What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.
What's it all about? We're all tools. Life's just a crock.
What's the point to combing your hair when it's grey and thinning?
+What's wrong with plan9? (...) I see there is a problem almost in every piece of plan9 code. - 9fans
When all else fails, read the instructions.
When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.
When an Okie moves to California, he raises the IQ of both states. -Will Rogers
complete SoC on a chip - Tilera
There is no application installed for executable files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?
There's no 'I' in team, but there's a 'u' in suck.
+There are no pastel paints in the dungeons and dragons world. - Rob Pike
+The guys who invented autoconf/automake/configure/libtool must have been drug addicts. - Garbeam
+<anothy_x> it always seems bizarre to me when people are doing anything new-ish in asn.1. i expect to documentation to be written in old english or norse runes or something.
+A futurist is just an early revisionist. - Tim Newsham
+Dis code doesnt fuck arround - cinap_lenrek
+ssh, the emacs of network protocols
+A libertarian is a conservative who has been arrested.
+A libertarian is a liberal who learned economics.
+FIST-philosophy: Fuck It Sucks Terribly -- n0nsense speaking about dbus in #suckless
+people who wear clever computing shirts are the opposite of samurais - Capso
+CL's loop is so powerful that people invented functional programming so that they'd never have to use it. - G_Morgan
+Ruby on Rails, the PHP of a new generation. - beefhooked
+You should use an in-memory SQL database! It's the answer to all data structure questions. - Ian Lance Taylor
+every time i look at main.go, i get hungry - dho
+you throw humans into lions? Wouldn't that anger animal rights evangelists? Don't you have to cook the humans first? - 20h
+Dr. Strange Love: How I Learned to Stop Being a Fag and Love the Clit - Capso
+gentoo|gen-poo| noun - 1. The sport of hitting compiler bugs.
+op-ti-mize [verb (trans.)]* ... (gcc) to modify executable code so that it fails more quickly.
+Cloud stands for: I'm too stupid to know about the server client concept. - 20h
+PGD_DDCANCREATED3DBUFFER pfnDdCanCreateD3DBuffer = (PGD_DDCANCREATED3DBUFFER)gpDxFuncs[DXG_INDEX_DxDdCanCreateD3DBuffer].pfn;
+OSX is the operating system personification of the Bourgeoisie tendancy towards hedonistic uselessness
+<kfx> there should be a way to compile without -Wulrich
+spaceinvader@oftc.net#suckless> rms doesn't wash his clothes because the washing machine might have binary firmware
+vt3@freenode#plan9> well, philosophy and plan 9 have something in common...they are both dead.
+major@freenode#vsta> uriel, understanding is like love, it comes to those who accept it, not to those who beat it with a stick ;)
+zcram@freenode#cat-v> "Mebibyte" sounds something an earthworm would yell when it is being put on a fishHook.
+<kfx@freenode#cat-v> [...] is it like #freebsd where networking questions are met with complaints about george bush?
+garbeam@freenode@cat-v> my proposal is that github needs a button on each project "Report spam" button
+WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A KNIFE EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE AN OLD PERSON - ASCII Art Farts
+<kfx@freenode#cat-v> TAOCP is fucking crucial, it's what allows you to explain to your python-obsessed boss exactly why python, mathematically, can go fuck itself
+__20h__@freenode#cat-v> 1 yb (yard bit) = PI / 3 + 0.2143 eb (european bit)
+"Can you hammer a spike through a six inch board with your penis?" "Not right now." "Well, a girl has got to have her standards, you know?" -- Real Genius
+perhaps Plan 9 is just the Black Books of software? - Charles H. Forsyth
+zcram@freenode#cat-v> Clown commuting! Trust your valuable data with us! We know how to take good care of it. Our technititians are 24/7 working on making best effort to sustain first-class enterprise level utilisation of important details.
+this change placates the "paxctl" tool on so-called hardened Linux distributions (as if normal distributions weren't already hard enough to use). - Russ Cox
+Why you are so obsessed by wildly mixing politics with your failure to understand... that there is no inconsistency in formating of composite literals and that
+type declarations are not the same construct? -- befelemepeseveze answer to Joan Miller in the go-lang-nuts mailinglist
+<soul9> friend just travelled to sierra leone: he didn't have enough bandwidth for xmpp. irc was working fine
+<kfx> haskell is [a domain specific language], specific to the .edu domains
+<kfx> I gave a 'brief history of php' presentation once about how one of the core devs quit because he hated jews and the most prolific scurity dev quit because nobody listened to him about all the horrible shit he found
+Even if you think that a lobotomized flatworm could understand your instructions, your luser probably won't. -- alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ
+<Athas> Well, Linux printing was designed and implemented by people working to preserve the rainforest by making it utterly impossible to consume paper.
