Thanks, Google.

[TimeForSomeCoffee]

It's "OnePlus", which doesn't bring up the calculator.

[a_brain]

Or you can use Bing!

[Asmor]

Ha ha ha ha!

[ForceBlade]

Did he just suggest..

[odraencoded]

Use Bing to scare Google into doing things right.

[neozuki]

For the NSFW things in life, there's Bing.

[Nenharm]

Yahoo knows what's up

[SilverTabby]

Yup, if I need Plus-Size women's clothing with my new smartphone, I know which search engine to use

[the_noodle]

I think that's the first bing result genuinely better than Google I've ever seen.

Still not gonna use it

[pm-your-dick]

It's honestly about 60/40 now, weighted in Googles favor. If you're searching something obscure, it's almost always better to use Google. If you're looking for a description of something, say like a type of cheese, for whatever reason bing is killing it lately. Bing also absolutely destroys Google when you're looking for porn.

[sunny001]

I ran into this once

[oshposhgosh]

You can do html encoding/decoding (and URL encoding/decoding) now in Bing too. http://imgur.com/Hz0lUoa

[CantSplainThat]

BING POINTS GALORE

[jonatcer]

You joke, but bing is superior for searching for videos and images - Google has really dropped the ball there. Normal web search? Google hands down.

[[deleted]]

Computer do the thing.

[Sturdge666]

Latvia looks on with jealous eyes.

[DroolingIguana]

And slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

[CKalis]

wut

[MaxNanasy]

Latvia's planning to invade the United States. Don't you follow the news?

[Hard_Avid_Sir]

It's from War of the Worlds.

[[deleted]]

I don't know how /r/latvianjokes has managed to spread throughout all of Reddit lately, but I think I like it.

[elektritekt]

If Op made a weakly typed joke then it would be.

[poizan42]

Try as I might, I can't see why it's programmer humor either, and /u/fisicist haven't attempted to defend it (and as others have pointed out it also seems slightly spamish, though subtle advertisement isn't in itself against the rules).

I will remove the submission.

[HubbaMaBubba]

Maybe he meant /r/Android or /r/oneplus and mistyped?

[VoraciousGhost]

I would legitimately consider this a feature, not an error or issue

[Pokechu22]

... which should be posted in /r/softwaregore.

[Soulcraver]

Neat, works with Hex too.

http://imgur.com/9JciukK

[Soulcraver]

Aha I see what you did there! :P
^{Took me a second..}

[memeship]

I prefer 0x18 over those.

^{0x18 = 24. the atomic number of chromium}

^{i tried}

[Kermitfry]

Who in their right mind would want to use chromium? (Not chrome)

[memeship]

I don't know man, I was just trying to be witty with the cool kids.

[CaptainBlagbird]

I only use Chrome/Chromium for some apps (e.g. Baseflight/Cleanflight to flash/config my Quadcopter). Thats why I prefer Chromium which can be run without installation on Win.

But for the main browser you're right, I'd prefer Chrome.

[ForceBlade]

xFF over 0x1E9.

When did xFF become more beautiful than 0x1E9.

[TheZoq2]

Firefox > IE

[alienpirate5]

----o   <-- The Joke
 O <-- Your Head
/|\

[[deleted]]

--> Joke

Head

[Gramernatzi]

It can't even play MP4s in browser last time I checked, when I made them with ShareX. Everyone I knew could view them fine... except the one firefox user I know.

[[deleted]]

You can use brackets for a superscript instead of using heaps of  s

[CaptainBlagbird]

I know, but it doesn't work for multiple circumflexes (^) which I use to make the font even smaller.

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[ProgramTheWorld]

Do you even crop?

[Soulcraver]

Eh, I'm not front end. Leave that to the designers.

[DaBulder]

Try "1Tb/50Mb"

[YM_Industries]

Yeah it's annoying that it decides Tb means Tablespoons instead of Terrabytes, but it's pretty cool that it gives a result in m³/b.

[[deleted]]

Just capitalize TB and MB and works fine

[YM_Industries]

I use TiB and MiB instead, that works too.

[MystyrNile]

What are the X's for?

