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rose = Red;
violet = Blue;
CodeWraithsUseOfDescriptiveAndPoeticNames = 0;
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F8 00 BD BE AC AD AE AF
F8 FF BC BF 7A
There you go. RGBA in two register pairs and the rest in a the microcontrollerish I/O flag Q. Big deal. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ya' know what? I think you would benefit from buying some of that computer memory that comes with colors and fins and looks almost ready to fly. Maybe some colored lights, too.
"For in the land of the blind, he with one good eye is king"
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Not quite coding, but...
12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^1/2)) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
to be read: "a dozen, a gross and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared plus not a bit more"
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I'm trying to figure out why that function even exists other than for obfuscation purposes.
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Wow, thanks for that! Perfect timing as I just now happen to need something to swap out only the first 7 characters of an id field in a bunch of tables in multiple dbs. (prepping a demo) This works perfectly!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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What happens if you call it twice?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Could be worse. Back in 2003 I worked on a codebase (which had copyright notices going all the way back to 1991) that had "DoProcessing1()", "DoProcessing2()", etc scattered all over.
Come to think of it, it also had variables named "ByteArray1", "ByteArray2", etc scattered all over too.
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I don't understand your comment. I use the STUFF function regularly and it seems perfectly named.
From macmillandiction.com:
Stuff (verb transitive): to fill a container or space with something
So we have the following evolution:
Stuff [space] with [something]
Stuff [<this> from <here> for <length>] with [something]
Stuff 'SQL Tutorial' from (character 1) for (3 characters) with 'HTML'
STUFF('SQL Tutorial', 1, 3, 'HTML')
It seems to me whoever named it came up with a very precise and succinct name.
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We have a method named MixMaster. We were at the whiteboard and didn't know what to call something; drew a box and labeled it Mix Master just to avoid being stuck. The method name has survived about 7-8 years...
Brian Hughes
modified 24-Jul-20 21:11pm.
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Hello From My Basement featuring Barbra Lica
I just love her voice.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Microsoft teases its future Office UI.
I'll admit I haven't read the accompanying article...but the video near the top is one of the most uninspired, useless "says-absolutely-nothing" things I've seen in my life.
Someone produced that. Someone approved it. What it's trying to articulate, I have no idea. The other images in the article just leaves me thinking, so white. So plain.
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The next UI will float around everywhere and you'll basically be doing your daily workout while navigating Office.
Maybe you'll find the "Open document" button in the living room or maybe it's in the kitchen.
Also, various machines will randomly spawn near each other.
You'll also need at least three hands for it to work.
What's not to get? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: What's not to get?
It.
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I'm sure we'll tease it as well :P
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Browse the automotive media. It's filled with useless stuff like this.
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So the ivory towers are all marble and glass these days?
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A friend of mine is thinking about a career change and she was thinking about programming.
She's freaking smart, got multiple degrees, among which psychology.
She's currently a primary school teacher, she loves the kids, but she dislikes lots of other things.
So I'd like to show her some programming stuff, mostly that it's not that hard to learn (but impossible to master) and it's easy to get into.
I'd like to start with some WinForms because it's very easy to grasp (it's how I got started) and then move on to some web programming.
Just some C# and then JavaScript and HTML and CSS, probably a bit of SQL as well.
The goal is to give her an idea about programming, what it is and how it works.
I could even show her some production code.
I'm not going to show her stuff like C or Python, simply because I don't know it myself.
So, within the constraints of .NET and a fun afternoon, is there anything I absolutely should or should not show her?
Looking for a sort of curriculum or idea, like a to-do list.
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That's very nice of you to do that for her. When you say she is considering programming, is that because she knows something about it and therefore has an informed opinion?
Or is she just guessing that she might be good at it, not knowing anything about it?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Might be a bit of both, but I think mostly the latter.
Her brother did some Python for school and he showed her some.
She's looking for something where the effort she puts into it, will show in the results.
I already told her that's not always the case with programming, especially when working in a group, but she still liked the idea.
At least it's better than "when a mom decides to put her kid to bed an hour later than usual, my next day will pretty much be living hell." 
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Ask her if she has used Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share[^] Since she is a primary school teacher. My wife teaches elementary school gifted and has done some programming work with her kids using spheros[^]. They are good from some of the very basics like conditionals, looping and the concept of functions or methods.
If she has then she might be further down the road than she knows.
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Good one, will ask.
She hasn't told me about it though, so I don't think so.
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Let her lead the conversion, then whip out a sample to illustrate:
Code samples - Windows app development
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Sander Rossel wrote: currently a primary school teacher
Maybe good as a tester / QA then.
Find out what happens when a hamster or a crayon is entered rather than the expected input.
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