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Post by TamDenholm »

One point i'd like to make. I think its great that people get tattoos that mean something to them, and i'd totally get a code tattoo too, but i dont believe tattoos HAVE to mean something to get them. All the tattoos i have dont have any meaning behind them other than "just because i like it" and while a deep emotional connection with a tattoo is great, dont talk yourself out of getting a tattoo if theres no meaning behind it, if the only reason is, "because you like it", thats a great reason too.

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#33

Post by mhd »

This will be fun once the language's popularity wanes. Imagine an old guy on his walker with an "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION." tattoo…

As for this particular item, I'm not a big tattoo fan in general and have a particular disdain for writing – it's usually pretty bad typography. While this isn't all-caps badly kerned blackletter, it kinda looks like someone invented an automated prison tattoo maker. Sorry.

PS: I know, being German I'm not allowed to mention "identification" and "tattoo" in the same sentence, but my knowledge of COBOL divisons is lacking.

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Post by _corbett »

TamDenholm wrote: post #31

One point i'd like to make. I think its great that people get tattoos that mean something to them, and i'd totally get a code tattoo too, but i dont believe tattoos HAVE to mean something to get them. All the tattoos i have dont have any meaning behind them other than "just because i like it" and while a deep emotional connection with a tattoo is great, dont talk yourself out of getting a tattoo if theres no meaning…

my tattoo means something to me (a stylized hydrogen atom; I'm a physicist) but it also has multiple meanings and is first and foremost an aesthetic decision.

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Post by inoop »

camtarn wrote: post #28
asclepiades wrote: post #26

And in 2060 developers will probably think something like what would think today, if shown a tattoo of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" in the flaccid forearm of a 70-year-old. Still, much, much better than those at Hanzi Smatter [ http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ ].

Speaking for myself, if I saw a COBOL tattoo, I'd most likely think "Duuuude, old school... respect!" ;) Not so sure about JS though - is it perhaps more likely to seem like Visual Basic in 40 years? As a JS monkey myself, though, I like it* :) As for alternatives... would a Lisp tattoo be better? * Apart from the i coming out of nowhere, which keeps setting off my this-is-a-bug alarm ;)

    mov ax,13h
    int 10h

Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.

#38

Post by ataggart »

mhd wrote: post #33

This will be fun once the language's popularity wanes. Imagine an old guy on his walker with an "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION." tattoo… As for this particular item, I'm not a big tattoo fan in general and have a particular disdain for writing – it's usually pretty bad typography. While this isn't all-caps badly kerned blackletter, it kinda looks like someone invented an automated prison tattoo maker. Sorry. PS: I know, be…

Thus if one is to tattoo code, it should be in lisp.

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#39

Post by CGamesPlay »

JimSangwine wrote: post #2

I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied. Jim Sangwine

I wanted to raise two points about your explanation: First, while the function j is a closure, the anonymous function is not; it is simply a higher-order function. Second, i is indeed undefined, but this will not cause a reference error, it will simply push undefined into the array. That's all :)
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