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mån 2010-06-28 klockan 15:05 +0100 skrev Ciaran McCreesh: |
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:59:21 +0100 |
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> Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> > All of engineering involves compromise. |
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> It's not a question of compromise. It's a question of being right vs |
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> being wrong. If one person says that 2 + 2 = 4 and a loud mob screams |
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> that their prophet revealed to them in a blog post that 2 + 2 = 6, you |
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> don't compromise and say that 2 + 2 = 5. |
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Sorry for being late to the party, but: |
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/60f5/ [1] |
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Nothing is EVER black or white. Not even the physical ones and zeros in |
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your computer are. That is why we have politics. To make compromises |
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which tells us what we should parse as a one or a zero. |
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1. (A t-shirt saying 2 + 2 = 5. For this joke to work you have to know |
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how to round numbers, and that 2 can be rounded from everything between |
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1,5 and 2,4, and that 4,8 rounds to 5. And it is still correct math.) |
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