+In IEEE 754 sqrt(-0) = -0
+<aiju#plan9> Ein Netzwerk [network], Ein OS, Ein Hase [bunny]
+<EthanG#cat-v> rc isn't syntactic sugar so much as a small but nicely balanced meal. Not quite substantial enough to be a steak, perhaps it's a fisherman's pie. Bourne shell is more like a raisin and bacon pie with a sprinkling of sugared corn flakes on top.
+<kfx#cat-v> "Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle" sounds suspiciously close to "Adobe May Change To Monthy Python Cycle"
+I've talked myself into a superstition. - rob pike
+awk with their heads! -- stanleylieber
+<sqweek#inferno> oh wow, [in acme-sac] up and down arrows move the cursor instead of scrolling, that's... kind of annoying
+[The] MIT/X [license] is the best balance between "Keep respect to me." and Kim-Jong Uriel['s] "yes, build your physical package with it." -- Christoph Lohmann
+Mastering css is like mastering throwing shit into a fan -- dreadlorde
+Don't make your internal product name 'assmonkey', or you'll wind up with a real product named 'assmonkey' -- bramcohen
+he's a ruby programmer. sex won't be biologically feasible for him for a few more years -- kfx
+I honestly and deeply hope you fail completely. - Uriel regarding a project to convert arXiv to XHTML/MathML
+Metadata is always true! -- 20h
+The bikeshed has already been painted, and the painter has gone. -- Russ Cox on a proposal for changing the Go syntax.
+There's no sense in reading books, when there's a computer game. -- 20h on Dune
+Incestuous necrophilia. -- A literary fetish practiced by Brian Herbert and Christopher Tolkien among others.
+Facebook is an online social Dawn of the Dead. Sign up to network and thousands of people you vaguely remember are trying to eat your brain. -- found by EthanG on someone's... twitter feed.
+The X documentation is full of lies. -- Theo de Raadt
+<jordanb#emacs@freenode.org> I think it's hilarious that you're doing xlib programming and your nick is 'kruhft'
+[software security] placebos need to keep getting more complex to keep working. -- EthanG
+Should I be concerned that I've been rebuilding main on amd64/i386/powerpc for the last ~12 hours and nothing's failed yet? Success is almost always indicative of impending doom. -- Adam Conrad, on building Ubuntu packages
+<blizzard> Mitch_Bradley_: I had dinner with the guy who created EFI the other night <cjb> blizzard: during the dinner, did he start wishing he had some kind of piercing implement to eat with, and then proceed to design and implement it?
+<uriel> fuck plan9
+<aiju> [the] W3C couldn't make bread without at least three different comitees and several hundred megabytes of XML involved
+If you love job security and don't respect yourself, you will love Perl. -- xardox in reddit/r/proramming
+1975: EWD506 page 2: The German adoption of ALGOL 68 has had a similarly paralyzing effect upon the Germans as the Russian decision in the late sixties to develop as their next national computer series a bit-compatible copy of the IBM 360 - the greatest American victory in the cold war! (PDF)
+The password you entered is invalid. Remember to use only letters, numbers, and underscores in your password.
+<ment> i hope there is some dishonesty otherwise i would be very disappointed in mankind
+<jse> If you've ever observed how these modern people (SIC) treat their pets and their kids, you can tell it's the tail that wags the dog.
