• (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    [image]

    sorry i had to draw the other lines in higher dimensional space, but trust me they're there as per spec.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    higher dimensional space

    The original spec called for a whiteboard. Also, some of them were transparent, and at least one was desired to be in the shape of a kitten.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    They chose their employees, but they also chose the offshore monkeys, so they have competing justifications.

    This, just this. What's more, they chose their employees years ago (for the experienced ones) so they are no longer new and shiny. But new graduates! They must know new exciting stuff, not that old stuff the architects are familiar with. These are the same managers that "need" a new iPhone every year.

  • (disco) in reply to Polygeekery
    Intercourse:
    Good call. I have yet to see offshore code that does not look like something that has been decompiled.

    Interestingly (well, to me anyway) the code example looked like the boilerplate assembler churned out by a Coral-66 compiler, thirtyfive years ago. I could not get them to fix this:

    //start of every subroutine MOV R3,R6 MOV R4,R7 . .do nothing involving R3,R4,R6,R7 . MOV R7,R4 MOV R6,R3 RET

    Obviously somebody had designed a framework in which R4 and R3 were scratchpad registers, and then later on someone else had replaced this with stack frames, but nobody had ever removed the boilerplate code which sat there doing nothing. OT, I wrote a routine to strip the redundant code out of the compiler output, and the program ran in 20% less time.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    The original spec called for a whiteboard. Also, some of them were transparent, and at least one was desired to be in the shape of a kitten

    hmm... well can you get me a 9 dimensional whiteboard then? i'll give it a shot but i don't think i can manage that on only 2 dimensions...

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    We've talked about it enough now, I think we require the video, for those who haven't seen it yet:

    http://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    We've talked about it enough now, I think we require the video, for those who haven't seen it yet:

    wait..... we've been talking about a comedy sketch this whole time?

    man! what a buzzkill!

    :-(

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    man! what a buzzkill!

    Nah, it's as good today as ever.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Of course I can inflate a red balloon in the form of a kitten.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxY96OPQ26M

  • (disco) in reply to presidentsdaughter

    And it's versus, not verses...

  • (disco) in reply to rookie3
    rookie3:
    If an artist wants to produce a great piece of art, he might need the right ingredients: a canvas, a palette, silence, emotion and motivation. If you take away his palette and ask him to work with a single color for the time being, he can start off hoping to get back his palette. If, after some time, you still don't give him his palette, he could try to come to you for each color one at a time. This will cause great frustration to him and will eventually affect his work.

    You'd be surprised how much you can accomplish with just 4 pigments:

    • Titanium white
    • Ivory black
    • Yellow ochre
    • Indian red
  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian

    Goethe: Natur und Kunst:

    In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben. (In limitation the Master first shows himself and only through law can we gain freedom.)

    The whole short poem (14 lines) is very famous and is worth reading.

  • (disco) in reply to kupfernigk

    First time I read about Vogon poetry I thought it was inspired by German poetry.

  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    You'd be surprised how much you can accomplish with just 4 pigments:

    Titanium white Ivory black Yellow ochre Indian red

    With 5 pigments, you can paint (almost) anything:

    Titanium white Ivory black Cadmium red Chrome yellow Ultramarine blue

    This will give good oranges and warm reds, but somewhat muddy purples. Replacing cadmium red with alizarin crimson will improve the purples, but muddy the warm colors.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    This will give good oranges and warm reds, but somewhat muddy purples. Replacing cadmium red with alizarin crimson will improve the purples, but muddy the warm colors.

    http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yellow-Dont-Make-Green/dp/0967962870

  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian

    Hmm, if I actually painted, that would probably be a really good read. I just remember that bit about the warm vs. cool reds from something I read when I dabbled a little, decades ago. Now, everything I do, such as it is, is digital. RGB!

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    That's way too British.

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat

    Well, sure, in a German sort of way.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    Of course I can inflate a red balloon in the form of a kitten.

    No, that's a cat.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    wait..... we've been talking about a comedy sketch this whole time?

    Sorry, I thought you knew.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Sorry, I thought you knew.

    my knowledge of 'muricain TV is about as current as Walter Cronkite doing the evening news.

    he's still around, right?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    my knowledge of 'muricain TV

    Was that ever on TV?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    FIIK

    ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    my knowledge of 'muricain TV is about as current as Walter Cronkite doing the evening news.

    he's still around, right?

    Retired 1981 (hard to believe it's been that long); died 2009.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Retired 1981 (hard to believe it's been that long); died 2009.

    huh. didn't know he died. sad. i liked him.

    and retired before i was born? that makes me feel.... young actually. what a pleasant surprise!

    also a sad one because y'know he's dead.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    huh. didn't know he died. sad. i liked him.

    and retired before i was born? that makes me feel.... young actually. what a pleasant surprise!

    also a sad one because y'know he's dead.

    Yeah, that's how I feel. I know who he is, but was born after he retired. Just old enough to have been around for so many cultural references.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    my knowledge of 'muricain TV

    If only that clip weren't full of people with British accents you might have a point there.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i liked him.

    You are not alone:

    Wikipedia: Although sometimes compared to a father figure or an uncle figure, in an interview about his retirement he described himself as being more like a "comfortable old shoe" to his audience.

    chubertdev:
    Yeah, that's how I feel. I know who he is, but was born after he retired. Just old enough to have been around for so many cultural references.
    You young kids might also remember him from some of the things he did after he officially retired. He didn't just go wander around in a bathrobe:

    Wikipedia, again: Cronkite continued to broadcast occasionally as a special correspondent for CBS, CNN, and NPR into the 21st century; one such occasion was Cronkite anchoring the second space flight by John Glenn in 1998 as he had Glenn's first in 1962. In 1983, he reported on the British General Election for the ITV current affairs series World In Action, interviewing, among many others, the victorious Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.[49] Cronkite hosted the annual Vienna New Year's Concert on PBS from 1985 to 2008, succeeded by Julie Andrews in 2009.[50] For many years, until 2002, he was also the host of the annual Kennedy Center Honors.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    If only that clip weren't full of people with British accents you might have a point there.

    picture a fox shrugging.

    havent watched it yet. lacking speakers here at work. bookmarked it tho.

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