@Rainbolt one time i went to bed immediately after hanging out in minecraft for a long time and i had a dream that we were hanging out irl at my old middle school. but i'm really bad at remembering faces and stuff and it had been a while since i accidentally found your facebook so i didn't know what you looked like, and as a result i was looking slighly away for the entire dream
that sounds like a joke but i swear to god that's true
I've had dreams like that. There's this guy with a middle eastern name that I have never met before in my entire life but I work with him. I saw his face in Outlook from an email and then I dreamed that he was showing me around his awesome supercomputer that was glowing blue. And he lived in a cave.
actual lessons, where she'd come around and check our work when she was done teaching. when she came to make sure i knew how to save a word file i hit ctrl-s and she didn't believe me that it had actually saved so i had to do it again
the only good thing about computer class in middle school was the fact that the BS we had to sit through only took like 10 minutes tops and then we could dick around for the rest of the period.
When I was really little I had the ability to will myself to have a very specific dream about being birdman. It was always the exact same dream, and it always ended in a vat of lava.
computer class in grade 5 was the best though. we made (primitive) websites and learned to make games/animations in flash. then i went to a different school for middle school and everything went to hell
I would fly over to the evil villain's lair (as birdman), then he would catch me and hang me over a vat of lava, and I'd grow my hand to be really large and plug the vat of lava. Then he'd hang me over a bigger vat of lava, and I'd die/wake up.
@BetaDecay one time i went to a day camp for computer science/engineering and we made a game in gamemaker. i liked it a lot so i went back the next year and they had switched to flash. i was so mad
@Rainbolt see, German kids don't know the English word "butt". (I did indeed hear the name Büttnerd a couple of times during year 11 and 12, but I wasn't regularly called that.)
after the instructor was teaching everyone what a "variable" is (not even when or why to use them, just an intro to the concept) he asked if anyone was having trouble. when he got to me he saw my page and a half of commands glued together and i asked him "is there an easy way to exit the walk cycle as soon as the key is released instead of waiting for the loop to check if i'm still holding it again?". he told me he'd get back to me later
i couldn't figure out how to do good collision detection, but scratch can check the colour of a pixel at some point you choose. i made the ground a solid, ugly-as-sin (0, 255, 0) and made the top ~2 pixels of every surface blue. mario's feet touching green? go up a little. mario's feet not touching blue? go down a lot. it was the least satisfying gameplay experience ever designed and every time i playtested the one level i was able to create i could feel my soul descending deeper into hell.
@Geobits i feel like there must have been a better way that my primitive childlike brain simply couldn't grasp, but i suppose some fault lies on scratch's end
Last time I looked up pronunciation of a German name to see if a pun would work there were two examples from different regions and they sounded completely different
remember that time there was a fake pronunciation guide on youtube that started as just silliness but eventually it started telling a story and ending each video with "something is going to happen in $x days" and there were a bunch of clues hidden in the videos and it was a really interesting ARG until the deadline hit and it turned out to be an advertisement for a scifi book no one had ever heard of and the character that the voice had been referring to was a personified @horse_ebooks?
@trichoplax while there are strong regional accents, German does have an accepted "standard" pronunciation that people generally agree on (and which is usually used in the news etc)
@aditsu Hi, I'm back. Could I get the web parser's unminified JS source code, please? I realized, when we talked last time, that editing your compiler code to create an explanation system would be a lot easier than writing a parser from scratch. Thank you!
oh I was wondering... since it was CH's meta post about inside-joke that inspired The Many Memes of Meta, should I add a meme "Using current community events as the basis for challenges"?
In other words, I understood the idea to be to help people who are confused by inside jokes, whereas in actual fact the question + answers seem to be turning into an inside joke themselves.
But I suppose the point isn't to explain all our inside jokes to newcomers (that would be extraordinarily difficult) so much as to simply act as a community-building sort of thing, although it does achieve both goals somewhat.
A common visual explanation of the Pythagorean theorem is as such:
The squares are meant to represent the side length's squared, and the areas of a + b = c, just like the Pythagorean theorem says.
This part is what you have to show.
Your task
You will get two integers as input, meant to re...
@BetaDecay Mod chat-flags are binding, so it would insta-suspend the user. Sometimes mods will use flags on main for purposes like that, but more often I'll leave a note in our site moderator room.
@PhiNotPi Ermm, this might be intentional, but the Hello! that you claim is a stealth ping in your memes post is the exact same byte stream as the regular Hello! (i.e. not a stealth ping).
I just asked a guy I never ask for a code review to review my code. He approved, but as he was getting up he sighed and said "Hmm. That wud'n too bad." ("wud'n" is like southern speak for "wasn't")
Does that mean that he expected my code review to be a horrible experience?
@Doorknob Kind of like my family. They're like, "Oh, Alex, come do whatever with us." I'm like, "No mom, I'll be on a vacation with my real family. They live in Texas and they're 50% Korean."
@Rainbolt At least the van doesn't say "Free Candy."
I once saw an old van that had a license plate holder that said "Don't laugh, your daughter could be in here."
We could have retrospective meetings where we discuss the things we did right, did wrong, and still have questions about (like when are we going to get more pepperoni?)
Part of the issue is employee attitude. If you put on a stringy amount of lettuce and then smile and look at the customer expectantly, then they know that they can ask for more.
If you put on a stingy amount and then look at the customer in fear, then they get angry
I have a Retina solution (i.e. single .NET regex) for xnor's Tetris sequence challenge, but it's so embarrassingly long that I don't want to post it :D... it's a shame .NET regex doesn't have recursion (i.e. pattern reuse), because the regex doesn't work in PCRE :/
Just so everyone knows: I've nominated myself for mod pro tempore on Computer Graphics which just hit public beta a few hours ago. Like Doorknob (who also moderates Puzzling) I don't expect this to affect my activity on PPCG at all (at least in terms of mod duties). Just so that no one says I'm thinking "oh we've got two new mods, I can slack off a bit now". ;)
@AlexA. You can make an account wherever you like, but the point of this message was not to steal some votes from a different community :P. I just wanted to avoid some point in the future where someone suddenly notices and thinks "Hey what's this, since when is our mod sharing his attention?" ;)
A common visual explanation of the Pythagorean theorem is as such:
The squares are meant to represent the side length's squared, and the areas of a + b = c, just like the Pythagorean theorem says.
This part is what you have to show.
Your task
You will get two integers as input, meant to re...
