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(...) Man, you guys sure fight well..... As a person whos programmed at every level of the machine, microcode, machine code, assembly code, high level code, I can tell you that in tight coding environments, keeping the variables to a minimum sure (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) With an attitude like that, there is NO WAY you could ever join our group. The number 1 requirement is that you mock Chris mercilessly! Don’t you realize that Chris will be quoting this post for years to come...He has probably already got it (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I doubt it. He's probably still reading this post, and his lips are sore from reading the last flurry of posts to himself. Ralph (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) thanks. but what people don't see is that off line we are all good friends. that's why we have monthly dinners. so although it looks like we are "fighting" really Calum and I are good friends. Heck even Bruce has my home phone number. many of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <quote not copied here> (...) What Kevin said doesn't even make sense. I doubt he intended to suggest that Chris intentionally did anything good, but by TOTAL LUCK, happened upon a good approach to programming. This approach is much like (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sorry, I didn't know. I'll refrain from this kind of activity in the future. Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Kevin.... don't let these fools sway you. you have a gift. and true vision. these "programers" by trade only know "old school" the only vision they have in the coke bottle glass's they wear. they could no more look at a new approach to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You have to realize we're not at all fighting. We've somehow garnered an incredible ability to trash talk over the last few years. (...) Variables in your own code. The firmware is still handling all those IFs in the background. The pile of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yes. I didi know this. I should have used the word heckle or something like it. (...) Sorry, IFs are not worked in the background. Interrupts happen in the background. Instruction execution happens in the foreground :^) Aren't computer (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) cause someone is afraid of the truth. (...) steve as a coke bottle glass's styled programmer, BY TRADE, you know darn well that unlike block flinging, you cant just type random words into an editor and hope it works. by extension, getting (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Or stay out of either of those boxes and be wherever I think is best based on the situation :^) There are always more solutions to a problem than you think of at first glance. I didn't know that LEGO was a two party system :^) (...) Hmmmm.... (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Did you go ot the Minnesota state fair? They had the Mondial Shake, "Magnum" there (it has themeatic elements like Tom Selek). Iain (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) no, anyone can heckle... BUT you better have some pretty good credentials, and have some standing in the community (of rcx's) that's why we tolerate Ralph. sure he never entered a robot.... heck I've never seen him build anything for that (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bipedal! Monopedal or nothing. That's the only way to sumo. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Nope. I did not make it this year. My son and I plan on going next year though. He's never been there, and is interested. He wants me to go on rides with him, but I think that even with dramamine, I'd still get sick. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Pogo-sumo! I like it! Can we have large feet (no need for self balancing) and small feet (self balancing?) (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) These are things I cannot asses, so I guess I'll stop heckling. Well I've made a few bipeds and two pneumatic calculators using RCXs....... Does that help? Kevin (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Kevin, your very humble. But I've already slandered Steve, and sang your praises in some other post. your free to heckle (anyone) Chris "It is a very clever strategy IMHO, and I applaud Chris for thinking of it." K.C. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That code was just not elegant, but then script code are a lot harder to read than NQC. I would applaud if those code were machine generated by another code he wrote but they are not. If the target pattern is changed from X to something else (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) DON'T GET ME STARTED on how hard C is to read. if you do not know any language. C is just crazy (for the novice) I still don't know what the hell this means: x != x_target || y != y_target AND I DON'T WANT TO !!!! I think what's this is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ka-On Lee wrote: <snip> If we're posting Project X code--This was my favourite codeing ever-- // X-block - Runamok Design Team // Rick De Haan, David Koudys // Feb. 2002 //drive definitions //X-Axis Definitions #define (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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