When you try your best, but you don't succeed

[venta]

[Poll #2050657]

Why yes, the day's work has left me mildly hysterical, thank you for asking.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

All I ask is that a capital letter Ii, a small letter Ll, a number one and one of these | look different from each other.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Further, I would like to ask people not to call variables stupid things like Il1, but that appears to be a big ask in the world of other people's physics code.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

YES. Also O and 0. It's the C21st, we can afford the extra characters.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Not an unreasonable request.

The other day, trying to construct an elaborate emoticon, I couldn't find the | anywhere. I looked for ages.

In the end I had to let my fingers type a Unix command line that required it. It turned out they knew exactly where it was :)

[sheridanwilde.livejournal.com]

Is the last one a p|pe?

[venta.livejournal.com]

C'est si ne pas une pipe, surely :)

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I, erm, like it both ways.

Also, Fix You is one of my most-hated songs, because it's almost a song I would really like, but no. It annoys me that it manages to make me well up even though I can see it coming and try to stoke up on rage at helpy masculinity. Terrible songs should not be so well written.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I despise almost all Coldplay for that, or similar reasons. Ugh. So whiney.

But you may have a kudo for complaining about the correct song :)

[shermarama]

I was quite surprised to discover I knew what this was as well; I didn't think they'd got that far into my head. (IMO there is one (1) acceptable Coldplay song, which is Shiver, because it's in 6/8, aka the not nearly common enough Metal Waltz, and if I had the range to sing the bassline from the chorus I'd do it all day, so I have to sing it with a bass instead. I understand there's some warbling and strumming and stuff going on too but whatever.)

[shermarama]

(No, hang on, 12/8, but that makes it even better.)

[shermarama]

(No, hang on, 12/8, but that makes it even better.)

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I will admit to a sneaking sort-of fondness for Fix You because of David Tennant using (a few seconds of) it to wind up Noel Fielding on Buzzcocks. That doesn't mean I would listen to it voluntarily under any other circumstances, however.

[registermugs.livejournal.com]

Its magnificent :)

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

I dunno about coding but fixed width font is essential for reading nucleotide sequences.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

So how is this supposed to work? One uses a variable-width font and relies on real / virtual tabs for the indenting? And there are real, live people who do this?! (writes an old fart weasel)