Hmm... co-worker using a kanban board with her 1st grade daughter to keep track of homework tasks.

@MichaelT I used to do something like that for my school related stuff

It worked surprisingly well

Post it notes with sticky stars to indicate difficulty (1-3 scale).

Post it notes on the inside of a folder with appropriately drawn lines.

HBO did a very, very good job with the Purple Wedding

Purple?

@JimmyHoffa I am :D (for ten more minutes)

@AshleyNunn Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell

What spoilers?

@WorldEngineer Ah. :) I am so behind on that show - I keep wanting to watch it but then it makes my brain wobble. I am better with my gore in writing than in front of my face

@ThomasOwens Because he killed all 140 characters

@ThomasOwens dorktower.com/2013/06/03/game-of-nerds-dork-tower-03-06-13

And then there's dorktower.com/2013/06/19/… too

Well check 'em when you get home.

today's XKCD is made of win for the spoiler text alone

Ok... how about: cbc.ca/asithappens/features/2014/03/24/…

@JimmyHoffa Reflects the attitude of the country and population as a whole.

Quick example - look at british vs american sci-fi.

British Scifi on the whole is more subdued

How many episodes of Dr Who is everyone but the doctor killed?

Blakes 7... subdued?

@MichaelT was thinking more along the lines of Quartermass and the like

vs Lost in Space and so on

Space Island One?

@JimmyHoffa Umm... ?!

@JimmyHoffa HAHAHAHAHA

Don't watch much old Who do ya?

They are largely better if you ignore the effects and pacing

Old ones are made up of 2-5 'episodes' that are each ~30 min long rather than trying to fit it in one 60 min block.

But seriously, its very common for everyone else to be dead at the end of an episode

The final episode Blake was broadcast on 21 December 1981....

> Tarrant is nearly killed by Blake's colleagues when Avon and his crew save him, giving credence to Tarrant's accusation that Blake has betrayed them to the Federation. Becoming overwhelmingly suspicious of Blake, Avon kills him. Arlen reveals that she is a Federation officer and Federation guards arrive. Tarrant, Soolin, Vila and Dayna are apparently killed by Federation troops, who slowly surround Avon. Avon steps over Blake's body, raises his gun and smiles. Shots ring out.

They got some "just before Christmas" feedback on that.

@RobertHarvey Really? Not compared to this:

@RobertHarvey On the plus side, that premise is what got X-Com made

@JimmyHoffa Got two words for ya: Chocolate Twizzlers

They are the same texture as regular twizzlers as far as I can tell

@RobertHarvey They are basically chocolate flavored gummyish crap

Best part with classic twizzlers is using them as straws... these... I'm not sure that would be good.

@MichaelT Milkshake?

twizzler + straw for orange soda = enamel melting sweetness.

The key is the acididity that delivers some of the flavor of the straw to you - I'm not sure that the milkshake would do it.

and if you were going to do that, there are other products better (the chocolate milk thing)

amazon.com/Chocolate-Magic-Milk-Straws-Pack/dp/B004SBEHFQ

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@RobertHarvey My embedded systems professor attempted to build a fluidic computer that used diet coke and mentos

@WorldEngineer blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_water.html

@MichaelT I saw that

@Dr.Ibb Fluidic computers have a very old history

widely used by the Soviets

@Dr.Ibb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics

(from catb.org/jargon/html/O/overflow-bit.html#crunchly73-07-24 )

The issue isn't pattern vs antipattern... any pattern is an anti-pattern when used improperly.

And thus, in the hands of a student who doesn't know better they are all anti-patterns.

How does the interpreter pattern fit in there?

The interpreter pattern is something I've run across and fought with because they didn't realize that it was a pattern.

Started out as a simple little macro dsl... and turned into a huge ugly pair of 10 ksloc classes with 700 if/else if statements in a method.

If they had recognized the pattern early on, it would have had a nice antlr file and the appropriate parsing of the dsl as a language rather than what was a simple config file once upon a time that grew 700 heads.

I'd really suggest going back and reading

amazon.com/…

Note that it has nothing to do with software engineering... but is the inspiration behind the GoF in writing their design patterns book.

By understanding what inspired them, you've got the background for understanding what it was they were trying to get at.

@psr Prince Albert? house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/reverse.asp KWKYKBR