Lmst

@maradydd sounds like a rotten way to spend an evening. Hope you're feeling better soon.

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Two CSS propeties walk into a bar.

A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.

#programming #funny

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Murray's Rule:
Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't.

@GinBaby You have to be pretty goddamn metal to get along with me.

@GinBaby Can confirm all of the above. Though I may threaten you with a C project idea as a riposte.

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It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing
thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
-- Alan Perlis

@guretsugu Well, this isn't isolated to just "Why hasn't Functional Programming taken over the world yet?"

Garbage Collection was an idea in 1959. The first working implementation was Lisp.

It didn't really hit mainstream use until Java. In 1995. 30-ish years later.

@guretsugu ...and I just don't get the mindset. I get that learning new things is hard (It took me a long while to get proficient with Haskell, and I haven't forgotten that), but. Software Engineering is a carrot-and-stick business. The carrot is "Find the better way to do this." The stick is "Don't become obsolete."

@guretsugu So, the context for this is I'm a Haskell nerd who works at a mostly PHP shop. Everyone agrees that PHP is terrible and is Not The Way Things Should Be Done.

And yet, when I suggest things like Haskell, or Rust, or the like, I more-or-less get dirty side-eyes from people, because its harder to go from PHP to Haskell than, say, PHP to JavaScript or Ruby.

Why does it take so long for the software industry to change, grow, and evolve?

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SSH-themed horror movie ideas

1) Host on Haunted Hill
2) Ghost in the zsh
3) Dude Where Did I Redirect My Output?
4) Paranormal Activity Detected
5) The Exorcism of systemd
6) The Silence of the Error Messages, Even on Debug Level
7) The GNU Witch Project
8) Salò, or the 120 Days With Still No Patch From Our Vendor
9) Invasion of the ICMP packets

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Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-- F.M. Hubbard

hello, everyone. still here. still a weirdo.

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i have had enough of gays pushing their sinister agenda. i dont care how nice they are, moleskine planners are overpriced

@GinBaby :-(

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the amount of work I've had to do to report my california-source income is approaching the order of magnitude of the amount of work I had to do to earn it

@argumatronic @maradydd he's a favorite.

@chris_martin @cemerick @BrendanEich funnily enough, so do browsers! #BaDumTssh

@natecull @chris_martin Will give that a look.

@chris_martin@icosahedron.website @chris_martin @natecull Now I'm wondering what channels and queues are like in Haskell.

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