Famously Stupid People From Internet Memes
moultano
Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
<div class="IPBDescription">I'm almost one of them.</div> <a href='http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rmoulton/FreeThisShnizzle.wmv' target='_blank'>This</a> incident happened a few years ago. Then somebody just sent me these links. I'll let the video and the links speak for themselves.
thedailyWT F.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=28605 (stupid swear filters)
<a href='http://www.extragroup.de/weblog/hmk/archives/001112.html' target='_blank'>http://www.extragroup.de/weblog/hmk/archives/001112.html</a>
<a href='http://www.it-administrator.de/aktuell/13229.html' target='_blank'>http://www.it-administrator.de/aktuell/13229.html</a>
People I've never met still joke about this at school, but I had no idea this had gotten around the internet. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
thedailyWT F.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=28605 (stupid swear filters)
<a href='http://www.extragroup.de/weblog/hmk/archives/001112.html' target='_blank'>http://www.extragroup.de/weblog/hmk/archives/001112.html</a>
<a href='http://www.it-administrator.de/aktuell/13229.html' target='_blank'>http://www.it-administrator.de/aktuell/13229.html</a>
People I've never met still joke about this at school, but I had no idea this had gotten around the internet. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comments
Ok... deep breath....
The freeThisShnizzle was mildly amusing I suppose. But thanks to the horror of that code, I may never be able to write C again.
I couldn't hear many of the student answers, but it seems to me that none of them picked up on all that. Hell, one woman thought it was illegal to call a function from within itself ffs.
bwahaha...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
bwahaha...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<a href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meme' target='_blank'>meme</a>
I agree, freeThisShnizzle is a perfectly valid function name and was definatly not why this code failed. I've certainly seen (and coded) functions with worse and less descriptive names then that. I mean, who hasn't written a DoStuff function at least once? And who hasn't written one that takes 5 parameters, all the smae type, named stuff0 - stuff4?
Maybe Moultano can enlighten us as to why the proffessor thought that the function name was the important problem with the code?
I agree, freeThisShnizzle is a perfectly valid function name and was definatly not why this code failed. I've certainly seen (and coded) functions with worse and less descriptive names then that. I mean, who hasn't written a DoStuff function at least once? And who hasn't written one that takes 5 parameters, all the smae type, named stuff0 - stuff4?
Maybe Moultano can enlighten us as to why the proffessor thought that the function name was the important problem with the code? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It was a joke <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
A few people brought up the infinite recursion, and he said "NO!"
isn't that a matrix?
(note lack of coding for 2 years makes me forget what little I knew)
oh, and I say it is a good name!
I got put into our cookie file (bash for the cs department) for having the tendancy to use names like god or theDevil for objects, eventualy it came down to an out pout from my code reading:
god moves north, god is now at (3, 4), god is now ****. (AVickery's cs151 lab)
note: we were creating things that wandered around an island, and if they didn't rest for long enugh they became upset and wouldn't move.
The problem with the code is that it was infinitely recursive. That means the computer would be locked into a series of tasks over and over, causing it to freeze. An example of this would be the following 'coding':
1: Add X + Y
2: Add A + B
3: Go back to step 1.
Essentially, the computer would add X & Y, then A & B, add X & Y again, add A & B again, and again and again untill the power was cut. That was the real problem with the coding mentioned. However, the teacher just couldn't resist the urge to use that mistake to question the name of the function.
Ok... deep breath.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
My thoughts exactly. :)
A few people brought up the infinite recursion, and he said "NO!" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, yeah, I think everyone except Skulkbait caught that. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I still think freethisShnizzle is a great name for a function.
the end.