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

#71

My favourite one so far: > No one ever makes a billion dollars. > You TAKE a billion dollars. Quite relevant to the vulture capitalists and their fans who frequent this site.

This only makes sense from a naively individualist perspective. If no one ever made a billion dollars, so to speak, there would be no money at all.

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

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I can't believe that I just created a few lines of C driver to print out the messages: Good programmers use Notepad++ to code. Extreme programmers use MS Word to code, in Comic Sans, center aligned. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor. A good programmer is someone who always l…

What line is it on?

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/...

It's just the Space Invaders ASCII art. But fun, good times. :)

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

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post #71

My favourite one so far: > No one ever makes a billion dollars. > You TAKE a billion dollars. Quite relevant to the vulture capitalists and their fans who frequent this site.

This only makes sense from a naively individualist perspective. If no one ever made a billion dollars, so to speak, there would be no money at all.

> If no one ever made a billion dollars, so to speak, there would be no money at all.

Could you please elaborate?

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

#75

"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++"

If you read “is” as “equals”, then the best things in life are Notepad++.

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

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post #71

My favourite one so far: > No one ever makes a billion dollars. > You TAKE a billion dollars. Quite relevant to the vulture capitalists and their fans who frequent this site.

This only makes sense from a naively individualist perspective. If no one ever made a billion dollars, so to speak, there would be no money at all.

It also makes sense from a marxist perspective. How billionaires/capitalists take the surplus value from manual labour and all that untrendy stuff.

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

#78

> The best things in life are free. > Notepad++ is free. > So Notepad++ is the best. I have never come accross a more valid argument. I, however, can't say the same about it's soundness XD

We are missing a premise about whether Notepad++ is a thing in life.

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

#80
Translations for the few quotes that are in French:

> Je mange donc je chie. — Don Ho

"I eat therefore I shit." It's a pun on René Descartes' "Je pense donc je suis" (I think, therefore I am).

> Mathématiquement, un cocu est un entier qui partage sa moitié avec un tiers.

"Mathematically, a cuckold is a whole who shares his half with a third [party]."

> Si un jour une chaise te dit que t'as un joli cul, tu xtrouveras ça bizarre mais c'est juste un compliment d'objet direct.

"If some day a chair tells you you have a pretty ass, you'll find that weird but it's just a direct object compliment." It's a pun on "complément d'objet direct" (the object that is put directly after a transitive verb), intentionally being misspelled as "compliment d'objet direct" to mean that it's a direct compliment from an object.

> Mon pied droit est jaloux de mon pied gauche. Quand l'un avance, l'autre veut le dépasser. Et moi, comme un imbécile, je marche ! — Raymond Devos

"My right foot is jealous of my left foot. When one goes forward, the other wants to overtake it. And I, like an imbecile, I'm walking!

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