i'd rather kill myself than work with c++
I'm taking a C++ semester course in 2 days.
I'd ask you for pointers, but I think we're ghosts or something.
Where have I been these past few years?
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Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't read the article, but I would assume any mention of 'bags of water' would be a reference to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Specifically, the episode where the crew of the Enterprise encounters a silicon-based life form capable of communication with humans. Humans are three quarters water, so the silicon lifeforms (rightly?) refer to the humans as 'ugly bags of mostly water'. To put this into cont…
Another famous source of the "bags of water"/"bags of meat" phrase is the short story They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Officer: "Sir, Do you classify as human?"
Korbin: "Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't need it to make my point.
Though on the other hand, hair on fire is just as likely to have happened in a warzone. How will you run away from all the analogies which make random strangers on the internet queasy? Perhaps somebody doesn't like hcf opcodes because they remind them of when their house burned down. Is the concept of running into a blaze owned solely by firefighters? Do soldiers own the concept of battle?
Where's the trigger warning? I thought HN was a safe-space where the inherent unfairness of existence was suspended.
And since when was jumping on a grenade anything but a valiant, selfless act worthy of extreme praise?
Sheesh, I'd probably do it given no practical alternative.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't need it to make my point.
Though on the other hand, hair on fire is just as likely to have happened in a warzone. How will you run away from all the analogies which make random strangers on the internet queasy? Perhaps somebody doesn't like hcf opcodes because they remind them of when their house burned down. Is the concept of running into a blaze owned solely by firefighters? Do soldiers own the concept of battle?
True, at some point you just stick to it and that's that.
That said, the grenade thing happened because, well, that's what some of us (internally) actually call that sort of outage situation sometimes -- you didn't make it happen, but you're there and are able to do something to fix it, so you do.
It doesn't work nearly as well on the outside, so I changed it and admitted my error. That's about the best you can do in a world where we're all speaking slightly different languages.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't need it to make my point.
Though on the other hand, hair on fire is just as likely to have happened in a warzone. How will you run away from all the analogies which make random strangers on the internet queasy? Perhaps somebody doesn't like hcf opcodes because they remind them of when their house burned down. Is the concept of running into a blaze owned solely by firefighters? Do soldiers own the concept of battle?
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Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#47Always sad to be reminded how many good people get their careers swallowed up by a corporation. The public sphere suffers. I have a lot of anger towards Google in particular, who seems to relish in having private resources, secrets, learning and technology that only the annointed may access. I should probably talk to my therapist about that.
Honest question: how else do you pay the bills?
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't read the article, but I would assume any mention of 'bags of water' would be a reference to a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Specifically, the episode where the crew of the Enterprise encounters a silicon-based life form capable of communication with humans. Humans are three quarters water, so the silicon lifeforms (rightly?) refer to the humans as 'ugly bags of mostly water'. To put this into cont…
Another famous source of the "bags of water"/"bags of meat" phrase is the short story They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
meatbags also functions in Bender's lingo in Futurama
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#49Ah, "heisenbugs". I'm glad there's another person on the planet using this term. :)
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#50I know its a common phrase like "hair on fire", but seriously, "jumping on live grenades" is super gross. That probably happened last week in Syria. I get it, its just an expression we use in the industry. Its all good to hear it, but lets maybe stop using it.
And what do you do about Syria? Politically correct language on an Internet message board achieves exactly nothing.