contradictory spelling rules inherited from French, Latin, Greek, et.c..
French is derived from Latin (and is French) and has a moderately sensible spelling system, so it's not that.
The reason for English having so many spelling irregularities is down to William Caxton, who introduced the printing press at precisely the wrong time - the language was a) different across regions and b) in a state of flux. Plus, many of his staff were Belgians, which doesn't help.
I occasionally have to type in French, but I can't stand using AZERTY.
Setting an English keyboard to Welsh/UK extended allows you to enter them with combinations of Alt-Gr and dead keys. Before I accidentally discovered this, I had to faff around with charmap.
So the banana's just a switch? It's not producing any randomness to feed into the key generation?
Also, I don't see how they can't use the wifi from outside the building once they have the password. Unless they expire, which you can do without any fruit at all.
In languages without a goto I've implemented shit like:
while (true)
if thisError
errcode = CnstPtrHwndPtrCnst.shit
break
endif
if thatError
errcode = CnstPtrHwndPtrCnst.crap
break
endif ...
doAllIsWell endwhile
One time someone made a fuss. After half a day of trying to rewrite it more cleanly (with more flags than the UN and cascading control levels that ran off the screen) he gave up.
Because in the movies, when the unarmed good guy manages to sneak up on the armed bad guy and bash him over the head he never, ever, picks the gun up. Even if he knows there are another five armed bad guys after him.
Teacher: Where do you keep things? Kid: In my pockets. T: OK, but where do we keep things in the classroom? K: Boxes. T: Exactly. Do we keep the shoes in with the cookies? K: Yukk! No! T: So you have a box for this, and a box for that, and you put the right thing in the right box? K: Yes. T: Well computers need to keep things too. Variables are like boxes, and one thing goes in one and another thing goes in another. That way it knows where everything is.
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That's not awesome. What's awesome is that they're doing it without getting paid for it.
Neither the dope in the locker nor the data are a clear and present danger.
French is derived from Latin (and is French) and has a moderately sensible spelling system, so it's not that.
The reason for English having so many spelling irregularities is down to William Caxton, who introduced the printing press at precisely the wrong time - the language was a) different across regions and b) in a state of flux. Plus, many of his staff were Belgians, which doesn't help.
I agree. As far as I can see the only thing they did well (or well enough - I think timing plays into it) was search.
Anything else has either been shit or bought in.
I occasionally have to type in French, but I can't stand using AZERTY.
Setting an English keyboard to Welsh/UK extended allows you to enter them with combinations of Alt-Gr and dead keys. Before I accidentally discovered this, I had to faff around with charmap.
The punctuation is a real bastard. I find it really hard to do < > since they're on the same key.
Talent's one thing but numbers count too. RedHat has the numbers, and they're under Lennart's spell for some unfathomable reason.
So the banana's just a switch? It's not producing any randomness to feed into the key generation?
Also, I don't see how they can't use the wifi from outside the building once they have the password. Unless they expire, which you can do without any fruit at all.
Four times you forgot to mention the thing that belongs to GOTO.
A diabetic, when the insulin's up in his apartment?
If Betteridge had a second law, it would be this.
In languages without a goto I've implemented shit like:
One time someone made a fuss. After half a day of trying to rewrite it more cleanly (with more flags than the UN and cascading control levels that ran off the screen) he gave up.
One by the name of G. Glitter, Esq.
If you don't already know, you aren't good enough for Stanford. Yale's over the other side somewhere, you nincompoop!
Also, imagine you build levees along the entire coastline. You can't leave gaps for the rivers, or the sea will flow in through them.
Does that mean that eventually, due to rain, the entire country will be a huge swimming pool?
If it's any good, they'll either:
a) scrap it
or
b) bugger up the UI.
In the case of b) they will then scrap it.
That or parenthood permits.
My eyes glazed over reading that. A 9 year old kid would probably burst into tears and never want to touch a computer again.
Reference. Nonetheless, it's a pleasant surprise that anybody got it.
Ah well, the weekend will probably go downhill from here.
Personally, I find it works better the other way round.
I thought all guns worked like that.
Because in the movies, when the unarmed good guy manages to sneak up on the armed bad guy and bash him over the head he never, ever, picks the gun up. Even if he knows there are another five armed bad guys after him.
Some people sleep, lardass.
Sireh! Shoot me a nigrah!
Teacher: Where do you keep things?
Kid: In my pockets.
T: OK, but where do we keep things in the classroom?
K: Boxes.
T: Exactly. Do we keep the shoes in with the cookies?
K: Yukk! No!
T: So you have a box for this, and a box for that, and you put the right thing in the right box?
K: Yes.
T: Well computers need to keep things too. Variables are like boxes, and one thing goes in one and another thing goes in another. That way it knows where everything is.
Neither, it appears, is English.