Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jan 01, 2017 at 09:39 UTC
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How did you see in the new year?
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A party
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An organised event
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A traditional gathering
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With family and friends
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Home alone
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I don't celebrate New Year
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Adjusting my clocks for the Leap Second
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I can't remember
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Other
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by davido (Cardinal) on Mar 19, 2017 at 04:36 UTC
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Do you know how raccoons can be so slick at surviving?
1-and it is cracked: because it works and so far, my job doesn't require that much mocking up.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jul 15, 2017 at 13:28 UTC
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[] Albert Einstein for having stink foot
[] Albert Einstein for publishing a wedding contract from hell paper t
+o his first wife.
[] Claude Shannnon for riding a unicycle at night at MIT
[] Edward Teller for being the template for Dr. Strangelove
[] Isaac Newton for the apple
[] Robert Oppenheimer for his in-depth knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
[] Kikunae Ikeda for discovering the secrets of the soy sauce
[] Wilhelm Röntgen for the foundations of body scanners
[] Rusi P. Taleyarkhan for cold fusion
[] Alfred Nobel for his contribution to the progress on the battlefiel
+ds
[] Donald Knuth for being such a great organist
[] Larry Wall for his website
[] Louis Camille Maillard for discovering why steaks taste good
[] Joachim Sauer for drinking coffee with Melania Trump
[] Richard Feynman for his bongo skills
[] Erwin Schrödinger for sleeping with his colleagues' wives
[] Erwin Schrödinger for cruelty to cats
[] Edwin Hubble for pretending to be a pipe-smoking English gentleman
[] Paul Dirac for speaking one word per hour when socializing
[] Yulii Borisovich Khariton for the Tsar Bomba
[] Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sacharow for his third idea
[] Klaus Fuchs for his correspondence with Josef Stalin
[] Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
[] Hugh Everett for immortality, especially for cats
[] Hedy Lamarr for weaponizing pianos
[] Ada Lovelace for the palindrome
[] Nikola Tesla for the cool cars
[] Sigmund Freud for his Ménage à trois
[] Sigmund Freud for donating his libido to the German Empire
[] Burkhard Heim for providing the missing link between science and my
+stics
[] Theodor. W. Adorno for his contribution to the reception of jazz
[] Other (please explain why)
Update: Added Richard Feynman because of some special request
Update2: Added some more promising candidates because of some special request
Update3: Added some more promising candidates because of some special requests
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- Erwin Schrödinger for sleeping with his colleagues wives
- Edwin Hubble for pretending to be a pipe-smoking English gentleman
- Paul Dirac for speaking one word per hour when socialising
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- Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
- Hugh Everett for immortality, especially for cats
- Hedy Lamarr for weaponizing pianos (edited: Hedy not Heddy)
- Ada Lovelace for the palindrome
- Nikola Tesla for the cool cars
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Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
Marie would sometimes
sleep with a little jar of radium, gently glowing in the dark next to her bed -
a reward for the hard labour of extracting it from pitchblende during the day.
Radium was once added to toothpaste and other products for its supposed curative powers.
Four years after her husband Pierre died (after slipping while crossing the road, one of the wheels
of a heavy horse-drawn cart ran over his head), a huge scandal erupted in France when Marie became
involved in a torrid love affair with a former student Paul Langevin, who was married with
four children. To defend Marie's honour, Langevin challenged a newspaper editor to a duel,
though no shots were fired. In an attempt to calm the situation, Einstein argued that
"despite her passionate nature, she is not attractive enough to represent a threat to anyone".
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Cool. And i didn't know that Hedy Lamar was also an inventor.
BTW, doesn't her name sounds like a character from some novel by Raymond Chandler?
Hedy Lamar: "You're not very tall are you?" Philip Marlowe: "Well, I, uh, I try to be".
I'll add them all to the wish list. Best regards, Karl
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Holy cats
Erwin Schrödinger for cruelty to cats
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A couple more:
- Albert Einstein for publishing a wedding contract from hell paper to his first wife.
- Albert Einstein for being a courageous pacifist (one of only three scientists to sign "An appeal to Europeans" pacifist counter-manifesto in response to the earlier "Appeal to the Civilized World" militarist manifesto (signed by 93) in 1914).
- J Robert Oppenheimer for leading the top secret Manhattan project despite it being widely known that he'd been a member of just about every Communist Front organization on the West Coast.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Mar 27, 2017 at 17:38 UTC
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My favorite model of computation is...
EDIT: added links, as requested by Arunbear.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (open source license)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 26, 2017 at 21:13 UTC
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Incoming missive from RMS informing you that the GNU licences listed are Free Software licences and not Open Source ones in 3, 2, 1, ...
