<ec>
as far as I can tell, all the Actual Mathematicians fucking hate haskell and think it's such an idiotic plan
<ec>
I am very, very convinced that that entire fucking stack of concepts is a giant red herring that's ruining programming. -_-
<ec>
tl;dr easy to keep cranking away for six fucking years when you feel like you're changing the world ... but hard to, when you're just reinventing the wheel to *learn*. /=
<ec>
continuous maths / calculus / whatever are fun as fuck and easy for me, but aren't what I'm interested in.
<ec>
jesus christ I just. want. to. build. programming. fucking. languages.
<ec>
ew fuck no
<ec>
jesus, in CS, you're old, crotchety, and unwanted at like fucking 37
<ec>
when I finish this program, I'mma be fucking *thirty something*.
<ec>
it's super-clear to me now that it's Goddamn Criminal that we send *nineteen year olds* to fucking *determine their entire future*, while putting them N-teen thousand dollars in debt to do it … ahhhgehsghr gross
<ec>
I haven't learned a new programming language in probably a whole fucking year
<ec>
ljharb: rubber-fuck me through it
<ec>
the two fucking best
2016-07-14
<pikajude>
I hate the fact that if you fuck around with a node project eventually you'll put it into an unfixable state and have to re-clone
<pikajude>
what the FUCK is node doing
<pikajude>
fuck me raw
<pikajude>
the spacing is fucked up
2016-07-13
<pikajude>
if chrome does load your log file, and 76% of the runtime is in a 5000-node-deep tree whose leaves are all labeled "Unknown", then you can ESPECIALLY go fuck yourself
<pikajude>
if chrome crashes while trying to load your log file, fuck off
2016-07-08
<pikajude>
fucking anime
2016-07-06
<pikajude>
but that was because in our tests we were replacing the entire fucking app object for one specific test
<pikajude>
i'm pretty sure i'm going fucking nuts
2016-06-26
<purr\GH>
CS350-calculator/master e646e09 ELLIOTTCABLE: + fuck that bug
2016-06-24
<alexgordon>
fuck this godforsaken shithole
<alexgordon>
it's like waking up to fucking the end of the world
2016-06-21
<ec>
fuck, i hate our units-and-measures systems
<ec>
the fuck is a long hundredweight
<ec>
i am so fucking sleepy
2016-06-20
<ec>
did very lots tons of research. these are Fucking Excellent headphones, *and* have bluetooth functionality for when you don't care.
<pikajude>
maybe i'll buy some fucking home theater audio equipment
<ec>
fuck
<lmyers272>
I remember testing against a bunch of different integers. Seemed to work. Might have fucked something up somewhere. Not sure it's working for me right here either.
<ec>
OH FUCKING OH
<ec>
I … fuck, hard decision
<ec>
How the fuck do I examine the stack
2016-06-19
<ec>
it's not *sf*, its fucking sf *people*
<eligrey>
instead of fucking up make up new code
<ec>
i probably cannot satisfactorily fuck up go, though. go's syntax looks relatively strict.
<eligrey>
ec order fucking soylent
<ec>
fucking *terrible*
<ec>
ordering pizza and fucking off on all my responsibilities
2016-06-18
<ec>
fucking exhausted and done w/ life and everything involved blahblahblah
<pikajude>
but rather, an opportunity to tell someone to fuck off
<pikajude>
that was still so fucked up
2016-06-10
<pikajude>
that 1024 bits and 1024 bytes are not the same fucking thing
2016-06-09
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
2. poor life choices (played Banished all day yesterday instead of, i dunno, fucking studying for my fucking midterm. i have no self-control when it comes to anything other than programming. -_-)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
1. overconfident (Assembly? Fuck, I've written x86, I can handle MIPS. I've even taken this course before!)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck
2016-06-02
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
there's *three* completely fucking different movement systems, and different alien species use their own
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
(haven't played the last, and I suck at EU, but Cities is fucking amaaaaazing)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
(actually yes, okay, fine, I would. fucking Banished is beautiful.)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm a fucking gross mess
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
omg you fuck come play stellaris w/ me
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it was fucking epic
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it like fucking runs on Windows 8 man
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it's been a hot fucking second
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm not even a gamer but fuck that game is so much fucking fun
<pikajude>
the bass on these headphones is fucking bonkers
<incomprehensibly>
I really enjoyed my diff eqs class but yeah they're fucked
<incomprehensibly>
last semester fucking
<alexgordon>
for my AS level. A, A, fucking C wtf
2016-06-01
<eligrey>
oh fuck wait
<eligrey>
fuck i cant hate you
<eligrey>
and i have no fucking idea why
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
… purr has been EN FUCKING POINTE recently, goddamn
<eligrey>
fuck i deleted it twice
<eligrey>
how is that 1 fucking file
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
reading about this stuff fucking *galvanizes* me
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
the presence and existence of the root / script context is a horrible fucking mistake, imho.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
like if I hear one peep from somebody else who's like “ugh, why the fuck do you want us to type semicolons,” then I'm happy to write fifty paragraphs on why *not* taking advantage of ASI is absolutely *foolish*,
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but, yes, I cannot remotely fucking stand ‘standard JavaScript.’ It's a big reason I don't really participate in the community: I can manage small patches and shit, but I just feel *dirty* beyond all belief with more than fifteen minutes spent in a tjholowaychuk codebase
<ec>
who the fuck sponsors you to TC39, by the way? or is that not a thing?
