If programming languages were religions

C would be Judaism – it’s old and restrictive, but most of the world is familiar with its laws and respects them. The catch is, you can’t convert into it – you’re either into it from the start, or you will think that it’s insanity. Also, when things go wrong, many people are willing to blame the problems of the world on it.

Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity – it’s theoretically based on C, but it voids so many of the old laws that it doesn’t feel like the original at all. Instead, it adds its own set of rigid rules, which its followers believe to be far superior to the original. Not only are they certain that it’s the best language in the world, but they’re willing to burn those who disagree at the stake.

PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity – Fights with Java for the web market. It draws a few concepts from C and Java, but only those that it really likes. Maybe it’s not as coherent as other languages, but at least it leaves you with much more freedom and ostensibly keeps the core idea of the whole thing. Also, the whole concept of “goto hell” was abandoned.

C++ would be Islam – It takes C and not only keeps all its laws, but adds a very complex new set of laws on top of it. It’s so versatile that it can be used to be the foundation of anything, from great atrocities to beautiful works of art. Its followers are convinced that it is the ultimate universal language, and may be angered by those who disagree. Also, if you insult it or its founder, you’ll probably be threatened with death by more radical followers.

C# would be Mormonism – At first glance, it’s the same as Java, but at a closer look you realize that it’s controlled by a single corporation (which many Java followers believe to be evil), and that many theological concepts are quite different. You suspect that it’d probably be nice, if only all the followers of Java wouldn’t discriminate so much against you for following it.

Lisp would be Zen Buddhism – There is no syntax, there is no centralization of dogma, there are no deities to worship. The entire universe is there at your reach – if only you are enlightened enough to grasp it. Some say that it’s not a language at all; others say that it’s the only language that makes sense.

Haskell would be Taoism – It is so different from other languages that many people don’t understand how can anyone use it to produce anything useful. Its followers believe that it’s the true path to wisdom, but that wisdom is beyond the grasp of most mortals.

Erlang would be Hinduism – It’s another strange language that doesn’t look like it could be used for anything, but unlike most other modern languages, it’s built around the concept of multiple simultaneous deities.

Perl would be Voodoo – An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night.

Lua would be Wicca – A pantheistic language that can easily be adapted for different cultures and locations. Its code is very liberal, and allows for the use of techniques that might be described as magical by those used to more traditional languages. It has a strong connection to the moon.

Ruby would be Neo-Paganism – A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified as a language. Its adherents are growing fast, and although most people look at them suspiciously, they are mostly well-meaning people with no intention of harming anyone.

Python would be Humanism – It’s simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel relieved from all the burden imposed by other languages, and that they have rediscovered the joy of programming. There are some who say that it is a form of pseudo-code.

COBOL would be Ancient Paganism – There was once a time when it ruled over a vast region and was important, but nowadays it’s almost dead, for the good of us all. Although many were scarred by the rituals demanded by its deities, there are some who insist on keeping it alive even today.

APL would be Scientology – There are many people who claim to follow it, but you’ve always suspected that it’s a huge and elaborate prank that got out of control.

LOLCODE would be Pastafarianism – An esoteric, Internet-born belief that nobody really takes seriously, despite all the efforts to develop and spread it.

Visual Basic would be Satanism – Except that you don’t REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist…

Athism isn’t a religion, so the closest analogy is Assembler. It offers no quick or easy answers, but if you are prepared to think it through you can accomplish anything.

Located on:
http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9619

Original source:
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

Follow-up article:
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions_20.html

21 days of fitness


Muay Thai Boxing

And so it begins, my 2nd attempt at losing weight. In January 2008 I began a weightloss regime which took me from 105kg to 93kg. But through a lack of discipline I have put most of it back on and I’m back up to a smidgen under 103kg. At least I never got back to what I was, but we won’t argue about 2kg!) I’ve decided it’s time, once again, to do something about this. For a multitude of reasons, my blood pressure is through the roof, I’m unfit, I do not eat all that healthy and I’m fat.

