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

#141
That's great, and it's not all CS quotes. It reminds me of the quotes from the old UNIX fortune program [1] that many systems or accounts would be configured to use to show a quote on each login.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) https://github.com/bmc/fortunes/blob/master/fortunes

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

#145

>"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.

> I write code since 2006, 99% of it is private and author of Notepad++ made an open-source project used on a massive scale (none is obligated it to work on open source, but I consider it admirable and praiseworthy, especially if someone is doing it successfully and helping many other people) > it reflects very poorly on them why?

The envy of the slave for the free.

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

#146
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.

You're assuming that the statement vacuously means "money is never made," which is not what it's getting at. The point is that nobody has ever become a billionaire without manipulating markets, exploiting employees, misleading investors, or otherwise abusing the fabric of society to squeeze wealth out of the rest of the world. The guy who invents the thing isn't the one who gets rich. It's his employer who profits off of it. It's not hard to make money, but it's impossible to make a billion dollars. You can only get that much by taking it.

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

#147
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.

Not sure what is special about billion dollars in your statement.

If no one ever made 10^100 dollars, there would be no money at all.

So ... there is no money?

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

#148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this huge C++ file and I raise you a Java file that's so enormous github refuses to render it: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...

> public class ChatActivity extends BaseFragment implements NotificationCenter.NotificationCenterDelegate, DialogsActivity.DialogsActivityDelegate, LocationActivity.LocationActivityDelegate, ChatAttachAlertDocumentLayout.DocumentSelectActivityDelegate, FragmentContextView.ChatActivityInterface, FloatingDebugProvider Someone call a priest

For a second I thought we'd entered the realm of the truly cursed, known as "Multiple Inheritance".

Then I saw the subtle 'implements', which brought immediate repose to my soul.

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

#149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you talking about news.ycombinator.com ? If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well. And this is completely off topic.

No, they are talking about GitHub's website, which wastes a lot of horizontal space only to then show a horizontal scrollbar within the content: https://i.imgur.com/HkgCq98.png If it did not explicitly set a max width, then the code would be much more convenient to read: https://i.imgur.com/hxoHJHM.png It's a critique of overarching design consistency trumping actual usability. --- Though to be fair it is still again…

Thank you for giving a link with these quotes, I haven't seen it before I tried to open link from your screenshot. BTW I do not see no issues:

https://imgur.com/a/2Kq4K4r

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

#150

I actually tested a bunch of those on GH Copilot -- sure enough, it does autocomplete certain prompts. No wonder, some are probably known quotes. Anyway, when I'm feeling down in my VSCode environment, I enter some random prompts in search of a pun. Most of the time it's just random rambling but hey: # (prompt: my dog ...) seems to be interested in the plot. # I wonder what the dog is thinking about. # Probably about…

Did you feed the dog?
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