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227: Color Codes

2016-01-18T16:49:48Z

Sean: Closed parenthesis.

{{comic
| number = 227
| date = February 23, 2007
| title = Color Codes
| image = color_codes.png
| titletext = It's the TMBG Dial-a-Song line, to save you some time.
}}

==Explanation==
{{w|Resistor|Resistors}} are electronic components carrying color-coded bands indicating their value (measured in {{w|Ohm|ohms}}) and tolerance (e.g. 5%). [[Cueball]] has been hunched over his work for so long that, when asked for his phone number (by his Cueball-like friend), he absentmindedly reads out his phone's area code as a sequence of colors found on the aforementioned resistors (each colour corresponding to one of the ten decimal digits, in this case 718 – see {{w|Electronic_color_code#Resistor_color-coding|Resistor color-coding}}). He realizes his mistake after these first three digits, and begins again using numbers to state the entire phone number. His friend points out that such a mistake means it's a good time to take a break, and Cueball concurs.

It's not uncommon for readers to try calling phone numbers they see inside a book or a comic strip, just to discover what it actually goes to. Randall foresees this, and in the title text he simply tells you what the phone number is.

TMBG are ''{{w|They Might Be Giants}}'', a popular beat combo responsible for toe-tapping chart-topping "Birdhouse In Your Soul". At one point, they recorded individual songs on an answering machine, and advertised the phone number so people could call and listen to the song on the machine. Hence, {{w|They_Might_Be_Giants#Dial-A-Song|Dial-A-Song}}.

Resistor color codes was again mentioned in [[1604: Snakes]].

==Transcript==
:[Cueball sits hunched over his desk which is littered with objects. His Cueball-like friend holding his cell phone talks to him.]
:Friend: Hey, what's your cell number?
:Cueball: (Violet Brown Gray)— Uh, I mean, (718)-387-6962.
:Friend: Okay, you are putting down those resistors and going outside for a while.
:Cueball: That's probably a good idea.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
[[Category:Physics]]

227: Color Codes

2016-01-18T16:47:46Z

Sean: /* Explanation */ Link tweak, tightened language.

{{comic
| number = 227
| date = February 23, 2007
| title = Color Codes
| image = color_codes.png
| titletext = It's the TMBG Dial-a-Song line, to save you some time.
}}

==Explanation==
{{w|Resistor|Resistors}} are electronic components carrying color-coded bands indicating their value (measured in {{w|Ohm|ohms}}) and tolerance (e.g. 5%). [[Cueball]] has been hunched over his work for so long that, when asked for his phone number (by his Cueball-like friend), he absentmindedly reads out his phone's area code as a sequence of colors found on the aforementioned resistors (each colour corresponding to one of the ten decimal digits, in this case 718 – see {{w|Electronic_color_code#Resistor_color-coding|Resistor color-coding}}. He realizes his mistake after these first three digits, and begins again using numbers to state the entire phone number. His friend points out that such a mistake means it's a good time to take a break, and Cueball concurs.

It's not uncommon for readers to try calling phone numbers they see inside a book or a comic strip, just to discover what it actually goes to. Randall foresees this, and in the title text he simply tells you what the phone number is.

TMBG are ''{{w|They Might Be Giants}}'', a popular beat combo responsible for toe-tapping chart-topping "Birdhouse In Your Soul". At one point, they recorded individual songs on an answering machine, and advertised the phone number so people could call and listen to the song on the machine. Hence, {{w|They_Might_Be_Giants#Dial-A-Song|Dial-A-Song}}.

Resistor color codes was again mentioned in [[1604: Snakes]].

==Transcript==
:[Cueball sits hunched over his desk which is littered with objects. His Cueball-like friend holding his cell phone talks to him.]
:Friend: Hey, what's your cell number?
:Cueball: (Violet Brown Gray)— Uh, I mean, (718)-387-6962.
:Friend: Okay, you are putting down those resistors and going outside for a while.
:Cueball: That's probably a good idea.

{{comic discussion}}

[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
[[Category:Physics]]

1537: Types

2015-06-13T01:40:52Z

Sean: Minor language tweaks.

{{comic
| number = 1537
| date = June 12, 2015
| title = Types
| image = types.png
| titletext = colors.rgb("blue") yields "#0000FF". colors.rgb("yellowish blue") yields NaN. colors.sort() yields "rainbow"
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Title text not explained. More details before the list.}}

This comic is a series of programming jokes about a ridiculous new programming language, perhaps inspired by [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat Gary Bernhardt's CodeMash 2012 lightning talk] on Javascript's unpredictable typing. The (highly technical) audience is unable to correctly guess the results of adding various Javascript types and roars with laughter when they're revealed.

Most regular programming languages distinguish a number of types, e.g. integers, strings, lists … all of which have different behaviours. The operation "+" is conventionally defined over more than one of these types. Applied to two integers, it returns their addition; applied to two strings (denoted by being enclosed in quotes) it concatenates them:

<code>> 2 + 3

5

> "123" + "abc"

"123abc"</code>

While these behaviours are standard, conventional, and intuitive, there is a huge amount of variation among programming languages when you apply an operation like "+" to different types. One logical approach is to always return an error in all cases of type mixing, but it is often practical to allow some case mixing, since it can hugely simplify an operation. Variation and lack of a clearly more intuitive behaviour leads some languages to have weird results when you mix types.

# <code>2 + "2"</code> uses the <code>+</code> operator on a number and a string. In some programming languages, this might result in the number <code>4</code> (addition), or <code>"22"</code> (string concatenation); however, the new language converts the string to an integer, adds them to produce <code>4</code> and converts back to a string. Alternately, it may instead be adding 2 to the ASCII value of the character <code>"2"</code> (50), resulting in the character <code>"4"</code> (52). This is (somewhat) consistent with the behavior for item 4.
# <code>"2" + []</code> adds a string to an array or list, this time. This first inexplicably converts the string to a number again, and then it literally adds the number to the list by appending it (this would make sense if it was <code>[] + 2</code>, but usually not the other way around). And then the result (the entire array) is converted to a string again.
# <code>(2/0)</code> divides <code>2</code> by <code>0</code> and quite reasonably results in <code>NaN</code> (not a number).
# <code>(2/0)+2</code> adds <code>2</code> to <code>NaN</code>. <code>2</code> is "added" to the string <code>"NaN"</code> (again, the number is converted to a string for apparently no reason), which produces <code>"NaP"</code>. If the language's convention is to add to the ASCII value of a character or string, then in this case it added 2 to the character <code>"N"</code> (78), resulting in <code>"P"</code> (80).
# <code>""+""</code>: In many languages, two consecutive double-quote characters denote an empty string, so this expression would concatenate two empty strings, resulting in an empty string. However, it appears that this language treats only the outermost quotes of the expression as the string boundary, so all of the characters between them become part of the literal string, producing '<code>"+"</code>'.
# <code>[1,2,3]+2</code> seems to test whether it's sound to append <code>2</code> to the list <code>[1,2,3]</code>, and concludes that it doesn't fit the pattern, returning the boolean value <code>false</code>. It could conceivably also be the result of an attempt to add <code>2</code> to the ''set'' <code>[1,2,3]</code>, which already contains that element (although <code>{1,2,3}</code> would be a more common notation for sets).
# <code>[1,2,3]+4</code> returns <code>true</code> for much the same reason.
# <code>2/(2-(3/2+1/2))</code> is a floating point joke. Floating point numbers are notoriously imprecise. With precise mathematics, <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> would be exactly 2, hence the entire thing would evaluate to <code>2/0</code> or <code>NaN</code> in Randall's new language. However, the result of <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> is "just slightly off," which makes the result "just slightly off" of <code>NaN</code> (which would be ridiculous in a real language). The ironic thing is that fractions with 2 in the denominator are ''not'' the kind of numbers that typically suffer from floating point impreciseness. Additionally, if there was indeed a rounding error, the actual calculation becomes something like <code>2/0.0000000000000013</code>, which should not return a <code>NaN</code> since it is not division by zero.
# <code>range(" ")</code> normally wouldn't make any sense. However, the new language appears to interpret it as ASCII, and in the ASCII table, character #32 is space, #33 is <code>!</code>, and #34 is <code>"</code>. So, instead of interpreting <code>" "</code> as a string, it seems to be interpreted as <code>34, 32, 34</code> (in ASCII), and then <code>range</code> appears to transform this into <code>34, 33, 32, 33, 34</code> (the "ranges" between the numbers), which, interpreted as ASCII, becomes <code>['"', '!', ' ', '!', '"']</code>.
# <code>+2</code> refers to the Chinese/Japanese (Kanji) number system, where the plus sign is instead the symbol <code>十</code>. In Chinese, this symbol represents the number ten, and if you translate the <code>2</code> into Chinese, you get <code>二</code>. Therefore, in full Chinese the code is <code>十二</code>, which is equivalent to the number <code>12</code>. Alternately, it could simply be attempting to add 2 to the line number 10 to get 12.
# <code>2+2</code> would normally be <code>4</code>. However, the interpreter takes this instruction to mean that the user wishes to increase the actual value of the number <code>2</code> (aka the "literal value") by <code>2</code> for the remainder of the program, making it <code>4</code> and then reports that the work is "Done". The result can be seen in the subsequent lines where all <code>2</code>s are replaced by <code>4</code>s. This could be a reference to languages like Fortran where [http://everything2.com/title/Changing+the+value+of+5+in+FORTRAN literals could be assigned new values].
# <code>range(1,5)</code> would normally return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]</code>. However, since the value of <code>2</code> has been changed to <code>4</code>, it returns <code>[1, 4, 3, 4, 5]</code>, and this even affects the line number (which is 14 instead of 12).
# <code>floor(10.5)</code> should return <code>10</code> (the "floor" of a decimal number is that number rounded down). However, it instead returns {{w|ASCII art}} of the number on a "floor."

