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> All I can say is that I have never been so insulted (even by the likes of my moronic sister (who seems to delight in making me uncomfortable (and she is so go
by rubyron 4y ago
> All I can say is that I have never been so insulted (even by the likes of my moronic sister (who seems to delight in making me uncomfortable (and she is so good at it, knowing just how to push my buttons (which I think is a skill that all siblings possess to some extent (which I believe proves some sort of genetic link (despite the fact that I really enjoyed genetics in school (relating on so many levels to Gregor Mendel and his peas (but of course peas make me gag, since my throat swells when I eat them)))))))) as I was by someone suggesting that I have ADD.
Brilliant.
- KMag 4y agoIs use of deeply nested parentheticals really a sign of ADD? Certainly, nesting the parentheticals deep enough to overflow your mental context stack will lead to losing the plot. However, if both you and your intended listener have the capacity to keep all of the contexts in memory, it wouldn't seem to cause problems.
- aripickar 4y agoThat sentence seems enough like some bastardized version of shakespeare[0] and Lisp that I bet you could get it to compile in some dialects. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
- mrexroad 4y agoI tend to write with an excessive amount of parenthesis with context/tangents. I used to joke it was due to Lisp/Scheme being one of my first languages. Took me a few years to realize the ADD connection.
- petre 4y agoIt still needs Yoda speak to qualify as lisp.
- mnky9800n 4y agoI do this to get it out, then I rewrite it to take all the parentheticals out.
- thenoblesunfish 4y agoMe too - I try to avoid parentheticals in polished writing because they're usually there to avoid having to decide if something is really important. If it's not important, take it out (or if it's a very technical detail that can be skipped on first reading, maybe put it in a footnote (uhoh, I'm doing it)).
- sph 4y agoThose parentheticals can be rewritten with commas, which sent me on an exploratory tangent trying to see if one could use commas instead of parens in Lisp.
- spicybright 4y agoThat's interesting. What did you find?
- sph 4y agoLike a sibling commenter said, commas are not enough to be unambiguous. Ambiguity is fine in prose, because we can resolve it from context, but computers need something clear and well structured.
- KMag 4y agoBut several layers of parentheticals delimited by commas are ambiguous to parse in the general case.
- pasquinelli 4y agoyou also have dashes for parenthesis.
- alx__ 4y agoSo the venn diagram of ADD(ADHD is the preferred term these day) folks and Lisp(Scheme if you're fancy) programmers is a circle?
- emmelaich 4y agoLinus overuses parentheses. Or rather, parenthetical remarks. It's interesting.
- dang 4y agoLest anyone get triggered by the subject matter into actually trying to find this, it's from https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019 https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019. (We changed the URL (more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34018429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34018429).)
- tekknolagi 4y agoThank you!
- aantix 4y agoLooks like the author has been writing Scheme code on the weekends..
- naruhodo 4y agoI bet they speak with a lisp.
- rpastuszak 4y agoHehe honestly this is what often happens when I do journaling with my stream of consciousness text editor: https://enso.sonnet.io https://enso.sonnet.io Hard to keep track of the parentheses though as the text disappears after 3-4 lines. I was also experimenting briefly with a graph-based text editor where o could keep my tangents in check but still have some overall structure.
- amelius 4y agoAll the parentheses close at the same point, though.