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    pronounced 'fib' FillYourBrain's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem
    ...Some have greatness thrust upon them...
    or into them.

    OOOHHHHhhhh... that was so unlike me. I'm very concerned
    "You are stupid! You are stupid! Oh, and don't forget, you are STUPID!" - Dexter

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    >or into them.
    >OOOHHHHhhhh... that was so unlike me. I'm very concerned
    I can't decide if you said something profound or dirty. I've been around you guys too long it seems.
    My best code is written with the delete key.

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    Daoist theory attempts to explain greatness.
    To be great is to go on;
    to go on is to go far;
    to go far is to return.

    Therefore you can be great as long as you keep trying and succeed in doing that. I'm positive, when applied to programming, the last line has something to do with "going back to basics" in order to fully understand something more complex.

    But this is of course my own boring interpretation. Thinking is hard!

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    >But this is of course my own boring interpretation.
    That's the problem. It sounds good but nobody really knows what it means. I wonder how many philosophers were clinically insane.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prelude
    >But this is of course my own boring interpretation.
    That's the problem. It sounds good but nobody really knows what it means. I wonder how many philosophers were clinically insane.
    All of them. Just like the mathematicians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prelude
    I wonder how many philosophers were clinically insane.
    One has to be at least partially insane to try and explain human behavior and existence. Actually... those who did a good job at it had to be definitely insane, I think.

    Which brings us to the original post in this thread...

    ... It doesn't. But i'm desperatly trying not to have it closed.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Well if mathmeticians are as insane as philosophers, then math is mostly truth but partly insane as it is the product of insane people. ...Math wasn't that bad until India invented algebra and made mathematics completely abstract. Making the real unreal is DEFINITELY crazy.

    Since a diamond is a rhombus and a rhombus is a shape, and shapes are geometry which is also math, we can talk about insanity and technically be on topic.

    That was awesome to type.

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