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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