+Harry Potter is the worst thing to happen to the printed word since the Web. -- kfx
+<dv-> i don't understand why firefox uses cpu% even when it's not doing anything <kfx> [firefox] is always doing something, even if it's just calculating the
+opportune moment to crash inexplicably
+<EthanG> C++, the programming language which is nearest to human language yet! It has achieved context-dependance, what a great step! <aiju> EthanG: does C++ have insults yet? <uriel> C++ *is* an insult
+<via> there's a reason linux users don't use lilo anymore, it [is] called progress <martian67> if progress is grub2, i guess im a luddite
+when in rome, FUCK THE ROMANS -- Capso
+I use Plan 9. Which is equivalent to saying I don't use computers. By transitivity, it's the smarter choice. -- Capso
+Linux - every program, package, piece of code, depends on some shit that will make you want to scoop out your brains with a melonballer -- Capso
+using debian is like deciding you want your computer to be run by the [Ministry of Information Retival] in the movie Brazil -- kfx
+100% of the shit I make up about Linux turns out to be true. Either now or in the future. -- Capso
+Linux is the embodiment of Plato's philosophy: by the time you have a shitty idea, it already exists in the mythical world of Linux. -- Capso
+Whatever you want, wchar_t is not the solution. -- Moritz Wilhelmy
+the scene leaves anime alone because anime is the domain of wolf-shirted mouthbreathing aspergers-suffering lardasses -- kfx
+ktsuss stands for "keep the su simple, stupid", and as the name says, is a graphical version of su written in C and GTK+ 2.
+<andguent> 9P AND HTTP ARE THE SAME. JUST LIKE BICYCLES AND SUBMARINES. I REST MY CASE.
+all bridges conceal trolls -- Stanley Lieber
+<kfx> why does gnu ls link against libpthread <sl> kfx: both begin with l, right <jse> When in doubt... link it.
+<__20h__> I get horny, when people call XML exml.
+[ 35.998] (II) Integrated Camera: Configuring as keyboard
+calling Kant's philosophy bullshit seems a bit harsh to me, actual bullshit has practical applications as a fertilizer -- aiju
+If terrorists hate us for our freedom, does that mean they're starting to love us?
+Voting is an essential part of the bureaucratic process.
+romanticism: pick something random evil and terrible, convince yourself it's actually good and utopic, ???, PROFIT -- aiju
+using a GUI is like being a sub in BDSM. your every action is constrained... -- EthanG
+In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man would poke his eye out to fit in. -- auntbeast
+[Parrot/Perl 6 are] "the right thing" + Perl, thats some sign of the apoclypse -- martian67
+Arsenic and Old Libc
+The Importance of Being EMACS
+The Comedy of Errnos
+Much ADA About Nothing
+if the Berkeley folks designed a spoon, it would be part of the dishwasher -- aiju
+The Russian equivalent of 'rubber-hose cryptanalysis' is 'thermorectal cryptoanalysis', which refers to a joke about using rectal insertion of a soldering iron.
+OOP spelled backwards is POO
+puritanism is the fear that somebody somehwere, someplace might be happy
+martian67: cat-v is the fear that somebody somehwere, someplace might be happy with their software
+kfx: cat-v is the fear that somebody, somewhere isn't fucking martian67's mother in the ass
+<martian67> becoming a hacker is very tao like, you become it by not caring about becoming it <sl> becoming a janitor is very tao like, stop yapping and pick up a broom
+izaki: There should be a project to port spanish swearing to the international community... open-hostia
+martian67: there you go uriel, there is the cat-v draw: an international effort to tell everyone to go fuck themselves
+welcome to #cat/b/
+reasonably priced speech
+<kfx> getting involved with the AUR is like fucking a fat chick to make yourself gay
+<kfx> GLIB: Gay/Lesbian/Indeterminate/Bisexual - The library package that will fuck ANYTHING
+I want to type Tab at the beginning of an empty file and suddenly my new project appears. -- 20h on tab-completion
+cat-v.org - refuge for promiscuous women
+Graham's number (n.): the number of Ranma Saotome's fiances
+trolling is freedom, trolling is peace, trolling is our revolution! -- 20h
+we [people of #cat-v] should get renamed to cat --warning_level verbose -- aiju
+[6523481.895302] Out of memory: Kill process 9452 (java) score 463 or sacrifice child
+once I did software for the military, it was a requirement that the ratio between comments and code was at least 2.5. -- Aram
+1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." -- From a brief history of programming languages.
+"You'd better click something or I'll have to ship you some books." -- Dogbert on his 'Zero clicks Purchase' patent.
