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12 Jan 2015, 9:25 pm

They make especially awful jokes.

I mentioned that one of the topics in my class would be troubleshooting boot errors. He replies, "The boot doesn't fit, that's the problem!" I tried to talk to him about Python once, but he just told me that I was trying to program with a snake.

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13 Jan 2015, 5:07 pm

Lighten up

Python is named after Monty Python after all.

Programmers are a glorious race of eccentric people. Get used to it, take Why the lucky stiff for example.

You will be assimilated.

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13 Jan 2015, 5:32 pm

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Lighten up

Python is named after Monty Python after all.

Programmers are a glorious race of eccentric people. Get used to it, take Why the lucky stiff for example.

You will be assimilated.

My tone was meant to be more lovingly exasperated, but sometimes I'm afraid of assimilation. Every programmer I've talked to hates technical writing, for example. Maybe they're a time-traveling hive mind overlord coding itself into existence in our era.

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13 Jan 2015, 5:36 pm

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If you want to do that, then do it.

Some of us are just not good at it, and user interaction, and social interaction :lol:

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13 Jan 2015, 5:39 pm

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downbutnotout wrote:

If you want to do that, then do it.

Some of us are just not good at it, and user interaction, and social interaction :lol:

I thought I was clear, obviously. Don't be a dick.

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13 Jan 2015, 5:44 pm

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I thought I was clear, obviously. Don't be a dick.

Huh?

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13 Jan 2015, 5:58 pm

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downbutnotout wrote:

I thought I was clear, obviously. Don't be a dick.

Huh?

"If you want to do that, then do it" to my tone? I don't know what else I'd be doing. Sorry if it's a misinterpretation.

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13 Jan 2015, 6:20 pm

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"If you want to do that, then do it" to my tone? I don't know what else I'd be doing. Sorry if it's a misinterpretation.

Technical writing. Do what floats you boat, it is a wide field.

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13 Jan 2015, 6:37 pm

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downbutnotout wrote:

"If you want to do that, then do it" to my tone? I don't know what else I'd be doing. Sorry if it's a misinterpretation.

Technical writing. Do what floats you boat, it is a wide field.

Oh. That's different, then, and I don't think you're being a dick. I'm not a technical writer, but I think it sounds like a much better deal than working through Python problems even though they're both tedious jobs. Someone's gotta help them differentiate their en dashes and their em dashes!

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13 Jan 2015, 6:44 pm

Different origination spot code differently, that kind of thing would be a huge help to a project.

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13 Jan 2015, 7:45 pm

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My dad wouldn't be able to SPELL Python.
You're lucky your dad is bright, even if he makes dumb jokes.

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13 Jan 2015, 8:34 pm

0_equals_true wrote:

Different origination spot code differently, that kind of thing would be a huge help to a project.

Cracking the whip whenever they break convention? Do you work as a programmer?

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downbutnotout wrote:

My dad wouldn't be able to SPELL Python.
You're lucky your dad is bright, even if he makes dumb jokes.

I am, but I think he passed most of it on to my engineer brother.

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14 Jan 2015, 8:13 pm

A programmer's wife sent him to the store to buy a loaf of bread and added "If they have eggs, bring home a dozen." He comes home with twelve loaves of bread. :lol:

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15 Jan 2015, 8:02 pm

@downbutnotout yes

@slave I can't spell to safe my life. Spelling isn't the be and end all of intelligence.

Personally I think general intelligence is less of a trend than currently thought, there is more variation, even in the middle ground.

By general intelligence, I mean the theory vs. specific.

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18 Jan 2015, 5:51 am

0_equals_true wrote:

i hear ya

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20 Jan 2015, 1:17 am

You should be proud ur pop is a programmer, it takes a smart individual to program

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