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"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 04/07/2015 at 15:45 • Filed to: None

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Yes, April Fool's was a week ago, but hurting the brains of coders here is !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:55

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stackoverflow and github have such terrible UX design

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 15:55

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I love the answers. They're the best. The top (most voted) one is the perfect straight-man response, though i also do like the one that suggests using Python OCR piped to stdio into g++ ;)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/07/2015 at 16:02

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There was some other thing that the person who showed me this was looking at, and it was this very low-key trolling guy writing about the potentials of CSS as a *programming language*. His terminal was in comic sans.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 16:40

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I prefer the classic K&R style response of "Since the format doesn't specify anything about the source files themselves, your problem is with your compiler."

By logical extension, if you want to do it in that way, feel free to write a gcc front end or brand new compiler.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 04/07/2015 at 16:42

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But if compilers don't recognize handwriting, it's their problem, dagnabbit.
I did like the guy saying that the problem was that the compiler didn't know which language it was, because .png is a neutral format - and that mechanical pencil=FORTRAN while crayon = VB.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 04/07/2015 at 16:55

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I'd say then you'd have a huge issue with mechanical pencil, because 0.5mm would likely be a scientist writing Pascal code, 0.2mm would be your engineer in FORTRAN, 0.7mm would be the blithering idiot writing in Haskell, and 0.3 would be the civil servant writing Ada for the Department of Defense, and 0.4 would be Larry Wall writing Perl.

However, it is known that Alan Cox only writes in ballpoint pen, much to the consternation of Linus Torvalds.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 04/07/2015 at 17:01

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Paper type helps. 1/4"-square graph, FORTRAN. Lined A4, Pascal. Recycled scrap paper of mixed colors, Haskell, and partial-lined paper with blocks mimeographed on it, Ada. Larry Wall - monogrammed paper.