misguided literal semantic nerd pedantry is the fucking worst.
'would you like orange juice or tea?''yes please''er...?''i would like orange juice or tea. 'orange juice or tea' is true whichever my preference is.''ok fuck off'
― ledge, Friday, 24 September 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Occasionally, and generally only around people who would be familiar with Symbolic Logic 101, I reply to "would you like x or y" with "yes, tee hee" to play for time while I decide which; by the time they've said "ok wise guy" I can reply to that with "ha ha sorry I would like y please". Now I will resolve not to do so again.
That article is a beautiful and alarming new level of nutty.
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 24 September 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I have pretty geeky and impatient friends for them to find severely hackneyed nerd "humour" a more acceptable play for time than "um... I'm not sure", but apparently they do
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 24 September 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"because our avenues of cultural transmission are in some ways quite restricted."i haven't seen enough of 'big bang theory' to judge, but if it's as bad as what snippets I have seen, I sympathize with this POV.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 September 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Raymond refers to his current situation as "... living inside a cyberpunk novel. A libertarian cyberpunk novel."[22]
― caek, Friday, 24 September 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
pretend that this guy is reading that article above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geZoES9KQ-Q
― dayo, Saturday, 25 September 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
so great
http://www.stallman.org/photos/rms-working/index.html
― caek, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.stallman.org/photos/rms-working/mid/mid_img_1761.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
SUP
http://www.stallman.org/photos/rms-working/mid/mid_img_1748.jpg
this is still the best
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979
― caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
best thread title
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/
i hate this thread title now btw
― caek, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
can someone explain why rich webapps are more brittle than simple html when I have poor connectivity? i understand whey they'd be slower, but not why, for example, I can't really get gmail to load at all right now on this tin-can-and-string connection, despite ilx loading just fine. something something XmlHttpRequest timeout?
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 23 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455779
Is there some actual self-consistent, generalizable model behind what you're saying that improves my ability to think about ethical obligations, correctly rejecting or accepting some of them, or were you just signaling there?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Actually_HN
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 31 October 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link