I doubt anyone cares but I've been doing a little work on the code (none of this plugin nonesense, editing the files directly, I want the full spaghetti code experience in a few months) and whatever functional issues vB5 might have the code actually isn't too bad. It's kinda ponderous, partly because the code style and part because there's no separation between validation and intended action (like new thread validation is largely done in the function that makes new threads) which is kinda surprising considering the amount of infrastructure there is in this codebase (custom XML parser, they even have their own string class lol, it's like all the fun of C++ with none of the performance or gnarly language features). But in spite of that they've done a pretty good job of keeping the code path clear, not doing anything too tricky, passing data rather than behaviour. Honestly it's better than vB4 is in that respect.
BevMo sent me an email advertising kegs for the 4th. If they had a better ad team they'd realize trying to sell me a keg is pretty dumb. They should totes hire me to fix that shit.
I think this should be fixed on the new topics link now.
2015-06-27 at 9:10 PM UTC
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I can't change my avatar
What image are you trying to use? vB was being niggertarded before about believing me when I told it where the imagemagick binaries were, built from source instead of out of apt and that seemed to satiate it but I may have dropped a flag or something for whatever format support.
2015-06-27 at 1:53 PM UTC
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Something's wrong
Lol, while I'm certianly not going to kill myself over politics on a message board, arnox does have a point in that spectral acts all friendly with every new admin and it's only a matter of time before he finds something to latch on to after which it's "totse traitor this" "duck and dive that".
2015-06-27 at 9:13 AM UTC
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What are you reading?
Reading Knuth, do you mean The Art of Computer Programming? If so, how are you reading it? Like page 1 book 1 and just powering through, or are you looking up specific algorithms that catch your fancy? The series is notoriously dense although I'll be honest, I haven't read a page since well before I was really qualified to understand any of it. So it may turn out to be more approachable than I remember (and perhaps than as described, most people in the field are inept after all so a representation of something as being "hard" or difficult to understand is generally best taken with a grain of salt in my experience.)
I mean I would gamble at least small amounts initially on niggas I knew from totse/zoklet/whatever if they had drugs/RCs that I was interested in. First drug I ever bought on the internet was noopept from someone on zoklet. I definitely think there's a place in the world for a non-public market where both users and vendors were vetted but the hard part would be finding an appropriate mix of users (you need some vendors you personally know to be legit and then N times as many customers all of which you need to be fairly confident isn't a narc). If you open it up to just anyone then there doesn't seem to be any reason to go that route rather than the market that pushes thousands of customers through a day where reviews are abundant. On the other hand if some nigga I've been shitposting with for a decade is like "hey kids, wanna by some drugs" imma be like "sure blood, im down to try this shit".
feel blood?
2015-06-27 at 8:32 AM UTC
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Any wantreprenuers here?
There's definitely a lot of people that fit that description in my neck of the woods. I think Paul Graham was devastatingly effective in rolling a certain flavor of entrepreneurialism into mainstream programmer culture which tbh I resent a little bit. I have no problem with people wanting to start their own businesses and bring a new product to market. I came close to doing the same with a hobby project I was working on with a friend. But I think it has, in some sense, marginalized the fact that programmers primarily... write programs. Most of us have zero special access to market information, the only thing that makes this programmers-as-entrepreneurs image feasible is that there's a class of products that require programmers to build and some of us luck out in picking a good idea to go implement. But it seems to draw people who aren't interested in the craft of programming first but rather the more motivated sort of "idea people" who are in the field to make their product and retire or whatever. IDK, maybe that's just me being a curmudgeon but sometimes I wish a few more of my coworkers were interested in automata theory and compilers and a few less in building the next big social network.
I've considered having sploo anti-aborted. Which is like, having his clone born or something. I guess.