+If you're in need of a good startup idea: Claim a patent for crossing fingers to build a luck generator. -- mono in hackernews
+BIND people could put security holes into a hello world program -- aiju
+http://cat--show-nonprinting.org/
+if Darwin truly did have an uncut copy of Mendel\u2019s work, it is quite an exhortation to read all your email. -- John Carmack
+"why would you do that" "what didn't ken do" "what would rob mock" "what would dennis say something nice about while simultaneously implying that you
+are a fucking moron"
+sweet I'll click a reddit link to find out what fast-food employees think about programming -- kfx
+Rebooting with dbus+hal: dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Shutdown
+I hear the chicks in Dresden used to be hot -- kfx
+Error: opening audio device: Success
+<kfx> __20h__: I'm an internationally ratified ISO standard. <__20h__> kfx, are you XML based? <kfx> no, asn.1
+<Tanami> plan 9 has a thriving and friendly community
+assert(assert(assert(assert(assert(assert(1)))))) /* check for cosmic radiation */
+<chowder> hello all. I'm interested in plan9 but I really don't know much about it. I have yet to read all of the docs but I was wondering if anyone was interested in porting wayland to plan9
+<cinap_lenrek> i just know pokemon exception handling... catch them all
+The Universal Serial Bus is a complex and, therefore, a popular bus on personal computers and other devices. - nemo
+treating info as a replacement for man pages is arrogance beyond any rational description. Then again, the quality of documentation for most GNU software matches that of the code. -- Lyndon Nerenberg
+it's like instead of taking a bath, you buy a monster air filter, so no one will notice the stench. -- erik quanstrom on the creation of GNU info to manage Emac's documentation.
+<aiju> ken is one of the parts you need to make an uriel <aiju> a bit of Ken, a bit of Friedman, a bit of Jesus and Hitler as a solvent <EthanG> aiju: I 'heard' that to the tune of Mambo Number 5
+This can't be what you mean. http.Handle("/foo", http.TimeoutHandler(h, 3600e9, "fail whale")) will work for the first hour and then send 503s forever after. That's only useful if you're trying to implement Twitter.
+<Capso> Freud retroactively copied Dahl when he entitled his manifesto, "The Growth and Maintenance of Nazi Household Naming Complexity: From Birth to a Dysfunction Future"
+<martian67> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hdd-ssd-data-encryption-notebook-hdd,12595.html <martian67> once again plan9 is way ahead of the curve <martian67> its had a filesystem that automaticly destroys data for years now
+aiju's plan9 faq - Q: does plan9 have ... ? A: no
+<kfx> what just happened to my net connection <sl> kfx: maybe the people you steal wifi from are filing their taxes with turbo tax. <kfx> no way I'm totally paying for this connection now <sl> kfx: maybe the people who steal wifi from you are filing their taxes with turbo tax. <kfx> this is south baltimore <kfx> these people all hire jews for that
+EFI should be renamed to WTFI -- aiju
+aiju: ACPI -- Abominable Crap Produced by Intel
+hilter was a filesystem -- Capso Markov
+These appliances offer an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA while simultaneously enabling you to leverage the value of your existing application, security, and networking infrastructure investments. -- Actual description of IBM's "XML Firewall" appliance.
+enterprise product descriptions are also written by Markov bots -- aiju
+EthanG briefly ponders filing fhs.pdf under books/fiction
+Plan 9 software has more contradicting versions than the bible -- aiju
+<cinap_lenrek> troff is the assembly language of text setting, lots of newlines
+<martian67> and what exactly is A :)
+<aiju> the last time someone tried to unify europe he killed himself after his dog died
+<martian67> well that depends on your definition of earliest i guess
+Solaris is always different from everything else, almost by definition. Being stuck using Solaris makes being stuck using Linux look like a birthday party. -- Russ Cox
+<cinap_lenrek> throw a cat on a keyboard... and you will see characters you'v never seen! <uriel> cinap_lenrek: with a cat on the keyboard you will see colored blinking text on a rio terminal
+< anth_x> when i did trade shows, i had a copy of the X11 manual, volume 0, and a copy of the various draw man pages. it was a good illustration. <aiju> photoshop a hypothetical book containing all X11 source code, and compare it to the earth-moon distanec
+BDD is a second-generation, outside-in, pull-based, multiple-stakeholder, multiple-scale, high-automation, agile methodology. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software that matters.
+There's nothing wrong with shooting, just as long as the right people get shot. -- Harry Callahan
+<maht> so 9fans is like war poetry from the trenches of world war 1
+thank christ they don't 'design' knives -- Boyd
+Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ptang, Zoo boing!
+Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant cock rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant cock is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4 maybe 5 hours. That's what using a Mac OS X is like. -- anonymous
+<martian67> well that depends on your definition of earliest i guess
+An error report was not generated.
