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As long as they let you print a handcuff key. /trollface
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Why print dollar bills? Print a gold bar itself. Or a Platinum object.
Maybe some 3D printers do alchemic transformations.
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Quote: Print a gold bar itself
Good point! Do you have a 3D printer? Wanna go into a partnership?
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Yeah, shared losses are only half the losses. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I don't have a 3D printer, but about 25 years ago, had seen a STL (Stereolithography) printer, which did something called layered manufacturing using a polymer. I guess today's 3D printers are an evolution of these.
Anyway, my footnote mentions about alchemy, which was supposed to have been practiced by our ancient people, but was systematically destroyed over time.
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Amarnath S wrote: Maybe some 3D printers do alchemic transformations.
Can't I do that with some clever XSLT?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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That would actually work with a printer that can print metal objects. The problem still is that that filament, powder or whatever the printer uses contains real gold and probably is more expensive than buying that gold bar in the first place.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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but imagine the stuff you could make tho. puts jewelers on the next level. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You are too late with your idea. Just upload your 3D file and pay the bill: Gold 3D Printing Material Information - Shapeways[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You could legally print yourself a cheque.
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Quote: You could legally print yourself a cheque
OK, can I please have your bank account info? 
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phht, print bitcoins
- nobody really knows what a real one feels like but there's pictures on the net.
1 bitcoin currently at > $7000 (USD). not bad profit for a couple of bucks of metallic printer paste.
take a trip to NY - the capital of fast money greed
how hard would it be to find people dumb enough to buy your bitcoins 'at a discount, say $6000.'
- if they are reluctant show them the pictures on the internet,
- let them bargain you down to $5k
- tell them you need cash because the vending machine is out of change or for a taxi.
this internet has become nothing but fake news.
... time to fix it, time to get back to the fax!
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James, for just $15 an hour, and moderate encouragement, will write you a backtracking recursive descent parser suitable for parsing a modern programming language for less than the cost of using a parser generator tool that cannot parse such languages anyway.
James requires downtime for sleep, recreation, and "family"
Even still, James' parser deliverable will be about the same in terms of scheduling as if you were using a generator tool and refining a grammar input spec. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: James, for just $15 an hour, and moderate encouragement
Define "moderate encouragement".
(Don't you just love those marketing terms?)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Tell him he's doing a good job. Maybe give him a gold star or a beer and pizza friday or something once in awhile.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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what! all carrots and no stick?
oh wait... OHS probably wouldn't like that.
does he have any relatives in china or india? human rights are only for sissies.
this internet has become nothing but fake news.
... time to fix it, time to get back to the fax!
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If it was outsourced I'd make the team develop the LALR(1) tables by hand.
(parsing geek humor - forgive me)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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In order to implement these operators internally requires the creation of a variable to hold an intermediary result.
i=i+1
versus
var iPrev = i;
i=i+1;
This is murder to implement in an expression parser.
All for what? So some clowns can use a less efficient version of an increment/decrement operator?
is ++<target> really so much worse that <target>++?
In fact, whoever decided on having both? I'd like to have a long conversation with them. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Sometimes you need i++ and sometimes you need ++i. That's why you have them both, and I don't see it as less efficient.
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Since postfix requires an internal copy it is ever so slightly less efficient unless there's no way you could have avoided that copy anyway. However, most of the time, you could have.
see also for(var i = 0;i < arr.Length; ++i)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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But if you need the postfix there is no way around that, you are dealing with two separate values....the initial value and the return value. With prefix the only thing that matters is the return value. You are talking as if they do the same thing only if you choose one it is less efficient, but they don't, they do different things so have different implementations.
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I tried to make it clear that if you need it you need it, just that most of the time when people use it, as I've seen is in for loops, where they don't need it.
(I make one exception partly out of laziness and partly because of special knowledge of microsoft's jit compiler)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Most of the times I see people use "int" they could be using "System.Int32". But they don't. People are funny like that 
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that makes no difference in the generated code though, nor the spec as C# int is spec'd to System.Int32, not variable like in C and C++ IIRC
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: that makes no difference in the generated code though,
Neither does i++ vs ++i, that's my point Some of these things are just convenient syntactic sugar, but people use them because it makes code simpler.
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