Regex: badly needs fuzzing

Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by dbaupp on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:55PM (#13601464)

So there's no such thing as a C++ expert? That statement is dangerously close to a No True Scotsman: IME even people who seem to fit any reasonable definition of expert (committee members, compiler developers) still make memory-safety mistakes.

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Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by civility on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:11PM (#13602159)

> That statement is dangerously close to a No True Scotsman

It also had a smiley in it. I'm pretty sure you missed the joke and don't realize you're preaching to the choir.

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Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by dbaupp on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @08:10PM (#13603759)

This is Poe's law territory, e.g. a lot of your own comments sound very similar to the parent, and there are other emoticons more commonly used to indicate sarcasm/joke.

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Re:Regex: badly needs fuzzing by civility on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:10PM (#13604614)

> This is Poe's law territory

Heh, I think that's possibly the only virtue to sarcasm: it confuses the pedants. I use friendly smileys or the word "heh" when I'm trying to be jovial, and I'm willing to give that poster the benefit of the doubt. :-)

> a lot of your own comments sound very similar to the parent

Which comments?

> there are other emoticons more commonly used to indicate sarcasm/joke

I think any common standard about something like this probably only applies to a narrow clique.

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