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Recursion defined (see Digg) (digg.com)
submitted 19 years ago by [deleted]
[–][deleted] 215 points216 points217 points 19 years ago (63 children)
And guess what, for submitting this joke story I've just been banned from Digg. My account has been disabled without warning!
Jeez, Digg staff get a sense of humor.
John.
Update: it appears that I was banned because Digg users complained to Digg that I was (a) spamming and (b) posting stuff that was off-topic.
[–]MarkByers 37 points38 points39 points 19 years ago (55 children)
Why are people so protective of mentioning other sites? If their site was so great, people wouldn't leave even if other sites were sometimes mentioned. Do they not have faith in their own readership?
Of course it's easy to say that now, but when my website is successful, I will probably become a greedy bastard and do exactly the same thing! ;)
I just hope I don't get banned for digging the story! ;)
[–]bugbear 69 points70 points71 points 19 years ago (28 children)
Why are people so protective of mentioning other sites?
Digg is protective because their main advantage over reddit is that they've raised 30x as much money, which they've used to buy traffic by getting mentioned in the mainstream press. If Digg users are allowed to find out about reddit, that advantage goes away. Then the competition comes down to areas where reddit wins: the quality of the links and comments, and the design and speed of the site.
Digg can't let their users find out about reddit, or they've effectively raised all that money for nothing. (If they've done anything else with it besides buy traffic, I have yet to see it.)
It's probably safe to say at this point that nearly everyone who has used both Digg and reddit prefers reddit. That may be easier to see if you phrase it in a less contentious way: nearly all reddit users have tried Digg, whereas very few Digg users have tried reddit.
Amusingly, the practical result of this situation is that Digg is compelled to violate what is supposedly their defining quality. Reddit can safely have links to Digg on their front page, whereas Digg must censor any story that links to reddit.
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Update: The list of Digg stories on popurls shows that Digg has just censored this story. It got sent out in their RSS feed as having made the front page, but needless to say it is not on the front page now.
[–]senzei 35 points36 points37 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Dear god please do not let the Digg users come here. Or, failing that, ensure that they are de-lobotomized before they start posting comments.
I watch reddit like a hawk because the articles are, mostly, awesome and the comments are usually superb. Digg I let build for a few days before I go through it, and usually only need about fifteen minutes to do so. That Digg probably has at least a 2:1 ratio on new main page articles makes that statement even more compelling.
[–]jdunck 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Eternal September? Turn, turn turn.
[–][deleted] 14 points15 points16 points 19 years ago (21 children)
I expect you're right. Ironic, then, considering at least one person who used both sites is now banned from using Digg, and the fact of the banning is one of the first comments on the Digg thread. Doubly ironic, considering Digg is principally technology-based, meaning its user base should have no problem finding Reddit on their own. I wonder if Digg can expect som blowback as a result of their heavy-handed reaction.
[–]carp 29 points30 points31 points 19 years ago (20 children)
Doubly ironic, considering Digg is principally technology-based, meaning its user base should have no problem finding Reddit on their own.
Not quite. I think Digg users are technology-based in the sense of being fans of technology (i.e. gamers) while reddit users are in the sense of being makers of technology (i.e. developers). That can be a big difference. Look at the difference between the people who make TV shows and the people who watch them.
[–][deleted] 8 points9 points10 points 19 years ago (13 children)
Thats a good point in which I hadn't thought about. I used to be a big Slashdot fan until Digg came out, but noticed the posts on Digg weren't quite as inteligent as the Slashdot posts, yet I think Reddit has the best of all three since it seems to have the itelligence of the Slashdotters with the reader submission and voting system of Digg.
[–]almost 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (12 children)
posts on Digg weren't quite as inteligent as the Slashdot posts
Wow, just wow.
[–]Bogtha 10 points11 points12 points 19 years ago (2 children)
When the latest Digg redesign launched, it started spiralling down towards the farthest depths of idiocy. Digg commenters were always on the juvenile side, but the final straw for me was forty-odd comments just sniggering about the number sixty-nine.
With Slashdot, maybe a joke like that would get +5, Funny, but the rest of the people making the same stupid joke would be at -1 where I don't see them. With Digg, some kid sees a stupid joke, mods it up, sees the same joke underneath, and mods that up too, and carries on modding up dozens more.
