If anything, writing HTML is closer to scripting than it is programming. You're providing instructions to a program instead of writing a standalone program.

Oh. My gosh. How is this even debatable?

"HTML is a markup language"

https://www.wikiwand.com/simple/Markup_language

"A markup language is a computer language. It is made up of a set of instructions, and of data. It is not the same as a programming language, as only programming languages can have if statements and other conditional statements.[1] The first markup languages were used for printing; there was the text, and there were instructions how the text should be printed. The source code is generally done in ASCII. Then there are tags. That way, LaTeX (and with that, Wikipedia), uses the instruction \mu to get the symbol \mu, the Greek letter "Mu". HTML uses µ to get the same symbol."

Is HTML (no CSS) turing complete? No.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turing_completeness

I mean I get it. If you really blur the lines and only look at definitions, you might be able to make the case that HTML is "programming." But then so is filing out a config file.

But again, devil's advocate, Verilog and VDHL are absolutely programming but they're technically "hardware description languages". You specify what you want. But you'd be hard pressed to make anything useful in Verilog or VDHL without a college degree in computer hardware.

I think you're secretly hiding the fact that deep down underneath it all, you feel like a real programmer when you write HTML. Because everything else is too hard. I actually believe what you say. :O

If I program a GUI to behave like HTML, is it still programming?

Moral: if you're a girl trying to choose a boy, don't trust one with a motorbike?

I recently got introduced to Loriot, as famous in Germany as Monty Python or Mr Bean are in the UK. Even if you don't speak German, give this a chance. (It's an attempt to tell a story involving English names of places and people.)

My last commit resulted in -100 lines of code. Refactoring feels so good.

Refactoring is always a good idea, but you shouldn't get overzealous and let the line count hold you back from actually writing good code. Sometimes good code adds more lines than it cuts back on, even if that skews the code quality measurement. I've heard stories of some companies going so far as to reward programmers with bonuses based on how many lines they write. This resulted in code where simple statements were stretched across multiple lines just to boost the line count, and in turn, their bonuses.

So I've had this issue with my car where the air sometimes cuts out when I hit a bump in the road. It's become progressively worse this year, to the point where it doesn't work 95% of the time. I had the blower motor replaced almost two years ago, and the A/C controller unit replaced about a year ago, so I've figured it's just been a loose connection somewhere, but haven't had the time to really take a look. But today my dad took a look and found the loose connection in a series of wires near the blower motor. He more or less scrunched the wires closer together, and now my air comes on again. A more permanent solution will be needed later, but this works for now.

You kind of spoil the joke when you tell it like that (and also, SUPER OLD!). You should have said Halloween and Christmas instead to obscure the punchline. But also, I'm sure all of us have seen that 10 times already (except for maybe the one active noob).

OMG! Stop oppressing me!

Riddle : When does 11 + 1000 = 11?

If there are going to be hidden base changes, there can be hidden boolean operations too. Let's kick up the difficulty a notch:
(11b + 1000b) & 11b == 11b

Just TRYING to insert something less controversial in here... leave it to bambam to be critical. Yeah, it was an oldy, came up on one of my old facebook posts. I do like your idea of rewording it like you said, I may do that in the future on facebook. My non-programmer friends were stumped by this though.

In other OLD humour (don't look bambam), this always makes me burst out laughing...

In the newest World of Warcraft expansion (Battle for Azeroth), in typical Blizzard style, if you keep clicking on a Kul Tiran character (Alliance) in the game, most of them will yell out "Help, I'm being oppressed!"

Nice! I got a kick out of it. In all of Blizzard's games, if you click on a character more than five times consecutively, they will start saying new things, usually they have 3 or 4 more things.

The female Night Elves in WoW for example, most will say several things like, "weren't you leaving" and ending with "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry" (a reference to the incredible hulk and the fact they are mostly druids and can change into nasty forms).

In Starcraft, there was a science vessel I think it was where the voice sounds a lot like that of Monty Burns from Simpsons; if you kept clicking on him, he will say "I like the cut of your jib!" eventually. In the various Warcraft games if you keep clicking on the Horde Peons, they will say things like "stop it!" and eventually "Me not that kind of Orc!"

It's one of the first things I do in any WoW expansion, I will go around clicking until I hear some of the new dialog. On the main female you meet when you first go to Boralus (Alliance), if you keep clicking on the one that is guiding you around, she will start giggling, she is ticklish and it gets quit funny some of what she says.

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