Stack overflow goodness

[RobG]

I thought this was a joke, but then again, it *might* be real:

<URL: http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif >

 

[Erwin Moller]

I thought this was a joke, but then again, it *might* be real:

<URL: http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif>

Please tell me it is a joke!

Erwin Moller

 

[Richard Cornford]

Please tell me it is a joke!

It is a joke. The desire to justify your decisions (in this case to
use JQuery) by engaging in propagandist proselytizing to get others to
follow suite may be strong, but suggesting a JQuery plug-in in order
to perform basic math is far too obviously silly to be an example of
that.

Richard.

 

[Eric Bednarz]

I thought this was a joke, but then again, it *might* be real:

<URL: http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif >

<http://www.doxdesk.com/updates/2009.html#u20091116-jquery>

(It has come up here before, I remember Michael Haufe posting it; ‘it’
also being the URL of the image, though, not the article.)

 

[Ry Nohryb]

It is a joke. The desire to justify your decisions (in this case to
use JQuery) by engaging in propagandist proselytizing to get others to
follow suite may be strong, but suggesting a JQuery plug-in in order
to perform basic math is far too obviously silly to be an example of
that.

There's a plugin for that.

So in JQuery 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3, unlike in JavaScript.

 

[Richard Cornford]

There's a plugin for that.

So in JQuery 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3, unlike in JavaScript.

And then if you do - ( 1 / 3 ) -, will the answer be 'correct' or just
an approximation? If all you have done is move the points where
approximations are necessary in the representations of numbers then
which problem does that solve?

Richard.

 

[Scott Sauyet]

And then if you do - ( 1 / 3 ) -, will the answer be 'correct' or just
an approximation? If all you have done is move the points where
approximations are necessary in the representations of numbers then
which problem does that solve?

Although I don't want to speak for Jorge, I'm pretty sure this was
just a continuation of the joke on the page under discussion.

But perhaps jQuery works best on trinary computers and (1 / 3) is
exact!

-- Scott

 

[Ry Nohryb]

Perfectly exact, of course. EJohn's JSMath_BagOfTricks, that was it,
iirc. The plugin simply patches the FPU.

Although I don't want to speak for Jorge, I'm pretty sure this was
just a continuation of the joke on the page under discussion.

No no, no kidding. Google for it.

But perhaps jQuery works best on trinary computers and (1 / 3) is
exact!