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Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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Some people just don't like the overall crudening of society. Get over it.

I do think it’s an important social issue though. Swear words communicate important and precise emotions that no other words can communicate. I totally understand why some words aren’t appropriate in a given social setting but it doesn’t mean the words are forbidden. Also those words can hurt when they are directed towards someone and you have to be cautious with them. But sometimes you want to hurt someone, sometime…

> precise

I wouldn't call "fuck" precise. Its meaning is highly context dependent. Examples of use range from from disappointment (fuck) to anger (fuck you) to surprise (the fuck?) to delight ('merica, fuck yeah) to contempt (clusterfuck). It's closer to an intensifier than a precise denotation of a particular emotion, because it evades a precise meaning.

Other words certainly can communicate the same semantic function, but there isn't one that covers them all, even though shit comes close, which is a statement about the Freudian mind if there ever was one.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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Being the only true 2-dimensional language, Befunge only needs the square root of the lines of code to build an equivalent program to puny 1-dimensional programs like Brainfuck or C++. Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers.

> Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers. Best sales slogan of the year.

I like how we haven't specified whether x is greater than or less than one.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

#146
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being the only true 2-dimensional language, Befunge only needs the square root of the lines of code to build an equivalent program to puny 1-dimensional programs like Brainfuck or C++. Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers.

> Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers. Best sales slogan of the year.

But what if my X is only ~1–2? Should I continue hiring the 10X engineers? Someone explain it to me in a PowerPoint.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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> Stop trying to hire 10X engineers. Befunge applications are built by true X² engineers. Best sales slogan of the year.

I like how we haven't specified whether x is greater than or less than one.

I love that we complain about that before asking what we're measuring or whether higher or lower numbers are better.

If you are asking such questions you aren't who I'm talking to and you need to leave the room immediately.

Re: Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions

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post #144
post #58

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I do think it’s an important social issue though. Swear words communicate important and precise emotions that no other words can communicate. I totally understand why some words aren’t appropriate in a given social setting but it doesn’t mean the words are forbidden. Also those words can hurt when they are directed towards someone and you have to be cautious with them. But sometimes you want to hurt someone, sometime…

> precise I wouldn't call "fuck" precise. Its meaning is highly context dependent. Examples of use range from from disappointment ( fuck ) to anger ( fuck you ) to surprise ( the fuck? ) to delight ( 'merica, fuck yeah ) to contempt ( clusterfuck ). It's closer to an intensifier than a precise denotation of a particular emotion, because it evades a precise meaning. Other words certainly can communicate the same seman…

Abstaining from extraneous precision is itself a kind of precision.
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