The title text contains three further examples relating to color. <code>color.rgb("blue")</code> returns the hexadecimal code for pure blue (as would be used in HTML, for example), which is how a real programming language might work. The lookup for "yellowish blue" returns "NaN" (Not a Number) again, which makes sense at one level because there is no such color as "yellowish blue" (yellow and blue are opposites on the color wheel). However a more typical result would have been a failure indicating that the color database does not include the name, in the same way that a typo such as "bluw" would. Similarly sorting the colors would normally produce some defined ordering, such as alphabetical, but in this language it generates the string "rainbow". It seems that Randall's new language understands color theory in an unusually deep way.

==Transcript==
My new language is great, but it has a few quirks regarding type:
<pre>
[1]> 2+"2"
=> "4"
[2]> "2"+[]
=> "[2]"
[3] (2/0)
=> NaN
[4]> (2/0)+2
=> NaP
[5]> ""+""
=> '"+"'
[6]> [1,2,3]+2
=> FALSE
[7]> [1,2,3]+4
=> TRUE
[8]> 2/(2-(3/2+1/2))
=> NaN.0000000000000013
[9]> range(" ")
=> ('"','!'," ","!",'"')
[10]> +2
=> 12
[11]> 2+2
=> DONE
[14]> RANGE(1,5)
=> (1,4,3,4,5)
[13]> FLOOR(10.5)
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |___10.5___
</pre>
{{comic discussion}}

1537: Types

2015-06-12T23:38:36Z

Sean: /* Explanation */ Abnormal programming languages do this too …

{{comic
| number = 1537
| date = June 12, 2015
| title = Types
| image = types.png
| titletext = colors.rgb("blue") yields "#0000FF". colors.rgb("yellowish blue") yields NaN. colors.sort() yields "rainbow"
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Title text not explained. More details before the list.}}

This comic is a series of programming jokes about a ridiculous new programming language, perhaps inspired by [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat Gary Bernhardt's CodeMash 2012 lightning talk] on Javascript's unpredictable typing. The (highly technical) audience is unable to correctly guess the results of adding various Javascript types and roars with laughter when they're revealed.

Most regular programming languages distinguish a number of types, e.g. integers , strings, lists,... All of which have different behaviours. The operation "+" is conventionally defined over more than one of these types. Applied to two integers, it returns their addition, but applied to two strings (denoted by being enclosed in quotes) it concatenates them:

<code>> 2 + 3

5

> "123" + "abc"

"123abc"</code>

While these behaviours are standard, conventional, and intuitive, there is a huge amount of variation among programming languages when you apply an operation like "+" to different types. One logical approach is to always return an error in all cases of type mixing, but it is often practical to allow some case mixing, since it can hugely simplify an operation. Variation and lack of a clearly more intuitive behaviour leads some languages to have weird results when you mix types.

# <code>2 + "2"</code> uses the <code>+</code> operator on a number and a string. In some programming languages, this might result in the number <code>4</code> (addition), or <code>"22"</code> (string concatenation); however, the new language converts the string to an integer, adds them to produce <code>4</code> and converts back to a string. Alternately, it is adding 2 to the ASCII value of the character <code>"2"</code>, which (interpreted as a string) is <code>"4"</code>. This is (somewhat) consistent with the behavior for item 4.
# <code>"2" + []</code> adds a string to an array or list, this time. This first inexplicably converts the string to a number again, and then it literally adds the number to the list by appending it (this would make sense if it was <code>[] + 2</code>, but usually not the other way around). And then the result (the entire array) is converted to a string again.
# <code>(2/0)</code> divides <code>2</code> by <code>0</code> and quite reasonably results in <code>NaN</code> (not a number).
# <code>(2/0)+2</code> adds <code>2</code> to <code>NaN</code>. <code>2</code> is "added" to the string <code>"NaN"</code> (again, the number is converted to a string for apparently no reason), which produces <code>"NaP"</code>, as if <code>2</code> was added to <code>"N"</code> to produce <code>"P"</code> (as per alphabetical order or ASCII encoding; <code>N</code> is <code>01001110</code>, and adding 2 to this results in <code>01010000</code> which is <code>P</code>).
# <code>""+""</code> looks like it is concatenating (adding) an empty string (i.e. <code>""</code>) to another empty string, which should produce an empty string. However, the entire thing is treated as one string (with the start quote being the first one and the end quote being the very last one), which produces the egregious '<code>"+"</code>'.
# <code>[1,2,3]+2</code> seems to test whether it's sound to append <code>2</code> to the list <code>[1,2,3]</code>, and concludes that it doesn't fit the pattern, returning the boolean value <code>false</code>. It could conceivably also be the result of an attempt to add <code>2</code> to the ''set'' <code>[1,2,3]</code>, which already contains that element (although <code>{1,2,3}</code> would be a more common notation for sets).
# <code>[1,2,3]+4</code> returns <code>true</code> for much the same reason.
# <code>2/(2-(3/2+1/2))</code> is a floating point joke. Floating point numbers are notoriously imprecise. With precise mathematics, <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> would be exactly 2, hence the entire thing would evaluate to <code>2/0</code> or <code>NaN</code> in Randall's new language. However, the result of <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> is "just slightly off," which makes the result "just slightly off" of <code>NaN</code> (which would be ridiculous in a real language). The ironic thing is that fractions with 2 in the denominator are ''not'' the kind of numbers that typically suffer from floating point impreciseness. Additionally, if there was indeed a rounding error, the actual calculation becomes something like <code>2/0.0000000000000013</code>, which should not return a <code>NaN</code> since it is not division by zero.
# <code>range(" ")</code> normally wouldn't make any sense. However, the new language appears to interpret it as ASCII, and in the ASCII table, character #32 is space, #33 is <code>!</code>, and #34 is <code>"</code>. So, instead of interpreting <code>" "</code> as a string, it seems to be interpreted as <code>34, 32, 34</code> (in ASCII), and then <code>range</code> appears to transform this into <code>34, 33, 32, 33, 34</code> (the "ranges" between the numbers), which, interpreted as ASCII, becomes <code>['"', '!', ' ', '!', '"']</code>.
# <code>+2</code> refers to the Chinese/Japanese (Kanji) number system, where the plus sign is instead the symbol <code>十</code>. In Chinese, this symbol represents the number ten, and if you translate the <code>2</code> into Chinese, you get <code>二</code>. Therefore, in full Chinese the code is <code>十二</code> is equivalent to the number <code>12</code>. Alternately, it could simply be attempting to add 2 to the line number 10 to get 12.
# <code>2+2</code> would normally be <code>4</code>. However, the interpreter takes this instruction to mean that the user wishes to increase the actual value of the number <code>2</code> (aka the "literal value") by <code>2</code> for the remainder of the program, making it <code>4</code> and then reports that the work is "Done". The result can be seen in the subsequent lines where all <code>2</code>s are replaced by <code>4</code>s. This could be a reference to languages like Fortran where [http://everything2.com/title/Changing+the+value+of+5+in+FORTRAN literals could be assigned new values].
# <code>range(1,5)</code> would normally return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]</code>. However, since the value of <code>2</code> has been changed to <code>4</code>, it returns <code>[1, 4, 3, 4, 5]</code>, and this even affects the line number (which is 14 instead of 12).
# <code>floor(10.5)</code> should return <code>10</code> (the "floor" of a decimal number is that number rounded down). However, it instead returns {{w|ASCII art}} of the number on a "floor."

The title text contains three further examples relating to color. <code>color.rgb("blue")</code> returns the hexadecimal code for pure blue (as would be used in HTML, for example), which is how a real programming language might work. The lookup for "yellowish blue" returns "NaN" (Not a Number) again, which makes sense at one level because there is no such color as "yellowish blue" (yellow and blue make green). However a more typical result would have been a failure indicating that the color database does not include the name, in the same way that a typo such as "bluw" would. Similarly sorting the colors would normally produce some defined ordering, such as alphabetical, but in this language it generates the string "rainbow". It seems that Randall's new language understands color theory in an unusually deep way.

==Transcript==
My new language is great, but it has a few quirks regarding type:
<pre>
[1]> 2+"2"
=> "4"
[2]> "2"+[]
=> "[2]"
[3] (2/0)
=> NaN
[4]> (2/0)+2
=> NaP
[5]> ""+""
=> '"+"'
[6]> [1,2,3]+2
=> FALSE
[7]> [1,2,3]+4
=> TRUE
[8]> 2/(2-(3/2+1/2))
=> NaN.0000000000000013
[9]> range(" ")
=> ('"','!'," ","!",'"')
[10]> +2
=> 12
[11]> 2+2
=> DONE
[14]> RANGE(1,5)
=> (1,4,3,4,5)
[13]> FLOOR(10.5)
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |___10.5___
</pre>
{{comic discussion}}

1537: Types

2015-06-12T13:19:38Z

Sean: Added references to the inspirational "WAT" talk.