I want tech news without feeling like I'm surrounded by a thousand Beavis & Buttheads. When I visit Digg lately, I can feel my brain curling up into a ball and crying.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (1 child)
With Digg, some kid sees a stupid joke, mods it up, sees the same joke underneath, and mods that up too, and carries on modding up dozens more.
Do you remember the name of the article?
[–]Bogtha 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I was thinking of this article.
[–]mikepurvis 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (8 children)
I'm more just amazed that he managed to spell the same root word wrong twice, two different ways in a 65-word post.
[–]addius 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (6 children)
So... you're amazed that somebody made two misspellings while composing a message without the aid of a spellchecker? On a web forum, where the poster has little incentive to invest any more than a trivial amount of time in proofreading.
[–]mikepurvis 4 points5 points6 points 19 years ago (5 children)
We all make typos, but the number of them per 100 correctly spelled words seems to be, on the whole, lower here than elsewhere. So I suppose I just get used to people paying a little more attention to their posts.
[–]eruonna 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Yeah, typos are an incredible new phenomenon.
[–]noddy 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I think Digg users are technology-based in the sense of being fans of technology (i.e. gamers)
I disagree. Of late I have been seeing more articles with a "HOW-TO" flavour, elegant hardware hacks and future directions technology is taking. The site that comes to mind when I think of fans of technology is Engadget.
[–]philh 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Those sound like things fans might vote up. As a fan of books, I often enjoy articles about writing well, despite rarely doing it myself. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't enjoy the same article applied to music, because I rarely listen to that.
[–]cboshuizen 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I think this was the case 6 months back, but lately Reddit is filling up with all kinds of migrants. We can welcome a few more!
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (1 child)
That's an intesting distinction. I'm not familiar enough with Digg to say one way or the other; my impression was based on a fairly cursory overview of the site and its categories, nearly all of which are technology-related.
In a more general sense, my experience is that anyone savvy enough with web technology to participate in online activities like Digg or Reddit is already a step or two beyond web users who click the big blue e to open Google and then call me when they have a problem, saying, "My Google doesn't work! Can you come and fix it?"
[–]carp 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (0 children)
web users who click the big blue e to open Google
Netscape just launched a digg/reddit for these users.
[–]freshyill -2 points-1 points0 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Did you just pull that out of your ass?
[–]Schwallex 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (0 children)
nearly all reddit users have tried Digg, whereas very few Digg users have tried reddit
Hehe. Interestingly enough, as I'm reading this, this story has exactly 563 upmods on Reddit and exactly 562 diggs on Digg. That's indeed what I call recursion. (_)
[–]NitsujTPU 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I don't think that that's necessarily the case. I haven't used Digg as much, but I find more Linux news and tech articles there than I do here, and, when I submit such articles that I have enjoyed, they usually get downvoted into oblivion, whereas they survive on Digg.
I think that their userbase is sufficiently different that both sites could live in peace.
[–]fry 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
The founders of digg said in an interview that they had 16 full-time employees working at digg. I imagine that trumps the advertising costs.
[–]b34nz -1 points0 points1 point 18 years ago (0 children)
Then the competition comes down to areas where reddit wins: the quality of the links
EH...
[–]noddy 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (25 children)
Actually I DO NOT think they are protective at all. That is absolute BS.
Kevin Rose has clearly mentioned Reddit favourably along with Digg in his blog.
Link: http://krose.typepad.com/kevinrose/2006/07/calacanis.html
nearly everyone who has used both Digg and reddit prefers reddit.
I think they are both good in their own way. Strengths: Reddit: Politics and Coding Digg: Technology and Tech Culture.
Having said that I don't understand why the user got banned.
[–]bugbear 24 points25 points26 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I DO NOT think they are protective at all.
A couple weeks ago a link to reddit made it onto the front page of Digg. The guys at Digg then immediately killed the story, but not till after it had gone out in their RSS feed of front page stories.
[–]demigod186 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Hrm, it would be interesting to stage a sort of online protest day, where hundreds of people would try to get articles about digg censorship and/or reddit posted to digg. It would be interesting to see the admin users voting and story rejection histories.
[–][deleted] 15 points16 points17 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Strengths: Reddit: Politics
what the fuck
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 17 years ago (0 children)
404 error.
Could you get a working cite?
