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Comment review? (Score 3, Insightful) 355

From the article on quantum computing:

As an ultimate answer to this question one would like to have something similar to Bell's (1964) famous theorem, i.e., a succinct crispy statement of the fundamental difference between quantum and classical systems, encapsulated in the non-commutative character of observables.

- It is not clear to me that the adjective "crispy" should ever be used to modify the noun "statement" in a professional publication. - Even so, a comma should be inserted between two consecutive adjectives: "a succinct, crispy statement" - 120 reviewers: fail

Comment stealth (Score 1) 688

Where I worked, whenever you were upgraded to the newest, most powerful machine, there was some incentive to name your machine in such a way as to discourage others from creeping on and stealing cycles.

Slow sounding names was one way. Names that were hard to spell was another.

I almost named my machine "camouflage"

I settled on "potato" (it *was* the Dan Quayle era, after all)

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