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On 17-2-2009 18:02, Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> Nothing is faster than C, some wise men said. ;)
>
> Someone claimed to me once that fortran has some tricks in its sleeve with
> certain types of mathematical programming that allows it to generate much
> faster code than C can. In order to get the same speed with C you have to
> resort to (obviously non-portable) inline asm.
>
The 'common block'?
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On 17-2-2009 19:59, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Clique -- A close-knit, usually exclusionary, group.
>
> Oh. Right.
>
> How the heck do you pronounce that?
>
I would say cleek
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> alphaQuad wrote:
>
>> From NORML Board member George Rohrbacher:
>> NORML's Valentine To Jonathan Magbie: Patron Saint Of Unicorns
>>
>
> Isn't that a bunch of pot-smoking hippies bent on the legalization of
> the drug of their choice?
A couple fellows at one of our overseas military bases decided one day
to smoke some marijuana on base. This is, as most people know, against
military regulation as well as civil law, and is grounds for immediate
separation from the service.
The batch of weed these guys scored was particularly good, from the
perspective of those who smoke it. They began to feel nice and
wonderful, to the point that they began to say things like this, rather
loudly:
"Hey! Hey you! Wanna smoke some weed with us?"
I suppose that most people did not offer any immediate reply, but one
fellow said that he would join them in just a moment.
"Okay, man!" the two smokers said in turn.
The person who had responded to their invitation went immediately to the
nearest security police and notified them of the ongoing illicit
activity, and the SPs apprehended the smoking duo shortly afterwards.
This is why you should never smoke marijuana: It makes you dumb enough
to forget that it's illegal.
Regards,
John
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:23:55 -0600, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> I raise you "Machine code" :)
>
>More pain != faster :-P
LOL
--
Regards
Stephen
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>> But, I find it ironic that one of his admonishments was not to derail
>> the thread, only to see there is a large part of this thread that has
>> absolutely nothing to do with the original topic. Delightfully hijacked.
>
> Yes, I had noticed that as well - beautifully done, everyone! ;-)
Yes, yes, it was me, I plead guilty, and at the count of three I pull
back the duvet, make may way to the refrigerator, one dry potatoe
inside... er, wait...
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I see two possibilities:
>
> - Everybody else on the Internet is an asshole.
>
> - I'm an asshole.
From a scientific-analytical point of view, I note that these two possibilities
are not mutually exclusive, and that Occam's Razor favors the notion that you
are in no way special...
.... I leave it up to you to figure out what that means :P
(Yes, same goes for me of course ;))
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> It got to the point where I'd see a post from Warp saying that Haskell
> sucks because of X, and I'd spent half an hour trying to come up with a
> reason why X is false. It ceased to be about the truth, and about
> wanting to be right. I *wanted* Haskell to be the best.
>
> But wanting something to be true doesn't make it true. And,
> unfortunately for me, Warp is right, as usual. Haskell sucks. And no
> amount of words from me is going to change it. My pride and joy actually
> sucks, and I can't do anything about it.
Welcome to the club.
> Yet again, the Haskell mailing lists collectively have more PhDs than
> you can shake a stick at. There are people there who know the difference
> between an endomorphism and an epimorphism, and people who actually
> comprehend the Curry-Howard isomorphism. And, almost unanimously, they
> all regard me as some kind of troll. They think I'm there just to cause
> disruption.
Hum... just put them in your shoes for a change: There they are, possibly
believing that Haskell is THE WAY like you did. Here comes a newbie daring to
ask QUESTIONS about THE WAY... what if they don't manage to come up with
ANSWERS?
It's much easier finding reasons to call someone a troll than it is to put one's
own firm beliefs to the test - especially if deep down in your heart you're not
*that* sure about it.
> Nobody else on the forum gets singled out as a troll. (Except for that
> one guy who really *is* a troll!) Lots of other people, many of them
> beginners like myself, manage to coexist quite happily. So clearly I
> personally must be doing something very wrong to attract this kind of
> negative attention.
Or maybe you're doing something very right.
Ever read the Bible? World-famous epic story, with Episode II featuring some guy
who is thought by some to have done virtually *everything* right. Still suffered
from a similar problem. The academics of his time didn't just call him a troll
though.
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John VanSickle wrote:
> This is why you should never smoke marijuana: It makes you dumb enough
> to forget that it's illegal.
I'm so gonna use that in a signature somewhere XD
--
~Mike
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:58:33 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>>> But, I find it ironic that one of his admonishments was not to derail
>>> the thread, only to see there is a large part of this thread that has
>>> absolutely nothing to do with the original topic. Delightfully
>>> hijacked.
>>
>> Yes, I had noticed that as well - beautifully done, everyone! ;-)
>
> Yes, yes, it was me, I plead guilty, and at the count of three I pull
> back the duvet, make may way to the refrigerator, one dry potatoe
> inside... er, wait...
LOL
Jim
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>>> Yes, I had noticed that as well - beautifully done, everyone! ;-)
>> Yes, yes, it was me, I plead guilty, and at the count of three I pull
>> back the duvet, make may way to the refrigerator, one dry potatoe
>> inside... er, wait...
>
> LOL
*bows*
10 points for naming the source.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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