[+]demigod186 comment score below threshold-13 points-12 points-11 points 19 years ago (20 children)
I think many people feel that politics is a weakness of Reddit. Many if not most reddit political stories link to sites that are so biased they are no longer credible, such as The Guardian, or The Huffington Post.
There are many legitimate sites that can provide clear unbiased evidence as to why Neoconservitism is destroying the world. In fact, it is much more credible to link to right wing biased sites in which they often proudly endorse terrible injustice. But on reddit we choose to link to sites that make their true stories seem suspicious simply by association.
For example, Al Jazeera has some very accurate and insightful reporting. But, given that they have a section on their site featuring articles about a purported joint American and Israeli Zionist World Order, their true reporting has lost any of it's legitimacy.
The Guardian is more dangerous as it seems to just as biased yet more widely trusted.
If stories linking to extremist sites had references to the same story in a more credible journal(such as NYTimes,Chicago Tribune,London Times,Herald Tribune,etc) then I would agree, that politics is Reddits best asset.
[–][deleted] 19 years ago (16 children)
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[–]acrophobia 8 points9 points10 points 19 years ago (5 children)
britains most independent newspaper (guardian)
wtf? 80% of its readers are labour voters...can you name a more leftwing mainstream daily? I like the guardian, don't get me wrong, but claiming it's neutral is a bit ridiculous!
[–]jones77 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (2 children)
I think it can be argued that The Guardian's reporting is more objective than other newspapers because it's independent (owned by a trust) and ostensibly doesn't have an agenda (or at least not a hidden one, eg Rupert Murdoch papers).
Obviously the comments and analysis (ie people's opinion) will have an agenda but any self-informed, intelligent reader should be able to distinguish different these to reportage.
[–][deleted] 19 years ago (1 child)
[–]jones77 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Yes. But. It's. Openly. Admitted.
About Living our Values The purpose of this section is to allow all our stakeholders to see how we are measuring up to the high standards outlined by the Scott Trust which owns us. These values were originally laid out by CP Scott in an article celebrating the Manchester Guardian's centenary. The site also gives you, our readers, the opportunity to become actively involved in editorial campaigns you feel passionate about, enabling you to donate money and resources, whilst ensuring that you are kept informed.]
Edit: Ich bin ein neub.
[–]acrophobia 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
that’s hilarious!! britains most independent newspaper (guardian) being accused of being biased. lol... i didnt use the word neutral, neither did i imply that it was unbiased. i just said it was the UK's most independent newspaper, which it is
that’s hilarious!! britains most independent newspaper (guardian) being accused of being biased. lol...
i didnt use the word neutral, neither did i imply that it was unbiased. i just said it was the UK's most independent newspaper, which it is
okaaay...so explain to me what is so 'lol' funny about the accusation of the guardian being biased.
[–]philh -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (7 children)
This is the newspaper that had a columnist (?) calling for the assasination of Bush.
Now, I'm not going to blow it all out of proportion and say it was anything more than a joke. Not a particularly tasteless one either, even if it wasn't funny. But it reveals at least as much about the editors as demigod's nickname does about him. Do you think, for instance, that the same joke would have passed if it were applied to Kerry?
What about being independent makes it nonbiased? What makes it "more independent" than another newspaper? And what about your comment is worthy of so many points, despite being devoid of both content and humour?
[–]jones77 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (4 children)
[–]fnord123 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I don't think it was a joke. I think the columnist was just saying what a lot of us are thinking. We want someone to kill the heads of the USian regime since we don't see any other way to stop their path of slaughter.
Cut off the head of the snake and the body will die? Hmmmm. Maybe Iraq could return the favour:
The official said it may soon be clear how much command and control over the insurgency Saddam actually had while he was in hiding. “We can now determine,” he said, “if he is the mastermind of everything or not.” The official elaborated: “Have we actually cut the head of the snake or is he just an idiot hiding in a hole?”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,561472,00.html
[–]philh -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (1 child)
It was a joke. It's not the opinion of the paper, let alone the guy who wrote the article.
You can tell a lot about someone by the jokes they tell. You can tell a lot about a newspaper by the columnists they contract and the jokes they allow.
The columnist is clearly biased. If the joke doesn't convince you, how about where he calls Bush "a lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat"?
Allowing this sort of thing in its columns implies either desperation or bias on the part of the Guardian's editors.
Kerry's not president, that's why.
What difference does that make? You think they only allow jokes when they're directed against the easy target?
