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YOU DRINK!!
elephant
A fast & memory-efficient data structure that cat tell if it saw a string before
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Uh?
Why is this an interesting way to drink? You put in 'cat', it says, 'have a drink'. Thats it.
Getting drunk with a dictionary is the least interesting thing I can think of!
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Yes, but it's on the internet so it must be fun.
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The last thing I want near me when I am on a session is a sodding computer!
Pool table, mates, good juke box, definitely!
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That's pretty cool. It's fun to see the description of what inspired people to think of the name
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A similar "game":
Old PDP-11 guys can tell you about a classic ASCII editor (probably TECO - I never worked on PDP-11/TECO myself) where every letter you typed when in command mode activated some operation.
Having a name which, when typed in as editor commands, lead to a meaningful sequence of operations put you in a very special gruop of people. To earn the gold medal, you should have a full first and last name, typed in sequence, giving a meaningful set of operations. First or last name alone was not quite as presitigous, but it would still earn you significant respect.
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Member 7989122 wrote: TECO Yep, definitely TECO. I used it, a lot, on PDP-11's and VAXen(*).
(*) Yes, Ravi, I know that VAXen had EDT. There were special circumstances.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Real programmers used TECO to edit their Fortran-77 programs.
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Hah! Real programmers used This[^] (Detail[^]) to code FORTRAN!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Been there, did that, my first two years of college. Punch cards using this[^], rather than the hand punch, but still. I even had to do a couple floor sorts in my day.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We only had six or eight of those for all four years of the CS course at my Uni so the queue was alwasy hours long - you could write your code on FORTRAN coding sheets[^] and submit them to the "typing girls" who would punch it for you, but they took days to get round to it, and weren't very accurate. So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes! We had a guy in my data structures class who was blind. He knew how to read punch cards by feel. He said it was a PITA compared to Braille because the holes were spread out so far and the holes didn't "register" as well. He would lay a card on a piece of cloth and run his finger over it, feeling the bit of cloth protruding up through each hole.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah, I used it, too. It was good discipline for writing concise programs.
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My biggest program at school was something around 2300 cards, which was a bitch to carry around. A standard box was only 2000.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm clearly destined to be the Nominated Driver: half a dozen and all "NO DRINK!"
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OK - I'll have another St Clement's, please.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: embiggen??
NO DRINK
SHAME ON YOU
Unfortunately, I've just got back from the work's Christmas do, so I won't volunteer to take your place.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Another "serious" story:
Several years ago, I saw a short notice in our local newspaper about a guy who had gone wild after consuming about 25 half liters (roughly: 25 pints) of beer.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine, whose father is a policeman. He revealed that this case had caused an argument at the police station: Is it possible to do anything at all - violence or otherwise - after consuming 25 half liters? Some of the police officers are real "beer hounds". One of them insisted that 25 beers should be no problem! So his colleagues told him: On your next night off, you show us! If you do it. we'll pay the beer, otherwise you'll have to pay yourself whatever you can manage.
His colleagues ended up paying for the beer. That is not what impressed them the most, however: This beer hound took sixteen half liters before his first turn to the toilet!
(Maybe not too surprising: After that, his turns to the toilet were quite frequent.)
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You get a drink for "hardware", but not for "software"! What gives?
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Proposals could propose positive ? point (11)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Proposals
could propose SUGGEST
positive ? ION
point S
SUGGESTIONS
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good man you is up tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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ChromEdge | CommitStrip[^]
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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We love to hate IE/Edge. It could be the best browser in the world and we would still hate it. If we did like it, people wouldn't take us seriously.
Just like how graphic designers won't admit that their favourite font is Comic Sans.
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