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It will return false if the member "isAlphaNumeric" is set to false and value is a kind of alphanumeric. The return value of the method is completely independent from the parameter "value".
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When was the last time that you read this?
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The fucking forum software ate half of my answer, but you sounded like you really needed to know, so I'll try to reproduce what I wrote:
Actually, yes, I'm a quite peaceful person despite the fact that I'm 6', 200lbs, lean with 18" upper arms, and have been training various martial arts ever since I was 13. I only had two (more or less) real fights since that time, both times when I was still a teenager. In both cases, I successfully employed a single technique from Shotokan Karate, and, again in both cases, my opponent did not choose to continue the fight. In the latter case, my opponent was prepared to block or parry my strike, and success was owed to the fact that my punches (and kicks) are a lot faster than anything you typically see in a boxfight. He didn't even start to move as my fist already struck him in the stomach, making him (a 220lbs+ somewhat overweight but strong man) stumble backwards with a dazzled look on his face. I'll be forever grateful for my Karate teachers who showed me the power of Ki, that's for certain.
As I have gained a lot of muscle mass since then and adapted some techniques that are much more powerful than anything I learned at the Shotokan Dojo, I'm quite glad that I managed to stay out of fights ever since.
Thanks for asking.
PS: Stop behaving like a betazoid. Your as poor a psychic as that idiot emptyset.
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Karate cannot stop the bullet of a disgruntled employee spraying the office with a semi-automatic.
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The definition of "regular expression" is and always has been a grammar for a regular language, which can be accepted by an FSM. And Perl has some, eh, interesting extensions to the concept, but that doesn't make them regular.
But I doubt Perl "regexps" are Turing complete, if that means "accept any language a turing machine can accept". I mean, are there goto-labels and look-ahead/move-back operations in Perl's matcher???
In that case, I would love to see your Perl regexp for a valid C (typechecking and everything). Or, for starters, I would like to see a Perl regexp for checking multiplications, so that "21*3=63" is accepted, but "21*3=36" isn't. And that for all expressions, of course. I'm really curious if that could be done.
If you can manage, I'm sure that will be a very, very big WTF in itself.
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<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>the idiot here is the person that took my description of regexes seriously.</FONT>
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1.4, so no now new.
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My ninja karate backslapping skills can deflect anything. Even bullets.
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Like anyone cares...
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First of all - sure sign that you're an idiot: not understanding the difference between "your" and "you're"
Second: your need to brag on the Internet about your muscle mass is even more pathetic than you posting on the Internet how you're going to cause physical harm to people over poor coding.
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he must be cruising for gay guys
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I'm sorry. People outside the US often have a problem imagining what it's like to live in a country where every psychotic may (and does) own a semi-automatic.
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It's a misnomer. They should've called them "irregular expressions". ;)
Hmm, I checked this again, and now I'm not certain whether "pure" recursive Perl regexes are Turing-complete. Maybe the people who started the rumor misunderstood something: There are Perl regexes that cannot be matched by either a finite automaton or even a stack machine (like context-free languages can). The primality tester would be an example. But that doesn't mean they are necessarily Turing-complete.
Your multiplication challenge is easily solved: /^(\d+)\*(\d+)=(??{$1*$2})$/
But then, I'm probably cheating. It must be possible to build a universal turing machine using dynamic regexes like this, since they can include arbitrary Perl code, but for static ones, I'm not so sure anymore.
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Let's see - it's a mistake that happened because it was late in the night, and the forum software swallowed half of my first post so I had to rewrite it. And this particular mistake is made so often even by native speakers that (unfortunately) I may have started to grow somewhat accustomed to it. Obviously, the true idiot is the one who judges another's mental condition by such a trifle. Not that I cared much, though - it's reasonably safe to assume that my English is still far superior to your German.
As I already wrote (those who can read may have noticed) the "physical harm" thing was ironical hyperbole, and it was intended primarily as a play on words. Some people may have found it funny, others may have found it boring, but in any case it was very obviously a joke.
As for my "bragging" about my muscle mass, well, you get what you ask for. If I hadn't felt like exposing your lies, I would never have mentioned any of it. Now that I've destroyed your falsehoods, you need to distract from the fact that I made you eat your uninformed words. Poor chap.
I always find it amusing when people who know nothing more about me than a handful of forum posts try to analyze the deepest traits of my personality. I'd be very surprised if the people I meet in person every day knew that much about me, but someone who just reads a techie forum like this - how presumptuous. Don't even try, you are bound to fail.
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If I was gay:
1. I wouldn't be the slightest bit ashamed. I've never been treated with disrespect by a gay boy/man, but I've faced a lot of spite from those who like to be "straighter than straight". "Gay" to me isn't an insult, it just happens to be incorrect in my particular case. I may have some homoerotic traits that even those who'd never admit exhibit, but I simply can't help being strongly attracted to members of the beautiful gender ever since I went into puberty.
2. I'd know some better places to cruise for handsome men with a sex life than this forum.
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Oops - here's the missing link.
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I'm sure your German is better than mine. I'm not trying to communicate in German so that's not really the point. The point is that if you're going to use a particular language, use it correctly. I would think that someone who thinks people who use programming language constructs incorrectly should be physically harmed would have a bit more respect for proper usage.
And your hyperbole stank of overcompensation. I don't believe any of your talk about your great muscle mass and I don't believe that you have ever been in a fight. Furthermore, I think that your original comment was completely out of line and never should have been made.
Also, don't troll my other comments in this forum just because I made you feel small.
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You know nothing about exceptions abusing:
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-java-866.html
This is in fact my code... but inspired by one real open source project code.
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Alexis...ouch dude. That had to have hurt.
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I myself am not a fighter, but my boss could beat you like a circus monkey.
If you were to look at him, you would see that he works out his upper body to the max. His forearms could destroy you. Upon seeing him the first time you might pee in your pants. His lower body is not developed whatsoever, and you could easily outrun him, but that is not the point. If he was standing right in front of you and it came down to a fist fight, you would die. Painfully.
I guess what I'm trying to say is my boss can kick your boss's ass.
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Boys, no offense, but this is getting kind of gay.
Who's going to start to talk about greek fight?
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I was thinking the same thing. All we need is a mud pit and some bikini thongs.
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There's too much testosterone and manhood in this forum for me. I'm outta here!
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Are you afraid you'll start liking glistening bulging biceps? Or are you concerned that you'll start having tendencies to grab at other men and wrestle them to the ground? Or are you scared that you'll start taking karate lessons and that you'll start posting on programming forums about how badass you are?
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That frigtens me more than anything. I hope I never become that.
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You sir, are the man.
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Alexis: I have to admit, you sound like a complete stud.
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Ohhhhh Alexis! hahahaha
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<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>just to let you guys know, your posts have been submitted to a graduate gender studies class for research.</FONT>
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@Alexis: You are the studliest stud who ever lived. Won't you show us your dojo?
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Alexis, could you please, please, please write some sort of retraction? Take back what you said in this post? Or at least tell us you were kidding?
First of all, the post makes you look really bad...secondly, since you wrote the thing this forum has become a "find-your-mate" dating center.
Please tell us you were joking!
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Yeah, Alexis. Tell us you were joking.
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I will respond for him. He was joking. I think.
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Oh boy - you people are playing with fire. That guy will snap you like a twig for such nonsense! He literally has no time for your jibber jabber. I heard he once killed a guy for using non-standard bracketing style.
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
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What's with the anonymous flood? Did someone link that post in their LJ?
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What is an LJ?
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<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>"low-job"</FONT>