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Choice Votes   Percent
Calculators! 7 4.6%   
Server Maintenance! 5 3.3%   
Politics! 8 5.3%   
Calculators and Server Maintenance! 26 17.1%   
Calculators and Politics! 8 5.3%   
Server Maintenance and Politics! 6 3.9%   
Calculators, Server Maintenance, and Politics! 39 25.7%   
They don't talk to each other in private. 27 17.8%   
Other, I'm going to tell you what they talk about! 26 17.1%   

Survey posted 2004-09-06 15:45 by Jon.

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Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

Well, this place is kind of HUGE and to get these results from a team that small does require a lot of work. People on the outside often don't realize how complicated it is to do something, or how the internal institutional politics work.

<rant> Example A: the regulation of teaching in the US and the mania over standardized testing (which almost always results in nine months of How to Beat the Test lessons, whether the student realizes it or not). It is mandatory that they have college degrees, and they even get paid more if they have more college degrees. They went to college to learn their profession, not to hae some lawyer in Washington DC tell them how to do their job! Leave them alone-that's what they went to college for. Go regulate the profession, not the professionals!</rant>

Anyway, they most probably have a lot of work to do, are spread out, probably meet very little, and all have to try to keep on the same page. I can imagine it being very hard, overall.

Reply to this comment    6 September 2004, 17:38 GMT

Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
Paul Houser Account Info
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PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER!

Reply to this comment    6 September 2004, 18:18 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

PURPLE TYPEWRITING MONKEY DISHWASHER!

Reply to this comment    6 September 2004, 18:19 GMT


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Rodney Blythe  Account Info
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Well, Well...I can see this is really going somewhere intelligent. hehe <rolls eyes>

Reply to this comment    6 September 2004, 18:29 GMT

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anykey  Account Info

PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER NO LIKE RODNEY!

Reply to this comment    6 September 2004, 23:23 GMT


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Rodney Blythe  Account Info
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Well in that case...:p

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 01:03 GMT


Re: Re: ¤
Paul Houser Account Info
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Yeah, I totally regret starting that thread....it's apparent that none of the people who replied actually get it.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 00:54 GMT

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Rodney Blythe  Account Info
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Oh I get it...lol...I know the origin of the purple monkey dishwasher. :) I just felt like commenting on it.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 01:01 GMT

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JAKAS  Account Info

Yah, I know the origins. Although, I sill think it's a little silly...

Um... do I conduct with my penis?

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 02:47 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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... I don't want to know. :-\

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 23:25 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wasn't it from The Simpsons? I remember seeing "PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER" in a poll here sometime earlier this year. And if I remember correctly, the poll-writer (Morgan?) said he just saw that episode on TV, and I believe it was The Simpsons. So... am I right? :)

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 23:26 GMT


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Paul Houser Account Info
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Like totally. Mrs. Crabopple (sp?) said it at the end of a sentence when she was giving a speech about going on strike.

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 01:00 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

I know where it's from, I just felt like bringing the typewriting monkeys into it... :-)

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 00:28 GMT

Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
JAKAS  Account Info

Okay, I know exactly what they talk about. They talk about their secret little plan to drive every single member of Ti-calc.org crazy, by sending them the Auto-Reply message for help over and over and over again, even if they never asked for help. I've gotten 7 Auto-Reply messages, which weren't even replying to anything... and I know their doing it on purpose. Okay, well that's my view on things.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 02:41 GMT

Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
nyall Account Info
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I've got 3 of em.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 08:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

0 here.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 11:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
Lewk Of Serthic  Account Info
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Same here.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 19:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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3/day :-)

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 05:42 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

I got one auto-reply message saying that I'd sent an e-mail to the webmaster (which I really didn't remember doing), then I sent an e-mail to that address asking what I'd said, and never got a reply. :-D

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 00:30 GMT


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Morgan Davies  Account Info
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You guys....you are getting these becasue spam is being sent form your e-mail address. Yes it is most likely not actually by you, but thats the address we are getting. Just ignore them.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 05:47 GMT

Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Well itsa god thing we don't just sit around argueing over everything and not get anything done! :-)

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 16:02 GMT

Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
nyall Account Info
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I imagine that Michael, Magnus, and Niklas (still around?) have a 3 way fight over which kind of programming is better: zshell vs 83+ flash app vs Fargo. Maybe Henrik is teased for for star trek themed new items and remote restarting a server. Actually I don't think we know yet who did that, but I bet he is teased.

