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What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception

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Re: What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception

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Inception also understands "Big Oh" ideas -- when you are looping inside the third level down, you have 10 seconds on the outside giving you 10^3 seconds on the inside. (EDIT: a single "tick" in one level allows for 20 or so "ticks" at the next level of dreaming, because of extra brain capacity during sleep.)

Hehe -- I loved the movie...

Re: What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a Programmer Sees When He or She Watches Inception does not have the same panache.

What a Programmer Sees When Watching Inception is just as good, and makes no unwarranted assumptions.

"He" is a common vernacular; get off your soapbox.

Re: What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception

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What if she watches it?

What a Programmer Sees When He or She Watches Inception does not have the same panache.

I've never understood the animosity towards overloading `they` as a neuter singular pronoun. It doesn't seem to introduce any sort of ambiguity in the language and replaces a whole slurry of fumbling and hackish attempts with a single widely understood syllable. It's damned convenient.

Of course, I also hold a disdain for "proper quoting".

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