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Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:16 am Reply with quote Send private message

Now I have no issues with Who's and Whovilles or Lames or Asians or Gays or Easy-lays, but there is one thing just one thing that gets my goat since the start, and without a doubt makes me give a glance that's quite stark.

The Gay Pride Parade.

Now hold up before you start ranting and raving I have no problems with the parade itself, but if it's not to much to ask could you please hold the gas until a time that is past TEN AM.

srsly. I don't care if you're Obama celebrating his Nobel Prize - you wake me up before 8AM and you aren't going to be doing your cause, regardless of what it is, any favours. Last year being woken up by honking and yelling at some ungodly morning hour on a Saturday made me just want to go and punch someone's face in - sexual orientation be damned.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:44 am Reply with quote Send private message

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:07 pm Reply with quote Send private message

I'm having a straight parade the same day.....

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:17 pm Reply with quote Send private message

They're usually just called Pride parades these days, and straight people are welcome in them.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:18 pm Reply with quote Send private message

I'm holding out for the Arrogance parade.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:21 pm Reply with quote Send private message

Senther wrote:

I'm holding out for the Arrogance parade.

I prefer the black parade

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Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:26 pm Reply with quote Send private message

I don't care whose parade it is, so help me if you hold it at 8AM I will destroy you with an RPG. (wishful thinkin')

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If a parade has a giant inflatable dragon, I will go to it.

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8 AM is pretty ridiculous for a weekend day. One of the reasons to go off campus is so you don't get disturbed.

Has anyone suggested that to the organizers? They may be amenable to a time change - next year if not this year.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:16 am Reply with quote Send private message

Cheers it appears to start after one this year

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Speaking of gay pride events did anyone see the news about that Winnipeg bathhouse fire? It's listed as arson but they haven't shown yet whether it was a homophobic crime or not.

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Jimmy Big Ears wrote:

Speaking of gay pride events did anyone see the news about that Winnipeg bathhouse fire? It's listed as arson but they haven't shown yet whether it was a homophobic crime or not.

Code:

bool arson(arsonist)
{
If (arsonist == gay)
{
return false
}
else return true;
}

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Apocalypse wrote:

Jimmy Big Ears wrote:

Speaking of gay pride events did anyone see the news about that Winnipeg bathhouse fire? It's listed as arson but they haven't shown yet whether it was a homophobic crime or not.

Code:

bool arson(arsonist)
{
If (arsonist == gay)
{
return false
}
else return true;
}

You should be more consistent in your code. It you aren't going to put a "one-liner" in a block, then you shouldn't put both in a block. Plus, who capatilises their "if".

Code:

bool arson(arsonist)
{
if(arsonist == gay) return false;
else return true;
}

But that might be hard to read.

Code:

bool arson(arsonist)
{
if(arsonist == gay)
return false;
else
return true;
}

Or even more properly if you want to get ride of the potential for ambiguity...

Code:

bool arson(arsonist)
{
if(arsonist == gay)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}

But then again, I am a stickler for proper code fomatting. Also your function name should be better defined. arson() implies that it will return if the person is an arsonist or not, whereas arsonistIsGay() will describe if the arsonist is gay.

Also, 'gay' isn't defined anywhere in the local scope of the function arson...

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Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:08 pm Reply with quote Send private message

Oh, snap.

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enmand wrote:

You should be more consistent in your code. It you aren't going to put a "one-liner" in a block, then you shouldn't put both in a block. Plus, who capatilises their "if".
But that might be hard to read.
Or even more properly if you want to get ride of the potential for ambiguity...
But then again, I am a stickler for proper code fomatting. Also your function name should be better defined. arson() implies that it will return if the person is an arsonist or not, whereas arsonistIsGay() will describe if the arsonist is gay.

If only theU page were done that well.... it was a joke, not a CS exam.

enmand wrote:

Also, 'gay' isn't defined anywhere in the local scope of the function arson...

Its a global / defined? I don't have a main function either, therefore it's probably an excerpt

here.. fix'd since it's so important, throw this in GCC and see if you can make it go faster. While you're at it, fix the Goddamned poll on the front page (the command is chmod.. look it up)

Code:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
bool arsonist = 0;
cout << "Is the arsonist gay? (1=y, 0=n) \n";

cin >> sexuality;

cout << "The arsonist is ";
if (sexuality) cout << "not ";
cout << "homophobic.";

return 0
}

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Quote:

Plus, who capitalizes their "if".

Code:

#define If if

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Goodness, I was only kidding around with you... Smile

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CALM DOWN

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Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:28 pm Reply with quote Send private message

Apocalypse wrote:

enmand wrote:

You should be more consistent in your code. It you aren't going to put a "one-liner" in a block, then you shouldn't put both in a block. Plus, who capatilises their "if".
But that might be hard to read.
Or even more properly if you want to get ride of the potential for ambiguity...
But then again, I am a stickler for proper code fomatting. Also your function name should be better defined. arson() implies that it will return if the person is an arsonist or not, whereas arsonistIsGay() will describe if the arsonist is gay.

If only theU page were done that well.... it was a joke, not a CS exam.

enmand wrote:

Also, 'gay' isn't defined anywhere in the local scope of the function arson...

Its a global / defined? I don't have a main function either, therefore it's probably an excerpt

here.. fix'd since it's so important, throw this in GCC and see if you can make it go faster. While you're at it, fix the Goddamned poll on the front page (the command is chmod.. look it up)

Code:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
bool arsonist = 0;
cout << "Is the arsonist gay? (1=y, 0=n) \n";

cin >> sexuality;

cout << "The arsonist is ";
if (sexuality) cout << "not ";
cout << "homophobic.";

return 0
}

EDIT:

Quote:

Plus, who capitalizes their "if".

Code:

#define If if

For the record, my position is only a one year term, and I have been working busily on fixing a lot of the things wrong with TheU.ca and some of it's services (like X-Talk). Ask r00t... I think he is starting to understand. That said, we are working on something new, and to appease your wants (not that anyone really wants to seriously vote on the poll as it is stale...) I will fix the write error (and yes, I know what chmod is and does. I have been a Linux system administrator for many, many moons).

That said, I was only kidding around with you. You could have just said it was pseudo-code... or realised it was a joke and I wasn't (totally) serious.

In reality, you shouldn't use global variables in that sense (lambda functions partially excluded). static (global) variables can be useful in some cases with some design patterns, but overall... global variables are usually a no-no in my books. In your new code, the variable "sexuality" doesn't have a type (and isn't defined/initialized).

I was just pointing it out as I don't really enjoy messing around with other people's crappy code (I had to do it all summer at my other job). I am very strict on my code-style (in some sense). I've started doing a lot of my scripts in Python since it forces you to format your whitespace in a somewhat sane way. I think the

Code:

#define If if

is probably TheDailyWTF worthy Very Happy

You gotta learn to take a joke... even if it's not a very good one.

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enmand wrote:

I think the

Code:

#define If if

is probably TheDailyWTF worthy Very Happy

Believe me.. I never do that.....

Bad day at work, too many idiots

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Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:53 am Reply with quote Send private message

This is the most pointless discussion ever recorded.

Did anyone actually read the news about it?

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