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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/02/2009 : 22:46:24
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 11:58:59 [Permalink]
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Mooner......
Call me dumb,ignorant,and boeotian; but I just don't get it! I obviously have not kept abreast of recent neologistic developments regarding the meaning of "C", so be appropriately contemptuous and properly superior because I feel like a (dumb), out-of-touch old ass, and tell me what the hell this one is all about? |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 12:21:54 [Permalink]
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Read tilde-C as "not C." The tilde represents the bitwise-not operation in the C programming language. In other words, it inverts all the bits in a variable, changing all zeroes to ones and vice versa.
So, one would think that the rally shown is, like with the 2004 "Anyone But Bush" voting strategy, just calling for programming in any language other than C.
However, there's a problem with that. The bitwise-not operator specifies the exact opposite of the referent, and so the rally would actually be calling for programming in a specific language which would be the polar opposite of C. What that might be would be difficult to pin down.
Perhaps what he intended was "!=C" which means "not equal to C," but that doesn't sound like the word "Nazi," and so wouldn't be funny. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 17:52:23 [Permalink]
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I think my image is too dumb to deserve very much explanation, but Dave and Ricky got it. I searched logical operator signs to find a "not."
In my mind, these stout fellows like anything but C. (I spared the world 'shopped photos of the Not Cs rounding up people who had C sewn on their coats. Even I questioned the taste of that. You're welcome.) |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/03/2009 18:02:42 |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
435 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 20:22:16 [Permalink]
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| You are Not C-rious. |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
-Barry Williams, co-founder, Australian Skeptics |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 21:27:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
You are Not C-rious.
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Sigh. How can I blame you. I started this crap. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2009 : 22:00:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
You are Not C-rious.
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~ C-rious. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
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newwaysys
Spammer
India
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Posted - 04/17/2015 : 01:50:27 [Permalink]
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one would think that the rally shown is, like with the 2004 "Anyone But Bush" voting strategy, just calling for programming in any language other than C.
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However, there's a problem with that. The bitwise-not operator specifies the exact opposite of the referent, and so the rally would actually be calling for programming in a specific language which would be the polar opposite of C. What that might be would be difficult to pin down.
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Not C Rally
