Author Topic: An important question for all Americans... (Read 1869 times)

Swoop · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2001, 07:25:00 AM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:

HiTech,

Sometimes I read your posts and am completely amazed that you wrote anything as wonderful as AH. Not so much that you aren't capable of it... just that it would have been done 80% faster if you didn't have to go back and check for typos.

DejaVu, if I was to describe you as a "nit picker to the extreme" would you disagree?

EDIT: Spelt his shreckin name wrong and I just know he'll nit pick if I dont change it.

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2001, 07:39:00 AM »

No Swoop. I would not. That was a joke... that's why I put a smiley face on it.

Maybe you only see what you want to see?

AKDejaVu

Swoop · « **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2001, 07:47:00 AM »

How about "blatantly argumentative and condecending"?

straffo · « **Reply #18 on:** October 02, 2001, 07:53:00 AM »

DJv we have a nice tool called a compiler to handle this not so creative task

Btw our vocabular is quite limited :
() {} + ++ - -- * / if else ; for while do ...

Nifty · « **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2001, 08:47:00 AM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
No Swoop. I would not. That was a joke... that's why I put a smiley face on it.

Maybe you only see what you want to see?

AKDejaVu

didn't you tell me once that smiley faces aren't "get out of jail free" cards?

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2001, 08:51:00 AM »

Between you and me swoop... they are not. Not between the stalker and the stalkee.

Now.. If I have a rich and storied tradition of taunting HT or even making fun of him.. then that's another story. If you want to find where I've done that then go ahead. If you'd like to find where I've ever criticized HT's gramar before then go ahead. Please... I'd be interested to see it because I don't ever recall doing it.

... maybe at the same time... you could list the people that have criticized or joked about his gramar without you saying a word about it.

Way to take a fun thread and ruin it swoop.

Done with you and this.

AKDejaVu

Swoop · « **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2001, 08:58:00 AM »

hey Ripsnort, bet ya a BMW he wont let anyone else have the last word either.

DjV, truth is I just plum forgot to put a smiley on that first post, meant to. Damned if I'm going back to add one now though.

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miko2d · « **Reply #22 on:** October 02, 2001, 09:12:00 AM »

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Originally posted by hitech:
Me being the math guy it makes more since to Year/M/D Just like any other number most significant to least but alas I don't belive
I have a change of getting it changed.

All programmers use yymmdd notation.
It's like our special sign for dedicated. It helps to confuse ignorants and stupid people. We are smart enough to understand their ways and a little inconvenience is a small price to pay for being perceived as mysterious and arcane, right?
I say, bring in reverse polish notation and Dvorak keyboards!!

miko

Gadfly · « **Reply #23 on:** October 03, 2001, 01:48:00 PM »

Uh-oh, not the reverse polish notation again! I like military style: day(numeric), month(alpha), year(numeric)

03Oct2001

If nothing else, it elimnates commas.

Gunthr · « **Reply #24 on:** October 03, 2001, 02:09:00 PM »

Dowding, I've been wondering for a long time how come you Brits have your Sergeants and Corporal chevrons upside down ... its bad enough you drive on the wrong side of the road!

And a friend told me that when you Brits go to the movies, you put something sweet on your popcorn? Is that true?

Here in the states, I always get popcorn at the movies. When the counter girl asks me if I want butter on that, I tell her, "No thanks, you don't have to treat me special... just give me that same yellow crap you give everybody else

Pongo · « **Reply #25 on:** October 03, 2001, 02:25:00 PM »

Welcome to my world.
Dowding you are blaming all of America for the metal flatulance of one contract programer at Microsoft.
Probebly the same guy that made all rounding in VB6 use the Bankers algorithm instead of the normal rounding that all other microsoft tools use.

SB · « **Reply #26 on:** October 03, 2001, 02:36:00 PM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu:

HiTech,

Sometimes I read your posts and am completely amazed that you wrote anything as wonderful as AH. Not so much that you aren't capable of it... just that it would have been done 80% faster if you didn't have to go back and check for typos.

AKDejaVu

now back on topic...

You've made one serious flawed assumption. Do you really think HiTech would know a typo if he saw it???

I know better and if I see a post from HiTech without any typos I want to know who is trying to impersonate him!

MrBill · « **Reply #27 on:** October 03, 2001, 03:29:00 PM »

Then there is the neat clean method.

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #28 on:** October 03, 2001, 03:33:00 PM »

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You've made one serious flawed assumption. Do you really think HiTech would know a typo if he saw it???

This occured to me too. So... the only real way to compensate is if there is a compiler out there that compiles code written in HT format.

AKDejaVu

Replicant · « **Reply #29 on:** October 03, 2001, 04:50:00 PM »

British, Japanese etc drive on the left hand side because we're warriors!

So whilst you're riding down a road or lane you would have your sword in your right hand so it was easier to attack/defend. Therefore you'd be on the left hand side of the road to do this what with right handed people being more common than left hand people! Call it our love of history!

Of course, next time you see a car with a guy hanging out the right window with a sword in his hand then he could be British, Aussie, Kiwi, S. African or Japanese etc...

Regards

Nexx

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