip :: [a] -> [b] -> [(a, b)] Riiiiiiiiight...
That's not to say I'm lookinf forward to learning more about Haskell and functional programming in general
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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My favourite functions are words and unwords.
Not only are they stupid names for functions, they're awfully specific functions that have no business being built-in.
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They aren't even discussed in my course, so I had to look them up (those names aren't very intuitive indeed).
From Hoogle: words breaks a string up into a list of words, which were delimited by white space.
Sounds like myString.Split(' ');
And unwords does the opposite... Nice name for creating one string from a list of strings
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I hate it.
And the widespread adoption of the approach in C# make me cringle. Why write a simple loop when you can litter the code with a load of Funcs in some bloody great 'fluent' expression all over the place. For me, it goes against the golden rule of KISS.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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If you're referring to LINQ I have to disagree. LINQ certainly made life easier for me
And when you're using LINQ to Objects you still just have a load of loops, except they're abstracted away in functions. And they're lazy evaluated, which can be good for performance.
In Haskell everything is lazy evaluated, making it possible to work with infinite lists (something that's not possible in C# I think).
Anyway, I'm willing to give it a chance (despite the weird naming conventions )
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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My programming's always been functional (usually after extensive debugging), so I'll give that one a miss.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wishing you a belated Happy Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day! 香港特別行政區成立紀念日[^]
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Five people are being monitored at a Hungarian hospital after the discovery of the deadly anthrax disease in samples of beef, reports say.
Mmm, illegally slaughtered cows...
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I think you meant... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Sounds like a farm in Tiszafured might get beef with the police...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: illegally slaughtered cows
Apparently it is illegal to slaughter cow infected with anthrix in Hungary.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Five years and 9 months, is all - 12 sexual assaults, child abuse, and fronting a child abuse charity and that's all he gets... not enough, not enough at all.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think were he's going "Tie me kangaroo down" will become a sport?
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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On hearing the verdict, Mr Harris exclaimed "Bugger me!"
To which the judge replied "Yes, they probably will."
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A couple of days in the general prison population would decrease that sentence to "life". 
"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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