Funny threads

[tst]

There's a long and silly LV discussion over at the daily WTF (please, do me a favor. Don't get involved. We've already made all the relevant points and it's dying down). A considerable part of that discussion (which was completely unrelated to the original post) was about how it's "literally spaghetti code" and what "literal" means and at last someone responded by saying:

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Captain Oblivious:

As a matter of fact, that code looked like spaghetti...

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Yes, of course I know what spaghetti looks like: it's 1-2 pixels wide, rainbow-colored or black, arranged to bend at right angles and generally served in a stark white sauce. I'm not arguing that.

But I am missing the definition for literal that means "looks like". Perhaps my online dictionary is an older edition than yours".

So at least I got one good laugh and a good LV quote out of that discussion.

[Ray.R]

I wouldn't want to debug that code  😮

Yikes!!!

[pallen]

A PHP programmer friend of mine pointed me to that discussion a couple of days ago. Seems like the discussion got a lot larger since then.

He actually thought the code there looked pretty easy to follow. Although he's already seen much nicer looking LabVIEW code, and I'm glad that someone posted a better example of some. 

The demotivational poster with the hieroglyphics is funny though.

[paulmw]

This thread is only funny because when I read "Global Worming" I immediately thought of this thread and thought to myself maybe it's not a typo.

[Ben]

No not a thread but while installing 2011 I found myself smiling when asked;

"I agree to these 15 EULAs !"

Ben

[SteveChandler]

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@Ben wrote:

No not a thread but while installing 2011 I found myself smiling when asked;

"I agree to these 15 EULAs !"

Ben

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To make sure people read those, if it were up to me I would put something in the middle like "Licensee agrees to grant all past, current and future income from any source to licenesor"

Who knows what I have agreed to. I just click on accept and hope for the best.

[Mark_Yedinak]

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@Steve Chandler wrote:

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@Ben wrote:

No not a thread but while installing 2011 I found myself smiling when asked;

"I agree to these 15 EULAs !"

Ben

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To make sure people read those, if it were up to me I would put something in the middle like "Licensee agrees to grant all past, current and future income from any source to licenesor"

Who knows what I have agreed to. I just click on accept and hope for the best.

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This is akin to the Van Halen's brown M & M's clause in their concert contracts.

[SnowMule]

From a few years ago... sometimes it pays to read the EULA.

http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp

[Halden]

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers
"Write in C."

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,

for science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you've just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.

And when the screen is fuzzy,

And the editor is bugging me.
I'm sick of ones and zeroes.
Write in C.

A thousand people swear that T.P.
Seven is the one for me.
I hate the word PROCEDURE,
Write in C.

Entangled, colored lines I see
Icons seem placed randomly
LabVIEW: Unspecified error occurred.
Write in C

[EvenDeejay]

I think you're in the wrong street, pal!