║ Fibo ( Read more... )

I am angry so I decided to vent a bit. (Please consider to refrain from commenting until you have read the last sentence, as otherwise you run the risk of making me angrier.)

The trouble is, I don’t really know why I’m angry. All I know is that it has something to do with StackOverflow and the fact that everyone there is stupid beyond description ( Read more... )

Coders seem to be unable to distinguish the concepts of a programming language from its syntax. One coder might argue for Python on the grounds that it has certain innovative language features, but another might “refute” this by arguing about the shortcomings of whitespace-based syntax. The two are talking about entirely separate things ( Read more... )

It puzzles me that an apparently large proportion of people think that mere inactivity in a volunteer-driven project deserves some kind of punishment. In particular, I’m thinking of sysop status in MediaWiki-based projects such as Wikipedia: there is widespread belief that inactive users should be demoted. Last week I was asked whether I would ( Read more... )

Puzzle

Write a C# program which

• compiles without errors or warnings under some set of compiler options;
• contains the following sequence of characters: ?>?>[,])??(()=>{;}),},}]<<=!(~+-*++
• does not contain any string literals or comments
• it doesn't have to do anything useful

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[20:49:04] Roman: i'll have some pasta with cheese soon, can't wait :)
[20:49:13] Timwi: Macaroni?
[20:49:24] Roman: no, Edam
[20:49:26] Roman: grated

I made this a few days ago. This took me a total of about 7 or 8 hours to make, most of which was Wednesday 16 July 22:00 until 03:00. The animation was basically complete then, but I added a few finishing touches (like the glowy effect and a better choice of a font) on Thursday ( Read more... )

Recently I stumbled upon a video by YouTube user "SeventhSun" where he plays the old Nintendo Game Boy game Tennis and wins at the best possible score (6:0 6:0) (don't watch this, it's boring ( Read more... )

I'm considering resuming my blogging here at LiveJournal.

I'm not sure what you write about though. Any suggestions?

[21:23] Timwi: Can you think of more than three very common cases in which two slashes ('//') might come up in succession? :-) (random quiz ( Read more... )