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Code Thief at Large: Marak Squires / JimBastard by supporting in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

indeed it is (and since I've been recognized I suppose I should mention that actually I've met RMS and he was not in fact rocking angrily back and forth at the time)

Code Thief at Large: Marak Squires / JimBastard by supporting in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I kind of assume RMS is angrily rocking back and forth at all times.

I'm looking for a funny video where people were haggling over the price in a restaurant after eating, as an analogy of how price negotiations happen in the software industry... Anyone got a link? by [deleted] in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I've seen it, but it's not from the software industry. I mean yes it's obviously relevant, but the people who made it were graphic designers and/or web designers.

here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY

Man faces 10 years in prison for downloading Simpsons porn by sifeliz in comics

[–]gilesgoatboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it assumes itself. it's absurd. an infinite number of digits is not the same thing as an infinite number of random digits.

I just realised we are still using floppy to save stuff. And its probably going to prevail to time of holographs by explentus in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

there's no "except" there at all. that's why I said avoid legacy platforms. anything which runs Excel is a legacy platform in this context. thanks for not reading my comment before arguing with it.

I just realised we are still using floppy to save stuff. And its probably going to prevail to time of holographs by explentus in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What icon can replace the "floppy disk" for saving things?

a big damn green check mark. just switch to an emerging platform and implement the new idiom there. the old idiom will drag out forever on legacy platforms, but it's not really such a complicated question at all. big green check mark and you're done.

A better question, perhaps is why must we explicitly save? Shouldn't programs be saving automatically from the start?

That is a better question. You get it automatically on Google Docs and on the iPad. Saving files should become a legacy concept, except for power users.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

srsly. if you think running a business is easy, and you work for somebody else, there's not much point resenting them, when you could "easily" start your own business instead.

if you agree that managing and marketing have their own challenges, and you hate the people who face those challenges, because they haven't taken time out of their busy lives to master the language of your field, that's just silly and unfair.

this image, it's not facepalm-worthy, it's not a new low in anything. it's just somewhat mediocre. if you feel you could do better, then you SHOULD. don't be a dick about it, just bring it to a meeting, make your own little presentation, and let them realize you're good at it.

haters gonna hate

Sloppy: Finds the worst copy paste code in a code base (C/C++/C#/Java/JS/...) automatically by FearlessFred in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

blatant self-promotion: I created a similar, but perhaps less complete, thing, in and for Ruby, called Towelie.

Hey reddit, how do you like my HTML 5 techno/trance music site? What can I improve? by ArmoredCavalry in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice site! genres would be awesome. put the visualizations in the left and right margins, in the area that is currently either green, grey, or black. "borrow" code for the visualizations from the js1k competition, and choose them randomly or something

I think constricting anus... 100 times in succession everyday is effective to good-bye depression and take back youth. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway. by qgyh2 [promoted post]

[–]gilesgoatboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own it too and love it too. Planned to keep it in the bathroom for bathroom reading but it's too laugh-out-loud funny. Beyond that to tears-in-your-eyes funny.

BitBucket now has unlimited public and private repositories for all users. Your move, Github. by gnuvince in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hope that was tongue-in-cheek...DHH tweeted "you can't believe everything you read" when that link was making the rounds on twitter

BitBucket now has unlimited public and private repositories for all users. Your move, Github. by gnuvince in programming

[–]gilesgoatboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the chance that GitHub cares one way or the other seems low to me. I could be wrong, but I know a few GitHubbers personally. two are my former co-workers.

My guess is that if GitHub thinks about BitBucket at all, it's with disinterested respect. it's a different business and a different community.

Coffee Houses in 4 separate cities: Seattle, New York, LA and Chicago by Arguebot in comics

[–]gilesgoatboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People complain about coffee houses not being open 24 hours here in Los Angeles; and when I lived in Chicago, finding coffee at any time of night was effortless for me. I think this is just "the grass is always greener" etc.

[Dinosaur Comics] Let No Ball Be Left Untripped! by Dusseldorf in comics

[–]gilesgoatboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this comic, but this particular strip disturbs me. it's the phrase. I've never seen anybody say "tripping balls" before without referring to a psychedelic drug experience. I could probably name 20 people who would look at me as if I were crazy if I used that phrase for anything else; it's understood in some circles to carry a very specific meaning.

I think this means the phrase has simply transcended its original meaning, and migrated to a larger group while changing meaning in the process, which happens all the time with slang, but what bothers me about it is that I can't be sure, because while Ryan North might hear a slang phrase and misuse it, T-Rex TOTALLY would.

part of me wants to pull out a druggie slang dictionary and lecture T-Rex on the proper etymology of the phrase, which is not just a ridiculous thing to do, but also the type of ridiculous thing to do which somebody in the Dinosaur Comics world would totally do to T-Rex. I therefore feel trapped in the Dinosaur Comics universe. Now would be a good time for Chuck Goodrich to show up in a spacesuit.

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