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If Google Ruled The World

Kunaal Ramchandani — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:28:52 +0000

Came across this link today…this is what would happen if Google ruled the world

How Programmers Describe Unusual ASCII Characters

Kunaal Ramchandani — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:16:44 +0000

I always wondered how other programmers pronounced ASCII characters when reading code out to other programmers. I have a habit of calling certain ASCII characters different names, like calling the exclamation mark (!) – bang, or the tilde (~) – squiggle.
I came across the ASCII Table page recently which has a pronunciation guide, which lists the ASCII characters and their more commonly used names. Have a look at the guide, there are some real interesting ones in there.

Here are a few of the more interesting ones

+ (plus) – cross, intersection
: (colon) – chameleon
; (semi-colon) – hybrid, giant eel
# (hash) – octothorpe, scratch, tictactoe

LOLCODE!

Kunaal Ramchandani — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:43:28 +0000

I’m sure most people by now know about the whole Lolcat phenomena, however, for those still living under a rock:

A Lolcat, or LOLCAT, is an image combining a photograph, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as “Kitty Pidgin”,[1] “lolspeak”, or Lolcat.

Lolcat or Kitty Pidgin has been around for a while now, and has been made popular by sites like I Can Has Cheezburger?…however in spite of its popularity, to find a programming language based on Kitty Pidgin still came as a real surprise to me.

Lolcode, created on 25 May 2007, is a programming language created by Adam Lindsay based on lolcat.
The language is still fairly young and at the moment has the following subset of keywords

Writing a program in lolcode seems surprisingly easy for people who understand lolcat, the main thing to remember is that HAI is used at the start of a program and KTHXBYE ends the program.
The default hello world program is as simple as

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE

The language also contains error handling using AWSUM THX on success and O NOES which is the exception block!
The reason you probably haven’t yet seen a whole slew of lolcode applications yet, is that the language is still being defined with respect to operator priorities and correct syntax. Some compilers, however, already exist, like this one in python.

For the time being, this is another addition to my ‘must try at least once’ list…KTHXBYE!

12 days of christmas – Indian Style

Kunaal Ramchandani — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:29:53 +0000

As that time of the year approaches again, I dug up one of my favourite festive videos – 12 days of Christmas – Indian Style.

These are the 12 gifts

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
12 cricket ball tamperers,
11 syllable names,
10 minute yoga,
9 telemarketers,
8 Bollywood films,
7 eleven workers,
6 IT graduates,
5 Indian games,
4 Hare Krishnas,
3 butter chickens,
2 nosy in-laws,
and a totally insufficient dowry

How good is xkcd

Kunaal Ramchandani — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:04:17 +0000

I came across xkcd yesterday, as the site suggests its “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
Its some of the funniest stuff I have seen online, here are some of the ones I liked

Bored with the net

Engineering Hubris

Dating Pools

Commitment

Pwned

And Lastly:
Velociraptors