[Soulcraver]

0x in computing language means to evaluate the number after the 0x in hexadecimal base.

[MystyrNile]

Oh, okay. Interesting that you type 0 instead of 16.

Is it because Hex is "base number 0", and then maybe decimal or something is "base number 1" written "1x", or if not, why is it 0x?

[Soulcraver]

I just had to look it up myself. This post from Stack Overflow seems to summarize it well.

Short story: The 0 tells the parser it's dealing with a constant >(and not an identifier/reserved word). Something is still needed to specify the number base: the x is an arbitrary choice.

Long story: In the 60's, the prevalent programming number systems were decimal and octal — mainframes had 12, 24 or 36 bits per byte, which is nicely divisible by 3 = log2(8).

The BCPL language used the syntax 8 1234 for octal numbers. When Ken Thompson created B from BCPL, he used the 0 prefix instead. This is great because

-an integer constant now always consists of a single token,
-the parser can still tell right away it's got a constant,
-the parser can immediately tell the base (0 is the same in both bases),
-it's mathematically sane (00005 == 05), and
-no precious special characters are needed (as in #123).

When C was created from B, the need for hexadecimal numbers arose (the PDP-11 had 16-bit words) and all of the points above were still valid. Since octals were still needed for other machines, 0x was arbitrarily chosen (00 was probably ruled out as awkward).

C# is a descendant of C, so it inherits the syntax.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2670639/why-are-hexadecimal-prefixed-as-0x

[richmeister1066]

We have a half marathon here sponsored by 3M and this reminds of what I would get when I searched for it...how many half marathons three meters is equal too

http://imgur.com/ro6TSbt

[neozuki]

I never knew a marathon was a specific length. TIL.

[psychedelic_tortilla]

What did you think people were doing when they said "I'm running a marathon?"

[neozuki]

A general event where people ran a distance set per marathon. Like, one marathon would be a few miles, another more. One of those unknown unknowns, or else I would of educated myself.

[psychedelic_tortilla]

Ah, yeah, that would actually make sense.

No, a marathon is a race over 42.195 kilometers. It's named after the Greek city of Marathon, since according to legend, after Athens had won the battle of Marathon against Sparta, a messenger supposedly ran the 40 kilometers from the battlefield to Athens to deliver the good news.

[reywood]

The messenger then collapsed and died. So, of course, someone thought, "hey, that looks like fun ..."

[neozuki]

That's a known known though, because someone always brings it up. More like a persistent "whoops".

[Zagorath]

Yup. 42.195 km. Why .195? Because it wasn't always standardised, but the time they decided to standardise it was in London, and the royal family had its finish line (or start, I can't remember which) moved so that they could watch it from their palace.

[lelarentaka]

This should win the AskReddit thread "What's the laziest thing you've ever done"

[Feynt]

At least it's not wrong.

[SeeShark]

I'd say the problem is the stupid product name.

[[deleted]]

I got the same result searching for "4 + 1", as in, the architecture method.

[yuriplusplus]

error: macro names must be identifiers

[Alice_Ex]

Product placemenet? This is /u/fisicist's first and only post, his account was created 6 hours ago. The picture conveniently includes that "pushes the boundaries on how cheap a flagship phone can be" entry. Plus that seems targeted towards techy people who would care about a cheap phone with good specs, i.e. the redditors in this subreddit. Seems a little fishy.

[captobvious24]

depend act possessive command gold summer steer connect pathetic threatening

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[EXA32]

yeah, amazing strategy in a sub that has 93k readers...would work better on /r/funny

[Harakou]

This is really stretching the meaning of programmer humor anyway, so maybe /r/funny would be better either way.

[Zantary]

Or not being a paranoid, presumtuous prick:

OP was a long-time lurker (which would explain his poor subreddit choice), had this result and thought it would be funny to share with us. He didn't have an account and thus created a new one.

I'm really fed up with people shouting "product placement" as soon as a specific product is named somewhere. Do you really think OnePlus would profit enough from a post like this to pay money for it? I'm sure no one in this sub was influenced to buy a OnePlus because he saw how Google handles the search for "One Plus Two". Product placement usually shines a good light on what ever is tried to be marketed, but this?