{{comic
| number = 1537
| date = June 12, 2015
| title = Types
| image = types.png
| titletext = colors.rgb("blue") yields "#0000FF". colors.rgb("yellowish blue") yields NaN. colors.sort() yields "rainbow"
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Title text not explained. More details before the list.}}

This comic is a series of programming jokes about a ridiculous new programming language, inspired by [https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat Gary Bernhardt's CodeMash 2012 lightning talk] on Javascript's unpredictable typing. The (highly technical) audience is unable to correctly guess the results of adding various Javascript types, and roars with laughter when they're revealed.

Most regular programming languages distinguish a number of types, e.g. integers , strings, lists,... All of which have different behaviours. The operation "+" is conventionally defined over more than one of these types. Applied to two integers, it returns their addition, but applied to two strings it concatenates them:

<code>> 2 + 3

5

> "123" + "abc"

"123abc"</code>

While these behaviours are standard, conventional, and intuitive, there is a huge amount of variation among programming languages when you apply an operation like "+" to different types. One logical approach is to always return an error in all cases of type mixing, but it is often practical to allow some case mixing, since it can hugely simplify an operation. Variation and lack of a clearly more intuitive behaviour leads some languages to have weird results when you mix types.

# <code>2 + "2"</code> uses the <code>+</code> operator on a number and a string. In a normal language, this would result either the number <code>4</code> (addition), or <code>"22"</code> (string concatenation); however, the new language converts the string to an integer, adds them to produce <code>4</code> and converts back to a string.
# <code>"2" + []</code> adds a string to an array (a list), this time. This first inexplicably converts the string to a number again, and then it literally adds the number to the list by appending it (this would make sense if it was <code>[] + 2</code>, but usually not the other way around). And then the result is converted to a string again.
# <code>(2/0)</code> divides <code>2</code> by <code>0</code> and quite reasonably results in <code>NaN</code> (not a number).
# <code>(2/0)+2</code> adds <code>2</code> to <code>NaN</code>. <code>2</code> is "added" to the string <code>"NaN"</code> (again, the number is converted to a string for apparently no reason), which produces <code>"NaP"</code>, as if <code>2</code> was added to <code>"N"</code> to produce <code>"P"</code> (as per alphabetical order).
# <code>""+""</code> looks like it is concatenating (adding) an empty string to another empty string, which should produce an empty string. However, the entire thing is treated as one string (with the start quote being the first one and the end quote being the very last one), which produces the egregious '<code>"+"</code>'.
# <code>[1,2,3]+2</code> seems to test whether it's sound to append <code>2</code> to the list <code>[1,2,3]</code>, and concludes that it doesn't fit the pattern, returning the boolean value <code>false</code>. It could conceivably also be the result of an attempt to add <code>2</code> to the ''set'' <code>[1,2,3]</code>, which already contains that element (although <code>{1,2,3}</code> would be a more common notation for sets).
# <code>[1,2,3]+4</code> returns <code>true</code> for much the same reason.
# <code>2/(2-(3/2+1/2))</code> is a floating point joke. Floating point numbers are notoriously imprecise. With precise mathematics, <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> would be exactly 2, hence the entire thing would evaluate to <code>2/0</code> or <code>NaN</code> in Randall's new language. However, the result of <code>(3/2+1/2)</code> is "just slightly off," which makes the result "just slightly off" of <code>NaN</code> (which would be ridiculous in a real language). The ironic thing is that fractions with 2 in the denominator are ''not'' the kind of numbers that typically suffer from floating point impreciseness.
# <code>range(" ")</code> normally wouldn't make any sense. However, the new language appears to interpret it as ASCII, and in the ASCII table, character #32 is space, #33 is <code>!</code>, and #34 is <code>"</code>. So, instead of interpreting <code>" "</code> as a string, it seems to be interpreted as <code>34, 32, 34</code> (in ASCII), and then <code>range</code> appears to transform this into <code>34, 33, 32, 33, 34</code> (the "ranges" between the numbers), which, interpreted as ASCII, becomes <code>['"', '!', ' ', '!', '"']</code>.
# <code>+2</code> appears to be applying a unary <code>+</code> to the number <code>2</code>, which should just be <code>2</code>. However, the code is adding <code>2</code> to the line number <code>10</code> in this context.
# <code>2+2</code> would normally be <code>4</code>. However, the interpreter takes this instruction to mean to add the value 2 to the literal value of <code>2</code>, making it <code>4</code> and then reports that the work is "Done". This can be seen in the subsequent lines where all <code>2</code>s are replaced by <code>4</code>s. This could be a reference to languages like Fortran where literals were able to be assigned new values.
# <code>range(1,5)</code> would normally return <code>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]</code>. However, since the value of <code>2</code> has been changed to <code>4</code>, it returns <code>[1, 4, 3, 4, 5]</code>, and this even affects the line number (which is 14 instead of 12).
# <code>floor(10.5)</code> should return <code>10</code> (the "floor" of a decimal number is that number rounded down). However, it instead returns {{w|ASCII art}} of the number on a "floor."

==Transcript==
My new language is great, but it has a few quirks regarding type:
<pre>
[1]> 2+"2"
=> "4"
[2]> "2"+[]
=> "[2]"
[3]> (2/0)
=> NaN
[4]> (2/0)+2
=> NaP
[5]> ""+""
=> '"+"'
[6]> [1,2,3]+2
=> FALSE
[7]> [1,2,3]+4
=> TRUE
[8]> 2/(2-(3/2+1/2))
=> NaN.0000000000000013
[9]> range(" ")
=> ('"','!'," ","!",'"')
[10]> +2
=> 12
[11]> 2+2
=> DONE
[14]> RANGE(1,5)
=> (1,4,3,4,5)
[13]> FLOOR(10.5)
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |
=> |___10.5___
</pre>

{{comic discussion}}

User talk:Davidy22

2013-04-22T21:50:52Z

Sean: /* List of unexplained comics */ new section

Hi Davidy22,

Just a quick thanks for helping roll back so much of the vandalism. Per your recent log comment, yes, there has been a recent spate of vandalism; before yesterday, it was the odd spammer that I've had to remove. But with the advent of ''Click and Drag'', there's also been an insurgence of ip-based vandalism. I'm hoping this is just a spike owing to the popularity of the comic, but I'm with you; if it doesn't die down, something more drastic is going to have to be done.

But again, thanks for helping...

-- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 14:17, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

== Please don't ==

Please don't create the redirects to explanations that haven't been created yet. It breaks the next and previous buttons, and gives people that are browsing through the explanations the false impression that the site is more complete than it is. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:41, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

:Ah, I'll stop then. Didn't know that. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]] ([[User talk:Davidy22|talk]]) 07:17, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

==Davidy22, the spam connoisseur==
Congratulations on transcending from being annoyed at all spam to recognizing the truly beautiful works of spammage from the rest of the cruddy heap. We should throw a party, lol. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 16:33, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
:Hey, it *was* a well written bit of spam. It was one of those copy/paste types of spam, except it was nicely formatted and coherent all the way through. It was informative too. A great change from the mindless template drivel or gibberish that we usually get. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 23:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

== Just asking ==
Was there a reason you deleted most of the List of all comics? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

:What on- shi-
:I was adding comic number 1132, and the preview was really slow, so I copied everything in the edit box and refreshed the page. I think half of the page hadn't finished loading in the edit box, and I only copied the first half. Derp [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 08:21, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

::I figured it was something like that. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 04:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Just so you know, it happened again. But SlashMe fixed it. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 18:07, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

:Mother of fracking- I'm going to figure out what's causing this and I'm going to fix this. Godammit. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 23:20, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

:Durr dee-durr, and now I've done it. Thanks for spotting that. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 07:22, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

== Ahem... You gonna finish that? ==

Have you taken a look at the front page recently (say within since you created the [[1134]] redirect)? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:42, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
:I have it open right now. Please don't ninja me again. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 05:44, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

::<nowiki>*Sits tight and twiddles thumbs*</nowiki> Actually, if you've got this I'll go back to the pitiful bit of literature I'm calling this year's NaNo. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 05:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

== The Anonymous editor of 1132 ==

Has been 50.0.38.245 all along. For a while he changed his signature to be a userpage that didn't exist, and wasn't a registered user. He has now changed it back to being the IP address again. Just thought I should do some out-of-band communication about that. If you want to change your last comment about the anonymous user, that would be good. (I almost offered to edit it for you, but then realized the subject we're talking about, and decided that if 50.0 ever learns about looking at the edit history and diffs, I don't need to be called a hypocrite as well as a banhammer wielding {{w|BOFH}}) [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 03:35, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

== Broken mirror... ==

Sorry for the "ninja"... I guess we probably don't need 2 versions of the image though... Feel free to distill the explain part...--[[User:Bpothier|B. P.]] ([[User talk:Bpothier|talk]]) 07:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
:Godammit, I even had the window open waiting for the article. The definitions can be merged into one paragraph, and wiki magic will explain how the comic works. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>(talk)</tt>]] 07:20, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

== Fooooooooor He's a Jolly Good Fellow... ==

You are the man, man. Keep it up! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:50, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

:Seconded. Great work, you deserved the milestone! --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:26, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

== Please take a look ==

...at [[User talk:Lcarsos#Deletion|this]]. Nothing new to you, I suppose (spam fighting can be quite hard if we're overly cautious on every step), but I'm dropping the note just in case :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:52, 25 November 2012‎ (UTC)

== autoblocking suspicious users ==

Once again, it looks like auto-blocking users that have suspicious usernames would require someone with more power than we have.

