Talk:378: Real Programmers - Revision history

172.70.114.136 at 00:22, 30 November 2023

2023-11-30T00:22:35Z

172.69.165.23: Moved comment

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172.69.165.23 at 12:16, 4 October 2023

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RandalSchwartz at 01:16, 9 January 2023

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Beanie at 13:01, 6 September 2022

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162.158.74.209 at 17:39, 2 June 2021

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172.69.34.228 at 04:20, 3 May 2021

2021-05-03T04:20:08Z

Hrabbey: Add In the Beginning was the Command Line reference.

2018-03-30T13:23:10Z

Add In the Beginning was the Command Line reference.

Luc: Real Programmers use MS Paint

2016-07-03T01:40:21Z

Real Programmers use MS Paint

Kynde at 21:20, 20 December 2015

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 What is "Meta"? As in "M-butterfly"?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.180|108.162.219.180]] 23:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 When I read this, I started up emacs and tried this... until I realized that there was no butterfly key... --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.58|108.162.215.58]] 00:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 "Meta" is binded to "Alt" in modern keyboard. "Meta" is referring to the "Meta" key in early {{w|Space-cadet keyboard|LISP keyboard}}. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.62.93|173.245.62.93]] 18:58, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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	It occurs to me that, during the Apollo space program, the core-rope memory which contained the program code for the ship's onboard guidance computer was, quite literally, hand-woven. While it was non-magnetic, a needle was used to thread a single strand of wire through a frame containing an array of ferrite cores. Similar to then-conventional core memory, except that wires selectively did or did not pass through any given core to permanently set their state as 0 or 1. - Thraddax, 02 June 2021.		It occurs to me that, during the Apollo space program, the core-rope memory which contained the program code for the ship's onboard guidance computer was, quite literally, hand-woven. While it was non-magnetic, a needle was used to thread a single strand of wire through a frame containing an array of ferrite cores. Similar to then-conventional core memory, except that wires selectively did or did not pass through any given core to permanently set their state as 0 or 1. - Thraddax, 02 June 2021.
		+	: That's what I interpreted the needle as referring to initially. — [[Special:Contributions/172.69.165.23\|172.69.165.23]] 12:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

	This is extremely late but I'm assuming he meant <code>vi</code> but confused the two. <span style="text-shadow:0 0 6px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 3px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)		This is extremely late but I'm assuming he meant <code>vi</code> but confused the two. <span style="text-shadow:0 0 6px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 3px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
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−	I guess "magnetic needle" makes more sense as for a HDD but on first reading I figured it was referring to how there were women hired to physically weave memory (See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory Magnetic-core memory].

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	This is extremely late but I'm assuming he meant <code>vi</code> but confused the two. <span style="text-shadow:0 0 6px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 3px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)		This is extremely late but I'm assuming he meant <code>vi</code> but confused the two. <span style="text-shadow:0 0 6px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 3px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
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		+	I guess "magnetic needle" makes more sense as for a HDD but on first reading I figured it was referring to how there were women hired to physically weave memory (See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory Magnetic-core memory].

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 ::The program will be an a.out file.{{unsigned ip|200.131.199.28}}
 Some comments:

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	It occurs to me that, during the Apollo space program, the core-rope memory which contained the program code for the ship's onboard guidance computer was, quite literally, hand-woven. While it was non-magnetic, a needle was used to thread a single strand of wire through a frame containing an array of ferrite cores. Similar to then-conventional core memory, except that wires selectively did or did not pass through any given core to permanently set their state as 0 or 1. - Thraddax, 02 June 2021.		It occurs to me that, during the Apollo space program, the core-rope memory which contained the program code for the ship's onboard guidance computer was, quite literally, hand-woven. While it was non-magnetic, a needle was used to thread a single strand of wire through a frame containing an array of ferrite cores. Similar to then-conventional core memory, except that wires selectively did or did not pass through any given core to permanently set their state as 0 or 1. - Thraddax, 02 June 2021.
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		+	This is extremely late but I'm assuming he meant <code>vi</code> but confused the two. <span style="text-shadow:0 0 6px black">[[User:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#dddddd">Beanie</span>]]</span> <sup><span style="text-shadow:0 0 3px #000000">[[User talk:Beanie\|<span style="font-size:8pt;color:#dddddd">talk</span>]]</span></sup> 13:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