<jfhbrook>
the state government is freaking the fuck out right now, cutting the university system to the point of crippling it, instituting income taxes, ditching the dividend
<pikajude>
except for fucking basic
<pikajude>
holy shit i cannot FUCKING STAND node.js
<pikajude>
FUCK
2016-05-17
<ec>
pikajude: I fucking love npm
<ec>
fuck my back hurts, and I'm hungry, but I don't want to pack up my workspace and depart starbucks until I'm an expert on All Of Type Theory
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
how the fuck do I *use* that? when/where does something get inserted into <node> and <collection>.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
why the fuck would you be using a type *at all* in an invocation
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
typescript is like CoffeeScript, doomed-as-fuck to die
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
purr: fucking spot on. :P
2016-05-15
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck
<pikajude>
fuck me
2016-05-11
<pikajude>
fuck me senseless
2016-05-08
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck people who can't be arsed to spell your name rite ಠ_ಠ
<eligrey>
you have a hundred fucking thousand tweets
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
in fact, fuck, I think there's a factoid about it from like 2001
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
like, the fact that you even ask that, is so fucking what I am talking about
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
shut the fuck *up* about runways and acquisitions and capital and
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
sf people are my least fucking favourite people.
<eligrey>
i've already fucked up your beloved factoids behind your back for years
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
don't fuck up my beloved factoids
<eligrey>
fuck that reminds me oftn-bot needs to be moved to my new host
2016-05-06
<remyv>
oh fuck
2016-05-05
<pikajude>
god FUCKING DAMNIT
2016-05-04
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: you used to complain about all the girls he would bring home and then cackled, "yes, but i play the music that i know they'll be fucking to once he closes the bedroom door, so i win"
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i can't believe we ended up having whatever the fuck our relationship could be described as because i fucked up cybering with Christian and called him Elliott instead
<gq>
fucking
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: fuck off moron
2016-04-29
<pikajude>
you have to be fucking me
<pikajude>
Good fucking luck
2016-04-25
<purr\ec>
Homework/master 263b0b3 ELLIOTTCABLE: + UGH FUCK THIS SO HARD
2016-04-22
<gq>
i had to download that, then 'use system viewer' which opened fucking internet explorer/microsoft edge
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
no fucking wonder All Programming Sucks.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
idk it blows my fucking mind
2016-04-18
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
eligrey: th'fuck is that
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
oh my fuck
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
So fucking weird to be following in your footsteps, instead of vice-versa.
<incomprehensibly>
ELLIOTTCABLE: it gets FUCKED
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
facebook friend me the fuck up already, alex
2016-04-14
<pikajude>
what a fucking album
2016-04-12
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck
<pikajude>
they drive me right up the fucking wall
<pikajude>
fuck people who think software shouldn't be open source because it stifles innovation
<pikajude>
fuck
2016-04-07
<ljharb>
what sort of fucking are you writing about and what's your thesis statement
<pikajude>
i'm writing a FUCKING essay
2016-04-05
<pikajude>
god i fucking hate coffeescript
<pikajude>
dude arcade fire is fucking amazing
2016-04-04
<nuck>
holy fucking shit
<nuck>
But fucking Cook Islands want to put their cock in me
<jfhbrook>
yeah, I can tell you that emojis fuck up javascript's length calculations
<ljharb>
ELLIOTTCABLE: right - i think that my ivory tower position is, "it's released, it's permanent, fuck off", and the tainted part is "it's ok to `npm disown` or similar"
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
web-devs are *application* authors: I already *completely* excluded that group. From my perspective, if they're involved in this discussion *at all*, they're already fundamentally Doing It Wrong (and kinda fucking us over by making us consider them in this discussion, frankly)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
ljharb: but be aware I have ~fucked~ myself by staying up this late and not doing any homework today (largely buying suit, but also a huge chunk thinking about and writing all that up, and then a bit side-tracked at the last bit by ipfs.io … ugh.)
