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I crave weird things when I am on a coding jag. A lot of times heavy on grains or starch, sometimes fish or peanuts, and sugar. Anything I can readily metabolize that my brain tends to like, I think.
Do you get weird code related food cravings?
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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beer or similar: enough of it and any code cravings are definitely cured.
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haha
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 also prefer a couple of pints whilst coding.
As it turns out, however, they're pints if strong strong coffee.
Does that count?
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I think would I prefer sushi to sashimi for breakfast because sushi has rice too. I don't eat breakfast very often though so I would postpone it to the lunch time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I only sleep 2 to 4 hours a night so my day starts really early. My lunch is usually most people's breakfasts so you and I have that in common, it's just that my day can start as early as midnight, meaning even a 6am breakfast is basically lunch. =)
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 don't sleep very much either but I am very much a night owl. I have spent so much time playing music all night that it's become ingrained. I am more apt to be going to bed at dawn than waking up at dawn.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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that was true of me before I went mad, but the meds make me wake up early.
i'm a little crazy. more than a little. that's part of why i barely sleep.
i used to be able to get a solid 6-8
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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Coffee.
And then more coffee as a chaser.
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big same, neighbor
a programmer is a machine for converting coffee into software
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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codewitch honey crisis wrote: Do you get weird code related food cravings?
Coffee and nicotine, in bulk. The first place where I worked featured not only great coffee, but also an ash-tray next to the keyboard.
Trying to be healthier by eating more pizza; it is part of the Mediterranean diet. Consider it freshly baked bread with lots of fruits, veggies, and cheese 
Pizza, coffee, a smoke. Makes the Neanderthal in me very happy 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sounds familiar. I even switched to a vape so i could stop going outside all the time (i won't smoke tobacco in doors - it makes stuff stink)
coffee and nicotine with my sashimi please.
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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As a person who used to work across from someone who would vape at his desk all the time, vaping makes stuff stink too. Not quite as permanently as tobacco but still annoying.
Of course if you work remotely that isn't so much of a problem.
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Stop complaining about the smell, and start talking fire-hazard 
A few years ago, you'd see these half-moons on a toilet-flush-thingy where a smoke used to "wait" for its owner to finish the job. If you smoke, you buy a cheap cherry-keyboard twice a year.
And ash is like cement; it gets into your computer, it gets wet, it hardens. Not good for the fan that cools the CPU.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No ash or tar from vaping. Water vapor, scent, and whatever other chemicals are present in the solution, which usually means nicotine among other stuff. The guy is no longer here but yeah, annoying to say the least.
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I'm a smoker, and will not "vape", whatever that means. My lungs, my choice. No halfway sissy-solution like dragging watervapor.
If you want to hire me, you have to accept me standing outside without prior notice. That may be after a meeting, after a coding session, or after coffee. But yes, I will smoke, and yes, when I please.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was the same way back when I smoked tobacco.
The vape thing was more of a convenience thing for me. I can stealth smoke wherever the hell i want now too even though you can't smoke indoors legally pretty much anywhere in the state except your home and private clubs.
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 work very remotely. i'm out of the field. i did my time. now it gets to be a hobby again and I can do what I *love* again. Eventually working in the field sucked the joy out of coding from 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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codewitch honey crisis wrote: i did my time.
I wasn't aware of the fact that you went to prison.
codewitch honey crisis wrote: now it gets to be a hobby again and I can do what I *love* again
Eat pizza?
codewitch honey crisis wrote: Eventually working in the field sucked the joy out of coding from me.
Write an article. You're not the first, and some might learn actually.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I wasn't aware of the fact that you went to prison.
Microsoft. Same difference.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Eat Pizza?
That too. But Microsoft had beer and pizza fridays. Although I thought that was supposed to be every day.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Write an article. You're not the first, and some might learn actually.
I've written a few. Probably most notably A Regular Expression Engine in C#
In fact I'm about to follow it up with a more ambitious one that uses this project as a lexer for LALR and LL(1) parsers that it (the next submission) can generate.
Adding, writing parser generators is difficult. The math involved was beyond me, until it finally wasn't.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote:
I've written a few. Probably most notably A Regular Expression Engine in C#
On my todo list.
codewitch honey crisis wrote: Adding, writing parser generators is difficult. The math involved was beyond me, until it finally wasn't.
Implies you can explain it to a simpleton like me, no? 
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I can, but it's involved. You have to do it in steps, and it depends on what kind of parser you're generating.
The main thing though, after you understand the fundamentals, is generating "first" and "follows" sets which are basically what they sound like - they tell you the first symbol from a production, and they tell you what can follow a production**
** vocab will take a minute. How much time you have?
I first have to start by explaining what a Context-Free Grammar is and how the data for one is laid out.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: vocab will take a minute. How much time you have?
I make time for anyone who can teach me.
Consider time yours.
codewitch honey crisis wrote: I first have to start by explaining what a Context-Free Grammar is and how the data for one is laid out.
Yup, all blank on that subject.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Okay, so parsers work generally using a method called substitution.
I'll show you. A context free grammar is a mathematical entity. It is a type-2 language on the Chomsky scale (if your ever interested in what all that means - yours to google later, but it's not necessary here)
so here's a CFG - it's a series of rules. And a start symbol. I'll explain.
A rule takes the form of (example)
binop → num + num
- in this case marking a binary expression as "num + num" (two numbers with a + inbetween them - num is defined elsewhere as a regular expression matching a series of digits)
follow so far?
obviously that doesn't represent much of a binary expression. We need to do more than add!
let's define more rules
binop → num - num
binop → num * num
binop → num / num
that's more like it!. Now you may notice that there's the same left hand side on each of those.
A group of rules with all the same left hand side are called collectively a "non-terminal"
here, binop is a nonterminal. num is not but we'll get into that
Nonterminals can have rules that can reference terminals or other non-terminals, and even themselves recursively
A CFG tells us what the rules are, and just as importantly, which non-terminal to start at (here it would obv be binop since we haven't) declared any others.
Follow so far?
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.
modified 7-May-19 16:06pm.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: Follow so far?
Kind of. When talking parsers, I think of a "simple" interpreter-pattern.
How would you enforce the rules you declare?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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