Despite the funny things about it, I like these 'senseless' projects of programming. They sometimes show up possibilities nobody ever expected.
A good example is 'The Towers of Babylon' programmed on the editor VI.
About ten years ago I 'programmed' a Texas Instuments 53 pocket calculator. With just 32 commands and almost no memory (one number could be stored) I was able to program the square root function. OK, it was about 20 times slower and also not as accurate as the square root key of the calculator, but, hey!, it worked!;o)
Actually I'm messing around with CGI and WAP. Right now I'm focussing on a script that sends a 'whois' query to a bot placed in the IRCnet and displays it on the mobile phone. No one I talked to thought this script has any sense. Well, I'm not sure, but it's fun to program!
fan fiction? star trek? reminds me of the following scene in one episode (fan fiction, of course) Worf: "Captain, the Borgs activate their weapons!" Picard: "Fire at will!" (Worf takes his phaser and blasts Commander Riker into oblivion) Worf: "What was that for, Captain?"
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OK,
unix.com is cool. Registering is much cooler. And then, what?
You don't get much traffic with just a cool domain name. You have to use marketing!
And with marketing you can push any domain name. If the domain name isn't cool, marketing will make it cool.
And I thought MS will be divided into 'sales', 'marketing' and 'legal' ...
Despite the funny things about it, I like these 'senseless' projects of programming. They sometimes show up possibilities nobody ever expected.
A good example is 'The Towers of Babylon' programmed on the editor VI.
About ten years ago I 'programmed' a Texas Instuments 53 pocket calculator. With just 32 commands and almost no memory (one number could be stored) I was able to program the square root function. OK, it was about 20 times slower and also not as accurate as the square root key of the calculator, but, hey!, it worked! ;o)
Actually I'm messing around with CGI and WAP. Right now I'm focussing on a script that sends a 'whois' query to a bot placed in the IRCnet and displays it on the mobile phone. No one I talked to thought this script has any sense. Well, I'm not sure, but it's fun to program!
fan fiction? star trek? reminds me of the following scene in one episode (fan fiction, of course) Worf: "Captain, the Borgs activate their weapons!" Picard: "Fire at will!" (Worf takes his phaser and blasts Commander Riker into oblivion) Worf: "What was that for, Captain?"