However, I very nearly blocked those three when I noticed the account creation. But, I didn't because I thought they might be legitimate users with stupid usernames. But now I've read up on {{w|Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Blocking|Wikipedia's block policy}} and from now on I'll be posting {{tl|uw-blockindef}} (which I've bungled fantastically right now, but shortly should be working) which should allow the rare legitimate user (with bad taste in usernames) to reclaim their good account, but allow us to block bad people.

You're ever friendly, massive toddler of an admin, [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 03:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

:I've also just found this page {{w|Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide}} which I will be reading very thoroughly and beginning to use this blacklist. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 04:16, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

::Hum. A great many of these templates could be condensed into a few bigger ones, but at least the documentation links are there for us to use. Also, you do know that Template:UserBox already exists, right? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:55, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
:::Well, crud. You switched, I switched. I do like the one we had better, mostly because of the descriptive labels and the nice thick borders. The name's in convenient CamelCase too. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

::::As a general rule I loathe my shift key, using more keys to achieve the same goal is wasted time, and I could be called ruthless about wasted time. Saving a single keypress seems petty. But I had a CS professor point out that by specially crafting what you have to type (creating shortcuts) saving a keypress here and there can add up to saving several thousand keypresses every 8 hours, which over a long enough quantity of time can equal hours and days. That's my long winded explanation for why I like using {{tl|userbox}} instead of {{tl|UserBox}}.

::::Also, I like the wikipedia userboxen, it's more flexible. And that allows anyone who comes over from Wikipedia to know how to work userboxen here too. That's my case for it. I hope you agree because I don't want to have to push my shift key, but I'll take your input, and if we end up in a tie, we might ask Waldir to tie break for us, as he'd be a neutral third party. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:44, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

:::::In CS, I learned that descriptive variable names and easy to recognize naming conventions can save heaps of debugging time. I personally like the CamelCase version better because it uses variable names like left-bg instead of id-c for the background color in the box on the left, which makes the template self-documenting and easier to grok for a new user who's just reading the source. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

:::::: I was asked to comment. Here are my thoughts:
::::::* Regarding CamelCase, it is indeed a neat convention but we don't use it elsewhere on the wiki. In fact, MediaWiki itself, in its early versions, used to rely on CamelCase for linking, but moved to the free-form, space enabled link syntax, which is better in many cases. Not everything converts nicely into CamelCase. So while I appreciate the argument to use CamelCase as the template name, I think the regular case version fits the wiki better. Besides, redirects are cheap and work well, so if the CamelCase title redirects to the lowercase one, whoever wants to use the CamelCase version can still do so seamlessly. Not an issue, therefore.
::::::* I agree with Davidy22 on the parameter names. In fact, the code of the template can be arranged in a more readable form (using whitespace and indentation) so not only its uses can be deciphered, but the template itself too. Renaming parameters is a simple matter, especially for templates with not many uses as these are, which means there isn't a lot of replacements to perform.
:::::: In summary, I think the two templates should definitely be merged and the best features of each kept in the final version: the title being [[Template:userbox]] (with redirects from [[Template:UserBox]] and [[Template:Userbox]]), and the parameters using intuitive names as {{tl|UserBox}}.
:::::: --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 17:06, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

::::::: Sounds good to me. The wikicode looks god-awful ugly though, who's up for cleaning that thing up? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:03, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

:::::::: If you guys do the merge, I can clean it up afterwards :) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 01:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

== separate section for title text ==

I agree that in the two instances you removed the section header for the title text, it wasn't justified, but in some cases it does make sense. See [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Subsection for title text explanation|here]]. Cheers, [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 15:27, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

== No more imagesize ==

I made a comment on [[Template Talk: comic#Imagesize]], essentially imagesize isn't necessary, and I've changed the {{tl|create}} template to not include it. So rejoice, and forget imagesize ever existed (until the bug gets fixed). [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 03:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
: Bah, what was that parameter good for anyways? Clicking on the image should take you to the XKCD site anyways. What user cares about the image pages that the template currently takes you to? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 06:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
:: That's an interesting point. It's technically doable. But I think there should be a way to access the comic images (granted, I'm not sure why exactly, but I'm not comfortable leaving them "orphans" —linkless— either) --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:08, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::: There's the list of all comics page, and we could make the titletext link to the image page or something. I dunno, any excuse to kill imagesize. [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 12:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
:::: To clarify, linking the image directly to xkcd has nothing to do with killing imagesize. That, for what I understand, has already been done. Good point about the list of comics page. I'll wait for more comments before implementing the change in the image link target. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 12:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::::: Imagesize isn't *quite* dead yet. There's still four or five comics that still use it. Permission to upload the thumbnail versions of those comics, as we do with the other large comics, and end that broken thing once and for all? [[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]][[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:05, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
:::::: I don't like the idea of uploading smaller versions of images. We ought to be able to use mediawiki's own image scaling abilities as soon as we can do some [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#We need more maintainers|testing in the wiki setup]] and make the image scaling issue go away. Apart from that, what exactly are the problems of imagesize, again? I haven't followed the discussions about it, sorry. Feel free to give me pointers to the appropriate places where the issues have been discussed. --[[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 13:17, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

== Please move pages ==

I'm noticing that when someone creates a new page with the wrong title you're just copy/pasting the content onto the new page. Please don't do that. Please use the move page feature on the drop down of the page, that way we can keep the edit history for the page intact, and that way it doesn't look like you created these oddly poor quality pages. Thanks much. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 00:49, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
:Righty ho. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:09, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

== Sorry ==

I have been working contra u by routinely adding a white line above the categories. I instantly raise white flag! And say good night! -- [[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 00:40, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

== Trivia placement ==

Cheers mate! Please check the comment I made some time ago in the section you started, [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Section style and usage|"Section style and usage"]] on the Proposals community page. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 23:10, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

If you disagree with the trivia placement between explanation and transcript, why don't you say so, and explain why? –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 14:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I made a section for discussion of this, so that we can come to some agreement: [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Proposals#Trivia and transcript]]. –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 15:18, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
:Moved to [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination#Trivia and transcript placement]] –[[User:St.nerol|St.nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]]) 23:05, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

== Jurassic Park category ==
Hi, you wrote you don't like how I created a new category for Jurassic Park. I thought it appropriate: there's a *lot* of references to Jurassic Park and/or velociraptors in the comics. And not all reference are to both... But what did you not like? Thanks for enlightening me! [[User:Kaa-ching|Kaa-ching]] ([[User talk:Kaa-ching|talk]]) 09:07, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

:There's a lot of categories on this wiki. When adding categories to a page, it can get extremely difficult to make sure that you've gotten every category that applies to the comic. For regular editors, the amount that we have to remember when maintaining pages is already quite onerous; more categories hurt our dinky heads. If you're willing to steward that category, go ahead, but you'll have to remember to put in the explanation pages yourself when you find a comic that it applies to. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 09:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

:: OK. [[User:Kaa-ching|Kaa-ching]] ([[User talk:Kaa-ching|talk]]) 08:26, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

==[[220: Philosophy]]==

Actually, what happened was: This being my first new page edit, I copy-pasted the format from another page, and then edited all the information to fit the correct comic. Then I realized I'd forgotten to remove the date of the original page's comic, so I did so. *blushes* No trolling intended, just a newbie mistake. Is 2/7/07 the correct date for this comic? [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 11:23, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
:Oooh. I thought you had gotten the date then removed it after seeing earlier rants concerning omitted dates. You can check a comic's date by clicking on the "All Comics" button in the sidebar on the left. All dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 11:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
::Yep. I see that now, and now that I know it's there, I create new pages straight from [[List of all comics]]. No offense taken. Thanks for the useful advice! [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 05:52, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

== Character names in transcripts ==

Ah, I see now that you've been cleaning up after me, adding character names to transcripts instead of "Man", "Woman", et cetera. Now realizing that's the wiki's standard, I'll endeavor to do that myself from now on. Thanks for your patience with the new guy. [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 07:40, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

:It's k, just doing maintenance. You're really prolific, do you write all of those yourself or are you getting those explanations off the forums somehow? '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 10:38, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

::I write them all myself. It's been some time since I've looked at the xkcd forums, actually. Sometimes I get a little help from Wikipedia when a particular detail escapes me. But you'll notice I don't make an attempt to explain the math ones. *laughs* [[User:Ekedolphin|Ekedolphin]] ([[User talk:Ekedolphin|talk]]) 02:16, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

== My unexplained hobbies. ==

I just want to make sure that you are getting this, but I restored "My Unexplained Hobbies." You can now explain them. [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 14:47, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
:Shweet. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:44, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

I suck at wiki stuff but am a real human - sorry for the confusion. {{unsigned|‎Schmammel}}
:No matter. Also, see the blue box above the talk page edit box for instruction on how to sign your posts. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:55, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

== About your new admin powers ==

Actually just the rollback hammer. I've learned this after being burned a few times.

