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 :)