Except that Saudi Arabia and Persia (aka: Iran) are two very different places. Other than that, Arab Regime: The Game sounds like a load of fun, but you forgot one of the available activities: invade Israel (or another Mediterranean developed nation) as a publicity stunt.
But of course! I'm trying to design an advanced systems-programming language that will let me kernel hack with an advanced type system and functional features, so of course I'm growing out my facial hair. I'm going for a sort of "Kobi Shimoni" look -- a beard with the elegance of a great programming language.
>The real tragedy, I think, is the loss of "hacker" in its original sense.
Yeah, now those of us who can actually code (and not just in Java or some Web 2.0 crap!) have no term to differentiate ourselves from the morons who run around posting 4chan memes everywhere and/or watching unhealthy amounts of anime.
Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with other hobbies, just that we've lost specific terms for technological expertise as the terms we once used acquired more expansive, mainstream meanings, ie: "hacker" became "cracker" or even "script kiddie" and "geek" became "beat up in high school for being too intellectual".
And I, for one, welcome my new position as Overlord of Earth.
What, I can't be overlord of the whole planet? Oh. Well I call dibs on the Middle East then! It's time for those fuckers to learn what REAL violence and oppression are!
That, admittedly, is because the author was a Ron/Hermione shipper.
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with your logic, one has to go evil, if the majority of people becomes good. its absurd. Unfortunately, you're wrong. At this point, most people aspire to being selfishly chaotic evil, and both lawful and chaotic goods have become subcultures.
I'm seeing a pretty obvious connection to Nintendo's Wii strategy here: sell a good, working product for a profit, then pour all that money you're taking in hand-over-fist into making your product popular and trendy.
Windows on the OLPC is an outrage and clear evidence that the OLPC project is no longer about helping children and only about making money and creating a new form "Microsoft Tax" for the poor and developing nations. OK, I just want to point out that each Third-World nation has precisely one legal copy of Microsoft Windoze, and everyone pirates off that as much as they need.
Windows market share? Yes. Microsoft Tax? Oh hell no.
Quality control my foot. If they had actually restricted themselves to hiring only Comp Sci graduates or proven developers (for example, contributors to open-source projects), they would never have had to worry about some clueless, retrained-in-2-months, MSCE coming in and taking the company's money while being useless.
Has nobody asked *why*, exactly, the entire second Futurama movie is a 66-minute-long tentacle-sex joke? More importantly, if a tentacled monster from another universe is going to have sex with everyone on Earth, why has nobody made an H.P. Lovecraft reference?
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Except that Saudi Arabia and Persia (aka: Iran) are two very different places. Other than that, Arab Regime: The Game sounds like a load of fun, but you forgot one of the available activities: invade Israel (or another Mediterranean developed nation) as a publicity stunt.
Abraham. But I'm biased, of course.
But of course! I'm trying to design an advanced systems-programming language that will let me kernel hack with an advanced type system and functional features, so of course I'm growing out my facial hair. I'm going for a sort of "Kobi Shimoni" look -- a beard with the elegance of a great programming language.
Or better yet, play Sonic by running on a treadmill. That'll burn away that geek fat!
Does Stallman have any idea what a dirty hippy he looks like doing that? We should make a nerdcore song for free software.
Real geeks don't bother with web development. Yech.
>The real tragedy, I think, is the loss of "hacker" in its original sense.
Yeah, now those of us who can actually code (and not just in Java or some Web 2.0 crap!) have no term to differentiate ourselves from the morons who run around posting 4chan memes everywhere and/or watching unhealthy amounts of anime.
Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with other hobbies, just that we've lost specific terms for technological expertise as the terms we once used acquired more expansive, mainstream meanings, ie: "hacker" became "cracker" or even "script kiddie" and "geek" became "beat up in high school for being too intellectual".
Now, now, don't tell the *channers and Slashbots that or they'll get depressed!
Yeah, but now far more people want to be badass than want to be good.
And I, for one, welcome my new position as Overlord of Earth.
What, I can't be overlord of the whole planet? Oh. Well I call dibs on the Middle East then! It's time for those fuckers to learn what REAL violence and oppression are!
I would largely prefer to just EX-TEEERRRR-MIN-ATE him.
That, admittedly, is because the author was a Ron/Hermione shipper.
Must kill otaku... exterminate... Wapanese... EX-TER-MIN-ATE! *Exterminate!* *Exterminaaatee*!!!
Mostly those of us who are single and don't want to be care.
Suuuureee. you are. Go ahead, blame all of your fetishes on Rule 35.
See my signature.
For posterity, since I will someday change the signature:
"Cthulhu for President 2008: Vote for the lesser evil!"
And this is why we need tail-recursion optimization!
I don't see the connection between people having their own gravity and Arrakis.
I'm seeing a pretty obvious connection to Nintendo's Wii strategy here: sell a good, working product for a profit, then pour all that money you're taking in hand-over-fist into making your product popular and trendy.
Because the cats have you under a form of mind control wherein you will obey any instruction given to you in LOLSpeak?
In that spirit, getz meh uh Samooel Ahdams!
No, that would be the Mouse in the Moon, Muad'Dib.
Windows market share? Yes. Microsoft Tax? Oh hell no.
Quality control my foot. If they had actually restricted themselves to hiring only Comp Sci graduates or proven developers (for example, contributors to open-source projects), they would never have had to worry about some clueless, retrained-in-2-months, MSCE coming in and taking the company's money while being useless.
Has nobody asked *why*, exactly, the entire second Futurama movie is a 66-minute-long tentacle-sex joke? More importantly, if a tentacled monster from another universe is going to have sex with everyone on Earth, why has nobody made an H.P. Lovecraft reference?