Ouch! That's a rather twisted reading of my admittedly poorly written words.
My point was that I've gained new hopes and dreams, and my children are that source. I hope that my children will be happy and successful. I dream of helping them be all they want to be.
KWIM? You didn't really think I meant what you suggested, did ya? Or maybe I've been trolled but good.
If you want to do what you love for all of your life, you shouldn't have kids. The moment you have kids, what you love changes completely.
The moment you have kids, all your hopes, your dreams, you can see them in your children. Once you have those kids your purpose in life is those kids and nothing else matters besides those kids.
I was recently criticized for taking the time to do something "right" (i.e. verify and understand the problem and the technology needed to create a reliable solution). My boss indicated that his (crappy) code was meant as an "emergency fix". But come on, we all know that if his code had accomplished the job (however terribly), he'd have left it right there and never attempted to improve it.
Reminds me of a webapp I worked on once. The programmer, in his infinite wisdom, would "SELECT * FROM TABLENAME", then stuff all 2500 records into a PHP array. Then he would promptly iterate over this array, selecting only two columns (of about thirty) he wanted from the desired rows matching his criteria.
I held my gag reflex long enough to perform only the requested change and make it functional. Then I declined all work after that.
But oddly, nearly all burials here in the US (save for certain religions which require a plain wooden box, etc) most of the time your body is placed in a casket and THEN the casket is placed within a concrete vault in the ground.
Now that's something I don't really get at all. Why the concrete vault? What purpose does it serve? (It proves all those "floating caskets" in the movie Poltergeist are bogus, eh?)
Generally, I have the same feeling. Tradition (alone) makes me somewhat guilty for not visiting the graves of my own dearly departed, but my memories serve me well.
I've always been fully interested in donating any and all usable organs upon my death. I've even considered donating my body or skeleton to my former school for teaching purposes. The main thing that gives me pause is that I don't know how these things (organ donation, body donation?) impact the ability of my loved ones to have a ceremony of their choice, providing them closure.
Anyone know how this works? Can you have both?
If you decide to plant and grow your own, it's worth mentioning that hops can be considered rather invasive, depending on the type. You might at first thing this isn't a bad thing, but you'll want to keep them in check.
Brilliant explanation. Thanks! I acknowledge that the simplicity of Tcl allows one to accomplish much, although I stand by my original assessment: my non-developer co-workers should never write code (Tcl or otherwise) if they've not had so much as a single university-level "Programming 101" course. I can't say it much better than this:
And god, the code they generate sucks asteroids through soda straws (again, not the fault of Tcl).
Thanks.:)
So {# this list happens to start with "pound sign"} is a list. The fact that that list might happen to be code as well doesn't make a difference when it's parsing lists.
Ah, but there are only two ways to create valid comments in Tcl (I think?):
1. where octothorpe (pound, hash, #) is the first non-whitespace character on a line
OR
2. where octothorpe is the first character following a semicolon-terminated line
Am I wrong about this? It means that your example above is certainly not a comment, and I don't expect it to be.
set foo [list {#valid list item} {bar} {baz}]; # { unmatched brace in a comment produces error here
Otherwise perhaps the "Tcl and Tk" book I've got is oversimplifying the explanation, or I remembered it wrong.
John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting language...
I realize that a creator is not responsible in any way for the various ways in which is creation is used. But I have to wrestle with Tcl code every day because it was packaged with a large commercial application my team supports. Its strength is also its weakness: almost anyone can learn to use it (and frequently badly).
And why is the Tcl interpreter so brain-dead? Consider the complaints from the interpreter when encountering "unbalanced grouping symbols" that are contained within a comment. Most parsers throw out all contents of a comment as soon as it's identified. But if you have an expression like
set foo "bar"; # (oops forgot a closing paren
it will refuse to work. WTF?
and one other guy at your table hitting/staying at the wrong time can easily throw things off even
And when I used to frequent a local casino playing blackjack (for fun, not really counting, etc), that was my biggest pet peeve: Some jerk at the end of the table saying you screwed him up because you hit/stayed at the wrong time and now he got the wrong card. In a card-counting scenario as you lay out, I can understand how it would be important. But in a casual game with one guy complaining, I often want to tell him to STFU.
You're overlooking the irony that the candidate who might need the most help (Hillary) can't afford it. Of course, even if she could, would the endorsement of dailykos actually be of any practical value?
Thanks for the link. And not to pick on you, but I've just got to ask... are you dyslexic? You made a rather head-spinning permutation of letters, transforming "Guardian" to "Grauniad".
Remember the recession of 2001? You can't blame that on GWB, he was only in office for a few months and hadn't enacted any of his platform yet.
Well, it is a good lesson we should remember: the current administration must always take credit for what's going right. As for what's going wrong, it's always the fault of the previous administration. This applies to the economy, foreign relations, job growth, healthcare, and so on.