+gawk (GNU awk) is another free software implementation and the only implementation that made serious attempts at implementing Internationalization and localization and TCP/IP networking.
+I wonder, though, if we could operate acme as a window manager like, say, wmii. -- Mauricio CA
+OMG! They're still using TABLES! Only the brightest and the best. -- BoingBoing comment, re: cia.gov
+Doug McIlroy doesn't have an Erdos number; Erdos has a McIlroy number.
+Doug McIlroy doesn't make system calls. System calls call Doug McIlroy.
+Doug McIlroy can create 3-ended pipes.
+Doug McIlroy doesn't debug. He stares at tty0 until it fixes the problem.
+Doug McIlroy's programs don't need a garbage collector; they pick up their OWN garbage.
+Once, Doug McIlroy got mad at his terminal and smacked the keyboard. The result is called "Unix."
+Alan Turing always wanted to win a McIlroy Award, but didn't qualify. No one has.
+In 1984, the Department of Justice broke up AT&T because they had a monopoly. On Doug McIlroy.
+<uriel> god i'm dead
+Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. -- Ben Rich
+Saw comment // NEW BOOST CODE, and had a moment of panic before realizing it was vehicle boost, not C++ boost -- John Carmack
+While attempting its first overseas deployment to the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on 11 February 2007, a group of six Raptors flying from Hickam AFB, Hawaii experienced multiple computer crashes coincident with their crossing of the 180th meridian of longitude (the International Date Line).
+also, plan9front claims to include a working go compiler. what did they do? -- Russ Cox
+<Tanami> plan 9 has a thriving and friendly community
+on the internet, no one knows you're ken thompson -- sl
+VEGETARYAN -- Seen on a Hipster Hitler t-shirt.
+os.Open opens the in-kernel databases, called files -- Aiju on Go's stdlib lack of database access libraries.
+<aiju> i like how 2011 cell phones emulate 1970 modems
+<ment> glenda is 19 years old, she wants to go out and have some fun, not to be locked in attic and get molested by her uncle
+<aiju> is he building the GNU ark? two of each feature ..
+If someone was too disgusted with the 9front people, he could fork 9front too... -- John Floren
+I'm about to make lunch. Should I build a community around it or merge it back into the main tree to prevent it from being worthless? -- aiju
+Go conceived while waiting for 45 min gcc compilation
+<uriel> jerking off
+22 commits, that's not bad for a girl -- ment
+People who think that userspace filesystems are realistic for anything but toys are just misguided. -- Linus Torvalds
+<kfx> google+ just suggested lennart poettering as a friend.
+Q: The configure script is stuck in an infinite loop. A: It's not. The Courier mail server is made up of over thirty modular pieces, and each one has its own configure script. All configure scripts are recursively executed. configure scripts are generated off a template, and share a lot of common code, so when configure runs, it seems like the same script is being executed over and over again.
+General Norton Schwartz has said that the software is the biggest factor that might delay the USAF's initial operational capability which is now scheduled for April, 2016. -- John Reed writing for dodbuzz.com, Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 5:34 pm
+But in 2011 it was revealed that only 50% of the eight million lines of code had actually been written and that it would take another six years and 110 additional software engineers in order to complete the software for this new schedule.
+Unlike previous aircraft, such as the F-22, all software for the F-35 is written in C++ for faster code development. -- Eric Branyan, vice president and deputy program manager for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program at Lockheed Martin
+<sl> java applications give me lots of time to catch up on my reading.
+Ruby. Take nicely formatted Python and vomit all over it with random characters. -- The Angry Developer
+cat-v.org? What was that website that attacked gentoo? It was named after a compiler flag. -- some /g/tard
+<kfx> c++ programmers wouldn't know an integer if it was wedged inside them
+(#go-nuts) <ww> ACTION wishes LaTeX were more like Go
+The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? -- Uncle Charlie
+The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women... Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old? -- Uncle Charlie
+I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true. - Ann Newton
+I'm trying to keep my mind free of things that don't matter. - Ann Newton
+To change your password, please insure that your browser has pop-up windows enabled.
