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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 368/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Posted by BooUrns I have it even harder. I have to attempt to emulate the appearance of a block of code buried in a program on a 1982 computer, using a 1977 variant of a 1963 programming language. I'm not even that old! |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 369/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I used to get the flu every year between February and May. A whole week of sheer agony. Fever, runny nose, sore throat, and I can't even do anything. After about 10:00 I turn into a zombie, I don't feel like doing anything and yet I'm bored to tears. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 370/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I don't have any, but my parents have a cat named Cat. Least imaginative name ever. A better name would have been Dog, or Chicken, or Komodo Dragon.
The cat just wandered around outside their house around Christmastime 1997 so they brought it in. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 371/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
203. Unnecessary "My"s like in My Computer, My Documents, etc. I mean, should I have the "My" to differentiate them from "Someone Else's Documents"? |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 373/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
But where is the gecko? I don't even watch TV and even I know about the gecko! |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 375/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
212. People who don't understand that mental conditions are generally incurable and you can't just will yourself to change. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 377/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
It should change your username colour to a random powerlevel for five minutes (without actually changing the powerlevel). That would scare some people. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 378/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
If you do add any E-mail notification feature for PMs or anything else, please for the love of Athe* have it turned off by default. I hate certain boards that flood my inbox with all kinds of crap whenever anyone replies to a thread I posted in.
*Athe = the god of Atheism |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 379/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Hey, at least they don't have to be exactly 60 pixels wide anymore. The old 60-pixel limit would make a lot of freely available avatars off limits. Not everyone can draw their own. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 381/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I saw a fairly large vBulletin that would notify on all thread replies in threads you posted in (even if you didn't start the thread) by default. "Big 4" boards (Proboard, Invision, phpBB, vBulletin) have way too much feature bloat. Remember when there was a much greater variety in board systems? |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 382/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
227. It drives me absolutely bonkers when, when people write the amount in words on a cheque, they put the dollars in words but the cents are written as a fraction in numerals, as in "Sixty-five dollars and 38/100". I've always done "Sixty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents". |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 383/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
When coding, how do you tend to name your variables?
I like names that are short but still descriptive. Like if I was making a game and needed a variable to track the score, I'd call it "score" and not "s" or "numberOfPoints". I like knowing what a variable does by looking at the name but not typing zillions of characters. Function names are generally a bit longer such as "getPercent", but not ridiculously long as in "displayNumberAsPercentage". I do use i and j for loop counters, x and y for Cartesian coordinates, one-letter names for variables in an equation (so if I wrote a quadratic formula function, it'd probably have variables called a, b, and c rather than (say) aValue, bValue, cValue or (worse) secondPowerCoefficient, firstPowerCoefficient, and constantCoefficient), ch for a generic character input from getchar() or similar, and so on. Obviously if I have to differentiate two sets of x and y coordinates, I'd call them like playerX and playerY and then enemyX and enemyY or whatever. And I tend to use really short names in the dopey programs we write for class like "Write a function that takes two numbers and multiplies them together". As for capitalization, sometimes I use all-lowercase and sometimes camelCase depending on the programming language, I tend to make it "blend in" with the built-in function names and such. In OOP languages I use the standard convention of uppercase at the start of a class name, lowercase at the start of a variable or function name, and all-caps for constants (not like I use them very much). In PHP I tend to use all-lowercase. I never use underscores as they're a bit of a pain to type. The thing that drives me nuts that some programmers do is REALLY long variable names, as in: for (numberOfRubberChickensEaten = 0; numberOfRubberChickensEaten <= 10; numberOfRubberChickensEaten++) I mean, sheesh! Do you really need all 27 letters there, especially for a for loop variable, which is almost always repeated at the top of the loop three times? |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 384/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
232. When my PC generally fails to recognize a music CD or movie DVD (although it does fine with software). |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 385/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Everyone around here pronounces it as Feb-you-ary, so in some cases it may be a misspelling based on pronunciation.
When I hate the most is when I type u/i or i/o or even u/o wrong and form a new valid English word in the process. I try to avoid talking about ducks, for instance (especially with the additional d/f possibility, although I don't make that nearly as much as s/d) |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 387/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Fat jokes are overdone.
Your mama's so anorexic that when she stands sideways nobody can see her. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 388/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Just because two people are of the same ethnicity doesn't mean they're the same person. Is there a significant Chinese population in your area? |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 389/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
For some reason, they have always been somewhat of an obsession of mine. On car trips as a kid, I would look out the window and read the numbers on the houses and other buildings to pass time. (If there were no numbers such as on a freeway, I would usually read road signs.)
Anyway, here are some questions: - What is the lowest and highest address you have lived at? - What are the lowest and highest addresses you have seen? - Have you ever seen any highly unusual numbers? The lowest house number I ever had was 815, which was our address in New Jersey when I was really young. The highest address I have ever had is 28965, where I live now. I live in the Detroit area which historically had the highest house numbers in the entire world. An address like "23701 Woodward Ave." is actually pretty typical, and something like 14 would be highly unusual. I have seen an address of 1 before. Streets in New Jersey were often numbered starting with 1 and I think it's the same for most normal (i.e., non-Midwestern) cities. The highest address was...crap, I don't remember. Something way up in the 6-digit range like 870601. The biggest addresses I've seen were in Ontario around Owen Sound. New Jersey had some reeeeally weird house numbers. They didn't always follow the normal rule of even addresses on one side and odd addresses on the other going up in sequence. I swear, one street had like 20-30 houses that were all either 238, 239, or 240 with letter suffixes in pretty much random order. Something like 238G, 238K, 238L, 239J, 238J, 240M, 239, 239P, 238Q. I can't remember what the other side was like. Our street there started with 28, 29, 30, then 321 through 325 on one side and 330-344 on the other, then a big gap, then a loop with 680-789 on the outside of the loop and 790-838 on the inside. Something like that anyway. Our first home in Niagara Falls, NY (when I was 6 years old) was on a really weird street as well...everything about it was just weird. Here is a diagram of the street: 
Basically we have the intersection of Tuscarora Rd. and Tuscarora Rd. Even though the street signs call that eastern portion (where I lived) "Blank Rd.", the mailing address was still "Tuscarora Rd." The addresses on the northwest portion are in the 5000-5999 range (increasing from north to south). On the south "Tuscarora Rd." portion, they are 4701-5099 (increasing from SOUTH to NORTH). On the Blank Rd. prtion, they are 5100-5299 (increasing from west to east), then 112, 113, 114, 115, 116 all on the same side of the road, then a dead end. Seriously, what moron came up with THAT scheme? It got worse, a nearby street had odd addresses on BOTH sides of the street (and no evens)! |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 390/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Some of them are long, but US streets are often numbered according to a Cartesian-like grid with (say) 1000 addresses to the mile rather than just 1, 3, 5, 7 and 2, 4, 6, 8. So if a street starts 20 miles north if the "X-axis", its lowest address may be 20000 or 20034 or something. Also, a lot of addresses are skipped because of this. A typical residential street around here has 10-50 numbers between each house (and the houses themselves are right next to each other) as in 21802, 21824, 21848, 21870, 21886, etc. Streets with larger commercial/industrial buildings often have 100-500 or more addresses separating adjacent buildings! |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 391/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I never got into any type of online gaming due to having had dialup until late 2006. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 392/1881 EXP: 6466584 Next: 184080 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
No, it will cause your computer to explode. |
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