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Probably, "It's dark and smelly in here. Somebody let me out of this box!"
Ouch! That's a rather twisted reading of my admittedly poorly written words.
My point was that I've gained new hopes and dreams, and my children are that source. I hope that my children will be happy and successful. I dream of helping them be all they want to be.
KWIM? You didn't really think I meant what you suggested, did ya? Or maybe I've been trolled but good.
Fixed that for you (well, for me).
Perhaps reality is stranger than fiction.
Was the app related to selling music CDs online? If so, then yep. I met him.
Good idea. I suggest this pi, or this fractal pie or a penguin or this rickroll cake or this portal cake (no lie).
Preaching to the choir, I'm sure!
I was recently criticized for taking the time to do something "right" (i.e. verify and understand the problem and the technology needed to create a reliable solution). My boss indicated that his (crappy) code was meant as an "emergency fix". But come on, we all know that if his code had accomplished the job (however terribly), he'd have left it right there and never attempted to improve it.
Reminds me of a webapp I worked on once. The programmer, in his infinite wisdom, would "SELECT * FROM TABLENAME", then stuff all 2500 records into a PHP array. Then he would promptly iterate over this array, selecting only two columns (of about thirty) he wanted from the desired rows matching his criteria.
I held my gag reflex long enough to perform only the requested change and make it functional. Then I declined all work after that.
But oddly, nearly all burials here in the US (save for certain religions which require a plain wooden box, etc) most of the time your body is placed in a casket and THEN the casket is placed within a concrete vault in the ground.
Now that's something I don't really get at all. Why the concrete vault? What purpose does it serve? (It proves all those "floating caskets" in the movie Poltergeist are bogus, eh?)
Generally, I have the same feeling. Tradition (alone) makes me somewhat guilty for not visiting the graves of my own dearly departed, but my memories serve me well. I've always been fully interested in donating any and all usable organs upon my death. I've even considered donating my body or skeleton to my former school for teaching purposes. The main thing that gives me pause is that I don't know how these things (organ donation, body donation?) impact the ability of my loved ones to have a ceremony of their choice, providing them closure. Anyone know how this works? Can you have both?
On the upside, there's the vastly improved uptime...
Glad to see you've reformed your ways, Mr. Imus.
Phew. Thanks for clearing that up! Until now, I was kind of guilty about my habits for heroin, crack, meth, PCP and weed. [/joke]
If you decide to plant and grow your own, it's worth mentioning that hops can be considered rather invasive, depending on the type. You might at first thing this isn't a bad thing, but you'll want to keep them in check.
Ed Gruberman, is that you?
And god, the code they generate sucks asteroids through soda straws (again, not the fault of Tcl). Thanks.
Ah, but there are only two ways to create valid comments in Tcl (I think?):
1. where octothorpe (pound, hash, #) is the first non-whitespace character on a line
OR
2. where octothorpe is the first character following a semicolon-terminated line
Am I wrong about this? It means that your example above is certainly not a comment, and I don't expect it to be.
set foo [list {#valid list item} {bar} {baz}]; # { unmatched brace in a comment produces error hereOtherwise perhaps the "Tcl and Tk" book I've got is oversimplifying the explanation, or I remembered it wrong.
I realize that a creator is not responsible in any way for the various ways in which is creation is used. But I have to wrestle with Tcl code every day because it was packaged with a large commercial application my team supports. Its strength is also its weakness: almost anyone can learn to use it (and frequently badly).
And why is the Tcl interpreter so brain-dead? Consider the complaints from the interpreter when encountering "unbalanced grouping symbols" that are contained within a comment. Most parsers throw out all contents of a comment as soon as it's identified. But if you have an expression like
set foo "bar"; # (oops forgot a closing paren
it will refuse to work. WTF?
Of course, "not Adam and Steve". It's Adam and Steven.
I was really interested in what you had to say, but then your own racial generalization kind of turned me off...
Pitr, is that beink you?
And when I used to frequent a local casino playing blackjack (for fun, not really counting, etc), that was my biggest pet peeve: Some jerk at the end of the table saying you screwed him up because you hit/stayed at the wrong time and now he got the wrong card. In a card-counting scenario as you lay out, I can understand how it would be important. But in a casual game with one guy complaining, I often want to tell him to STFU.
You're overlooking the irony that the candidate who might need the most help (Hillary) can't afford it. Of course, even if she could, would the endorsement of dailykos actually be of any practical value?
Thanks for the link. And not to pick on you, but I've just got to ask... are you dyslexic? You made a rather head-spinning permutation of letters, transforming "Guardian" to "Grauniad".
Well, it is a good lesson we should remember: the current administration must always take credit for what's going right. As for what's going wrong, it's always the fault of the previous administration. This applies to the economy, foreign relations, job growth, healthcare, and so on.
P.S. This applies equally to both major parties.