Rollback will actually not revert just the one edit you are looking at, but will go back until it hits a revision that wasn't done by that user, so its useful for pure spam accounts, but if you're just undoing a single edit, you may still want to use the undo tool.

Also, once or twice I actually had it revert all the way back to the last patrolled edit, which meant it actually got rid of the edits of a few anonymous editors too.

Just a caution that with great power comes great responsibility.

--[[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]_a ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 04:11, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

:Oh damn, did I do that? Welp. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 04:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

== Removed Level 2 headings from Discussion page ==

Hi, I noticed you removed the level 2 headings in the discussion of comic 1188. I'm guessing it's the application of some formatting rule established on this wiki, so I'm curious where I can find a list of these standards that I should adhere to, so I don't make such a mistake again in the future. [[User:Jfresen|Jfresen]] ([[User talk:Jfresen|talk]]) 15:10, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

:It's not really a formatting convention, more of a workaround to technical limitations of the wiki. The way discussion pages are embedded into comic pages, headings in talk pages cause breakages when tables of contents are spawned. It's ugly and bad and it's the reason why we delete discussion page headers. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|purple|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 15:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

== Captcha help ==

:''This thread was moved to [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests#Captcha help]].''

== RE: Signature ==

Sweet, thanks David. {{User:Omega/sig}} 14:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

== Time is hard... ==

... and not only that, she also is, just like her sister Gravity, a heartless b**** :D
Thanks for taking care! :) [[User:Caranhyas|Caranhyas]] ([[User talk:Caranhyas|talk]]) 09:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

== Feedback ==

Hey David. It's nice that you're so responsive to requests such as those at [[Mediawiki talk:Sitenotice]] (or [[explain_xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests#Captcha help|this one]]), but please take also a moment to report the request as completed, as that not only provides feedback to the requester, but is also a reference for the future (which removes the need to dig through the relevant page's history if, for example, one decides to check whether a request ever got implemented), and exemplifies desired behavior for future administrators. Cheers, [[User:Waldir|Waldir]] ([[User talk:Waldir|talk]]) 21:53, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
:Alright. Was just trying to get through everything quickly, and forgot to reply to those requests. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 23:55, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

== 262 correction: Thanks! ==

Hi there!

Unfortunately, I was not aware that I had incorrectly created the page for xkcd 262. Thanks for fixing that. My only question is whether the page "262" should be redirected to xkcd 262 rather than just showing the deletion template.

Thanks,

[[User:Milar Kayne|Milar Kayne]] ([[User talk:Milar Kayne|talk]]) 07:02, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

:The page "262" and all other pages consisting of only numbers are used internally to handle page linking. You don't really need to worry about them, you just need to know that making explanation pages in those numbered pages is baaad and that the create templates in the [[List of all comics]] will set up everything relevant for you. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 08:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

::So all of the xkcd comic pages theoretically "exist" on the site, but not all have connected pages? Also, how do I create a new page from the "All comics" page? Thanks for being so patient--I really want to be able to contribute meaningfully here. [[User:Milar Kayne|Milar Kayne]] ([[User talk:Milar Kayne|talk]]) 20:27, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
::No, we just link to the xckd comic pages. The numbered pages handle links between explanation pages. On the "List of all comics" page, there are (create) buttons next to all the red links; click those to start explaining those comics. '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 00:12, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::OK thanks for explaining! I'll try to do better next time :). [[User:Milar Kayne|Milar Kayne]] ([[User talk:Milar Kayne|talk]]) 01:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

== List of unexplained comics ==

Thanks for the vote of confidence - hoping it'll encourage more contributors! [[User:Sean|Sean]] ([[User talk:Sean|talk]]) 21:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Sean

2013-04-22T21:47:47Z

Sean: Created page.

Some people enjoy breaking the foil on fresh jars of coffee or Nutella. I'm the same with starting new Wiki pages. [[User:Sean|Sean]] ([[User talk:Sean|talk]]) 21:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

User:Sean

2013-04-22T21:46:12Z

Sean: Created page.

Explaining is fun :)

227: Color Codes

2013-04-22T16:03:00Z

Sean: /* Explanation */ Added TMBG explanation. Avoided mentioning Big Bang Theory.

227: Color Codes

2013-04-22T16:00:32Z

Sean: Whoops! Put the wrong title text in :-S

Color Codes

2013-04-22T15:47:19Z

Sean: Created redirect

#REDIRECT [[227: Color Codes]]

227

2013-04-22T15:46:35Z

Sean: Created redirect

#REDIRECT [[227: Color Codes]]

227: Color Codes

2013-04-22T15:34:19Z

Sean: Stub entry - need to explain how the colour codes translate to values (also, the example given - Violet Brown Grey isn't a valid three-band resistor value)

{{comic
| number = 227
| date = February 23, 2007
| title = Color Codes
| image = color_codes.png
| titletext = Kids are genetic experiments. We're just experimenting responsibly!
}}

==Explanation==

Resistors are an electronic component carrying color-coded bands indicating their value (measured in Ohms) and tolerance (e.g. 5%).

List of all comics (1001-1500)

2013-04-22T11:46:21Z

Sean: Linked to list of unexplained comics.

