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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

#392

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It's easy enough to use a single "and" in a sentence, but "and and" and "and and and" and so on are more difficult

Clearly you've never taught intro boolean logic. Try saying "a Nand and an And" in a way that your students can understand you.

May depend on pronounciation .. do you pronounce the NAND gate as /æn-ænd/ or as a one-syllable world /nænd/ ?

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

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post #203

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But why it even happened? Typically you run Flume over docjoins in your project’s quota. If you screw up, all that should happen is that your Flume job is out of quota.

This was in the Borg days, pre-Flume. As I remember, we had at least one Borg cluster to ourselves for indexing. Our quota was a cluster. We cared because indexing latency is important. Engineers get paged and woken up in the middle of the night when indexing latency gets high. Doubling CPU usage meant doubling indexing latency. The pre-Percolator indexing system ran roughly 1,000 threads per box on roughly 1,000 War…

> As I remember, we had at least one Borg cluster to ourselves for indexing. Our quota was a cluster.

> Also, the indexing system's quota is huge.

Well, it might no longer be the case, but for a number of years the indexing cluster was the largest in the entire fleet, especially when it came to memory. I don't know if you were around in the days of yl-i (I think), but it was edifying to rank it against the Top500...

Was the datacenter engineer Peter P?

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

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It helped me empathize with young engineers dealing with their first high responsibility bug. About 4 years ago, I was managing a guy right out of school who pushed a minor bug that broke real-time risk calculations for a major multinational financial institution in the middle of the European trading day, prior to the NYC open, and people were yelling over email that they were trading blind. Someone had committed an…

It's your fault, you were the manager, the yelling should not even have leaked to the developer, it should have stopped with you. Edit: if you are managing someone who is new in a job, it's your job to make sure they don't push bugs to break important stuff in the first place.

Did you consider the fact that you probably know nothing about the dynamics of their workplace, the structure of their management/leadership, etc. before assigning blame?

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

#395

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…

It seems like cheating to omit the double quotes around the literal instances of “and” while still including them around “Dog and Partridge.”

They said grammatically correct, not typographically correct ;-)

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

#396

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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?

Can't one just keep recursing further? Only with very careful intonation and appropriate pauses after a comma can someone read Gardner's above sentence aloud such that a listener can fully grok the connection between "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," an…

If you want to draw the graph where nodes are words from your comment, and two nodes are connected when they contain the same letters, you would have to draw edges between and and and, and and and and, and ...

Explodes even faster.

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

#397

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I don’t think laziness (in this comment or the ones about the bash-like C macros) is the right word. I guess there is some pressure/tiredness/newness/taste/external factors driving the choices, test count, and style guide aberrations.

Probably typing on a non english keyboard. When I learned C a long time ago, I read somewhere 'isnt it nice that one doesnt need a lot of keystrokes like for begin and end', and I thought pls give me begin and end instead of this unpleasent slow hand movement.

Spot on. It's the reason many non-native speaker developers I know nevertheless use an English keyboard layout. I personally made my own hybrid layout that is basically an English US layout with the letters rearranged according to my native layout.

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

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try /s at the end of "offending" sentence, most people will look at it more kindly.

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> Consistently having trouble identifying sarcasm in print—without the "help" of idiotic illiterate marks like "/s"—is one of the signs of autism

Autistic people exist, and read things on the internet. Attempts to help them are neither "idiotic" nor "illiterate".

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

#399

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…

> "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

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

#400

``` TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'C') at Ccf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) at Bcf ( https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/js/157553674-... ) ``` Has something to do with grammar. The document does not fail when `Show grammar suggestion` is turned off.

Parsing arbitrary user-provided input? What could possibly go wrong?
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