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Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by devbug »

akavel wrote: post #154
wingerlang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.

I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…

I just pasted a picture to heavy machinery.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by oaktowner »

VikingCoder wrote: post #9
kittenfluff wrote: post #7

=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).

I thought all of the words were perfectly cromulent.

They're great words to learn for anyone wishing to embiggen their vocabulary.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by TallGuyShort »

akavel wrote: post #154
wingerlang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.

I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…

My phone was going put 'Cat', but I corrected it to match 'cat'. I'd be curious to know how many people on smartphones would do the same.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by Arelius »

akavel wrote: post #154
wingerlang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.

I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…

not to mention the obvious ones

- Cat

- Cat.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by TallGuyShort »

brianwawok wrote: post #29

So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.

I don't do it that often, but that is my preferred way of doing it. Eliminates the problem of having 7 socks with no matches. Eliminates the need to pair them when doing laundry or when getting dressed. And generally all my socks wear out within a couple of months of each other anyway.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by kenbellows »

Balgair wrote: post #137

I wonder how many responses of : Cantaloupe');DROP TABLE Food;-- ol' Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab): Cantaloupe'); clear all; clc; close all;

yeah it's going into a docs spreadsheet rather than a db, at least directly, so I don't think he has much to worry about

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by icebraining »

Gravityloss wrote: post #40
brianwawok wrote: post #29

So is the last question not a common thing? Because I do it every year or so, but my wife thinks I am crazy.

I think that is very wasteful. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshw...

"Throwing out" doesn't mean "destroy". There are plenty of people who could use socks in decent condition, so it's not a waste.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by irishcoffee »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #59
brianwawok wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, I run 6 days a week so my running socks get beat up pretty bad. When they are dead, I need to throw them out. So my options are: 1) Buy 1 new pack of socks, throw out 6 old socks - repeat every month. Doing it this way I have to match socks between several different styles. or 2) Put 4 packs of socks, throw out all of my socks, repeat 4x less often. Also I have no matching to do, as all of my socks are the sa…

My son just picks two in the dark and wears them. He wanted an outward sign of his nerd cred. If they matched, he used to pick again. But he stopped doing that, because if he really didn't care, he would wear matching socks too. Has he reached some higher level of Nerdvana?

I do that just because I'm too lazy to match my socks, or I only have a few clean socks left and none of them match. I can't honestly say I've ever thought about it from a 'what would someone else think?' perspective before reading your comment. Heh, maybe people think I'm colorblind and are just too polite to ask, or nobody notices.

I can't say I notice other peoples socks either now that I think about it.

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