The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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RE: "Blue light."
Rambo, inventorying his gear: ".... Blue Light Sticks...."
Afghan "..oooh, what do they do?"
Rambo: "umma[1], they make blue light."Good idea: my children picked up the phrase "it makes blue light" instead of "duh!"
[1] whatever that mumbling sort of sound Stallone makes...oddly I don't think he's trying to say "um...yea..."
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Perl 6, apparently: http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6
Array variables still begin with the @ sigil. And they always do, even when accessing stored items, ie. when an index is present
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Most Perl 5 control structures are quite similar in Perl 6. The biggest visual difference is that you don't need a pair of parentheses after if, while, for etc.
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You can restrict the type of values that a variable can hold by adding the type name to the declaration:
my Numeric $x = 3.4;
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Subroutines are declared with the sub keyword, and can have a list of formal parameters, just like in C, Java and most other languages. Parameters are read-only by default.
sub try-to-reset($bar) { $bar = 2; # forbidden }
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Hmm, Perl 6 is nice, but it's been trying to happen for longer than Python 3 has been trying to happen..
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Doesn't mean it's not a good idea >.> I was doing some research on perl for... reasons...<meaning TDWTF articles> and I came across the list of updates while I was at it.
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Doesn't mean it's not a good idea
Do they still have the world's widest collection of operators, or have they started to prune the thicket so that mortal programmers can cope?
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or have they started to prune the thicket so that mortal programmers can cope?
Yes, uh, maybe a little bit?
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are these? I'm not even mentioning the hypers and hyper dwims.=:= container identity <== feed back ==> feed forward <<== seeking feed back ==>> seeking feed back
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hyper dwims
I'm not even sure that a hyperdwim would DWIM int he first place.
@accalia That's the sort of mistake I'm inclined to make. Managed to not correct it this time. Damn thing is indicated by Chrome as being spelt right too. Grrr…
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@accalia That's the sort of mistake I'm inclined to make
I'm not even sure that a hyperdwim would DWIM int he first place.
hmm? seems perfectly correct to me. ;-)
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Array variables still begin with the @ sigil.
Silly, that's a snail, not a seagull!
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are these? I'm not even mentioning the hypers and hyper dwims.
:google:
http://perl6maven.com/tutorial/perl6-hyper-operators
>>+<<, >>+>>, <<+>>
Perl's attempt at emulating Brainfuck?
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It's the fact that any binary operator appears to be able to be hyper-dwimmed that makes peoples' brains hurt.
And they appear to not do what I mean.
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And they appear to not do what I mean.
First I'd heard of these. Interesting concept, but good lord, whoever came up with it must've been on drugs.
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First I'd heard of these. Interesting concept, but good lord, whoever came up with it must've been on drugs.
I like perl. (The nurse will be by with my medication soon.) But even I think perl 6 has jumped the shark. Actually, it may have jumped the entire world population of Rhincodon typus.
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Interesting concept, but good lord, whoever came up with it must've been on drugs.
Highly likely.
Alas, their dwimmed lifting semantics are not the ones I'd have chosen except in the degenerate case where one of the lists is a singleton, and it's not at all clear that their concepts will lift to higher-order lists either. They should have consulted a Lisp or Haskell implementation before jumping in and implementing something…
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Cupcakes.
Vanilla cupcakes.
with cookie dough baked in the center.
with nutella based frosting.
i will find whomever brought them to the office and either give them a sharp nip in the ankle or a great big fox hug..... not sure which yet.
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kind of like that, but with less teeth if i go that route.
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Vanilla cupcakes.
Yup.
with cookie dough baked in the center.
Yup.with nutella based frosting.
No.
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ok. why?
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I don't like the texture nor taste of any nuts.
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hmm. well that's unfortunate.
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nutella
Added to my grocery list. Thank you for reminding me; I scraped the last dregs from the jar last night.
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Will you get Nutella with a special someone's name on it?
Or are those only available in Germany right now?
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I'm going to take a guess that they're only available in Germany, because I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Cupcakes.
Vanilla cupcakes.
with cookie dough baked in the center.
with nutella based frosting.
/drool/
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Good idea: Serving this at your Super Bowl party. I drooled just watching the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh66IUrrNH0
Yes folks, that is sour cream dip, covered in 3 lbs of fried and chopped bacon to give it a sort of football color, sour cream piped for laces and green onions for the grass. I don't even like handegg and I might have to go to a Super Bowl party so I can bring this...
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they put potato in quotes but not football?
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they put potato in quotes but not football?
There are 3lbs of bacon in this dish, and you get all pedantic about the title? You are neither a man, nor an American. Good day sir!
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"Football" is merely a descriptive term. "Loaded baked potato" is the title of the presentation. Titles (of short works, as opposed to novels, movies and other larger works) go in quotes. QED.
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I doubt he'll be having one, since he's not a man, nor an American.
Also:
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Bookmarked until I'm not on shitty hotel wifi, but have a preemptive like for what I'm sure will be a classically demented performance from Wilder.
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they put potato in quotes but not football?
"Loaded Baked Potato"...perhaps you didn't notice the potato chips sitting back there. That's not unreasonable, given what else is sitting there.
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How to retrieve a car from a frozen lake (Russian style)
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MonopolyAusterity - the board game.
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I'll keep this in mind for @flabdablet's birthday. Looks like the sort of thing he'd be into.
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How to retrieve a car from a frozen lake
That improvised winch is fucking brilliant.
I am currently half way through removing a dead Hills Hoist from my backyard. The main pole is set in a block of concrete maybe 600mm x 450mm x 450mm, which I would like to raise above ground level in order to get good access to it with my sledgie for smashing.
I've dug around it and added water and wobbled the crap out of the pole so it's now laying over at 60° from the vertical, but actually getting the block up out of the hole is hard - it's heavy!
I'm gonna grab a star picket, a length of iron water pipe, a long pole and the old clotheline wires off the hoist, and try out that Russian winch design.
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Let us know how it goes. Be careful with the cable, if it snaps under heavy tension it could whip back at you and cause some damage.
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I figure the concrete block couldn't mass more than about 400kg, and I'm dragging it sideways not straight up; if I ply 7 lots of 7x1mm steel clothesline together into a cable and then double that around the winch pipe, I think I should be pretty safe.
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Just so long as we don't have to move all these posts over to the Bad Ideas Thread, we'll be happy.
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Good idea: Monetizing Tinder by allowing paid users to "undo" their swipe choices after they find out what the person they swiped right on is actually like.