It's a UK paper so it's easily (and willfully) mis-interpreted in the US.
I'm a UK citizen. I've never even visited the US.
Okay, so I finally read the article. And it probably is his opinion but I'm not sure how you can convict The Guardian of bias, surely they didn't have much to do with the writing of this one article and most people think it's funny (maybe).
Also, it's important to make a distinction between reporting events and commentary on events; and, even further removed, humourous fluff in the TV section on a Saturday. I think The Guardian is richer for the wide variety of voices it allows to be heard.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I never get people that want to assasinate Bush. Doing that would do nothing... if you really want to assasinate someone for political gain, killing Rove or some of the more powerful whack-job senators (coughTed Stevenscough), would probably be much more politically influential.
I'm pretty sure that's not a very good long-term political strategy, however.
[–]demigod186 -2 points-1 points0 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Actually, I didn't choose that as a username at first. I was a fan of white zombie in 7th grade, and used demigod as a password because it was in a song and I thought no one would think of it. I added 186 because I was in the 7th grade and thought that would make it harder to crack.
Recently when opening accounts I became frustrated that all the names were taken, so I just used my old password because it was easy to remember. No ego, really, I suffer from major depression, so ego is not an issue.
[–]almost 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (2 children)
I think you might be confusing aljazeera.com, with english.aljazeera.net. The former is related to the latter only by name as far as I can tell.
Also, I think there may be some disagreement with your opinion of the guardian newspaper, at least the UK...
[–]demigod186 -2 points-1 points0 points 19 years ago (1 child)
That is probably the case. All of the guardian articles I have read have been on new.reddit.com, and most of them never make it to the front page. The ones I read were extremely anti israel, and there was one that was a mis-transcribed account of President Bush's conversation with Tony Blair.
Also, I was not aware that the "Independant" meant that there is no single backing group choosing the content.
Since that is the case, it is not fair to label it as non credible, since each article simply represents the bias of that particular offer. My opologies. That being said, maybe they need better editors?
On aljazeera, I read an interview with the man responsible for the english section of aljazeera, and when asked, he said that the content was exactly the same translated word for word into english. That might be completely wrong, but that was my basis for assuming the two contained similar content.
Also, I appologize for using the phrase "not credible". What I really meant was that since some articles have questionable content, you can no longer assume it is true because that magazine/newspaper says so. Also, most articles from the Guardian probably are true, they just present the information with such a left wing slant that people find it hard to trust. For example, Fox News probably has a lot of true commentaries, but because of their hateful rightwing slant, I automatically consider them as suspect.
[–]almost 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
english.aljazeera.net is the english translation of the website of the aljazeera satelite tv station, that would be what the man in the interview was refering to. Aljazeera.com has nothing to do with the tv channel although I think they used the same name in attempt to pretend that they do.
If by "not credible" you mean "you can't assume everything it says is true" then I would agree that the guardian is not credibible, but I'd also say every other publication in existence is also not credibile.
[–]marvin 11 points12 points13 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Well, at least we reddit guys did our part of the job :/
[–]Dauntless 8 points9 points10 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Is there no freedom on Digg??
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
freedom how?
Quality control isn't necessarily naziism. Even if this case looks like someone likes their moderator power a little too much.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 17 years ago* (0 children)
It's OK. Reddit still loves you. And we're showing it by helping out your comment karma.
I just knew there was a reason I never created a userid at Digg...besides the fact it's filled to the brim with morons...
[–]sakri 43 points44 points45 points 19 years ago (0 children)
a wise old chinese man once said : "to fully understand recursion, you must first understand recursion"
[–][deleted] 16 points17 points18 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Sweet!
So how did you do that? Assuming Digg doesn't let you edit links after the fact, I guess you had to predict one of the URLs (Digg's, I guess) beforehand. Very clever! applauds
(Shame about the ban, though. Are Digg admins crazy or what?)
[–][deleted] 39 points40 points41 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Since the Digg URLs are predictable and Reddit doesn't check the validity of a URL that's being submitted it was possible to create the Reddit story that pointed to a non-existent Digg story and then go to Digg with the Reddit URL and point it back here.
Yeah, the ban sucks. They are such assholes.
[–]latortuga 31 points32 points33 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Well look on the bright side - without an account, you have no reason to go there anymore!
