@mooney said:
Hate is not an adjective.
Guess you weren't at HateFEST '05 where (I heard) they had a barrel of monkeys with a cute, little litter of kittens.
@mooney said:
Hate is not an adjective.
Guess you weren't at HateFEST '05 where (I heard) they had a barrel of monkeys with a cute, little litter of kittens.
@SeekerDarksteel said:
@Albatross said:This entire system will break down when we finally introduce the 13th month
Will it be called Smarch?
Nebruary or Nonvember. Take your pick.
Caché, where have you been?
<FONT color=#ff0000>"Gateway to Hell"</FONT>, indeed.
<FONT face="Courier New" color=#800080><FONT color=#ff0000>C:</FONT> 67
<FONT color=#ff0000>a:</FONT> 97
<FONT color=#ff0000>c:</FONT> 99
<FONT color=#ff0000>h:</FONT> 104
<FONT color=#ff0000>e:</FONT> 101
<FONT color=#ff0000>d:</FONT> 100
<FONT color=#ff0000>b:</FONT> 98</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New"><FONT color=#800080>TOTAL: </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>666</FONT></FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=2>perl -e "$total=0; foreach $c (split(//,qq(Cachedb))) { print qq($c: ).ord($c).qq(\n); $total += ord($c); } print qq(TOTAL: $total\n);"</FONT>
<FONT face=Georgia color=#ff0000>I like how they're all talking in Spanish but paste a code snippet as an example with english comments. I'd figure they'd rip the code, then at least re-comment the code in their native language. They are trying to help out a novice, no? *Geesh.* Thus, I digress. :)</FONT>
<FONT face=Courier>'***Programming example for the SIN function***
CLS
CONST PI = 3.141593
SCREEN 1: COLOR 1, 1 'Medium resolution, blue background.
WINDOW (-3, -2)-(3, 2) 'Convert screen to Cartesian coordinates.
INPUT "Number of petals = ", N
CLS
PSET (1, 0) 'Set initial point.
FOR Angle = 0 TO 2 * PI STEP .02
R = 1 + SIN(N * Angle) 'Polar equation for "flower."
X = R * COS(Angle) 'Convert polar coordinates to
Y = R * SIN(Angle) 'Cartesian coordinates.
LINE -(X, Y) 'Draw line from previous point to new point.
NEXT
END</FONT>
@Thanny said:
@TomCo said:IS THIS TRUE!? Does dyslexia actually affect their typing as well or as much as their reading ability? I don't think so. [^o)]
Well, my mother has a bit of dyslexia, and it doesn't terribly affect her ability to read, but it does make it very difficult for her to spell words correctly.
It's difficult to be sure, but I believe I inherited a smattering of it, which manifests itself mostly in the reversal of some letters while typing. Not randomly, but usually when each version makes sense. For example, DSN versus DNS.
I type fairly fast, so it's hard to be sure, but it seems to me that when I make such typos, it was the correct spelling (it's not always acronyms, of course) that I was thinking of. Only by re-reading what I had written would I notice the error (or when the compiler tells me).
When reading, something similar occasionally tricks me into misreading a word. As you've no doubt seen from the examples of legible text with all vowels removed, or all interior letters shuffled, we don't read words literally like someone just learning how to read would. We recognize the word by context, length, consonants, diphthongs, and/or other clues.
If you transpose 'ie' in a word into 'ei' while reading, it may be interpreted as a different word entirely, especially when both words fit (so far) into the current context. This almost always leads to a point where the context makes the incorrectly read word nonsensical, resulting in a re-read of the word in question (which can sometimes be surprisingly different from what it was initially read as).
In this case, I suspect the programmer was merely a poor typist, and used small variable names to avoid hunting and pecking more than required. A truly dyslexic programmer would benefit more from longer, unambiguous variable names, where the compiler can an effective spell checker.
Personally, I can't stand that programming style, even when it's well commented. I use long, descriptive variable and function names, and a syntax that's easy to read. That's probably because I hate commenting code, so I make the code self-commenting whenever possible.
Thanks. I appreciate your explanation. I apologize to anyone who thought of my original comments as some sort of trolling flame. I just get carried away when I have a few too many Pepsi's! ;)
@RayS said:
I guess it's possible that a dyslexic progammer might have more luck with shortened names. More cryptic sure, but fewer letters to get mixed up as well.
deliveryAddress > devileryArddess, delivreyAdress, etc
has so many potential mistakes that it's not funny.
IS THIS TRUE!? Does dyslexia actually affect their typing as well or as much as their reading ability? I don't think so. [^o)]
That's some wierd thinking along these lines: "Let's type that word with different keys although I think it's the same wdro I typed a minute ago". [:P]
@danielpitts said:
The following is completely true.
public class JMenuBar extends JComponent implements Accessible,MenuElement
{
// snip
/**
* Sets the help menu that appears when the user selects the
* "help" option in the menu bar. This method is not yet implemented
* and will throw an exception.
*
* @param menu the JMenu that delivers help to the user
*/
public void setHelpMenu(JMenu menu) {
throw new Error("setHelpMenu() not yet implemented.");
}
// snip
}
This is actual code from suns JDK1.5.
I googled to see if this was being worked on, found this bug listing: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4087846 dated "<FONT face="">22-OCT-1997"</FONT>
Yo, Sun Microsystems. This has been an unimplemented (almost necessary) feature for almost 9 years now!
<FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff0000 size=2>I've had my run in with Java & Co. Namely that lovely container, TomCat (blah). We weren't given enough cpu & memory on our desktop machines to run any kind of WebSphere development correctly so I defaulted to installing TomCat. From this point, I figured if I was going to codesmith using Notepad, I might as well replace TomCat with my own implementation. It's done - Web Server (apache replacement), Java Container (tomcat replacement), as well as some (funky?) code that allows database connections using aliases in the code so you don't have to constantly keep track of the conn info, called ConnX (saw this functionality in webshere and duplicated it). Also, using an ad-hoc database query app, if the user stops or closes their browser, the back-end automatically "senses" this and stops the run-away query on the database server. Phew! Talk about reinventing the wheel! The code has been in production for a year now. The only issue is some sort of memory leak seeing how it's running on a slow, outdated HP box using JDK 1.3.1. I'm not blaming HP or Java though - I still think it's something I've done but haven't been given the time to fix it (no matter).</FONT>
<FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff0000 size=2>This is just one area where I've challenged myself to rewrite some god-awful Java application (or serlvet/jsp container) that doesn't really do the job for which our company has paid loads of money.</FONT>
<FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff0000 size=2>I'm sure there's a few WTFs in my "codebase" as well. I just figure that I could write the same crap as these big software houses at a fraction of the price.</FONT>
<FONT face=Tahoma color=#ff0000 size=2>Ahhh. Had to get that (as well as these left over cheese puffs) off my chest.</FONT> [:|]
I'd go with <FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>"index_this_must_be_the_file_thats_used_for_production.html".</FONT>
Yep, that would be the one I choose as the <FONT color=#ff0000>*development* </FONT>copy. [^o)]
==
Should've used MOOSE.
perl -e "foreach $ch (split(/,/,qq(97,119,97,105,116,105,110,103,32,105,110,115,116,114,117,99,116,105,111,110,115))) { print chr($ch); } # TheWaitMachine "