Boolean lessons

General Forums Tech
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Have a Grade 10 doing her 30 hours at the shop, has her pricing generic inks today.
Here’s a box of Brother 51s. The blacks are $10.99, the colours $9.99, here’s the marker…GO.
3 minutes later she interrupts me to ask “Is yellow a colour”? Now, I’m just not that intimidating a boss, a lot of employees give me shit for being too easy.
So I say is it black?
-No. It’s yellow.
Then it’s NOT black.
-Right. It isn’t.
Yes it is! It IS not-black. Black is $10.99 and not-black is $9.99
-WHAT??? (panic)
Hey you want to learn about computer stuff, I’m teaching you to think like one.
-HUH??? Can I go home now?
You were bragging you grew up Ontario, and the schools are so much better there! I bet they taught nonsense like two and two is four!
-WTF??
You can go soon as you know what’s black and what’s not.
-Of course I know what’s black and what’s not!
Then go price that ink and stop pestering me.

(poor kid was puzzled but she figured it out.)

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Booolean.  Boooooolean.  A great word from IT class.  Booooolean. 

Almost as much fun to say as Java.

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Personal favorite is concatenation!

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I use grep (and grok) in normal everyday conversations.  People tend to blink a lot when they’re talking to me for some reason.

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I sed your grep and raise you a pipe!!

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make install clean  :smile:

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sudo apt-get monthendbilling
make install clean stockorder
purge smorgasbord -R

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