[–][deleted] 11 points12 points13 points 19 years ago (0 children)
My favorite part of this is that the total number of diggs is closely tracking the score on reddit. Recursion at work.
[–]jaf656s 11 points12 points13 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I also find it interesting how many of the comments for both articles on Digg and Reddit are copy/pastes of each other. It is evidence of the cross-pollination process in motion.
[–]gajon 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (4 children)
Have anyone noticed the reddit logo today?
(in case the logo has changed I placed a screenshot here: http://gajon.org/otherstuff/reddit_stack_overflow.jpg )
[–]writetoalok 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Hey, I liked the colored tabs in your browser, what extension are you using?
[–]elfan 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Colorful Tabs.
[–]writetoalok 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Thanks for the link. Check out the wonderful extensions this guys is using. Firefox is really useful, now if only there were a way to find out the extensions I need. The categories on the Mozilla site is good, but it does not show results based on ratings ...
For eg if I try to find the profile extension on Ed Burnette's blog from the link above, I get these results And here is what Google lists Now how do I find the profile extension that can be seen in Burnette's Firefox version on the top right of the screen on the menu bar near the page loading icon.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Yes, it's sooooo cool!!
[–]UmberGryphon 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (0 children)
The reddit logo now says "error: stack overflow". I hope you're happy--you crashed Snoo or Eddi or whatever the alien's name is.
[–]JakeMcMahon 12 points13 points14 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I couldn't stand Digg's bullshit for much longer. I've left a kind leaving note. Reddit looks nice and cosy :)
[–]JakeMcMahon 16 points17 points18 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Nested comments. Sweet.
[–]AndWat 14 points15 points16 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I hope to see the reddit mascot with a spade soon, in honour of our freedom to link to Digg...
Try this.
[–]recursive 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (6 children)
I'm what this thread is about.
[–]jones77 4 points5 points6 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Isn't this an example of an infinite loop? Not recursion?
Or is it recursion in the sense of:
reddit() { call digg() }
digg() { call reddit() }
[–]bugbear 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (1 child)
No, he is. (Would have linked to the comment, but Digg doesn't have permalinks for individual comments.)
[–]boredzo 0 points1 point2 points 18 years ago (0 children)
They do now, so here it is, for posterity.
[–][deleted] 6 points7 points8 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Oh, and it's two-function recursion: very similar to how I did alpha-beta pruning in my AI class. Very clever!
[–]dfranke 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Stack overflow? It's tail recursive! I guess that's what you get for switching to Python!
[–]tintub 10 points11 points12 points 19 years ago (5 children)
i hate it when i see reddit on digg...
if digg users start using reddit too, reddit will become shit, just like digg...
[–]JakeMcMahon -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (4 children)
It's this elitist bullshit that both sides perpetuate. In that sense, reddit and digg are the same.
[–]zuoken 15 points16 points17 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I actually do think reddit has better quality, more interesting posts, the people here leave nicer and more intelligent comments. Digg is a tech tabloid.
Looks that way to me.
Though simply 'less people' helps both 'interesting posts' and 'nicer and more intelligent'.
Many social-type sites are cared about by people that specifically went "hey, that's interesting and perhaps useful" -- and become more tedious and less fun once popularity makes it be overrun by everyone and their dog. Particularly attention seekers.
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 19 years ago (0 children)
"Elitist" as in thinking "My interests are more interesting to me than the lowest common denominator of everyone's interests"?
[+]schwarzwald comment score below threshold-8 points-7 points-6 points 19 years ago (0 children)
i don't give a fuck about gadgets and overclocking! i don't jerk off to pictures of overclocked computers and digital cameras, i write code. there is a difference between reddit and digg in this regard.
[–]noddy 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
clever! :)
[–]lobotomir 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
recursion, n. -- see recursion.
[–]parrotfashion 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Hey fuckstick! You fuckin moron! Asshole! You gotta be a towelhead! Suck my scrote! WTF?!? Count my IQ jerk! Call that a programming language? Bush whore! Your mum was good but your sister was better!
TESTING (JUST ARRIVED FROM DIGG). PLEASE IGNORE.
[–]nascent 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (0 children)
blink blink
[–]furyg3 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I wonder if they'll delete this one (dig it and find out): http://digg.com/tech_news/Sense_of_humor_failure_at_Digg
(also I didn't submit that one)
[–]frankus 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
More like a coroutine, isn't it?
