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I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied. Jim Sangwine
Perhaps you might wish to name your variables? The tattoo will be read more often than it is written.
Personally, I like to name anonymous functions (function foo () {}) so when a stack trace occurs, you know where. For example, if you get a second tattoo in future!
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 ;)
And of course a Lisp tattoo would be better! ;)
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It seems you did not realize that you are replying to the tattoo's owner. However, your point stands if I mentally modify some pronouns and expresses my own sentiments as well. Tattoos, piercings, hair coloring, makeup, clothing are often for ourselves, not for being pretentious.
Tattoos, piercings, hair coloring, makeup, clothing are often for ourselves, not for being pretentious. And yet he posts it on the web, and specifically asks for other people's opinions. In my experience people who very much care what others think of them, often claim not care what others think of them.
The solution as usual is to add a level of indirection - a tattoo of a QR code pointing to a URL. That way when you change your girlfriend you can change the content.
function intersectRect(r1, r2) {
return !(r2.left > r1.right ||
r2.right r1.bottom ||
r2.bottom Do you remember the hacker emblem? http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/
How about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden_(cellular_automa...
It is the smallest Garden of Eden, is rotationally symmetric, evolves to nothing, and looks cool.
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…
One thing I would agree with you on though - what an odd typography choice. Why not a monospaced typeface?! :)