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This is not a programming question! There have been more prominent members of CP "abusing" the Lounge before without being chastisized. So get off of his back, will ya!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Well, Manfred, given the often satirical/mocking responses to questions like this on the Lounge, I thought I was doing the OP a favor by suggesting they repost on QA.
But, if I did a dis-service to the OP, I apologize.
And, yes, of course you are right about the fact that some folks can post certain types of content on the Lounge and get serious responses/discussions, whereas others posting the same types of content can get dumped on.
I am not sure if it's a sign of wisdom or just a fungus-of-blase-indifference to the inherent injustice of social groups [1] growing on my aging soul that this doesn't bother me
cheers, Bill
[1] The school of psychotherapy I once trained in, and was certified in, Psychodrama, was invented by J.L. Moreno, a fascinating character who was both dramaturge, technical inventor, artist, poet, social scientist. Moreno believed that human social groups were innately "unjust" in that the perceived authority to regulate and shape interaction ... bottom-line: who gets paid attention to ... tended to become concentrated in a few individuals or dyads.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I wouldn't mind reposting somewhere else, but I don't see a forum for general "how to use a computer" questions.
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Well, that one helps prove their point.
TTFN - Kent
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I call Blasphemous Rumours!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I mean, come on!! We all know that the user is responsible for entering in the correct data. It's not the system's fault for not knowing that the letter "A" should really be the number "4".
Whatever is clever, Trevor. Let's make like a baby, and head out.
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I petition for mice having electrodes for electro shocks. Teach 'em users!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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try
{
[...]
}
catch (InvalidOperationException ioex)
{
Logging.LogMessage(ioex);
Zap();
}
catch (Exception)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
Zap();
Thread.Sleep(250);
}
}
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Exactly! Just one refinement: Before a Zap()-loop, do a Clutch()
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I take it that eliminating validation is your next step to world domination, mr. Blofeld!
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I validate all data, I only allow 1's and 0's
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote: Let's make like a baby, and head out
You have no idea how pleased I am to know that other's besides myself and my drunken mates use that phrase.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I wonder if he really did it[^]
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I must be missing something very basic here, but I fail to find any info on how many articles there are.
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I believe the correct answer is "many".
/ravi
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It is indeed a correct answer, especially if you're a walpiri or a piraha.
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Upvoted for mentioning the Waripiri and Piraha ! The innate-language-engine vs. culturally-shaped debate between Chomsky/Pinkert and Everett is fascinating to me, as well as involving a question that haunts me (as a poet and creative writer): can there be thought without language ?: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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BillWoodruff wrote: can there be thought without language
That would depend on your definitions.
Let's break the question apart: Can there be thought without (abstract) concepts?
And how about memory?
Most people have their first memories from about the age of three which also happens to be when we develop a useful language.
I've read once that Helen Kellers first memories is from when she learned a language at the age of six-seven. It's pretty hard to check any facts about that though. A lot of her life/memoirs seems to be "sanitized".
But then there's this school for deaf children in Nicaragua, which started off as a "storage facility", where the children themselves invented a sign language without any intervention from the caretakers. When linguistic researchers found out about that they got so excited they figuratively pissed their collective pants.
I've read that none of the children have any memories from before learning a language. confirmation needed
Interesting? Yes indeed.
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Articles, the Greek? I doubt that name is very common nowadays.
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 closely guarded trade secret.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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