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23 September 2005

MeTalk

post by: mischief at: 01:46 | 32 comments

I love recursion.

posted by mischief 23 September | 01:47

this is recursion

posted by muddgirl 23 September | 01:54

heheh

posted by mischief 23 September | 01:56

No, muddgirl, THIS is recursion.

posted by mudpuppie 23 September | 01:57

No. Recursion is when you recurse. To recurse is recursion. Get it?

posted by teece 23 September | 01:58

*gets dizZy, falls over*

posted by dabitch 23 September | 01:59

pudmuppie recurses

posted by mudpuppie 23 September | 02:04

what's up with the disappearance of the p descenders??

* patience grasshopper... *

* waits 25 seconds... *

posted by mudpuppie 23 September | 02:06

1. Fuck!

2. Fuckity fucksicles!

That's recursion.

posted by stavrosthewonderchicken 23 September | 02:33

damn you chicken, I was scrolling down the page to write that.

posted by peacay 23 September | 03:19

function fuck integer iFuckPos returns integer

       integer iFuckReturn

        get fuck (iFuckPos+1) to iFuckReturn

       function_return iFuckReturn

end_function

posted by seanyboy 23 September | 03:23

I'll overflow *your* stack, you fucker.

posted by seanyboy 23 September | 03:25

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

posted by brainwidth 23 September | 03:31

Thank you for reminding me why I became an English major. I was the jerk in your classes who couldn't get his head around recursion. (I know, I know...it's not hard.) Images of Towers of Hanoi and botched attempts at writing Othello in Pascal are dancing in my head.... I was Mr. Core Dump.

Anyone want to take a crack at explaining strong induction to me one more time?

posted by kortez 23 September | 08:14

mathowie is a good guy.

posted by mcgraw 23 September | 08:44

...because, his encouragement and support of Metachat, as he has done from its outset, is in recognition that more sites in the form of his original Metafilter will be born as the net and blogging grows. Rather than talk Metachat down as smaller or less important, he sees it as useful and valid.

posted by mcgraw 23 September | 08:51

Well, that and it means he doesn't have to endure countless requests for metachat.metafilter.com.

posted by selfnoise 23 September | 09:30

kortez: there's a diffrence between recursion and induction. Induction is something you can use to prove a recursive function is correct. Recusion just means calling the same function from inside itself.

posted by delmoi 23 September | 10:08

Well, that and it means he doesn't have to endure countless requests for metachat.metafilter.com.

It also gives his customers somewhere else to go outside of MetaFilter business hours.

posted by Armitage Shanks 23 September | 10:15

19 comments in and no one's mentioned the David Hasselhoff Recursion yet? For shame.

As punishment, I think I will post the David Hasselhoff Recursion here. Yes, that will teach you what happens to those who fail to mention the David Hasselhoff Recursion at any given opportunity.

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by iconomy 23 September | 10:27

Personally, I think there ought to be a recursive kind of torture for anyone who posts that Hasselhoff gif. *shudder*

In lieu of a specific recursive torture formula, pizza for everyone, on iconomy!

posted by peacay 23 September | 10:42

On me? Would it be like that episode of Surreal Life, where the model was naked and lying on a table and everyone was eating sushi off of her?

She had leaves covering her naughty bits, though. Big leaves.

posted by iconomy 23 September | 10:47

*starts dragging in big leaves*

posted by taz 23 September | 10:59

I just hasselheaved.

Or is it hasselhove?

posted by George_Spiggott 23 September | 11:00

Okay, where does this one go?

≡ Click to see image ≡

Somebody?

Somebody, please! A little organization, if you don't mind!

I'm hungry.

posted by taz 23 September | 11:10

Not in China you don't, iconomy!

posted by mcgraw 23 September | 11:23

Damn!

posted by iconomy 23 September | 11:28

The document contains no data.

I win!

posted by deborah 23 September | 12:24

Shhhh. Mefi just went down for its afternoon nap.

posted by LeeJay 23 September | 12:30

I don't know what you guys are talking about because the site is down! Waaaaa!

posted by Specklet 23 September | 13:21

Speck, there's a post in MetaTalk about MetaChat's redesign. I kept meaning to post to it and now I can't.

*dries Specklet's tears with a huge, Pepto Pink bunny that I just found on a hillside in Italy*

posted by iconomy 23 September | 13:39

Th.. thank you, iconomy. *sniff*
Wha the... hey! This bunny smells like it's been sitting out in the rain with mouse shit on it!

posted by Specklet 23 September | 13:42

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