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 [The most hated language]
by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 02, 2017 at 09:20 UTC
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SQL
Hate SQL?! Surely you jest. SQL is one of the few small and beautiful languages. Misunderstood by many because it is set based instead of linear, though. Which is perhaps why most programmers should not just assume they can write good SQL, because they are thinking abut it the wrong way.
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If it can be classed as a language, Awk!
I've never been able to get my head around it, which is why Perl came in so handy :-)
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- Bad language
- English
- Perl 6
- Powershell
- Unixish Shell Scripting languages
edited to add:
Cheers, Sören
Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
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common lisp,
scheme,
clojure,
elisp
Nobody hates those :)
Cheers, Sören
Créateur des bugs mobiles - let loose once, run everywhere.
(hooked on the Perl Programming language)
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (mud next move)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 02, 2017 at 23:13 UTC
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+light torch
That's how we did it at Elendor in the old days...
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If I recall
Infocom's
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
correctly, the required action is
Update: seems I have confused it with another of these text adventures, as the command in the hitchhiker is turn on light. I played (too) many these times...
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Personally, i was satisfied with light torch, but, it's a choice as good as any. Added.
Update: Changed to "open eyes" based on pm.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (world peace)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 05, 2017 at 21:43 UTC
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World peace can best be achieved by:
Please provide a link if suggesting an option.
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Providing a magic fish to a Miss Universe.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (Covfefe)
by davies (Prior) on Jun 03, 2017 at 19:37 UTC
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Eventually, "covfefe" will come to mean:
- An "Acme" module.
- A Twitter interface.
- Error data.
- An error message.
- An unspecified action like "frobnicate".
- A substitute curse.
- Ivanka's latest fragrance.
- The answer to what is for key pls.
- Dr. Strangelove's missing launch code.
- It's the internet. It'll be forgotten.
- No-one will use it for fear of sounding like him.
- Update: A US law
Regards,
John Davies
Update: added link to Matt cartoon.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (washing machine interface)
by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 12, 2017 at 20:42 UTC
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This washing machine has such an intuitive interface. You don't even have to read the manual to tell that the setting for washing synthetics is…
- Cotton
- Cotton Eco
- Mix
- Easy Care
- Duvet
- Skin Care
- Baby Care
- Rinse + Spin
- Quick 30
- Intensive 60
- Wool
- Delicate
- Sports Wear
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (know perl)
by chacham (Prior) on May 30, 2017 at 12:01 UTC
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Added both, though changed the number to "x" because each has their own magic number.
The events link is giving me an error (can't establish connection) and for cpan i used cpan instead of metacpan. I just happened to remember the shortcut for it offhand. Unless you think it makes a real difference.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by ExReg (Priest) on Aug 17, 2017 at 19:58 UTC
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During the solar eclipse, I:
- went to join the gridlock to see it.
- held an eclipse party.
- watched a live feed.
- I cn"t see tge kwubosd to amswr thus,
- I tried to see it, but 8000 miles of rock got in the way.
- What eclipse?
- wanted to see it, but they wouldn't reschedule it.
- read the book instead.
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- Went blind
- Joined a cult
- Reverified Einstein's theorem
- Scared people into thinking i controlled the sun
- Worshipped the Moon Goddess in all her glory
- Appreciated the sun a bit more
- None of the above
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (Veni, vidi, vici)
by chacham (Prior) on Jun 25, 2017 at 20:32 UTC
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I came, I saw, I...
- Ate
- Bought a souvenir
- Conquered (it with Perl)
- Drank
- Emailed all my friends about it
- Failed
- Got blowed up
- Hit him right dead in the jaw
- Jumped
- Kicked some
- Loved
- Made it awkward
- Napped
- Overcame
- Pondered
- Ran away
- Shopped
- Took a selfie
- Vomited
- Want to go home
Posted as I came, I saw, I ...
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Heh. C is already taken, and by one of the best options. Can you reformulate that to any other letter? :P
Of course, i could just give up on the whole alphabetical thing...
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Poll Suggestion (Preferred Web Framework)
by perldigious (Priest) on Aug 01, 2017 at 13:07 UTC
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Assuming it hasn't been asked before (or maybe even if it has and it's just been awhile), how about:
Preferred Web Framework:
I've never used any of them (never had to do web stuff, way out of my league), but I've flirted with the idea of doing a simple web based interface for scripts I've written in the past and I've always been curious about relative use rates by Monks here.
UPDATE: added "other" option.
UPDATE 2: changed to proper list, made links, and added Your Mother's (thank you) suggestions.
