SPAM random annoying things

[rynnor]

Assembler is a bit OTT, probably. Any language will do, really, as long as the tooling and online resources are good. Python has an excellent web-based interactive tutorial, for example.

I fancied Basic as the language most of us started on in the day - Microsoft do a free 'MS Small Basic' which is a cut down version of basic for beginners and lets you slowly progress to VB then onto C# etc.

 

[Moriath]

We started on Ada when I did mine twenty years ago. Non of this flashy java muck.

 

[TdC]

Because people who learn C# think the solution you posted is in any way optimal. Fuck me that's terrible. You do a per-character copy in reverse and then do a full string compare? Two iterations for something that needs exactly one pass is rubbish old bean.

The best way I can think up requires a byte array (assuming ascii) half as long as the input array and one pass over the input array.

issa trick no? half of input stringlength -1 or something and compare the bits. should be doable in one pass I think but I've forgotten most of my C. I was going to say chop the input in half and count bits, but that would also allow asdfasdf or asdfzasdf eg wrongness

 

[mooSe_]

tbh in the exam it wouldn't have mattered if the code was really inefficient. In all the coursework you get a better mark for writing good code, but in this stupid exam it just had to compile and output the right thing. You could've written the most horrifically inefficient unreadable solution and would've still got 100% if it compiled without any warnings.

 

[TdC]

that's shit man. can't you complain or something? in my courses we get marked down if we don't use good design and standards and shiznit and stuff/

 

[mooSe_]

Well it was just this 1 exam which in the grand scheme of things doesn't actually count for that much so it's not really worth complaining about imo. I'll still be able to pass if all my coursework is ok because that counts for 90% of it (and is actually marked properly!). This was the second time they'd given us this exam because the first time they set the question too hard and everyone failed. This time most people seemed to have passed so it's just me whining because I suck.

 

[Billargh]

Magnum Ammo on Bad Company 2, what an overpowered bag of fucking balls, the fact you need like 40h+ playtime before you reach it makes it twice as fucking balls.

And on that note, getting into games after they've been out years and not many people play any more.

 

[Edmond]

Went into a shop today to get a drink and something to eat and they guy in front of me was buying a can of strong cider (white lightning or something like it) anyway he had really heavy booze breath already, you could smell it all around him. He left the counter and I stepped up to pay, looked at the guy behind the counter and we both gave each other that look of WTF!. (it was midday)

As I left I followed this guy out and he got into a car next to my van, I looked across to see him put his seat belt on, open the can of cider and guzzle about half of it, he started his car and drove off.

I could not believe it, and he will be the sort of idiot that will never get caught either

 

[TdC]

Well it was just this 1 exam which in the grand scheme of things doesn't actually count for that much so it's not really worth complaining about imo. I'll still be able to pass if all my coursework is ok because that counts for 90% of it (and is actually marked properly!). This was the second time they'd given us this exam because the first time they set the question too hard and everyone failed. This time most people seemed to have passed so it's just me whining because I suck.

stll harsh though. hope you make it next time. in my school we need passing grades for every single thing; no compensating lows with highs or any of that.

 

[mooSe_]

thanks M8E, I'm just gonna forget about it now and go to the pub

 

[TdC]

good man!

 

[caLLous]

"pub" isn't a million miles away from being a palindrome. Have fun mooSe_!

 

[DaGaffer]

Not knowing who's going to be running your company a month from now. Uncertainty when you're doing budgets is always fun.

 

[Yoni]

Buying a new dress for Xmas party and the shop only demagnetising said dress so I couldn't wear it ;(

 

[old.Tohtori]

Turns out that girls are exactly like the men. Actually, scratch that. I'd say worse than the men tbfh.

How are you only learning this now?

 

[TdC]

Buying a new dress for Xmas party and the shop only demagnetising said dress so I couldn't wear it ;(

Is this woman-speak? o_0

 

[rynnor]

Is this woman-speak? o_0

I blame the tiger!

 

[Yoni]

Is this woman-speak? o_0

Yus it is and I've just been back and shouted at the lady!

 

[Moriath]

Yus it is and I've just been back and shouted at the lady!

What do you mean demagnetised hehe

 

[Yoni]

What do you mean demagnetised hehe

;(

 

[TdC]

it's all very un-understandable

 

[soze]

I think they left the tag on it and only deactivated it.

 

[Chilly]

yeah but you need to be punctuation agnostic, which means you cant actually predict where the middle of the string is.

 

[Bodhi]

When the missus is pissed off with you as you haven't booked the time off for her birthday. Which is in February.

Lol wut?

 

[Billargh]

But Sony were founded in May.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Aluminum.

 

[Yoni]

The lack of light..... It really sucks...

 

[TdC]

yeah but you need to be punctuation agnostic, which means you cant actually predict where the middle of the string is.

m04r tricks. I actually think I had this too when I had to write and compare something like 10 different sorting algos. did that in Java though.still amazed that my fast sorts could do like a billion objects that fast, where as the slow sorts were rather...slow

edit: actually it doesn't matter if you don't know the middle as long as you're only off by one.

 

[old.Tohtori]

People who don't know the difference between "not care", "don't like" and "hate".

 

[Raven]

Audi drivers.