== See also: [[List_of_unexplained_comics|List of unexplained comics]] ==

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|-
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{{comicsrow|1202|2013-04-22|Girls and Boys}}
{{comicsrow|1201|2013-04-19|Integration by Parts}}
{{comicsrow|1200|2013-04-17|Authorization}}
{{comicsrow|1199|2013-04-15|Silence}}
{{comicsrow|1198|2013-04-12|Geologist}}
{{comicsrow|1197|2013-04-10|All Adobe Updates}}
{{comicsrow|1196|2013-04-08|Subways}}
{{comicsrow|1195|2013-04-05|Flowchart}}
{{comicsrow|1194|2013-04-03|Stratigraphic Record}}
{{comicsrow|1193|2013-04-01|Externalities}}
{{comicsrow|1192|2013-03-29|Humming}}
{{comicsrow|1191|2013-03-27|The Past}}
{{comicsrow|1190|2013-03-25|Time}}
{{comicsrow|1189|2013-03-22|Voyager 1}}
{{comicsrow|1188|2013-03-20|Bonding}}
{{comicsrow|1187|2013-03-18|Aspect Ratio}}
{{comicsrow|1186|2013-03-15|Bumblebees}}
{{comicsrow|1185|2013-03-13|Ineffective Sorts}}
{{comicsrow|1184|2013-03-11|Circumference Formula}}
{{comicsrow|1183|2013-03-08|Rose Petals}}
{{comicsrow|1182|2013-03-06|Rembrandt Photo}}
{{comicsrow|1181|2013-03-04|PGP}}
{{comicsrow|1180|2013-03-01|Virus Venn Diagram}}
{{comicsrow|1179|2013-02-27|ISO 8601}}
{{comicsrow|1178|2013-02-25|Pickup Artists}}
{{comicsrow|1177|2013-02-22|Time Robot}}
{{comicsrow|1176|2013-02-20|Those Not Present}}
{{comicsrow|1175|2013-02-18|Moving Sidewalks}}
{{comicsrow|1174|2013-02-15|App}}
{{comicsrow|1173|2013-02-13|Steroids}}
{{comicsrow|1172|2013-02-11|Workflow}}
{{comicsrow|1171|2013-02-08|Perl Problems}}
{{comicsrow|1170|2013-02-06|Bridge}}
{{comicsrow|1169|2013-02-04|Expedition}}
{{comicsrow|1168|2013-02-01|tar}}
{{comicsrow|1167|2013-01-30|Star Trek into Darkness}}
{{comicsrow|1166|2013-01-28|Argument}}
{{comicsrow|1165|2013-01-25|Amazon}}
{{comicsrow|1164|2013-01-23|Home Alone}}
{{comicsrow|1163|2013-01-21|Debugger}}
{{comicsrow|1162|2013-01-18|Log Scale}}
{{comicsrow|1161|2013-01-16|Hand Sanitizer}}
{{comicsrow|1160|2013-01-14|Drop Those Pounds}}
{{comicsrow|1159|2013-01-11|Countdown}}
{{comicsrow|1158|2013-01-09|Rubber Sheet}}
{{comicsrow|1157|2013-01-07|Sick Day}}
{{comicsrow|1156|2013-01-04|Conditioning}}
{{comicsrow|1155|2013-01-02|Kolmogorov Directions}}
{{comicsrow|1154|2012-12-31|Resolution}}
{{comicsrow|1153|2012-12-28|Proof}}
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{{comicsrow|756|2010-06-21|Public Opinion}}
{{comicsrow|755|2010-06-18|Interdisciplinary}}
{{comicsrow|754|2010-06-16|Dependencies}}
{{comicsrow|753|2010-06-14|Southern Half}}
{{comicsrow|752|2010-06-11|Phobia}}
{{comicsrow|751|2010-06-09|Swimsuit Issue}}
{{comicsrow|750|2010-06-07|Book Burning}}
{{comicsrow|749|2010-06-04|Study}}
{{comicsrow|748|2010-06-02|Worst-Case Scenario|worst_case_scenario.png}}
{{comicsrow|747|2010-05-31|Geeks and Nerds}}
{{comicsrow|746|2010-05-28|Birth}}
{{comicsrow|745|2010-05-26|Dyslexics}}
{{comicsrow|744|2010-05-24|Walkthrough}}
{{comicsrow|743|2010-05-21|Infrastructures}}
{{comicsrow|742|2010-05-19|Campfire}}
{{comicsrow|741|2010-05-17|Blogging}}
{{comicsrow|740|2010-05-14|The Tell-Tale Beat|the_tell_tale_beat.png}}
{{comicsrow|739|2010-05-12|Malamanteau}}
{{comicsrow|738|2010-05-10|Incision}}
{{comicsrow|737|2010-05-07|Yogurt}}
{{comicsrow|736|2010-05-05|Cemetery}}
{{comicsrow|735|2010-05-03|Floor}}
{{comicsrow|734|2010-04-30|Outbreak}}
{{comicsrow|733|2010-04-28|Eagle}}
{{comicsrow|732|2010-04-26|HDTV}}
{{comicsrow|731|2010-04-23|Desert Island}}
{{comicsrow|730|2010-04-21|Circuit Diagram}}
{{comicsrow|729|2010-04-19|Laser Pointer}}
{{comicsrow|728|2010-04-16|iPad}}
{{comicsrow|727|2010-04-14|Trade Expert}}
{{comicsrow|726|2010-04-12|Seat Selection}}
{{comicsrow|725|2010-04-09|Literally}}
{{comicsrow|724|2010-04-07|Hell}}
{{comicsrow|723|2010-04-05|Seismic Waves}}
{{comicsrow|722|2010-04-02|Computer Problems}}
{{comicsrow|721|2010-03-31|Flatland}}
{{comicsrow|720|2010-03-29|Recipes}}
{{comicsrow|719|2010-03-26|Brain Worms}}
{{comicsrow|718|2010-03-24|The Flake Equation}}
{{comicsrow|717|2010-03-22|Furtive}}
{{comicsrow|716|2010-03-19|Time Machine}}
{{comicsrow|715|2010-03-17|Numbers}}
{{comicsrow|714|2010-03-15|Porn For Women}}
{{comicsrow|713|2010-03-12|GeoIP}}
{{comicsrow|712|2010-03-10|Single Ladies}}
{{comicsrow|711|2010-03-08|Seismograph}}
{{comicsrow|710|2010-03-05|Collatz Conjecture}}
{{comicsrow|709|2010-03-03|I Am}}
{{comicsrow|708|2010-03-01|Sex Dice}}
{{comicsrow|707|2010-02-26|Joshing}}
{{comicsrow|706|2010-02-24|Freedom}}
{{comicsrow|705|2010-02-22|Devotion to Duty}}
{{comicsrow|704|2010-02-19|Principle of Explosion}}
{{comicsrow|703|2010-02-17|Honor Societies}}
{{comicsrow|702|2010-02-15|Snow Tracking}}
{{comicsrow|701|2010-02-12|Science Valentine}}
{{comicsrow|700|2010-02-10|Complexion}}
{{comicsrow|699|2010-02-08|Trimester}}
{{comicsrow|698|2010-02-05|You Hang Up First}}
{{comicsrow|697|2010-02-03|Tensile vs. Shear Strength|tensile_vs_shear_strength.png}}
{{comicsrow|696|2010-02-01|Strip Games}}
{{comicsrow|695|2010-01-29|Spirit}}
{{comicsrow|694|2010-01-27|Retro Virus}}
{{comicsrow|693|2010-01-25|Children's Fantasy|childrens_fantasy.png}}
{{comicsrow|692|2010-01-22|Dirty Harry}}
{{comicsrow|691|2010-01-20|MicroSD}}
{{comicsrow|690|2010-01-18|Semicontrolled Demolition}}
{{comicsrow|689|2010-01-15|FIRST Design}}
{{comicsrow|688|2010-01-13|Self-Description|self_description.png}}
{{comicsrow|687|2010-01-11|Dimensional Analysis}}
{{comicsrow|686|2010-01-08|Admin Mourning}}
{{comicsrow|685|2010-01-06|G-Spot}}
{{comicsrow|684|2010-01-04|We Get It}}
{{comicsrow|683|2010-01-01|Science Montage}}
{{comicsrow|682|2009-12-30|Force}}
{{comicsrow|681|2009-12-28|Gravity Wells}}
{{comicsrow|680|2009-12-25|December 25th}}
{{comicsrow|679|2009-12-23|Christmas Plans}}
{{comicsrow|678|2009-12-21|Researcher Translation}}
{{comicsrow|677|2009-12-18|Asshole}}
{{comicsrow|676|2009-12-16|Abstraction}}
{{comicsrow|675|2009-12-14|Revolutionary}}
{{comicsrow|674|2009-12-11|Natural Parenting}}
{{comicsrow|673|2009-12-09|The Sun}}
{{comicsrow|672|2009-12-07|Suggestions}}
{{comicsrow|671|2009-12-04|Stephen and Me}}
{{comicsrow|670|2009-12-02|Spinal Tap Amps}}
{{comicsrow|669|2009-11-30|Experiment}}
{{comicsrow|668|2009-11-27|Pandora}}
{{comicsrow|667|2009-11-25|SkiFree}}
{{comicsrow|666|2009-11-23|Silent Hammer}}
{{comicsrow|665|2009-11-20|Prudence}}
{{comicsrow|664|2009-11-18|Academia vs. Business|academia_vs_business.png}}
{{comicsrow|663|2009-11-16|Sagan-Man}}
{{comicsrow|662|2009-11-13|iPhone or Droid}}
{{comicsrow|661|2009-11-11|Two-Party System|two_party_system.png}}
{{comicsrow|660|2009-11-09|Sympathy}}
{{comicsrow|659|2009-11-06|Lego}}
{{comicsrow|658|2009-11-04|Orbitals}}
{{comicsrow|657|2009-11-02|Movie Narrative Charts}}
{{comicsrow|656|2009-10-30|October 30th}}
{{comicsrow|655|2009-10-28|Climbing}}
{{comicsrow|654|2009-10-26|Nachos}}
{{comicsrow|653|2009-10-23|So Bad It's Worse|so_bad_its_worse.png}}
{{comicsrow|652|2009-10-21|More Accurate}}
{{comicsrow|651|2009-10-19|Bag Check}}
{{comicsrow|650|2009-10-16|Nowhere}}
{{comicsrow|649|2009-10-14|Static}}
{{comicsrow|648|2009-10-12|Fall Foliage}}
{{comicsrow|647|2009-10-09|Scary}}
{{comicsrow|646|2009-10-07|Conversations}}
{{comicsrow|645|2009-10-05|RPS}}
{{comicsrow|644|2009-10-02|Surgery}}
{{comicsrow|643|2009-09-30|Ohm}}
{{comicsrow|642|2009-09-28|Creepy}}
{{comicsrow|641|2009-09-25|Free}}
{{comicsrow|640|2009-09-23|Tornado Hunter}}
{{comicsrow|639|2009-09-21|Lincoln-Douglas|lincoln_douglas.png}}
{{comicsrow|638|2009-09-18|The Search}}
{{comicsrow|637|2009-09-16|Scribblenauts}}
{{comicsrow|636|2009-09-14|Brontosaurus}}
{{comicsrow|635|2009-09-10|Locke and Demosthenes}}
{{comicsrow|634|2009-09-09|Date}}
{{comicsrow|633|2009-09-07|Blockbuster Mining}}
{{comicsrow|632|2009-09-04|Suspicion}}
{{comicsrow|631|2009-09-02|Anatomy Text}}
{{comicsrow|630|2009-08-31|Time Travel}}
{{comicsrow|629|2009-08-28|Skins}}
{{comicsrow|628|2009-08-26|Psychic}}
{{comicsrow|627|2009-08-24|Tech Support Cheat Sheet}}
{{comicsrow|626|2009-08-21|Newton and Leibniz}}
{{comicsrow|625|2009-08-19|Collections}}
{{comicsrow|624|2009-08-17|Branding}}
{{comicsrow|623|2009-08-14|Oregon}}
{{comicsrow|622|2009-08-12|Haiku Proof}}
{{comicsrow|621|2009-08-10|Superlative}}
{{comicsrow|620|2009-08-07|Wings}}
{{comicsrow|619|2009-08-05|Supported Features}}
{{comicsrow|618|2009-08-03|Asteroid}}
{{comicsrow|617|2009-07-31|Understocked}}
{{comicsrow|616|2009-07-29|Lease}}
{{comicsrow|615|2009-07-27|Avoidance}}
{{comicsrow|614|2009-07-24|Woodpecker}}
{{comicsrow|613|2009-07-22|Threesome}}
{{comicsrow|612|2009-07-20|Estimation}}
{{comicsrow|611|2009-07-17|Disaster Voyeurism}}
{{comicsrow|610|2009-07-15|Sheeple}}
{{comicsrow|609|2009-07-13|Tab Explosion}}
{{comicsrow|608|2009-07-10|Form}}
{{comicsrow|607|2009-07-08|2038}}
{{comicsrow|606|2009-07-06|Cutting Edge}}
{{comicsrow|605|2009-07-03|Extrapolating}}
{{comicsrow|604|2009-07-01|Qwertial Aphasia}}
{{comicsrow|603|2009-06-29|Idiocracy}}
{{comicsrow|602|2009-06-26|Overstimulated}}
{{comicsrow|601|2009-06-24|Game Theory}}
{{comicsrow|600|2009-06-22|Android Boyfriend}}
{{comicsrow|599|2009-06-19|Apocalypse}}
{{comicsrow|598|2009-06-17|Porn}}
{{comicsrow|597|2009-06-15|Addiction}}
{{comicsrow|596|2009-06-12|Latitude}}
{{comicsrow|595|2009-06-10|Android Girlfriend}}
{{comicsrow|594|2009-06-08|Period}}
{{comicsrow|593|2009-06-05|Voynich Manuscript}}
{{comicsrow|592|2009-06-03|Drama}}
{{comicsrow|591|2009-06-01|Troll Slayer}}
{{comicsrow|590|2009-05-29|Papyrus}}
{{comicsrow|589|2009-05-27|Designated Drivers}}
{{comicsrow|588|2009-05-25|Pep Rally}}
{{comicsrow|587|2009-05-22|Crime Scene}}
{{comicsrow|586|2009-05-20|Mission to Culture}}
{{comicsrow|585|2009-05-18|Outreach}}
{{comicsrow|584|2009-05-15|Unsatisfied}}
{{comicsrow|583|2009-05-13|CNR}}
{{comicsrow|582|2009-05-11|Brakes}}
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{{comicsrow|580|2009-05-07|The Race: Part 4|the_race_part_4.png}}
{{comicsrow|579|2009-05-06|The Race: Part 3|the_race_part_3.png}}
{{comicsrow|578|2009-05-05|The Race: Part 2|the_race_part_2.png}}
{{comicsrow|577|2009-05-04|The Race: Part 1|the_race_part_1.png}}