Just another Perl hooker - My customers appreciate that I keep my code clean but my comments dirty.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (I'm a fool)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 31, 2017 at 13:26 UTC
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In honor of April 1st.
I'm a fool:
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- More often than i'd like to be
- A lot
- All the time
- Just once. (Shame on you!)
- Sometimes twice. (Shame on me!)
- Just when answering stupid polls
- Who you callin' a fool?
- I refuse to vote in this ridiculous poll
Posted as: I'm a fool:
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by shmem (Chancellor) on Aug 21, 2017 at 18:48 UTC
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- Documenting
- Refactoring
- Testing
- Creating test cases
- Reproducing bugs
- Optimizing
- Naming
- All of the above
- None of the above
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (perlmonks signatures)
by chacham (Prior) on May 26, 2017 at 14:03 UTC
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- named and positional arguments
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (square circle)
by chacham (Prior) on May 28, 2017 at 20:34 UTC
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 15, 2017 at 21:23 UTC
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Ooh, a list to make it easier to read. Nice!
Personally, i would have put the latest year on the bottom, but it really doesn't matter much.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (book prop up)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 26, 2017 at 20:25 UTC
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (food packaging)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 26, 2017 at 20:34 UTC
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Vacuum sealed. Not only does it keep longer, but if you want to defrost something relatively small, you can put it in a bath of warm (not hot - you'll cook it) water and speed the process up dramatically.
Regards,
John Davies
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (Fridge)
by Eily (Monsignor) on Jul 26, 2017 at 16:33 UTC
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My fridge is full of:
- Beer
- Pizza
- Fruit & Vegetables
- Organs
- Thyme
- Space
- Itself
- Lies
- Me, that's why I'm so cool
- Archeologists
- Penguins
- Servers
- Mystery
- Logic (separated into Horror and Brilliance)
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (adopt)
by chacham (Prior) on May 06, 2017 at 19:32 UTC
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (travel time convince)
by chacham (Prior) on May 03, 2017 at 20:24 UTC
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You travel back in time to meet yourself. How do you know that future you is actually you?
- I have a secret word for just this occasion.
- I make up something on the spot because future me will know it immediately.
- I'll figure it out when it happens.
- Noone else would pretend to be me.
- I don't trust anybody, ever.
- I ask him for the winning lottery numbers.
- I ignore him and instead attempt to create a time paradox.
- Other
Please help with the question. I think it needs a little help.
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I'd probably come up with a great plan to prove that I'm myself, do something stupid while trying to implement it, and instantly recognize my style.
If this happens to Randall Munroe, his identity would probably be confirmed before he was done explaining how he would prove his identity.
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (calcuate month)
by chacham (Prior) on May 26, 2017 at 14:30 UTC
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The best way to calculate the end of the current month in a piece of code is:
- Hardcode the numbers
- Use a module or function
- Add a month, and subtract the current day
- Add a month, truncate the day, and subtract 1
- Add 1 to the day, test it's legality, and loop until it fails
- Use a default of 30.4 days (30.4167, 30.4375, or 30.43729167)
- Use 28 days for every month and ignore any days that come that
- Issue an update (nearly) every month to fix it for the current month
Somewhat related to: How do you remember the number of days in each month?
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (nomenclature)
by chacham (Prior) on Jul 21, 2017 at 13:47 UTC
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Things should be named:
- By what they do
- By what they are
- By what they are made out of
- By what they replace
- By committee
- By vote
- By the highest bidder
- After the inventor/discoverer
- In a way that comes up with a cool acronym
- From a list
- No names. Just a letter and number.
- Other
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (chicken meat)
by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 06, 2018 at 11:18 UTC
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (Internet Backup)
by chacham (Prior) on Mar 26, 2017 at 20:43 UTC
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(In honor of April 1st.)
During the Internet Backup, i
- Eat
- Code
- Sleep
- Go outside
- Spend time with others
- Stare blankly at the screen
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (everything internet)
by chacham (Prior) on Jul 24, 2017 at 20:29 UTC
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- Not necessarily on the web
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (rather have)
by chacham (Prior) on Aug 15, 2017 at 06:02 UTC
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I would rather have:
- One good one
- Two medicore ones
- Three bad ones
- Other
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a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it
That makes me wonder. Which came first, the eraser, the umbrella, or the gun?
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017 (fidget)
by chacham (Prior) on May 23, 2017 at 20:43 UTC
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Re: poll ideas quest 2017
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Jun 26, 2017 at 09:17 UTC
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Please delete! Personal reasons/useless effort. Thanks.
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