A friend of a friend recently tried a “21 day plan” to break bad habits (or if you prefer, 21 day plan to introduce new “good” habits). So this is the same. I am trying to introduce a 21 day plan to bring fitness into my daily life.

Today was Day 1, and I am hurting. As how I usually tackle most things, I have not done this by halves, and went into a full-on Muay Thai (beginners) training session. I am physically in pain. Writing this, my elbows are glued to the desk and my fingers are doing all the work. My shoulders feel like someone has a blow torch on them. Hopefully the radox bath I have running will help.

I have already met some inspirational people. One gent, started 6 months ago at 126kg, and he is now 86! That’s 40kg! and he’s now ready to go competition!

I have been told it will get easier. It won’t get easy, but it will get easier.

My goal for this is to participate in this for 21 days (which works out to be about 24 days as they aren’t open Sundays and I need some rest), with an ultimate goal of losing 10kg by the end of the month. I also hope to reduce my blood pressure and increase my general level fitness. All this in time for August, my month in Thailand.

Fingers crossed.

The Weight of your Music Collection

This site use to be oh so about me losing weight…

Somewhere along the way, I lost my way, but I am hoping that one day I’ll get back into it.

But a shocking story on weight gain caught my attention the other day. The iPhone is getting fatter! Well, not so much, fatter, but heavier, and that is because of our songs. Someone in their infinite wisdom thought is would be prudent to weight an iPhone once data had been saved to it. The data is a collection of 1s and 0s, right? and before you add data containing 1s and 0s, what is already there? NOT 1s and 0s?

You be the judge:

The difference between a empty iPod and a full one is only a 0.4 gram say the team from Blackpool University. Tests showed that a empty 16GB iPhone weighed 133.2 grams compared to 133.6 for the same model filled with 3,500 songs. Professor Roger Banks said: “This is the first time the weight of computer data has been measured. We all know it is made out of ones and zeros, but the ratio of ones to zeros seems to make a difference.”

The boffins will now investigate whether the weight of different types of files music, video or pictures varies when they have the same file size. The discovery could mean that trading standards force makers Apple to repackage all unsold iPods and iPhones in the UK to state that weights may vary

“Study Results” and original article –> http://attuworld.com/just-attu/ipods-get-heavier-with-more-music.html

2 ways to trim youtube videos

I found a page that detailed a way to trim a youtube video. Which incidentally reminded me about tubechop. I read over the page that showed me another way to do it. I liked it because it uses the actual youtube video and inserts start and end tags (the end tag didn’t seem to work for me), where-as tubechop actually takes a copy of the youtube video and hosts it on it’s own servers. And frankly, I know nothing about these people and how long they intend to be around. So if you use it, then one day it just might not be there anymore. I have included both methods for you here anyway.

1) watch the instruction video directly from tubechop:

2) And here is the URL hack for the youtube link (I have highlighted the relevant section):

untrimmed
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iGpIT2bVZDw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iGpIT2bVZDw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

trimmed
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iGpIT2bVZDw&start=204&end=228&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/iGpIT2bVZDw&start=204&end=228&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

This is the above example, note the big gap from the original start position to the new start position:


(featured on http://q-ontech.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-trim-youtube-video.html )

The same video edited in tubechop:

regex expressions for validating email addresses

Whilst doing my usual mindless surfing of the internet, I found this page webmonkey relating to the validation of email addresses. In short, this is what they had to say:

1. Dirt-simple approach
Here’s a regex that only requires a very basic xxxx@yyyy.zzz:
.+\@.+\..+

Upside: Dirt simple.
Downside: Even invalid email addresses like xxxx@yyyy.zzz, or even a@b.c, make it through.

2. Slightly more strict (but still simple) approach
Regular-Expressions.Info provides a basic email validation regex that tries to be a little smarter:
[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}

Upside: Only allows email address-friendly characters, restricts domain extension to only two to four characters.
Downside: It still allows many invalid email addresses, and misses some longer domain extensions (.museum, for example).