{{comicsrow|576|2009-05-01|Packages}}
{{comicsrow|575|2009-04-29|Tag Combination}}
{{comicsrow|574|2009-04-27|Swine Flu}}
{{comicsrow|573|2009-04-24|Parental Trolling}}
{{comicsrow|572|2009-04-22|Together}}
{{comicsrow|571|2009-04-20|Can't Sleep|cant_sleep.png}}
{{comicsrow|570|2009-04-17|New Car}}
{{comicsrow|569|2009-04-15|Borders}}
{{comicsrow|568|2009-04-13|Well 2}}
{{comicsrow|567|2009-04-10|Urgent Mission}}
{{comicsrow|566|2009-04-08|Matrix Revisited}}
{{comicsrow|565|2009-04-06|Security Question}}
{{comicsrow|564|2009-04-03|Crossbows}}
{{comicsrow|563|2009-04-01|Fermirotica}}
{{comicsrow|562|2009-03-30|Parking}}
{{comicsrow|561|2009-03-27|Well}}
{{comicsrow|560|2009-03-25|Lithium Batteries}}
{{comicsrow|559|2009-03-23|No Pun Intended}}
{{comicsrow|558|2009-03-20|1000 Times}}
{{comicsrow|557|2009-03-18|Students}}
{{comicsrow|556|2009-03-16|Alternative Energy Revolution|alternative_energy_revolution.jpg}}
{{comicsrow|555|2009-03-13|Two Mirrors}}
{{comicsrow|554|2009-03-11|Not Enough Work}}
{{comicsrow|553|2009-03-09|Pirate Bay}}
{{comicsrow|552|2009-03-06|Correlation}}
{{comicsrow|551|2009-03-04|Etch-a-Sketch}}
{{comicsrow|550|2009-03-02|Density}}
{{comicsrow|549|2009-02-27|Westley's a Dick|westleys_a_dick.png}}
{{comicsrow|548|2009-02-25|Kindle}}
{{comicsrow|547|2009-02-23|Simple}}
{{comicsrow|546|2009-02-20|Music DRM}}
{{comicsrow|545|2009-02-18|Neutrality Schmeutrality}}
{{comicsrow|544|2009-02-16|Pep Talk}}
{{comicsrow|543|2009-02-13|Sierpinski Valentine}}
{{comicsrow|542|2009-02-11|Cover-Up|cover_up.png}}
{{comicsrow|541|2009-02-09|TED Talk}}
{{comicsrow|540|2009-02-06|Base System}}
{{comicsrow|539|2009-02-04|Boyfriend}}
{{comicsrow|538|2009-02-02|Security}}
{{comicsrow|537|2009-01-30|Ducklings}}
{{comicsrow|536|2009-01-28|Space Elevators}}
{{comicsrow|535|2009-01-26|It Might Be Cool}}
{{comicsrow|534|2009-01-23|Genetic Algorithms}}
{{comicsrow|533|2009-01-21|Laptop Hell}}
{{comicsrow|532|2009-01-19|Piano}}
{{comicsrow|531|2009-01-16|Contingency Plan}}
{{comicsrow|530|2009-01-14|I'm An Idiot|im_an_idiot.png}}
{{comicsrow|529|2009-01-12|Sledding Discussion}}
{{comicsrow|528|2009-01-09|Windows 7}}
{{comicsrow|527|2009-01-07|Keynote}}
{{comicsrow|526|2009-01-05|Converting to Metric}}
{{comicsrow|525|2009-01-02|I Know You're Listening|i_know_youre_listening.png}}
{{comicsrow|524|2008-12-31|Party}}
{{comicsrow|523|2008-12-29|Decline}}
{{comicsrow|522|2008-12-26|Google Trends}}
{{comicsrow|521|2008-12-24|2008 Christmas Special}}
{{comicsrow|520|2008-12-22|Cuttlefish}}
{{comicsrow|519|2008-12-19|11th Grade}}
{{comicsrow|518|2008-12-17|Flow Charts}}
{{comicsrow|517|2008-12-15|Marshmallow Gun}}
{{comicsrow|516|2008-12-12|Wood Chips}}
{{comicsrow|515|2008-12-10|No One Must Know}}
{{comicsrow|514|2008-12-08|Simultaneous}}
{{comicsrow|513|2008-12-05|Friends}}
{{comicsrow|512|2008-12-03|Alternate Currency}}
{{comicsrow|511|2008-12-01|Sleet}}
{{comicsrow|510|2008-11-28|Egg Drop Failure}}
{{comicsrow|509|2008-11-26|Induced Current}}
{{comicsrow|508|2008-11-24|Drapes}}
{{comicsrow|507|2008-11-21|Experimentation}}
{{comicsrow|506|2008-11-19|Theft of the Magi}}
{{comicsrow|505|2008-11-17|A Bunch of Rocks}}
{{comicsrow|504|2008-11-14|Legal Hacks}}
{{comicsrow|503|2008-11-12|Terminology}}
{{comicsrow|502|2008-11-10|Dark Flow}}
{{comicsrow|501|2008-11-07|Faust 2.0|faust_20.png}}
{{comicsrow|500|2008-11-05|Election}}
{{comicsrow|499|2008-11-03|Scantron}}
{{comicsrow|498|2008-10-31|Secretary: Part 5|secretary_part_5.png}}
{{comicsrow|497|2008-10-30|Secretary: Part 4|secretary_part_4.png}}
{{comicsrow|496|2008-10-29|Secretary: Part 3|secretary_part_3.png}}
{{comicsrow|495|2008-10-28|Secretary: Part 2|secretary_part_2.png}}
{{comicsrow|494|2008-10-27|Secretary: Part 1|secretary_part_1.png}}
{{comicsrow|493|2008-10-24|Actuarial}}
{{comicsrow|492|2008-10-22|Scrabble}}
{{comicsrow|491|2008-10-20|Twitter}}
{{comicsrow|490|2008-10-17|Morning Routine}}
{{comicsrow|489|2008-10-15|Going West}}
{{comicsrow|488|2008-10-13|Steal This Comic}}
{{comicsrow|487|2008-10-10|Numerical Sex Positions}}
{{comicsrow|486|2008-10-08|I am Not a Ninja}}
{{comicsrow|485|2008-10-06|Depth}}
{{comicsrow|484|2008-10-03|Flash Games}}
{{comicsrow|483|2008-10-01|Fiction Rule of Thumb}}
{{comicsrow|482|2008-09-29|Height}}
{{comicsrow|481|2008-09-26|Listen to Yourself}}
{{comicsrow|480|2008-09-24|Spore}}
{{comicsrow|479|2008-09-22|Tones}}
{{comicsrow|478|2008-09-19|The Staple Madness}}
{{comicsrow|477|2008-09-17|Typewriter}}
{{comicsrow|476|2008-09-15|One-Sided}}
{{comicsrow|475|2008-09-12|Further Boomerang Difficulties}}
{{comicsrow|474|2008-09-10|Turn-On}}
{{comicsrow|473|2008-09-08|Still Raw}}
{{comicsrow|472|2008-09-05|House of Pancakes}}
{{comicsrow|471|2008-09-03|Aversion Fads}}
{{comicsrow|470|2008-09-01|The End is Not for a While}}
{{comicsrow|469|2008-08-29|Improvised}}
{{comicsrow|468|2008-08-27|Fetishes}}
{{comicsrow|467|2008-08-25|X Girls Y Cups}}
{{comicsrow|466|2008-08-22|Moving}}
{{comicsrow|465|2008-08-20|Quantum Teleportation}}
{{comicsrow|464|2008-08-18|RBA}}
{{comicsrow|463|2008-08-15|Voting Machines}}
{{comicsrow|462|2008-08-13|Freemanic Paracusia}}
{{comicsrow|461|2008-08-11|Google Maps}}
{{comicsrow|460|2008-08-08|Paleontology}}
{{comicsrow|459|2008-08-06|Holy Ghost}}
{{comicsrow|458|2008-08-04|Regrets}}
{{comicsrow|457|2008-08-01|Frustration}}
{{comicsrow|456|2008-07-30|Cautionary}}
{{comicsrow|455|2008-07-28|Hats}}
{{comicsrow|454|2008-07-25|Rewiring}}
{{comicsrow|453|2008-07-23|Upcoming Hurricanes}}
{{comicsrow|452|2008-07-21|Mission}}
{{comicsrow|451|2008-07-18|Impostor}}
{{comicsrow|450|2008-07-16|The Sea}}
{{comicsrow|449|2008-07-14|Things Fall Apart}}
{{comicsrow|448|2008-07-11|Good Morning}}
{{comicsrow|447|2008-07-09|Too Old For This Shit}}
{{comicsrow|446|2008-07-07|In Popular Culture}}
{{comicsrow|445|2008-07-04|I Am Not Good with Boomerangs}}
{{comicsrow|444|2008-07-02|Macgyver Gets Lazy}}
{{comicsrow|443|2008-06-30|Know Your Vines}}
{{comicsrow|442|2008-06-27|xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel}}
{{comicsrow|441|2008-06-25|Babies}}
{{comicsrow|440|2008-06-23|Road Rage}}
{{comicsrow|439|2008-06-20|Thinking Ahead}}
{{comicsrow|438|2008-06-18|Internet Argument}}
{{comicsrow|437|2008-06-16|SUV}}
{{comicsrow|436|2008-06-13|How it Happened}}
{{comicsrow|435|2008-06-11|Purity}}
{{comicsrow|434|2008-06-09|xkcd Goes to the Airport}}
{{comicsrow|433|2008-06-06|Journal 5}}
{{comicsrow|432|2008-06-04|Journal 4}}
{{comicsrow|431|2008-06-02|Delivery}}
{{comicsrow|430|2008-05-30|Every Damn Morning}}
{{comicsrow|429|2008-05-28|Fantasy}}
{{comicsrow|428|2008-05-26|Starwatching}}
{{comicsrow|427|2008-05-23|Bad Timing}}
{{comicsrow|426|2008-05-21|Geohashing}}
{{comicsrow|425|2008-05-19|Fortune Cookies}}
{{comicsrow|424|2008-05-16|Security Holes}}
{{comicsrow|423|2008-05-14|Finish Line}}
{{comicsrow|422|2008-05-12|A Better Idea}}
{{comicsrow|421|2008-05-09|Making Hash Browns}}
{{comicsrow|420|2008-05-07|Jealousy}}
{{comicsrow|419|2008-05-05|Forks and Spoons}}
{{comicsrow|418|2008-05-02|Stove Ownership}}
{{comicsrow|417|2008-04-30|The Man Who Fell Sideways}}
{{comicsrow|416|2008-04-28|Zealous Autoconfig}}
{{comicsrow|415|2008-04-25|Restraining Order}}
{{comicsrow|414|2008-04-23|Mistranslations}}
{{comicsrow|413|2008-04-21|New Pet}}
{{comicsrow|412|2008-04-18|Startled}}
{{comicsrow|411|2008-04-16|Techno}}
{{comicsrow|410|2008-04-14|Math Paper}}
{{comicsrow|409|2008-04-11|Electric Skateboard (Double Comic)|electric_skateboard_double_comic.png}}
{{comicsrow|408|2008-04-09|Overqualified}}
{{comicsrow|407|2008-04-07|Cheap GPS}}
{{comicsrow|406|2008-04-04|Venting}}
{{comicsrow|405|2008-04-02|Journal 3}}
{{comicsrow|403|2008-03-31|Convincing Pickup Line}}
{{comicsrow|402|2008-03-28|1,000 Miles North|1000_miles_north.png}}
{{comicsrow|401|2008-03-26|Large Hadron Collider}}
{{comicsrow|400|2008-03-24|Important Life Lesson}}
{{comicsrow|399|2008-03-21|Travelling Salesman Problem}}
{{comicsrow|398|2008-03-19|Tap That Ass}}
{{comicsrow|397|2008-03-17|Unscientific}}
{{comicsrow|396|2008-03-14|The Ring}}
{{comicsrow|395|2008-03-12|Morning}}
{{comicsrow|394|2008-03-10|Kilobyte}}
{{comicsrow|393|2008-03-07|Ultimate Game}}
{{comicsrow|392|2008-03-05|Making Rules}}
{{comicsrow|391|2008-03-03|Anti-Mindvirus|anti_mind_virus.png}}
{{comicsrow|390|2008-02-29|Nightmares}}
{{comicsrow|389|2008-02-27|Keeping Time}}
{{comicsrow|388|2008-02-25|Fuck Grapefruit}}
{{comicsrow|387|2008-02-22|Advanced Technology}}
{{comicsrow|386|2008-02-20|Duty Calls}}
{{comicsrow|385|2008-02-18|How it Works}}
{{comicsrow|384|2008-02-15|The Drake Equation}}
{{comicsrow|383|2008-02-13|Helping}}
{{comicsrow|382|2008-02-11|Trebuchet}}
{{comicsrow|381|2008-02-08|Mobius Battle}}
{{comicsrow|380|2008-02-06|Emoticon}}
{{comicsrow|379|2008-02-04|Forgetting}}
{{comicsrow|378|2008-02-01|Real Programmers}}
{{comicsrow|377|2008-01-30|Journal 2}}
{{comicsrow|376|2008-01-28|Bug}}
{{comicsrow|375|2008-01-25|Pod Bay Doors}}
{{comicsrow|374|2008-01-23|Journal}}
{{comicsrow|373|2008-01-21|The Data So Far}}
{{comicsrow|372|2008-01-18|To Be Wanted}}
{{comicsrow|371|2008-01-16|Compiler Complaint}}
{{comicsrow|370|2008-01-14|Redwall}}
{{comicsrow|369|2008-01-11|Dangers}}
{{comicsrow|368|2008-01-09|Bass}}
{{comicsrow|367|2008-01-07|Fandom}}
{{comicsrow|366|2008-01-04|Your Mom}}
{{comicsrow|365|2008-01-02|Slides}}
{{comicsrow|364|2007-12-31|Responsible Behavior}}
{{comicsrow|363|2007-12-28|Reset}}
{{comicsrow|362|2007-12-26|Blade Runner}}
{{comicsrow|361|2007-12-24|Christmas Back Home}}
{{comicsrow|360|2007-12-21|Writers Strike}}
{{comicsrow|359|2007-12-19|Rock Band}}
{{comicsrow|358|2007-12-17|Loud Party}}
{{comicsrow|357|2007-12-14|Flies}}
{{comicsrow|356|2007-12-12|Nerd Sniping}}
{{comicsrow|355|2007-12-10|Couple}}
{{comicsrow|354|2007-12-07|Startling}}
{{comicsrow|353|2007-12-05|Python}}
{{comicsrow|352|2007-12-03|Far Away}}
{{comicsrow|351|2007-11-30|Trolling}}
{{comicsrow|350|2007-11-28|Network}}
{{comicsrow|349|2007-11-26|Success}}
{{comicsrow|348|2007-11-23|Close to You}}
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1188: Bonding

