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It matters. Consider something which looks like two equilateral triangles, point to point: an X with vertical lines up the sides, filled in. You'd express the points as: Bottom-left; top-left; middle; bottom-right; top-right. Then express the points in a different order: bottom-right; middle; bottom-left; top left; top right - and the figure becomes a filled-in W-with-a-line-across-the-top shape.
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As far as I can see, neither of the ordering examples in your post are clockwise or anticlockwise; what I meant was, if they're guaranteed to be either clockwise or anticlockwise, then it won't matter which order is selected. Apologies if I've misunderstood your examples.
/ravi
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Shock news from the new Star Wars film: the robots are translucent! See-Throopio is back!
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I was wondering where it fit into the Star Wars timeline. It appears as if it's positioned between Episode 3 and Episode 4.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Right. They are building the first Death Star.
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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Just before episode 4.
It is the story of the heist to get the Death star plans that Princess Leia tried to smuggle to the rebellion.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Good. I want to see many Balthans die.
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Bothan.
You heathen!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I so wanted to say "Balkans" or "boffins", but I forebore.
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I'm just hoping it's better than The Force Awakens ... but I'm not putting money on it.
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On a side note, I finally watched Suicide Squad last night. I was sorely disappointed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Damn. I've been trying to persuade Herself it might be good based on the trailers, but she's very resistant. IMDB 6.3 is a pretty good score these days...
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It was as if we're all supposed to know the backstory, and the plot was ludicrous.
The worrying part is that they set you up at the end for a sequel. Let's all hope that doesn't happen.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So the pirates who download a copy would be doing us all a favour?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The worrying part is that they set you up at the end for a sequel. Let's all hope that doesn't happen.
Don't worry, if it turns out some piece of crap isn't worth a sequel, they call the next installment "a reboot".
I always take this as meaning that if I'm supposed to ignore events that took place in the previous incarnation, I should get a refund for it.
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This is almost a certainty. For a start Han Solo is still alive (somewhere) and hasn't shot Greebo yet.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't think you'll every get it back to the quality viewing pleasure of the original 3. But it is miles better than the last 3 that we shall never name
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: viewing pleasure of the original 3
FTFY
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: between Episode 3 and Episode 4.
Ah yes... that wonderful era when time was measured in parsecs.
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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And what the hell is an aluminum falcon?[^]
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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It's a lot like a Malteser Falcon, but lasts a lot longer when you suck it.
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There's a large code base of COBOL being maintained and even new development where I am currently working, and I took the opportunity to talk to one of the COBOL devs yesterday because it turned out they've already done an implementation of something in COBOL that I'll be doing in C# for another project, and I wanted to take the opportunity to learn about any difficulties they had encountered with this particular task. It was well worth the time.
I must say, it was refreshing talking to someone with 30 years of development experience -- we're about the same age, she took the mainframe development path in college whereas I dropped out and futzed around with PET's, C64's, and embedded processors in the early 80's.
But the thing that stood out the most was how she approaches coding with a discipline gained from experience. Disciplines including good code structure, commenting practices, readability, maintainability, etc. Things that transcend the language, and things that I so often have not encountered with cough younger devs.
It was nice.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: things that I so often have not encountered Programming (today) is just copy and paste from the internet, as any fule kno.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: as any fule kno.
+1 for the Molesworth reference.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I was wondering who else would remember ...
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