I have a very good idea what you're talking about and I'm not impressed.

Mugato: there are easier ways to do that.

Yes, but I think that since he did it in T-SQL shows a certain evil genius.

But if you want to impress me, do it in INTERCAL

Mugato: I actually do too and I know enough to know that he needs to learn another language because there are easier ways to do that.

If he wanted to be really cool, he would have generated a cursor where each row and column was the character. DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINES are weak.

//He should have done it in Lisp.

But if you want to impress me, do it in INTERCAL

Has it been done in PostScript?

/Raytracing on a LaserWriter II FTW!

king_nacho: I get it, and its almost cool. but come on, using a data access language to generate formatted output?

Which is why he should have returned a table representing his coordinate system, and not generated text output. That would have been way more awesome.

t3knomanser: king_nacho: I get it, and its almost cool. but come on, using a data access language to generate formatted output?

Which is why he should have returned a table representing his coordinate system, and not generated text output. That would have been way more awesome.

Oh, I take that back. He did. I saw a different version of this crowded with DBMS_OUTPUTs. This one is better than I recalled.

t3knomanser: t3knomanser: king_nacho: I get it, and its almost cool. but come on, using a data access language to generate formatted output?

Which is why he should have returned a table representing his coordinate system, and not generated text output. That would have been way more awesome.

Oh, I take that back. He did. I saw a different version of this crowded with DBMS_OUTPUTs. This one is better than I recalled.

Oh, I take it back again. He's still doing string formatting.

that's an interesting query plan it has there

If you understand that, you are a loser. Or better work in the field.

/unimpressed

but seriously I'm not impressed. I did that when I was like 2 man

\\not really

I don't know anything about T-SQL, but I'm for fractals by any means.

/unimpressed with user
//my fail hurt my loins

Thanks, Drew -- this article more than makes up for the heavy reading on the "10 worst companies" headline.

I, uh... learned FORTRAN and never used it.

Huh?

This is my favorite part!

SELECT CAST(Y + 0.031 AS FLOAT) AS Y, IY + 1 AS IY
FROM YGEN
WHERE IY

Farking hilarious!

More classic xkcd, please.

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Shiat!

I knew unemployment numbers were bad.. but this just takes it to a new level.

COBOL

Headso: COBOL
SNOBOL

Shakespeare's Monkey: That's not impressive; this is impressive.

Dosen't count, the glass didn't make it past the teeth.

peck: Mugato: there are easier ways to do that.

Yes, but I think that since he did it in T-SQL shows a certain evil genius.

But if you want to impress me, do it in INTERCAL

No love for COBAL?

/Or Python?

/hotlinked

Drunken_Sobriety: Headso: COBOL
SNOBOL

M

stvdallas: I won't even bother to explain the mathematics behind this, but if you are geeky, math -can- be fun.

Sadly, if they're not geeky, math is a bunch of boring-ass shiate.

/likes math
//has almost given up persuading others of same

Barakku: No love for COBAL?

Moran.

- R

select top 1 * from [fark].[dbo].[thread] where [care?] = 'no'

results:
burndtdan

Shakespeare's Monkey: That's not impressive; this is impressive.

I'd be more impressed if she got her teeth around the glass.

It's like a Rorschach Test on fire, a day-glo pterodactyl.

Sneakytoes: I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a German midget laughing at a camel.

Your Welcome

burndtdan: select top 1 * from [fark].[dbo].[thread] where [care?] = 'no'

results:
burndtdan

SQL Server sucks. TOP is not ANSI compliant. Also, your three part name isn't well formatted for the joke. [fark] would really be the server, not the database. Something more like fark.threads.dbo.commenters would be funnier, but the very fact that you're using T-SQL makes it lame.

Yea The Daily WTF got a fark link. Click some ads while your there.

No Jonathan Coulton references yet?

You can listen to this song for free on his website, but I'm not giving you a link, because I don't want you crashing it. Stay away!


Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
And the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down

Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z's should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You're one badass farking fractal
And you're just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way

Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home

Just take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Zs should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You're one badass farking fractal
And you're just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
And you're just in time to save the day
Sweeping all our fears away
You can change the world in a tiny way
Go on change the world in a tiny way
Come on change the world in a tiny way

*shakes fist at Sheseala*