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Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by rzzzt »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #10

"The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. So Notepad++ is the best. " Logically incorrect. Maybe that is the joke. Should be: "The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. Therefore if something is not free, it cannot be one of the best things, or notepad++"

The joke is indeed the false syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism#Syllogistic_fallacie...

Well deduced!

Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by genocidicbunny »

gregjor wrote: post #4

ROTFL. Enough for ten standup routines in there. "Take my Surface Pro 3, PLEASE!" The only funny thing about that code is that someone took the time to type in hundreds of "funny" and "inspirational" quotes into the source code, gone to die in the depths of Notepad++.

The following wchar_t* wtf[] has an interesting tail string too.

Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by dlivingston »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #10

"The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. So Notepad++ is the best. " Logically incorrect. Maybe that is the joke. Should be: "The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. Therefore if something is not free, it cannot be one of the best things, or notepad++"

Something something "like dissecting a frog."

Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by vincnetas »

It's curious to see how these quotes add over time and how they progress from dad jokes to more sophisticated, event statements

  Empty your memory, with a free(), like a pointer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a integer, it becomes the integer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a struct, it becomes the struct.\nThe pointer can crash, and can overflow.\nBe a pointer my friend."
or

  Freedom of expression is like the air we breathe, we don't feel it, until people take it away from us.\n\nFor this reason, Je suis Charlie, not because I endorse everything they published, but because I cherish the right to speak out freely without risk even when it offends others.\nAnd no, you cannot just take someone's life for whatever he/she expressed.\n\nHence this \"Je suis Charlie\" edition.\n

Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by jmnicolas »

>"Je mange donc je chie."

Roughly : "I eat therefore I shit"

I never understood devs that do this, it reflects very poorly on them and it doesn't bring anything to the table. Way to show your immaturity.

I write code since 2006, 99% of it is private and is mostly read by me and I still don't do this.

Re: CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

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Post by user_ »

vincnetas wrote: post #16

It's curious to see how these quotes add over time and how they progress from dad jokes to more sophisticated, event statements Empty your memory, with a free(), like a pointer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a integer, it becomes the integer.\nIf you cast a pointer to a struct, it becomes the struct.\nThe pointer can crash, and can overflow.\nBe a pointer my friend." or Freedom of expression is like the air we breathe, w…

The first one is based on a Bruce Lee quote :)

> Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. Now water can flow, or it can crash! Be water, my friend.

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