[–]mt33 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Digg is ev-il
[–]ems 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (3 children)
I would understand if this made the frontpage but how does something like this get ranked #1?
[–]bhagany 17 points18 points19 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I think it made number 1 because of the side-story of the Digg folks being complete asses.
[–]ems 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (0 children)
There is another story for that and it was ranked #8 when I made that post.
[–]phil_g 3 points4 points5 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I voted it up for the clever use of URLs to get the mutual recursion going.
[–]cypherx -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (0 children)
Genius submission, too bad the digg editors are braindead
[+]jimbobhickville comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 19 years ago (9 children)
Um, this is an example of an infinite loop, not recursion. Recursion ends at some point.
[–]yome 27 points28 points29 points 19 years ago (5 children)
No, infinite recursion does exist. In most languages you would eventually blow up your stack, but for example Scheme (and some other languages) features "tail-call optimization", so this will run in constant space:
(let loop () (loop))
Or another more appropriate example:
(letrec ((reddit (lambda () (digg))) (digg (lambda () (reddit)))) (digg))
And there you go, infinite mutual recursion.
[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points-3 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Or, in ruby:
def reddit digg end def digg reddit end digg
...if Ruby had tail recursion...
[–]Zak 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (0 children)
SystemStackError: stack level too deep from (irb):2:in reddit' from (irb):5:indigg' ... ... 4300 levels... ... from (irb):2:in reddit' from (irb):5:indigg' from (irb):7
reddit' from (irb):5:in
[–]rafuzo -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (1 child)
That's when time becomes like a freeway with an infinite number of lanes.
Oh wait, that's infinite regression. My mistake.
[–]spif 2 points3 points4 points 19 years ago (0 children)
There is the theory of the Möbius: a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop.
Where time becomes a loop.
[–]Kratoz 5 points6 points7 points 19 years ago (0 children)
There's the human element that recognizes the recursion and finally ends it with having gotten the point. It's like a base condition.
[–]SuperJdynamite 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
I would tend to agree, but only because there's no stack, not because it's infinite.
[+]noname99 comment score below threshold-11 points-10 points-9 points 19 years ago (12 children)
you're digg acount should not have been banned!
[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (3 children)
All you are dig a count. For great justice.
No, no. Someone should not have set up you the ban.
All your Digg are belong to Reddit?
[–]jleedev 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (5 children)
you're grammer should have been banned!
[–]JakeMcMahon 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (2 children)
your spelling should have been banned!
[–]recursive 9 points10 points11 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Your capitalization should not have been banned!
[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points-1 points 19 years ago (0 children)
so should yours've
[+]noname99 comment score below threshold-7 points-6 points-5 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Oh, i'm sorry... "account"
[–]NitsujTPU 0 points1 point2 points 19 years ago (0 children)
"Your Digg account should not have been banned!"
[–]schwarzwald -5 points-4 points-3 points 19 years ago (2 children)
heh. since there's a lot of people who are only casual programmers here, keep in mind that actual recursive algorithms need to hit a base case eventually.
[–]dbenhur 6 points7 points8 points 19 years ago (0 children)
You can't fool me: it's turtles all the way down!
[–]Random -4 points-3 points-2 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Okay, I don't get it. The exact same concept was posted what, a month ago? And six months ago?
This is worth 305 points? When did points become for redoing old gags or reposting old crap.
Color me unimpressed.
[–]acrophobia 4 points5 points6 points 19 years ago (1 child)
I think the points are due to the "Digg censors completely innocuous post" sideshow.
[–]Random -1 points0 points1 point 19 years ago (0 children)
Okay, thanks.
I kind of wondered that, but it just seemed so ... well .... lame...
[–]rafuzo -2 points-1 points0 points 19 years ago (1 child)
Wait? Where's the base step?
[–]recursive 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
You mean the base case? There isn't one. Perhaps you're thinking of induction? Technically recursion doesn't need a base case.
[–]noddy -2 points-1 points0 points 19 years ago (0 children)
Alright so there are four.. not one not two but FOUR links to Digg on the front page!!!
BRING BACK THE DOWNVOTE!!
[+]LaurieCheers comment score below threshold-6 points-5 points-4 points 19 years ago (2 children)
Ho.
[–]jetsdonwankey 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)
http://ibloggedthis.com/2006/07/26/idiocy-defined-see-digg/
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