The Whiteboard

12:12 AM

@JimmyHoffa Well, this compiles

    public Expression WithLog(Expression exp)
    {
        return Expression.Block(exp, Expression.Call(
            typeof (Debug).GetMethod("Print",
                new Type [] { typeof(string) }),
            new [] { exp } ));
    }

But doesn't execute, because exp returns a boolean.

new [] { exp.ToString() } ));

is what I actually want, but it doesn't compile.

user114359

12:27 AM

Where does this question belong? English, UX, somewhere else?

user114359

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Q: How to denote/refer 'user' in the following case?

I have to write API documentation for a mobile loyalty program and I am doubting how to go through this... 1) The user asks its visit to be registered. 2) The user asks his/her visit to be registered. In context of Technical Writing, which sentence is correct and why? If none is correct, pleas...

user114359

Should I just flag it and let the mods sort it out?

Robert Harvey

@Snowman Closed.

user55340

12:58 AM

@LightnessRacesinOrbit At Employer^, half the devs (thats 3 out of 6) didn't wear shoes.

user55340

And then there's...

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amazon.com/The-Nudist-Late-Shift-Silicon/dp/0375502777

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That particular story goes...
One guy was a nudist. He and his wife were nudists. His co-workers found out very quickly if they were ever over for a cookout, and well, they got used to it. From 10pm to early hours, this guy would go around nude at work - the late shift.
One day he saw a clock that read 20:00 and thinking it was 10pm, stripped down. He thought everyone had gone home - he was wrong. There was still a contractor there who hadn't left yet. And when she saw him walking around in the buff, was very concerned and reported it up her management chain. The contracting company wanted …

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There are other stories in there too, such as the head hunter (you could sell a company's org chart + telephone directory for $10k in the boom days) and the guy who wrote Yahoo Games (that Java applet) back in the day.

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> She began to poke at my thorax, and in the course of conversation, she started talking about the programmer nudist who worked the late shift at one of the animation companies that dealt with Pixar. Peep! My interest was piqued, my abdominal wall sprang tight, she sensed my fervor, and she was on to another topic. When I urged her to tell me more about the nudist, she dismissively remarked that everybody knew about the nudist, he was an urban legend. When I begged, she said that yes, she would tell me about him some time.

user55340

1:07 AM

> I RECEIVED AN e-mail , "Looking for me?" it asked, attaching a phone number. An e-mail I sent out was forwarded through several rounds of recipients to reach him. My e-mail did not say I was looking for "the nudist on the late shift." Someone I’d encountered had thought she remembered the nudist’s name, and I sent out e-mails with every spelling variation of this name, wondering if anyone knew how to get in touch with him.

So now I had the phone number of some guy. But I didn’t know if he was the nudist. It took me two days to work up the nerve to call. How do you ask somebody such a que…

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pobronson.com/Nudist_Introduction.htm

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> IN THE PROGRAMMER community, eccentricity is de rigueur, and when David Coons and his wife held skinny-dipping parties, he invited his friends from work. So nobody made much of it that he took his clothes off at the office after ten P.M. At that hour, there was nobody left in the building but programmers and animators working on deadline, and these were open-minded people who couldn’t care less. Besides, David was no ordinary programmer; to get his work done, he invented tools that everyone else could use. He invented one of the first film-to-digital scanners and an award-winning digital …

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I misremembered some parts - its been a few years since I read it.

user55340

@Snowman wrong post to comment on it... and no. And California != Wisconsin winter. Things would be less impressive.

user114359

@MichaelT Not sure what CA has to do with it, being on the opposite end of the country from me...

user55340

1:14 AM

@Snowman ambient outside temperature.

user114359

@MichaelT I just had to take a jab at all the third-person plurals

user55340

@Snowman Ahh... ok... makes a bit more sense.

user55340

That said, there's a news paper "sfbg" which has an online edition relevant to the previous topic. There was a very nice photograph that involved an out of focus golden gate bridge in the distance. I can also speak to the experience of trying to get a photograph of the GG Bridge from the west side, climbing over rocks and telling my (female) photographer friend "don't look to the left" - "what - oh, no. I didn't need to see that."

Lightness Races in Orbit

1:42 AM

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