<alva>
My GBA game is in C. Should I write that shit in fucking Rust? I don't think so.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: what the fuck is that? D:
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I still barely fucking understand what linking is. or how libraries *work* in C, etc.
2016-03-31
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but all the *sane* system-package-managers say ‘please don't wrap libraries’, for really fucking obvious and good reasons
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
read yourself into fucking bored tears, or go outside and let the stupid sun sear you silly
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
step one is to stay the fuck off the computer. hint hint.
<alexgordon>
ELLIOTTCABLE: but if you're running a business, then you have absolutely got to have your dependencies in your fucking soure control
2016-03-22
<pikajude>
well, fuck you too netfilx
<pikajude>
so i figured out that mbpfan just gave the fuck up
<pikajude>
talking with linux users is fucking annoying
2016-03-21
<pikajude>
hpkp is going to fuck me isn't it
2016-03-19
<eligrey>
incomprehensibly: fuck
<incomprehensibly>
fuck
2016-03-18
<pikajude>
if you fuck up your config you can reboot and pick one of the older configs from the grub menu
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
might have to switch from Arch as my ‘intentionally dicking the fuck around’ platform,
2016-03-14
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
what the fuck
2016-03-13
<alexgordon>
core audio is better than whatever the fuck linux uses now
<alexgordon>
gah my dock.app is totally fucked, cmd tab isn't working
2016-03-11
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jesus fucking christ
2016-03-10
<pikajude>
this dude gave me some fucking attitude
2016-03-09
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'd take knife-and-grill adventures *any* day over taking another *written test*. fuck everything about what just happened.
2016-03-08
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Learning Boring Programming Drudgery outside of school? fuck yeah
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
alexgordon: fuck that
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
alexgordon: yeah, Calc is easy as fuck this time around. thank god.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
the material is Fucking Trivial, and the instructors are all really cool / really understanding
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
turns out, as soon as I have a task to preform that I can't easily and directly link to a personal goal, no fucking force in this universe can drive me to attack that task /=
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
that was my effort for the past, like, year of my life: somebody (very saliently) pointed out that … how the fuck are you trying to build a massively-parallel language with a single centralized data-structure
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
hell I don't even fucking understand monads, so idk don't ask me
2016-03-07
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I feel “fuck ur disagreement w/ me” isn't very productive. I wanted something productive.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
ljharb: I mean, my entire argument was an attempt to say that without resorting to a hard ‘fuck you’, I guess.
<ljharb>
ELLIOTTCABLE: noscript people aren't a problem. fuck them. the problem is the users that scenario *represents*, which you seem to sympathize with (along with me)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I just return to the fact that I must have stated my point Very Fucking Badly. I dunno, I feel like I conveyed what I was trying to say as well as I could have, but nobody seems to be understanding it, save rabcyr;
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
also fuck Twitter so hard
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
brb fixing purr fuck this shit
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fucking purr
2016-03-06
<purr>
<devyn> I'm high on cold medicine, so I don't give a fuck, yay
2016-03-05
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
my Mac Pro is fucked up
2016-03-04
<purr>
<whitequark> what the everloving fuck did just happen to my shell
2016-03-02
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
FUCK MY LIFE I am so bad at school
2016-03-01
<purr>
<SwooshyCueb> Ugh, this fucking dog
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
and probably disable it entirely for like a year, because we're all fed the fuck up
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
super fucking offensive and not-okay? :P
<eligrey>
meaning a 4 month period where anyone could get fucked and linode doesnt give a single shit
<eligrey>
one of the 12 email validators i tried said ~@domain was invalid, and it looked like some kind of commercial site that sells "email syntax validation as a service" (who the fuck pays for that????)