2013-03-21T01:15:08Z

Sean: /* Explanation */ source code is like music, writing, art …

{{comic
| number = 1188
| date = March 20, 2013
| title = Bonding
| image = bonding.png
| titletext = I'm trying to build character, but Eclipse is really confusing.
}}

==Explanation==
This is {{w|source code}} written in the {{w|Java (programming language)|Java programming language}}, which models a parent and a child playing a {{w|Catch (game)|game of catch}}, in which the parent throws a ball to their child, who catches it and throws it back, which repeats. (The comic title “Bonding” refers to the {{w|Paternal bond|building of relationship}} between the parent and the child.) But the computer program representation of this game is funny, using a play on the keywords <code>throw</code> and <code>catch</code> (and <code>Throwable</code>), which, in Java, do not correspond to throwing and catching a ball, but to a so-called {{w|exception handling}}, a method of signaling error conditions and responding to them.

The program, as written, will {{w|Recursion (computer science)|recursively}} call the <code>Aim</code> method alternately on the parent and the child indefinitely, until the program crashes with a {{w|stack overflow}}.

Also, the terms “parent” and “child” are usually interpreted more abstractly in programming, as a generic terms used in hierarchical {{w|Data structure|data structures}}.

The title text refers to [http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse], which is a tool commonly used to develop software in Java. (And “build” might be a play on the term of “{{w|Software build|building}}” a program.)

==Transcript==
class Ball extends Throwable {}
class P{
P target;
P(P target) {
this.target = target;
}
void aim (Ball ball) {
try {
throw ball;
}
catch (Ball b) {
target.aim(b);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
P parent = new P(null);
P child = new P(parent);
parent.target = child;
parent.aim(new Ball());
}
}

{{comic discussion}}
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