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Jesus Fucking Christ. People. by Oom Shnibble 04/17/2012, 11:10pm PDT So yesterday I spent 20 minutes describing what a bitfield was to a group of educated software engineers with between 4 and 10 years of experience each. Gems included "But what happens if you want to store more than one thing at once. Then the whole pattern unravels." as if the fucking keystone of computer science (Simple binary mathematics.) was something I'd just pulled out of my arse. It was all for naught since we're still going for an enterprisey alternative involving three DB tables and XML. Some days I really fucking hate humanity.

Jesus Fucking Christ. People. by Oom Shnibble 04/17/2012, 11:10pm PDT     Context? by Entropy Stew 04/18/2012, 12:57am PDT         Re: Context? by Oom Shnibble 04/18/2012, 1:43am PDT     I have some news for you, Om by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/18/2012, 1:07am PDT         Um by Fullofkitttens 04/18/2012, 5:14am PDT             This is correct. You're a much better programmer than TDARCOS by Entropy Stew 04/18/2012, 8:26am PDT                 Oh, and storage space is also increased by Entropy Stew 04/18/2012, 8:36am PDT                     Using a tree structure is an overcomplicated method, at least now by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/19/2012, 10:22am PDT                         You're a disaster by Entropy Stew 04/19/2012, 1:06pm PDT                             I forgot to mention your insane touting of this as a better approach vs trees NT by Entropy Stew 04/19/2012, 1:35pm PDT                             Actually, I know what I'm doing. Do you what you are doing? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/19/2012, 7:43pm PDT                                 Your data structure is analogous to a hash table with 27 buckets by Entropy Stew 04/20/2012, 1:02am PDT                                     Re: Your data structure is analogous to a hash table with 27 buckets by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/20/2012, 5:43pm PDT                                         Get dunked, son by Entropy Stew 04/20/2012, 9:26pm PDT                                             Re: Get dunked, son by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/21/2012, 2:28am PDT                                                 Oh Jesus I get it now. by The Happiness Engine 04/21/2012, 9:02am PDT                                                     Oh, it's just a really shitty skip list, then NT by Entropy Stew 04/21/2012, 9:26am PDT                                                 There's more than one way to implement a hash table by Entropy Stew 04/21/2012, 10:40am PDT                                     His data structure is analogous to 27 buckets of shit. NT by Orange Devil Bat 05/12/2012, 9:13am PDT                         hey tansin by jeep 04/21/2012, 6:10pm PDT                             Re: hey tansin by Entropy Stew 04/22/2012, 6:07am PDT                                 Re: hey tansin by jeep 04/22/2012, 8:10am PDT                                     you would not believe the fucking scrub phds I've been handed to work with by jeep 04/22/2012, 8:19am PDT                                         PhD is the rubber stamp indicating either greatness or utter uselessness by Entropy Stew 04/22/2012, 10:18am PDT                                             I've learned to avoid the master's ones altogether by jeep 04/22/2012, 6:36pm PDT                             Re: hey tansin by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/24/2012, 1:53am PDT                                 Re: hey tansin by jeep 04/24/2012, 5:57am PDT             What is Pascal and why it is used by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/19/2012, 9:31am PDT                 Pascal is a terrible tinkertoy dead programming language. NT by Too boring, didn't read 04/19/2012, 4:26pm PDT                 Pascal/Delphi by Oom Shnibble 04/19/2012, 11:34pm PDT                     Also (Mini-rant) by Oom Shnibble 04/19/2012, 11:44pm PDT                         Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Dangerous Dave 04/20/2012, 7:20am PDT                             The schools around here (Big Ten) start with Python then go to C++. by Fullofkitttens 04/20/2012, 7:39am PDT                             Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/20/2012, 6:22pm PDT                                 Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Dangerous Dave 04/20/2012, 9:37pm PDT                                 Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Entropy Stew 04/20/2012, 10:40pm PDT                         Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/20/2012, 5:54pm PDT                             Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Entropy Stew 04/20/2012, 9:44pm PDT                                 Re: Also (Mini-rant) by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/21/2012, 4:24pm PDT                                     Corection, I mean "one block of 511K free" in above article NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/21/2012, 4:24pm PDT                                     That's just a smart allocator. Even C has them by Entropy Stew 04/22/2012, 5:32am PDT                                         It's still automatic garbage collection by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/24/2012, 2:00am PDT                                             No it isn't, you ignorant motherfucker. How can you be wrong so often? by Entropy Stew 04/24/2012, 3:46am PDT                                                 So you really think insulting someone is going to get them to listen to you? NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/27/2012, 5:37pm PDT                                                     Pretty sure he's serious about the ignorant part, maybe even the mother fucker! NT by Worm 04/27/2012, 6:04pm PDT                                                         I never fucked my mother. She charged too much. NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/10/2012, 6:07pm PDT                                                     OH GOD HIS FEELINGS NT by Entropy Stew 04/27/2012, 6:36pm PDT                                                 SPOILERS: He so fucked up the cheeseburger. It's amazing, you should check it ou NT by The Happiness Engine 04/27/2012, 8:53pm PDT                     Re: Pascal/Delphi by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/20/2012, 5:34pm PDT         What the fuck does this have to do with pointers? NT by Entropy Stew 04/18/2012, 8:44am PDT             Re: What the fuck does this have to do with pointers? by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/18/2012, 9:07am PDT                 Exactly right, Jonsey, you nailed it! by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 04/19/2012, 10:32am PDT                     I got yer back, Commander. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/19/2012, 11:55am PDT                 Counterpoint by Ray of Light 05/06/2012, 1:49pm PDT                     HAHAHAHAH by Entropy Stew 05/06/2012, 5:35pm PDT                         Re: HAHAHAHAH by jeep 05/10/2012, 6:41pm PDT                             also I hope you mean I don't sound like I went to school for cs by jeep 05/10/2012, 6:42pm PDT                                 Neither did I NT by Entropy Stew 05/10/2012, 8:16pm PDT                                     Your degree is in scare quotes! NT by We Miss QB 05/10/2012, 8:33pm PDT                                     I did! NT by Scot Thompson, ex-Yahoo CEO 05/14/2012, 2:38am PDT                     Oh please, this has nothing to do with application development by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/10/2012, 6:44pm PDT                         Well I definitely feel safe now *hands over millions of credit card numbers* by Entropy Stew 05/10/2012, 9:36pm PDT                             Re: Well I definitely feel safe now *hands over millions of credit card numbers* by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/12/2012, 8:43am PDT                                 You know less about security than you do data structures NT by Entropy Stew 05/12/2012, 4:11pm PDT                         Hi, my name is Ray by Ray of Light 05/14/2012, 1:49am PDT                             Re: Hi, my name is Ray by jeep 05/14/2012, 1:28pm PDT                             TDARCOS: wrong enough to summon Ray back from 2fort by Entropy Stew 05/14/2012, 6:19pm PDT                                 Accessing one item at a time by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 3:28am PDT                                     Context: it matters NT by Entropy Stew 05/16/2012, 4:04pm PDT     Part Two of this. by Oom Shnibble 05/25/2012, 9:19am PDT         Re: Part Two of this. by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/27/2012, 9:51am PDT             What? Isn't the issue that you can't cast to an unrelated class? NT by Entropy Stew 05/27/2012, 1:34pm PDT                 yes by Rafiki 05/27/2012, 1:58pm PDT                     I don't get how TDARCOS understood it was casting, then failed to understand the NT by Entropy Stew 05/27/2012, 2:05pm PDT                         I think I did get most of it by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/28/2012, 10:57pm PDT                             He is close enough for government work -nt- NT by Oom Shnibble 05/29/2012, 11:56am PDT     The Future of Perl NT by Kerr 02/21/2025, 2:37pm PST