+The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
+<aiju> 9front will have resource spoons
+<maht> my worst problem holistic: I'm forced into using PHP to build XML to post items from MySQL to eBay's. The sum of the parts is sqrt(-1)
+<laochailan> googling "OOP in ANSI C" is the best recipe for a sleep full of horrible nightmares
+<flags> aiju, why use sed when I can make it a thousand times more complicated in Python
+<crazy2be> [XMPP] should use YAML inside their xml tags, make it easier to read
+<anschelsc> So, I've read about how horrible html and its descendants are <sl> anschelsc: computers are horrible, do you have a solution for that?
+<kfx> writing the documentation in aramaic and printing it on the backs of live wolverines is better than docbook
+<aiju> ah, philosophy has a use <aiju> i'm using the thick nietzsche book from preventing the window to fall shut, i should have bought the kant one, would be better
+<aiju> XML at least enforces some structure, YAML is just bashing your head to the keyboard and let the YAML parser figure out the rest
+<cinap_lenrek> stop bullshitting
+(#plan9) <Gardner> Hi, is this a good place to ask newbie questions about p9p and acme?
+(#plan9) <jaredj> hooray! plan9.bell-labs.com is back up!
+It can make you doubt yourself, or even worse, force you to adopt a behavior you don't want to.
+Your world can turn into a crazy, competitive, self-questioning altworld if you're not careful [...]
+Twitter and Github are the best things to happen to open source since IRC. But as soon as someone says a software project is "retarded", unfollow them.
+Don't let anyone cramp your style.
+This brings an important point, sometimes you can't avoid collaborating on a project with some hotshot asshole who also happens to be a good programmer.
+However, please call me out if I ever slip.
+Stuff like this needs to be said over and over again.
+I've been thinking for a while (and sporadically talking about) that maybe it's time Mozilla put together some sort of simple-but-real social contract that would form a baseline for acceptable & expected behaviour in our various communities.
+There are other open source projects that have implemented something similar, and it seems to be pretty effective.
+...and this is why many of us choose to write Ruby.
+This is awesome. I feel the same way and have for years.
+what is going to happen to everybodys computers?
+rockets are like bootloaders, they have multiple stages and explode half of the time -- aiju
+The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth ... and kill!
+ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.
+The probe, which criticized the US Army for turning a blind eye to Blackwater abuses, found that in one incident a US officer signed over hundreds of AK-47s intended for Afghan forces to an individual from Blackwater's Counter Narcotics Training Unit who signed for them as "Eric Cartman."
+Finding your own problem is where everything interesting starts. -- Momus
+Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript
+Anonymous claims to have erased four gigabytes worth of source code [...] -- DefenseNews, Hacker Group Claims Hit on U.S. Defense Contractor, Published: 12 Jul 2011 12:54
+(#cat-v) <cinap_lenrek> plan9 has a driver for this
+In his speech, Lynn reiterated that the U.S. may well respond to cyberattacks with physical force.
+[...]
+Efforts on the part of Motorola and IBM to popularize PReP/CHRP failed when Apple, IBM, and Taligent all failed to provide an operating system that could run on it and when Apple and IBM couldn't reach agreement on whether the reference design must or must not have a parallel port.
+<cinap_lenrek> my harddrives make strange noises
+We have no performance margins left; so this project, instead of being 10 times as hard as anything we have done, is 12 times as hard. This matches the design number, and is obviously right. -- Kelly Johnson
+The cast spent three weeks learning how to type, rollerblade and got to know each other. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
+I knew nothing about the PowerPC and had no idea how to modify my software to run on it. One August night, after dinner, two guys showed up to announce that they would camp out in my office until the modification was done. The three of us spent the next six hours editing fifty thousand lines of code.
+The secret to programming is having smart friends. -- Former Apple engineer
+<sl> at least he's not sexist.
+(#cat-v) <aiju> it's hard not to get trolled in #go-nuts
+Dickerson explained the change today on Etsy's blog, saying that his focus as the new CEO will be to impel Etsy to move faster "and more purposefully", and re-prioritize risk-taking and "learning by doing" and "iterating."
+(#cat-v) <cinap_lenrek> aiju: i had the correct code in my head
+Connection to Microsoft Exchange has been restored.
+/* ok for now. */
+(#cat-v) <aiju > the Chan will panic if you do anything with it
+<aiju> green is the 2011 way of saying "expensive"
+<sl> headline: 9FRONT REJECTS SOCIAL CONTRACT
+<aiju> my definition of race condition: if user.skin == black {
+"the socialists discovered that their plan creates poverty, so they changed their name to environmentalists and made poverty their goal"
+linux just trumps osx so hard it's hard to believe they descend from the same code base
+anyone who uses the terminal in linux is pretty stupid considering that most of its commands have solid stable gui equivalents these days
+<ment> respect my certficate authoritah!
