Post by Kuwaga

Posted: 4/29/2009 3:57 PM

Post subject: Bisqwit on the daily WTF

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pilif

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http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-XSLT-Mandelbrot.aspx congratulations Bisqwit! And in case you wonder what Bisqwit's code has to do on a daily WTF posting, this time it's about awesome and not bad code. Philip

Posted: 4/29/2009 4:24 PM

Post subject: Re: Bisqwit on the daily WTF

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Warp

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pilif wrote:

And in case you wonder what Bisqwit's code has to do on a daily WTF posting, this time it's about awesome and not bad code.

I'm not so sure it's so much about awesome code, but about abusing a language for something it was not really designed for, resulting in a rather contrived result.

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:08 PM

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Tub

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yeah, bisqwit has an awesome way of learning new languages. that particular piece of xslt isn't that complicated either, 30 lines of setup, another 30 just to iterate over the screen "pixels" (xslt 1.0 is VERY verbose on function calls, 2.0 at least made recursion simpler) and the rest is a simple recursive mandelbrot calculation. but it's still way more awesome than all my test-code combined. ;) oh yeah, this is a good read on abusing XSLT. It's proven to be turing-complete and there are quite some papers about it. This one tries to implement a full-featured functional language on top of it: http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/fp/

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Posted: 4/29/2009 9:04 PM

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Rick

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I think Bisqwit also has a way of sneaking into places where you least expect him. I vote that Bisqwit should become a professional ninja.

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Posted: 4/29/2009 9:06 PM

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Bisqwit

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Rick wrote:

I think Bisqwit also has a way of sneaking into places where you least expect him.

What makes you say so?

Posted: 4/29/2009 9:08 PM

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Rick

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You just seem to pop up in places I wouldn't expect or think of you to pop up at, I guess. At least to me, I dunno. o.o Not that it's a bad thing mind you. I think it's 100% awesome.

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Posted: 4/29/2009 9:12 PM

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Bisqwit

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Rick wrote:

You just seem to pop up in places I wouldn't expect or think of you to pop up at, I guess. At least to me, I dunno. o.o

Ah. Well, I admit to that accusation. Happens IRL, too, though to a much more localized extent.

Posted: 4/29/2009 11:11 PM

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errror1

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I rate the article a 7.4 in entertainment and a 9.5 in technical skill

Posted: 5/2/2009 5:36 PM

Post subject: Re: Bisqwit on the daily WTF

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DarkKobold

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Warp wrote:

pilif wrote:
And in case you wonder what Bisqwit's code has to do on a daily WTF posting, this time it's about awesome and not bad code.
I'm not so sure it's so much about awesome code, but about abusing a language for something it was not really designed for, resulting in a rather contrived result.

Aww, Warp is sad that someone else got acknowledged for cool code. Why is it that anytime anything about coding shows up, you act like a butthurt little baby? How about "Congrats Bisqwit, thats cool you made the daily WTF!"

Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.

Posted: 5/2/2009 5:57 PM

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Warp

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Excuse me? Exactly what was it in my post that was negative? I was not making a negative or bashing post in the least. What I meant was that it's really cool when things are abused in that way to generate cool things (like the mandelbrot set). Your weird accusation sounds like you are just an asshole who should shut up.

Posted: 5/2/2009 10:11 PM
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Post subject: Re: Bisqwit on the daily WTF

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Kuwaga

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Warp wrote:

I'm not so sure it's so much about awesome code, but about abusing a language for something it was not really designed for...

For some people, including me, that's within the definition of awesome. You were probably just trying to be linguistically/logically correct.. Yet you say here that it isn't awesome (positive attribute), but just doing unintended stuff (neutral). If you use it in such a contrasting way it's likely that some people will misunderstand you, and then they could even interpret what comes after the "but" as meant to be negative.

Posted: 5/2/2009 10:22 PM

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Warp

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Granted, my post may be easily misinterpreted, I grant you that. However, DarkKobold was not being an asshole because he misinterpreted it. He was being an asshole because he started his insulting namecalling without even giving me the benefit of the doubt. I find even the thought of belittling that Bisqwit's code ridiculous. Bisqwit contributed that code to my Mandelbrot scripts page years ago, and I added it there because it was a very cool example. I was as surprised and glad to see his code at TheDailyWTF as anyone else. Misinterpreting my post is one thing. Jumping to stupid namecalling is being a complete asshole.