3. Specify all the domain extensions approach
Reddit user teye points to his regex, which only allows domain extensions that actually exist:
([a-z0-9][-a-z0-9_\+\.]*[a-z0-9])@([a-z0-9][-a-z0-9\.]*[a-z0-9]\.(arpa|root|aero|biz|cat|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|mobi|museum|
name|net|org|pro|tel|travel|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|
ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg
|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|er|es|et|
eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|
hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kr|
kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|
mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|
pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|
sh|si|sj|sk|sl|sm|sn|so|sr|st|su|sv|sy|sz|tc|td|tf|tg|th|tj|tk|tl|tm|tn|to|tp|tr|tt|
tv|tw|tz|ua|ug|uk|um|us|uy|uz|va|vc|ve|vg|vi|vn|vu|wf|ws|ye|yt|yu|za|zm|
zw)|([0-9]{1,3}\.{3}[0-9]{1,3}))

Upside: It doesn’t allow xxxx@yyyy.zzz!
Downside: Upkeep could be tough with this one. You’d have to update any time new domain extensions are announced. In fact, you already would need to add the .me extension.

4. Way complicated approach

A Perl module has a long regular expression based on the standard description of an email address. It’s so long (nearly 6,500 characters!) that I won’t include it here.

Upside: It’s complete.
Downside: It’s way complicated.

Well, they didn’t put it on their page, so I went and found it and put it here for posperity. It’s WAY COOL! :-P

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Song for Guy

Seriously, what are the words to this song?

I thought I knew them for many a year… Well, I had narrowed it down to two choices (the first in the list), but finally deciding to search tonight brings many more choices…. So now I REALLY just don’t know anymore.

Which ones are right?

You decide….

Life…
is a terrible thing…
is a terrible thing…
is a terrible thing…

Life…
is a jungle of fear…
is a jungle of fear…
is a jungle of fear…

Life…
isn’t everything…
isn’t everything…
isn’t everything…

Life…
is a tentative thing…
is a tentative thing…
is a tentative thing…

Life…
Isn’t death everything…
Isn’t death everything…
Isn’t death everything…

I would seriously like peoples comments on this, especially comments related to original references.

I have many inspirational singer/song-writers….

  • Elton John
  • Billy Joel
  • Paul Kelly
  • Tim Minchin
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Rod Stewart

amongst others

Buying my first house

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I am currently buying my first home and thought I would share something that is important to me!

The house/home I am purchasing is in the adjacent picture. The large building in the center of the picture is the internode enabled ADSL2+ exchange. I should get a real nice connection speed here!

The whole process (so far) has been reasonably painless (except for the initial motivation!)

About 3 weeks ago I get a phone call while I was intra-state from my landlord “You have 60 days to get out!”. Now, I don’t know about where you are form, but currently in Sydney, Australia, there is a critical rental shortage. Rents have been going up at HUMUNGOUS rates. Mine included. I was not interested in playing the “Let’s find a place to rent” game anymore. I mean, what’s the point? You line up at inspection with 30 other hopeful expectant/wood-be renters and have to prove to the real estate and the landlord why I am better than everyone else; which often turns into a bidding war! all this coupled with the fact that 60 days finishes on Boxing Day!! I have to move out and there’s not even a real estate open for several weeks either side of the date in question.

So after looking on http://realestate.com.au for about 10 minutes I decided that maybe NOW was the time to buy

I humoured myself and went to my credit union and they said they would give me money. Knowing I could do better I saw a broker. On my first day of looking I saw 5 places (the last one was a last minute fluke) which is the one I am looking to buy now. I did spend the next few days looking, but in my minds eye, #5 was the one I was returning to. My initial viewing was on a Saturday (12 days ago). I rang the real estate the following Wednesday and made an offer. The vendor made a counter offer and a compromise was reached between mine and theirs (ie, their counter offer). Special condition: Short settlement… Suits me!

I rang my broker and she said I was good to go. Contacted real estate once more and offer confirmed. Now I am sitting here just waiting for the loan approval (which I am expecting today or tomorrow), and the whole decision making process from deciding to buy, to contracts exchanged is going to be less than 2 weeks!

more to follow…