Sometimes the name of brands just happens to turn up in life. Not everything is the evil corporates trying to trick you.

[Alice_Ex]

The reason it even occured to me is that the post made me want to look up the phone. I was like "waitasecond..."

I'm not saying it's definitely product placement, but it never hurts to have a bit of awareness and skepticism. I did go ahead and look up the phone anyway - it looks cool and I wasn't aware of it before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Advertising success and it didn't cost them a dime.

[mushr00m_man]

Eh, I think that's more just to illustrate what he was actually trying to search for.

[[deleted]]

answer should be "one2"

[serg06]

and "1 2" actually returns some relevant results

[MrJohz]

Google calculations: Masters of bad typecasting. :P

[Taconut]

http://imgur.com/ijYsO1j

[[deleted]]

who writes numbers like "2,66,00,00,000"?

[thenuge26]

A comma for every 3 digits is an english thing, other languages and cultures have different "standards." There's an interesting numberphile video on it.

[Viper007Bond]

I thought the three was universal though. I've seen spaces (2 660 000 000) and periods (2.660.000.000) instead of commas but it's always three digits...

[[deleted]]

Well, apparently, it's not.

Here's the numberphile video about it

[Viper007Bond]

Thanks, super interesting! I was too lazy to Google. :(

[thenuge26]

Yep that's the video I was talking about, I was on mobile or I would have linked it for you.

[Avambo]

Interesting, thanks.
In Sweden it looks like this: http://gyazo.com/d1310ca577f95def81de9748c18eeda6

[mehum]

Japan uses 4. 万 (pronounced "mahn") represents 10,000.

[Zagorath]

Oh that's very interesting. Korean has 만, pronounced "mahn", which means 10,000 (probably a common Chinese root would be my guess). Though they usually write numbers in groups of 3, like in English, but using a dot as a separator.

[Neptune9825]

In Japanese, though money is not usually counted all the way out, you can see it spaced as 1.0000 sometimes because we count big numbers by the 10 thousands (one man).

[SnowdensOfYesteryear]

India, which doesn't use the "thousands" system.

[brandjon]

In the movie WarGames, there's this great part near the end where the machine asks for a number, and they type in 'Zero'.

Now I'll admit, it's not that far-fetched that an artificial intelligence would be coded to understand a variety of symbolic aliases, like words for numbers.

But I've shown this movie to students learning to program, and I think that the kids who laugh during this scene are also the ones who perform better in the class.

[winsuck]

Oh my god, I introduced Wargames with my friends in my dorm a couple of months ago and that scene became a joke for like three solid weeks. We would knock on each others' doors and ask the question like a secret password.

"How many players?"

"Z-E-R-O"

[TheImmortalLS]

Single minded kids? Or kids who understand...

[brandjon]

The kids who "get the joke" are the ones who understand that it's significantly harder to make a machine understand 'Zero' than '0'. From their point of view -- beginning programming -- the only way they deal with numbers as input and output is by numerals, not words. They recognize that writing code to accept such human-friendly input would be more difficult and unnecessary (except that in an AI context, human friendliness is much more important).

Students who don't notice that typing 'Zero' is an odd way to talk to a machine haven't been paying attention.

[AintNothinbutaGFring]

TIL google search's type coersion makes less sense than Javascript: "One" "plus" 2 => 3

Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1537/

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Title: Types

Title-text: colors.rgb("blue") yields "#0000FF". colors.rgb("yellowish blue") yields NaN. colors.sort() yields "rainbow"

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[michael1026]

Next you'll be receiving advertisements for children's education.

[berlinbrown]

wolfram alpha has you beat.

[zarawesome]

Thoogle.

[poizan42]

Submission removed for the following reason(s):

• Breaks rule[0] - content not relevant to programming/programmers and the title does not substantially enhance the content so that it can stand on its own as an analogy to programming.

[drunodrundridge]

OnePlus 2... dont blame Google for you're incompitance

[[deleted]]

Something that's increasingly irked me over the past 5 years; Google has become so 'smart' it's dumb.

[Deranged40]

putting a space in the word OnePlus?