Reply to this comment    7 September 2004, 16:21 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

Yeah, I wonder if we ever will find out who did that (and hope we will)... 120d

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 00:33 GMT


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CajunLuke Account Info

What does 120d mean?

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 02:17 GMT

Re: ???????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

LOL with some creative conversions performed on it.

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 04:43 GMT


120d%21
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Ahh shizzle. I just wrote the whole dang explanation, and as it turned out, I exceeded the 40-character limit. I hit back, but everything was gone. Stupid forms.

Anyway.......

120d means "LOL!" I'm sure you've seen this before. LOL! written in lower case is lol! (you can skip the upper->lower step if you want). lol! in 13375p34k is 101!. Well, 101 happens to be binary, so we take advantage of that and convert it to decimal like so: 101b = 5d. Well, that still doesn't account for the extra exclamation mark at the end, so we use it as a factorial. 5! = 120, so we end up getting 120d.

In a more simplified form: LOL! = lol! = (101b)! = (5d)! = 120d

The idea came from the original conversion of "lol" to 5... and it evolved from that. The decimal suffix looks nicer on the end, anyway.

Now, the reason you'll see it written as 120d//! or 120d\! at times, is because you can't say 120d!. If you want to add the extra emphasis of an exclamation mark, be creative. The two most common ways I've seen of commenting the exclamation marks out so they don't conflict with the math are using comments (//!) or pseudo-escape characters (\!).

That's my (10b)¢.

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 20:46 GMT

Re: 120d%21
CajunLuke Account Info

Thanks for the explanation.

Reply to this comment    9 September 2004, 00:16 GMT

Re: 120d%21
Travis Evans Account Info

Couldn't you save even more space by removing the 'd' at the end? Or would that just make it more confusing?

Reply to this comment    10 September 2004, 03:44 GMT

Re: Re: 120d%21
Lewk Of Serthic  Account Info
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Not as cool.

Reply to this comment    10 September 2004, 20:59 GMT

Re: Re: 120d%21
mindstorm23 Account Info

No, the "d" is nessecary, since it tells us it's in decimal form. For all we know, it could be in octal or hex without some form of identification.

Reply to this comment    10 September 2004, 21:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: 120d%21
Chivo  Account Info

Decimal is the preferred and default radix of numbers for humans (using the Arabic numbering system), so without any identifiers it is assumed to be decimal. It's how it is almost everywhere, even in most programming languages like C.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 00:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: 120d%21
mindstorm23 Account Info

Well then fine it's just cool to look at.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 04:56 GMT


Re: Re: 120d%21
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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It looks cooler! It evolved from 5 to 120 to 120d, so at one point, it WAS "120"... but I like the d at the end :) Plus, it lets you know that it's decimal.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 00:38 GMT


Re: 120d%21
Chivo  Account Info

Using IE, eh? Stupid IE forms. Forms in Mozilla stay in place between Back and Forward; it's pretty nice.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 00:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
CajunLuke Account Info

Why pick on Star Trek?

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 02:18 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: What do you think the ticalc.org staff talks about in private?
nyall Account Info
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http://www.ticalc.org/archives/ news/articles/5/51/ 51082.html
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/ news/articles/5/51/ 51172.html

Reply to this comment    8 September 2004, 02:53 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Because it's fun!!! (and so easy to do!)

"We're now entering an electrocognitive warp zone..."

120d

Reply to this comment    9 September 2004, 21:14 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

"A god thing"

What, are you all interested in theology or something? 120d :-D

Reply to this comment    9 September 2004, 21:11 GMT


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takuanitromars36 Account Info

Probably.

Reply to this comment    10 September 2004, 05:57 GMT

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