Los seres humanos nos creemos la gran cosa, pero en el fondo no somos
más que una minúscula parte del caos resultante de una gran explosión.
Como el humo de cualquier explosión, nuestro destino es seguir el
camino de la entropía y terminar extinguiendonos en algún frio y
retirado rincón del universo --- ¿o no?
Richard Stallman, Chuck Norris and Octave... Seriously?
DONE
The other night I was coding in Octave. I required to calculate a factorial and I had no clue of the function name used to do it... so I guessed:
I typed "fact" ... and got:
octave:1> factRichard Stallman knows of an unfixed bug in TeX.
Well, this was the daily WTF for me. So I asked for help:
octave:2> help fact
`fact' is a function from the file /usr/local/octave-3.6.1/share/octave/3.6.1/m/miscellaneous/fact.m-- Command: fact
-- Function File: T = fact()
Display an amazing and random fact about the world's greatest
hacker....bla bla bla...
Mmmmm, "Display an amazing and random fact about the world's greatest hacker?"
So I tried again:
octave:3> factRichard Stallman does not own a mobile phone because he can fashion a crude convex dish and shout into it at the exact resonant frequency of the ozone, causing a voice to seemingly come from the sky above his intended recipient.
That was really funny, so I did it again, and again:
octave:4> factkill -9 invokes Richard Stallman's rage against a process.
octave:5> fact
The NOOP was created to give Richard Stallman some time to comb his beard.
octave:6> fact
Richard Stallman gets 9 bits to the byte.
octave:7> fact
Richard Stallman's left and right hands are named "(" and ")"
octave:8> fact
Richard Stallman user GNU tar to compress air.
octave:9> fact
Richard Stallman wrote his own library and lives in it.
octave:10> fact
Richard Stallman's DNA includes debugging symbols. But he doesn't need them.
octave:11> fact
Richard Stallman doesn't code; he dares the computer to not do his bidding.
octave:12> fact
Richard Stallman's anti-virus programs cures HIV.
octave:13> fact
In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Richard Stallman could use to write an OS, including the room itself.
At this point I remembered where I have heard this kind of short phrases before: It's a Richard Stallman geek version of the famous Chuck Norris Jokes!
I kept trying for a while and got:
octave:14> factRichard Stallman found Waldo using grep in /dev/null
octave:15> fact
Richard Stallman doesn't like neither PCs-Intel nor Burger King... He prefers e-Macs...
octave:16> fact
Richard Stallman was coded by himself in lisp with Emacs.
octave:17> fact
There is no Windows in Richard Stallman's house... only Doors...
octave:18> fact
Richard Stallman's compiler is afraid to report errors.
The lisp reference and the last one where really hilarious...
By the way, factorial is calculated in Octave with "factorial" function, for example:
octave:19> factorial(5)
ans = 120
And what I really needed was to calculate nCk or n choose k, which is calculated using "nchoosek":
octave:20> nchoosek(4, 2)
ans = 6
Enjoy the nice Stallman's Octave Easter Egg :)
WTF of the day
Same story here. Just to be sure I was not dreaming, I googled it. Here is my comment : )