Note: We went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak today, so you get more random musings on tags today!<\/p>\n
There are a few previous entries in this series (and maybe more in the future once you read this!). You can find them all using WordPress’ snazzy search function:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?s=TAGS<\/a><\/p>\n So, back to tags:<\/p>\n <tags are showing that your comment was less than something else. Examples:<\/p>\n “I rode a horse” <Clydesdale<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n “I trained my cat today” <successful<\/p>\n >tags are for showing the opposite, namely:<\/p>\n “I rode a horse” >pony<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n “I felt good today” >yesterday<\/p>\n “tags are substituting for the subset of #hashtags denoting quotations, or to substitute for quotation marks in very character starved tweets, such as:<\/p>\n Live long and prosper “Yoda<\/p>\n ‘tags are for inner thoughts, sometimes quoting someone else, sometimes yourself[1].<\/p>\n Live long and prosper “Yoda ‘reallySpock<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n Live long and prosper “Yoda ‘neversaidthatdidI<\/p>\n The last one for the day is the infamous `backticktag, invented by people who love programs like the infamous bash fork bomb: <\/p>\n :(){ :|:& };: [2]<\/p>\n `backticktags are used for when you’re meant to take the previous comment and process it through the `backticktag as program code (as opposed to the |pipetag, where you’re supposed to take the previous comment as data)[3].<\/p>\n Examples of `backticktags:<\/p>\n :(){ :|:& };: `bash<\/p>\n or <\/p>\n 10 PRINT “LOOK AROUND YOU” 20 GOTO 10 RUN `bbcbasic<\/p>\n [1]For an exciting treatise on this topic, check out this Slate article<\/a>!<\/p>\n [2]I recommend you do not try running this unless you are your own sysadmin and you know what you’re doing. Indicentally, Wikipedia has a very nice writeup on how this works, copied below:<\/p>\n [3]If you’re playing with a universal turing machine[4] that can intermingle these, all bets are off.<\/p>\n [4]Or Lisp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note: We went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak today, so you get more random musings on tags today! There are a few previous entries in this series (and maybe more in the future once you read this!). You can find them all using WordPress’ snazzy search function: http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?s=TAGS So, back to tags: <tags are … Continue reading <tags and `tags<\/span> \r\n:(){ :|:& };:\r\n\\_\/| |||| ||\\- ... the function ':', initiating a chain-reaction: each ':' will start two more.\r\n | | |||| |\\- Definition ends now, to be able to run ...\r\n | | |||| \\- End of function-block\r\n | | |||\\- disown the functions (make them a background process), so that the children of a parent\r\n | | ||| will not be killed when the parent gets auto-killed\r\n | | ||\\- ... another copy of the ':'-function, which has to be loaded into memory.\r\n | | || So, ':|:' simply loads two copies of the function, whenever ':' is called\r\n | | |\\- ... and pipe its output to ...\r\n | | \\- Load a copy of the function ':' into memory ...\r\n | \\- Begin of function-definition\r\n \\- Define the function ':' without any parameters '()' as follows:\r\n<\/pre>\n