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Member 7989122 wrote: It struck me that since we make chips, at least a third of our employees are hardware experts, shouldn't the sign display a NAND gate symbol?
I thought microsoft would get more productivity out of their coders if they localized visualstudio to klingon.
I showed up on halloween once and thought i got lost at a star trek convention.
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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We've got a similar policy here but everyone from this area is too polite to actually confront someone who tries to follow behind them without an ID. Makes security a nightmare.
I've only done so myself once and that was about 30 minutes before the building was open for business. We've got a decent amount of homeless around where I work and some guy was standing near-ish to the front door. When I stepped through he tried to quickly follow without me noticing. Come on. It is still dark out, you were trying to not draw attention when I walked up, and tried to sneak in behind me? Even without coffee I'm going to notice you!
So I spun around and confronted him asked to see his ID. Didn't have one however assured me that he worked in the building. So I asked some pretty general questions, who he worked with, what team, etc., and he couldn't answer any of them. After that I threatened to call the police if he didn't leave, etc. etc. and he kept saying he worked there but no other details.
Long story short, it was his second day there, hadn't been issued his ID badge yet, forgot his temp ID at home, didn't want to be late by going back to get it. If he had simply said "It is my second day and I forgot my ID." I would have handled the entire situation differently, but no... he chose to say "I don't have an ID". Also explained why he didn't know anything about who he reported to, what floor his desk was on, or anything else.
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The extra 'e' says it all.
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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After decades of programming Camel case, I've found new love for all small case separated by underscores. byeBye camel!
welcome_2020
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proof that the world is going to hell.
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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It takes a bit of contemplation to realize how beautiful snakes are.
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Don't mind me. I'm playing anyway. I use that case when I'm developing templates libraries in C++
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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I could be playing as well.
This liking for 'all-smalls-snake' could be a momentary satisfaction about doing things differently.
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The cartoon that goes with that is just too good!
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Actually, I didn't look that far down - thanks for pointing it out.
Nor did I notice that this web page claims that it is Hell, Michigan. It is not, it is Hell, Norway.
(For those who have gone by air to Værnes Airport, Hell is the village next to it.)
The style of the sign is distincly Norwegian, European, rather than American.
I drive past it regularly; it certainly has been frozen over this way quite a few times.
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Shouldn't it be called Helvete then?
Ja, jeg kan snakke litt norsk.
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The Norwegian name Hell has no relationship to Helvete, but comes from "helle" or "heller".
A "helle" is a flat stone, like a slab of slate, or any stone that is "flat", or even a flat surface on a large stone that is not so flat.
A "heller" is a stone that sticks out from a mountain so that it serves as a shield against rain and snow. In the stone age (and even hunters in more modern times) could make a dwelling under a "heller". This is probably the origin of the name of the place, being much older than Christianity and its hell, certainly in Norway, but the name may be as old as Christianity itself.
For the place outside Bergen, called Paradis, there is no similar old explanation; that is a Christian name. Unfortunately, the train stop at Paradis was closed down several years ago, so you no longer can buy a train ticket from Paradis to Hell, or from Hell to Paradis. I suspect that quite a few of those tickets were never used.
Hell - Gods-Expedition[^] uses a 100+ year old spelling for "cargo handling" ("gods", cargo, is unchanged, but today we write "ekspedisjon"), but everybody loves the old sign, so they will probably keep it for another hundred years...
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If I remember correctly, the Norse settlers in Greenland called Baffin Island Helluland, derived from the same word.
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Otherwise known as snake case.
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Wonderful. What a perfect name!
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Because it comes back to bite you...
I am so old that I remember when we made printouts of our source code. Several of the printers I used placed the underscore so low down - I guess that it shouldn't interfere with the descenders of lower case letters - that it visually certainly did not tie together the parts making up the identifier.
We even had zebra paper in my first years as a programmer, ane when the underscores from the white lines printed halfway into the top of the grey line, they were very easy to overlook, especially in identifiers starting or ending with an underscore.
So I came to hate underscores.
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And for 2021 and you going back to "6 alphanumeric characters, must not start with a digit"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Will give it a try
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OriginalGriff wrote: And for 2021 and you going back to "6 alphanumeric characters, must not start with a digit"?
and must be uppercase with first letters in the range I to N being integers; A to H and O to Z being reals unless declared otherwise. Welcome to FORTRAN IV (aka FORTRAN 66).
Then in 2022 you can progress to only 52 identifiers: A to Z for numbers and A$ to Z$ for strings. I expect a lot of CPers will remember those.
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Ah ... implicit typing. One of the delights of FORTRAN. Along with COMMON which allowed you to declare a single character variable and use it as a three dimensional array of integers. Handy for OS mods on GEC 4070's as I recall.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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"GOD is real unless declared in an IMPLICIT or explicit declaration"
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I think it's just a sign of how repetitive our jobs can be. We find joy from even the slightest change of practice just because it's something different.
I always look forward to having to use a constant, because then I get to use something other than camel for the naming
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Yep, kinda.
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