Can somebody (meaning Asher) explain to me why this is even legal?

[Fve Crathva]

Microsoft is well-known for its humorous code samples.

SP

[Berzerker]

nerds




sorry



funny movie

[Asher]

What's that? I can't hear you, Berz, over the overpowering sound of money funneling into my bank account.

HC: http://news.usethesource.com/

[Berzerker]

yes yes, that was 1 of the morals of the story

I just wish I could understand basic troubleshooting

whats the link for?

[Asher]

Links to beautiful code

[KrazyHorse]

What's that? I can't hear you, Berz, over the overpowering sound of money funneling into my bank account.

HC: http://news.usethesource.com/

Bad physics programmers get paid more than good compsci programmers...

[Asher]

Bad physics programmers get paid more than good compsci programmers...

Most physics programmers don't get paid ****.

[KrazyHorse]

That's because they choose to do physics....

[Asher]

Yeah, well, while you physics types waste time programming theoretical **** no one uses, people like me do all the real work in the world.

I just wrote a program this week to spam terribly-produced, cheap small business video commercials to about twenty different video websites in one shot online.

Suck on that.

[DaShi]

The main problem with Javascript is that the people who write in it tend to be stupid.

Here's code MS wrote for Sharepoint:

function DeferCall() {
    if (arguments.length == 0) {
        return null;
    }
    var args = arguments;
    var fn = null;
    if (browseris.ie5up || browseris.nav6up) {
        eval("if (typeof(" + args[0] + ")=='function') { fn=" + args[0] + "; }");
    }
    if (fn == null) { return null; }
    if (args.length == 1) {
     return fn();
    } else if (args.length == 2) {
        return fn(args[1]);
    } else if (args.length == 3) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2]);
    } else if (args.length == 4) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3]);
    } else if (args.length == 5) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4]);
    } else if (args.length == 6) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5]);
    } else if (args.length == 7) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6]);
    } else if (args.length == 8) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7]);
    } else if (args.length == 9) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8]);
    } else if (args.length == 10) {
        return fn(args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8], args[9]);
    } else {
        var L_TooManyDefers_Text = "Too many arguments passed to DeferCall"
        alert(L_TooManyDefers_Text);
    }
    return null;
}

(the purpose of the code is to get around IE5 Javascript limitations, but there's much better ways to do this)

This should be a xkcd comic. :wiglaf:

[Grandpa Troll]

Yeah, well, while you physics types waste time programming theoretical **** no one uses, people like me do all the real work in the world.

I just wrote a program this week to spam terribly-produced, cheap small business video commercials to about twenty different video websites in one shot online.

Suck on that.

I am a layman and a babe in the woods in respect to technology, however, whenever I want expert advice, I have allways known Asher to be the man on most issues, including ruling most debates

[KrazyHorse]

Yeah, well, while you physics types waste time programming theoretical **** no one uses, people like me do all the real work in the world.

I just wrote a program this week to spam terribly-produced, cheap small business video commercials to about twenty different video websites in one shot online.

Suck on that.

This week I wrote a program to check data quality on a few thousand timeseries and investigate the effect of bad data on various risk measures.

The results caused us to change the sourcing of a number of datastreams...

[Hauldren Collider]

OK, I have an actual javascript question now for Asher/Kuciwalker:

Let's say I'm doing a regular expression so I have
someString.replace(/^@/,"")
What does the /stuff/ mean? If I were using regexes in another programming language, could I just replace it with quotes?

[KrazyHorse]

According to some documentation I'm reading right now AUD = Austrian Dollar.

Somebody post that photograph with kangaroos and Hitler...

[Asher]

OK, I have an actual javascript question now for Asher/Kuciwalker:

Let's say I'm doing a regular expression so I have
someString.replace(/^@/,"")
What does the /stuff/ mean? If I were using regexes in another programming language, could I just replace it with quotes?

Depending on the language, yes. /pattern/ is just how regexp patterns are denoted in JS. That particular expression, as I'm sure you know, removes preceding '@' from a string.