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- jpeterson 17y agoMaybe I'm just too old to get this, but why would someone waste their time on this nonsense?
- run4yourlives 17y agoIn the same vain, I wish I actually had the time to waste on such nonsense.
- sundeep 17y ago> In the same vain I think you meant "in the same vein" ... :)
- run4yourlives 17y agoYes, I did.
- electronslave 17y agoBut isn't all nonsense vanity in itself?
- cpach 17y agoIsn't that obvious?
- icey 17y agoNot everyone has the line between "can" and "should" drawn in the same place.
- sophacles 17y agoAren't they the same line?
- icey 17y agoYou can go rob a bank. However, I don't think you should.
- bmelton 17y agoI don't know why I can't reply to icey's response to this, unless it's too much nesting -- the line is the same, but it may exist in a variety of positions on the slider. I do not believe that he meant you would draw the line for can, and the line for should in different places, rather, that they are simply not in the same place for all people.
- scott_s 17y agoProbably because he had fun implementing it.
- rogeriopvl 17y agoAlthough it's funny, I think it's a waste of time and talent.
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- electronslave 17y agoIt's someone making an alternate grammar for the Python VM. There's no waste in a learning exercise, even though the (juvenile, topical) humor may have dated itself. Note to self: in order to not piss off HN readers, make a tutorial/postmortem at the end of the project.
- scott_s 17y agoWorry not, it's just a small subset of people here. At least, I hope that most of HN sees the value in doing something just because you want to.
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- thorax 17y agoIt is actually a kind of interesting stack-based grammar. Silly keywords aside I kind of liked learning about how it works and adding new keywords to it. The fun part is picking really good variable names that make it even more obfuscated to people who don't recognize it. If you don't find it slightly fun, you may not like the IOCCC either. Some character even got it working for Counter-Strike: Source addons: http://forums.eventscripts.com/viewtopic.php?t=27349 http://forums.eventscripts.com/viewtopic.php?t=27349
- electronslave 17y agoI remember porting my MapReduce clone to LOLPython. Three conditions had to exist in order for this to happen: 1) I was in a former cattle weighing town-turned-gambling nexus in northern New South Wales, 2) I was going to be there for 2 months, and 3) I was very, very drunk. I think there exists a whole set of sub-explanations for each, but it shall suffice that severance pay, boredom and intoxication produce strange things.
- dryicerx 17y agoI guess intergrating this with LOLCode feeds will be a breeze http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36998705@N00&lang=en-us&format=lolcode http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36...