Oh and I do love the saying "correlation is not causation" often said here, which is where crackpot anti-logic spills over into the
The actual saying goes "Correlation does not denote causation", which I hope you agree, makes more sense.
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but unless you've got 1,000+ friends it's not going to help plus you need a sparse range of ip addresses to run it on
This is where 4chan comes into the picture.
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What do you think about intermediate variables that are not strictly necessary?
I'll often find myself coding some physics equations from specifications written on paper. Obviously, they are always written in math notations. What I end up doing, if not limited by cpu/ram, is to create a stack variable for each term in the equations. Basically, I'll try to make the code look as much like the paper specs as possible. The specs will ALWAYS change, and trying to figure out how the two relate some years later is a real pita. Also, I'll always preface everything with some comment like "The following is from foobar specs dated Jan 1st 2002" for the reverse reasons.
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