+<aiju> if PCRE doesn't support a feature, the PCRE guys just haven't heard of it
+<sl> if the general populace realized computers relied upon mathematics they would stop using the internet immediately
+<cinap_lenrek> did someone put a mount in your mount so you can walk while you walk?
+<aiju> how does "" work there?
+(#go-nuts) <wrtp> i thought it was quite clear, but maybe i'm just more on rob's wavelength...
+<kfx> 9front has always been at war with 9atom.
+<kfx> "The object of writing a filesystem is always to be in a better position in which to write another filesystem."
+<kfx> If you want a picture of the fossil, imagine a boot stamping on a hard drive -- forever.
+<kfx> All filesystems in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the data upon their users.
+<kfx> It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered files in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best filesystems, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
+<kfx> You have to get used to computing without results and without hope.
+<kfx> you guys are surely cynical, but neither of you worked for the United States Government as long as I did
+<sl> the government is best suited to manage nuclear weapons because they could not possibly successfully conduct a nuclear war.
+(#plan9) <dpic> aiju: why does everyone hate 9front?
+No. -- Theo de Raadt
+No. -- Rob Pike
+No. -- aiju
+Bite my shiny metal ass. -- Rob Pike
+I hear that C++0x is a substantially upgraded language. -- Rob Pike
+I prefer deskside computers over laptops because they're much harder to throw in frustration when dealing with incompetent web sites. -- Rob Pike
+iOS4.3 lets you decide whether the side switch is mute or rotate lock. Operating system innovations never cease. -- Rob Pike
+Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... -- - xorg.conf(5) manual page
+<EthanG> if your command needs an info page, it has a more urgent need to be buried and forgoten
+<cinap_lenrek> staring at catclock -> being artist 24h a day!
+craftd keeps modern UNIX daemon philosophy in mind. This includes best practice like async polling I/O, multi-threading, and use of high quality libraries whenever possible.
+<aiju> i only use high quality organic libraries from local farmers
+<sl> this discussion causes autism.
+<sl> autism rates increase in tandem with tax rates.
+<quintile> if your kids aren't narcissists then there is probably somthing wrong with them.
+<aiju> RoR lacks support for self-signing-oriented NoSQL-based XML over YAML shader-based metadata-oriented solution
+<aiju> programming is serious business, no place for hippie lovefests
+The telephone, like the telegraph, post office and the railroad, is only upon extraordinary occasions used or needed by the poor. It is demanded, and daily
+depended upon, and should be liberally paid for by the capitalist, mercantile, and manufacturing classes. -- Charles Fay commenting on Bell's telephone charges in 1887
+<kfx> I approve of 9front's method of handling bug reports: bug is filed -> attempting to view bug crashes google server -> SUCCESS
+<aiju> Masturbation has many applications, e.g. aerodynamics or quantum theory.
+<__20h__> The only reason for me to learn French was to be able to order beer in the western provinces.
+<__20h__> [when we invade France] we will first teach all of you German and the German mindset. The first concept we will introduce is called >>work<<.
+<landley> My general theory is that anything directly involved with the gnu project is run by crazy politicians who only do software as a sideline to their religious advocacy work.
+Compound interest is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. -- Albert Einstein
+From his instructor he inherited the position of soke (headmaster) of nine ryu (schools of martial arts).[citation needed]
+Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight!
+When I started doing this stuff with Unix, I wasn't a very good programmer. -- Bill Joy
+You should also run /usr/sbin/userdel _dbus
+Afraid to commit to booting native Plan-9 until I'm sure I can get openbox, firefox, and chromium-browser working on it.
+what's the opinion of the catholic church according to condoms on dildos? -- 20h
+apple developers are like abused wives -- martian67
+As much as I like the design of Plan 9, I also like surfing the web.
+It would be nice to boot Plan 9 natively on AMD-64, type startx, and open a browser.
+Unfortunately, I'm not at a level where I can really contribute to getting Plan 9 to that point.
+The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can open a web-browser.
+I was using "startx" in the figurative sense.
+Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability.
+Are you sure you're on the right website?
+(#go-nuts) <areece> The mailing list feels more hostile than the IRC :-/
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