Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: [...] I don't think I've ever written the word dedent in my life, at least until this paragraph. In fact, I'm not convinced that it IS a word. It's a technical term, sometimes used in the context of code editors to denote the opposite of indent. For

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes: William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: [...] I don't think I've ever written the word dedent in my life, at least until this paragraph. In fact, I'm not convinced that it IS a word. It's a technical term, No, the correct term is outdent. DES --

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread spellberg_robert
hi, muffy; hi, biff --- golly, gee_whillikers, kids, i always thought it was undent; equal length, minimum diff. see you all at the malt_shop, after the sock_hop. rob Oliver Fromme wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes: William Gordon

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

2009-04-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:40:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). That's actually very easy to pull off. Just open 4 terminals on the 1st and walk away.

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Jayton Garnett
What about exdent or unident? Surely we should discuss these terms for describing an un-dented indent? http://ask.metafilter.com/7214/The-opposite-of-indent Taken from Wikipedia: Debates over where to indent, whether to use spaces or tabs, and how many spaces to use are often hotly debated among

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] What's bad is when several styles are mixed, e. g. Of course. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. I assume that every modern editor can be configured that way. Even old fashioned ones can, take the mcedit

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

2009-04-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:40:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). That's actually very easy to pull off. Just

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:03:01 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote: Uhm. I wouldn't call joe old fashioned. It has a long history, but it's not older than, say, BSD. Would you call BSD old fashioned? IF I do, you may throw an AS/400 at my head. :-) Allthough BSD has a

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/2 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:  Would you call BSD old fashioned? No. I would call it old-fashion. In keeping with the in/ex/un/out-dent theme, of course. -- -- ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: KAYVEN RIESE ka...@sfsu.edu writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Have you considered combining the two (computer science and molecular biology) and going into bioinformatics? disaster. data mining people don't give a @*# about the