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den2k88 wrote:
More obfuscated than THAT? Her brain.
But you already said she was female.
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Yeah, the usual Mars - Venus problem 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: if something is already as simple as possible, it's impossible to simplify it further.
Which doesn't stop people from trying - I think his point is made.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think you're simply failing to appreciate that the word 'simple' is simply being used with two distinct, simple meanings; in the first case 'easy to understand or mentally manipulate', in the second 'idiotic', neither of which, incidentally necessarily conforms exactly to your imposed meaning of 'not complex'. In doing so you have highlighted the simple problem with all positivist interpretations of language, simple rigidity!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It's perfectly normal; he's using different inflections of the word.
I.e. If a task is complex, then find the simplest way to handle the complexity -- but don't make the task less complex.
E.g. building a car is a complex task, which has been made simpler and simpler over the years by people applying thought to processes and automation, and by improvements in technology -- but it would be pretty damned stupid to make the task simpler by removing all wheels from the design.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Einstein was the first one without saying to first having believed to make known what some barely understood favets of the cosmic system possessed to the point to anuerism, taking knowledge from demons crashed in the forties in new mexico as an end times means to deceive as knowledge is already simple, but relativity is the idea there is no set right and wrong, just like the serpent said in the garden
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Aaaarrghhh!!!! Not again!
MEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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marie915 wrote: but relativity is the idea there is no set right and wrong, just like the
serpent said in the garden
How does one get that from 'sssssssssss'?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: 'sssssssssss'
It's all in the variable frequency and intonation of 's'
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ahh that very well may explain why I failed Serpent in school! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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WTF are you smoking?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I live in the Netherlands, but even the stuff that's legal here doesn't result in people talking the guff you're spouting.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know the crap at the end of spam, this guy is the author!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No, he was not. He was merely saying that oversimplyfication is as bad as unneeded complexity.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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B. Clay Shannon wrote: the ending clause is redundant,
Because some people try to make things too simple. Management, for example, when in their simple mind, something should be doable in a day, when it actually takes weeks or months.
But what he's really getting at is the balance between complexity and simplicity. It's the balance we all face as programmers and some of us are totally ignorant of.
VB / Javascript / Ruby / Python / et al. programmer: cut and paste the code
Everyone else: Oh, I'm about to duplicate this code, let me make a function.
VB / Javascript / Ruby / Python / et al. programmer: Wow, look at my cool function, it's 10000 lines long!
Everyone else: Ew, this is getting gross, let me break this apart so it's readable and self-documenting.
And so forth.
Marc
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Quote: “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
Probably Einstein had the same issue
Paulo Gomes
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
—Bill Gates
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He and Yogi Berea hung out together ... a lot, so I'm thinking some entanglement occurred?
Nothing is impossible, we just don't know the way of it yet.
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Something to do with patent law?
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You have established his point. You are suggesting to make the sentence "simpler" than it already is. But by doing so, you remove that part of the sentence which makes it profound. As it stands, the sentence is as simple as possible. It is precisely misguided oversimplification that he is warning about.
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You know when you get an auto generated e-mail, with an obvious script error?
Area of cover: WorldWide Excluding USA
Start date: 23 Jul 2016
Dependants: $coveredDependants.size()
Payment period: Annually
That
veni bibi saltavi
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I got an email from a sales site not too long ago where the subject literally said "[Insert: Inspiring Subject Text]" because they had obviously forgotten to fill in the text for the placeholder...
Naturally, I sent them a return mail saying "You forgot to insert the inspiring subject text!" 
Summer holiday replacement staff, I would think!
It's not the only time I have received a mail with placeholders, but it's definitely the funniest!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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If I mix a ACID database and a BASE database will I get a SALT(ed) database? 
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
Source
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Yes and then you can pepper it with requests 
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Leave it to you to spice things up.
/ravi
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Elementary, Watson, elementary!
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