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Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by pferde »

nonsince wrote: post #331
astrange wrote: post #262

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This is the strangest parsing fact I've learned since PHP having a token named T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. (Because the parser was developed in Israel.) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322/php-expects-t-paa...

I don’t speak hebrew but someone online said that this is an unnecessarily literal translation of "double colon" and it’s not what most developers would call it. Take that with a grain of salt though.

The history of that entire fiasco is quite comprehensivly summarized at https://phil.tech/2013/wtf-is-t-paamayim-nekudotayim/ .

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by hackernewds »

roughly wrote: post #284
patneedham wrote: post #102

Discovered by Eliza Callahan triggered by a poem in the middle of her novel. (Friend of a coworker) That poem can be found here: https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site/ - if viewing on mobile you have to Request Desktop Site for some reason, at least on Android it initially shows up as a Lorem Ipsum page

As arguments for the thesis that the tech world needs to embrace the humanities go, an author discovering a bug in a google product by writing a poem is pretty good, if maybe a bit too on the nose.

Perhaps that is the missing link for why tech is so artificial and not humanly. we could use some more art than capitalistic efficiency in the Apple logo

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by hackernewds »

justinpombrio wrote: post #169
AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

Here's 21 in a row, by Martin Gardner: Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign’ have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

This one does not follow as well

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by vijayr02 »

rolandog wrote: post #296
stevage wrote: post #251

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I mean, if you're allowing that, what's wrong with: > You should have seen this sign, it had 1000 ands in a row, and there was too much space between and and and and and and and and and ...

He has multiplied the ands. Pray he does not multiply them any further.

The ands justify the means

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by sgtnoodle »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #242
a-dub wrote: post #217

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also, just to be clear. the macro only included open and close curlies? if so that's silly, as it is literally 2x the work to type. if they also included some sort of state that had to be managed, then it starts to verge towards reasonable.

It would be sorta reasonable in a header that only your code uses and is unlikely to be transitively included from elsewhere.

You'd be surprised where your code ends up getting used in a monorepo when you have thousands of software engineers all working on it.

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by zelphirkalt »

rolandog wrote: post #296
stevage wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, if you're allowing that, what's wrong with: > You should have seen this sign, it had 1000 ands in a row, and there was too much space between and and and and and and and and and ...

He has multiplied the ands. Pray he does not multiply them any further.

It is called the "and bomb".

Re: Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

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Post by jseban »

alasdair_ wrote: post #333
jseban wrote: post #325

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> There is a point where someone has to put their foot down and demand things be done properly, otherwise the inevitable consequence is a giant mess leading to disaster. This is what management is for, too bad tech companies are too cool for that and prefer to live out lord of the flies.

I’d rather have software engineers make the decisions about software engineering than insist managers do that job.

What if the manager is a software engineer?

I would just like to know exactly how are the engineers going to make the decisions, and the key point here being that they are in plural.

They all have different opinions, preferences, levels of ambition etc, how does this spontaneously merge into a cohesive team that pulls into the same direction?

It doesn't, in any other type of group in all of society. Every group needs a leader, so how is this spontaneously going to "just work" in software engineering?

If you don't want to have a manager, you have to have something else. Democracy? Plutocracy? Gerontocracy?

I think it's pretty obvious that just leaving it to chance is not going to be efficient or any type of healthy environment, and will probably quickly start to resemble something pretty nasty, especially because their livelihood is on the line.

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