Protip: if you want to make it challenging for someone to guess the PHP language, don't put an opening tag that says "php" as the very first line of your snippet!
masonwheeler
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RE: Guess the programming language
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RE: Dumb things being crowdfunded.
@RaceProUK said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Not sure if this counts as a dumb thing or not tbh:
!https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ninjacket-japan/The whole point of ninja clothing is to hide you.
Not exactly. Those things would be pretty conspicuous even if they were all-black.
Actual historical ninjas "became invisible" by pretending to be servants or peasants, who were socially invisible enough to give them an opportunity to get close to a target. The head-to-toe black costume actually comes from a very different source: it's the traditional dress of a stagehand in Kabuki theater.
A Kabuki stagehand can walk into the middle of a scene and rearrange things as needed, and because they're dressed like that, the audience knows to ignore them; they're not worth paying attention to. Then some playwright got the brilliant idea of depicting a ninja this way: have him dress up as a stagehand, who then becomes "invisible" to the audience right up until he jumps out and assassinates someone! It was successful enough to be imitated, until it became a cultural stereotype to depict ninjas dressed like stagehands.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dkf Maybe this will be more to your liking?
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RE: OWL Web Language
@brisingraerowing said in OWL Web Language:
OWL Web Language features a JavaScript-like syntax and compiles to PHP, promising more security and safety
How many s can we find in that simple onebox snippet alone?
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RE: Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript Functions in Excel
@el_heffe I see no way this could possibly end up doing anything horrible or being a malware vector...
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RE: Large, terrifying and impressive...
@accalia said in Large, terrifying and impressive...:
A friend of mine in Argentina once encountered a massive spider--he described it as being like a tarantula the size of his hand--in his bathroom. So he did what any self-respecting South American would do: he went and got a lighter and a Raid can and let the spider have it.
After enduring the gout of flame for a long moment, the tarantula ran off under his bathtub.
It emerged a minute or so later, and he sprayed it with flame again... and again it ran off. By this time, he was thinking, "this is some sort of Terminator spider!" So when it came out the third time, he tried a different tactic: he sprayed it with Raid first and then flamethrowered it.
Being covered in flammable bug spray finally did the trick. He said the tarantula "basically exploded" at this point.
Moral of the story: Killing it with fire is all well and good, but you have to know how to go about it!
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
Q; What do Titanic and The Sixth Sense have in common?
A: Icy dead people.
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RE: Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF
@topspin said in Internet access in rural America and StraightTalk Wireless WTF:
This sounds a bit dangerous. Horses can potentially be shy / easy to scare, and depending on how small your dog is, a horse that's scared for no reason at all kicking him could badly injure the dog.
My brother-in-law grew up out in the country. They don't actually have a farm, but they live next door to one, and the neighbors have horses.
He says that they used to have this little yappy dog, the kind that would be a car chaser if he lived in the suburbs. Instead, he decided to be a horse chaser. Well, one day he actually caught one, or at least came close enough to get kicked in the face for it. They found him half-dead and badly bloodied the next morning and realized what had happened.
Dad had to get to work, so he didn't have time to deal with it; he asked Mom to take him to the vet. Mom was a bit surprised by the request. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I think he needs to now."
"Well... OK, if you say so..."
He heads off to work. Comes home that evening to find the dog, all bandaged up and wearing a cast or two, and an annoyed wife complaining about how he must love that dog a whole lot, because getting him fixed up cost $600.
"What? I told you to take him to the vet!"
"I did! Where do you think all this expensive treatment came from?"
" I meant to take him to the vet to have him put down!"
Well, this is the thing that BIL's parents didn't quite understand. He grew up in the city, where that was a perfectly reasonable idea. His wife, on the other hand, was a country girl, and...
"What? Why would you go to the vet for that? You need to put a dog down, you take him out behind the barn and hit him in the head with a shovel!"
Well, the dog eventually recovered and lived for a few more years... before dying from being kicked by a horse. At least he went out doing what he loved.
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RE: "ASCII"
Wow, this whole thread just makes me think, "ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI."
Latest posts made by masonwheeler
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RE: The latest npm security kerfuffle
@Zerosquare said in The latest npm security kerfuffle:
Sure, but both microcode designers and assembly programmers are generally people who know what they're doing, aren't likely to use things they don't understand, or make changes without thinking about the consequences.
Yes, they are people the spectre of whose decisions will never come back to haunt those who rely on them...
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RE: The latest npm security kerfuffle
@kazitor said in The latest npm security kerfuffle:
All the crap nodejs pulls and has resulted in honestly makes me hesitant to label myself a JavaScript developer, or use that word in any sort of proximity to descriptions of myself.
That's why you don't want to be a JS developer? Heh. There were plenty of good reasons not to, long before Node or NPM was ever a thing. All this is is validation.
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RE: In other news today...
@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
I was going to say the opposite. Why is chickenpox a big deal? Sure it sucked when I was a kid. I'd be significantly more concerned that parents also opt out of things like the MMR vaccine and pretty much every other one.
The older you are when you come down with it, the worse it is for you.
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RE: Signs your code is unmaintainable
@Lorne-Kates said in Signs your code is unmaintainable:
Okay, everyone. Look back at the code you wrote 2 years ago. Can you maintain it?
Yes, I can and I am.
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RE: The official 2018 death pool
I mentioned this to my mom, and she said "he'll come back in a sequel."
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RE: GDPR! It'll keep you safe! You should implement it!
@JBert said in GDPR! It'll keep you safe! You should implement it!:
"In before people theorizing about the peak level of entropy or stupidity: I don't want to know what the absolute upper limit is
[insert obvious politician joke here]
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
@Gąska said in Programming Confessions Thread:
Last problem I've googled for was for college work. How to use a function returning a cursor in PL/SQL.
Last problem I've googled for at work was to find out whether Scala has this very cool feature I've seen in other languages that would really help me at the moment. Of course, I found out it doesn't. Every fucking time.
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RE: Hmmmmm - part 52819 Nodejs installation reboots pc 51023 times
@M_Adams said in Hmmmmm - part 52819 Nodejs installation reboots pc 51023 times:
@dkf said in Hmmmmm - part 52819 Nodejs installation reboots pc 51023 times:
@Magus That sounds like the title of a Chinese martial arts film…
There’s one that’s close:
Was this before or after Cowboys and Aliens?