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	I don't know which came first but this quote reminded me of this comic http://bash.org/?6130[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.228\|172.69.34.228]] 04:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC)		I don't know which came first but this quote reminded me of this comic http://bash.org/?6130[[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.228\|172.69.34.228]] 04:20, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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		+	It occurs to me that, during the Apollo space program, the core-rope memory which contained the program code for the ship's onboard guidance computer was, quite literally, hand-woven. While it was non-magnetic, a needle was used to thread a single strand of wire through a frame containing an array of ferrite cores. Similar to then-conventional core memory, except that wires selectively did or did not pass through any given core to permanently set their state as 0 or 1. - Thraddax, 02 June 2021.

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 The title text is more likely a reference to the end of the book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line "In the Beginning Was the Command line"], where programming / simulation develops to creating worlds on a single command line, specifying natural constants (in all their precision).  [[User:Hrabbey|Hrabbey]] ([[User talk:Hrabbey|talk]]) 13:23, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
-There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
+There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the butterfly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 '''Real Programmers''' use MS Paint: http://i.imgur.com/QlGpd.gif [[User:Luc|Luc]] ([[User talk:Luc|talk]]) 01:40, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

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	Could the title text be a reference to the novel "Heechee Rendezvous" by Frederik Pohl, in which an alien species causes the universe to start to contract, in order to provoke a new Big Bang which would lead to "improved" natural constants? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.220\|162.158.114.220]] 09:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)		Could the title text be a reference to the novel "Heechee Rendezvous" by Frederik Pohl, in which an alien species causes the universe to start to contract, in order to provoke a new Big Bang which would lead to "improved" natural constants? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.220\|162.158.114.220]] 09:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

		+	The title text is more likely a reference to the end of the book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line "In the Beginning Was the Command line"], where programming / simulation develops to creating worlds on a single command line, specifying natural constants (in all their precision). [[User:Hrabbey\|Hrabbey]] ([[User talk:Hrabbey\|talk]]) 13:23, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

	There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob\|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)		There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob\|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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	There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob\|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)		There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob\|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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		+	'''Real Programmers''' use MS Paint: http://i.imgur.com/QlGpd.gif [[User:Luc\|Luc]] ([[User talk:Luc\|talk]]) 01:40, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

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	Could the title text be a reference to the novel "Heechee Rendezvous" by Frederik Pohl, in which an alien species causes the universe to start to contract, in order to provoke a new Big Bang which would lead to "improved" natural constants? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.220\|162.158.114.220]] 09:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)		Could the title text be a reference to the novel "Heechee Rendezvous" by Frederik Pohl, in which an alien species causes the universe to start to contract, in order to provoke a new Big Bang which would lead to "improved" natural constants? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.220\|162.158.114.220]] 09:37, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
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		+	There has been a [[explain_xkcd:Community_portal/Proposals#Merge_Cueball_.26_Rob\|community portal discussion]] of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the Category:Multiple Cueballs. In this comic it cannot be said clearly that any of the four/five (if the guy with the buttefly in hand is not the same as the one speaking off-panel about it) is more correctly called Cueball than any of the others. But typically the one named Cueball is either the protagonist or the one with the interesting parts, or the one with the punch line. In this comic it would be the e-mac Cueball, as he makes the butterfly guy loose out to e-mac. It may thus be OK to list him as Cueball, and the others as something else. So I changed that some time ago in the explanation, and transcript. But then I also made sure that it was clear that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)