[quote user="cheapie"]When I turn 18 it will let me put soap in the dispenser by the back sink at work. Yes, you have to be 18 to put a bar of soap (not some nasty stuff, they have us wipe down the tables and chairs with it, which requires us to touch the solution, and it's a special bar that has to be at least 120 degrees (F) to ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="MiffTheFox"]That's pretty much what a tuple is in a lot of dynamically typed languages anyways. Tuples are just the JS/Python nerds compensating for the fact that their language doesn't have real multiple return values.[/quote] What's so hard about just using an array in ...

[quote user="Ronald"][quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="Ronald"]That's how the new iTunes was unleashed on innocent iPod owners.[/quote] Nobody who owns an iPod should be considered "innocent".[/quote] Did you try the Galaxy Player? Or the new Sony Walkman? They both make the Zune look like ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="joe.edwards"]I'd not actually seen return 1, 2, 3; syntax before in Javascript. It looks like it would be a tuple, but in practice it just returns 3.[/quote] I don't get returning a tuple. Just return a damn array![/quote] That's pretty much what a tuple is in a lot ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="KattMan"]The other thing 18 gets you... That girl you been having sex with, that turns 18 two weeks later, now makes you a pedophile. It doesn't matter that you are only 2 weeks apart in age.[/quote] The age of consent in most states is not 18. How do you people not know this? ...

What I do is just create a Cygwin symlink instead of a Windows junction point: ln -s /home/Miff /cygdrive/c/Users/Miff It used to use a Windows shortcut (!) to store it on the filesystem, now it uses a plain file format with the system attribute.

[quote user="joe.edwards"]I'd not actually seen return 1, 2, 3; syntax before in Javascript. It looks like it would be a tuple, but in practice it just returns 3.[/quote] Wow.... that's some bullshit.

[quote user="spamcourt"]And that's the correct way according to linux. Metadata? I'll just look inside every file and check against my enormous magic string database to figure out the type, thank you very much.[/quote] Except on Ubuntu (at least in 2008 when I last used it). "I'm not letting you open this file because ...

[quote user="Sutherlands"] you have no idea what language this is in. [/quote] [quote user="Zemm"]an ancient cpan module[/quote] It's Perl.

[quote user="Ben L."]If you had written it in Go, you wouldn't have had this problem.[/quote] Or he could use Perl's solution.