<purr>
<gq> witness purr, voiced by Paul Bettany, as he shuts down starbound because 'god dammit go outside, fuck your video games'
2016-02-23
<pikajude>
i am a fucking genius
2016-02-22
<purr>
<elliottcable> I'm racist as all fuck when it comes to sex
<pikajude>
what the fuck
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
again: not suggesting the U.S. experiment with that. Way too fucking high, for the majority.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
(just saying, macroeconomics are Fucking Unintuitive)
2016-02-21
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck riiiiight off.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jesus fucking christ, are you for real right now? Criticizing me for saying ‘I want nothing to do with this conversation,’ and yet still replying when you say something shitty about me after I left?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Because the rent situation is ridiculous, not because Yelp fucked her over somehow.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
So, yes, basic income with caveats: Enough *to live compfortably*, but not necessarily in literally the most expensive place on the fucking continent. ಠ_ಠ
<pikajude>
i don't even understand why anybody works a minimum-wage job in san francisco, they must be fucking idiots
<pikajude>
am i going to get paid as much as my coworkers or am i going to peace the fuck out
2016-02-18
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
and it just keeps doing everything, no matter how fucked-up the state gets, spitting out more and more "lol."'s as the system becomes more and more internally corrupt and inconsistent
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
because *fuck* typing `describe("this", function(goddamn){ // shit` over and fucking over
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
lol the test-support file for the project dives head-first into mocha, swirls everything around and fucks it all up, and then falls back out
2016-02-16
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
god, testing is so fucking ugly in JavaScript
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck, flow is cool.
<purr>
<alynn> because fuck Fedora and fuck Ubuntu slightly less
<purr>
<whitequark> what the everloving fuck did just happen to my shell
2016-02-15
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
pikajude: th'fuck you getting a tattoo of?
2016-02-14
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
aaaaaaaand it's a bit fucked because apparently hockey is a Big Deal and it was waaaaay to grand a gesture to take somebody out to a hockey game for a second date? idk these things I don't do sports
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
jfhbrook: my turn, watch the video I linked instead, the dude is a horrible Academia™ buffoon, but he's talking about the curry-howard isomorphism and it's just so fucking cool
2016-02-13
<jfhbrook>
fuck
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but … as long as you don't get deep as fuck, everything above the waterline is truly intuitive, beautiful, easy-going, friendly ... just, wonderful
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
if you sit down to teach somebody to program, making *any choice* except Ruby is just Fucking Foolish
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
like, I think literally no possible Python feature will redeem it in my eyes after I discovered that the initialization values of default arguments are *shared* across invocations, what the everliving fuck
<jfhbrook>
like js and python aren't perfect here, I get that there are object binding rules and everyone has to fucking make a lambda type
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but in terms of just *being a programming language*, nothing will ever beat ruby. ruby is literally just fucking perfect in every fucking way and is teh god-language and iw ill putnc you iun the balls if u diagree
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
which is *fucking hellish* because, god, damn, the internals of libgit2 are fucking horrifying
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
ugh I fucking hate iterative-procedural code
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
this just makes me want paws So Fucking Bad
<purr>
<nuck> "Our bus got towed, so now we just fuck on the curb"
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
alexgordon: it's fucking cool.
2016-02-09
<alexgordon>
fuck is the only suitable word :P
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: do you think I can make "fuck" a keyword of my language? :D
2016-02-05
<purr>
<glowcoil> oh my fucking god you still think java is a really good sandwich alexgordon
2016-02-04
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
pikajude: no fucking idea but I hate it
2016-02-03
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
have to go, really have to, fuck.
<glowcoil>
i don't fucking care to argue on principle
<glowcoil>
not fully utnil fucking
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuck.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
just like I fucked up sunday *hard*, and saturday *pretty* hard, and thursday *hard*, and last tuesday *hard*
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fucked up yesterday *hard*.
<glowcoil>
you have to fucking
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Since the fuck when?
<glowcoil>
human drivers fucking suck
<glowcoil>
and fucking
<glowcoil>
ignoring how that one's kind of fucked
<glowcoil>
i mean FUCKING
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
also: I'm halfay to the point of devil's-advocating at this point, because I *do* think self-driving cars are the first *fucking remotely* generally-applicable use of AI
<glowcoil>
fuck me irccloud
<glowcoil>
ARE going to do a shit fucking ton for humanity
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
but *super fucking basic tool*, that is completely understandable in-and-out, without any black magic, or as little black magic as possible, *that can be composed*,
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
all of them work fucking terribly and make users unhappy.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
That's just totally fucking unacceptable. I understand it's more effort on the TA's part to grade, like, a piece of handwritten paper, but the students have a full load too; and *they're the ones goddamn paying you*. Literally. This is your *job*.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I fucking *hate* LaTeX
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
orthographies of middle English are so fucking weird
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
so. like, a friend was ... putting up with me ranting at them for the Nth time this week alone about how stressed I am, how fucked everything is, how much shit I'm behind on or ... whatever the freak-out of the moment was
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I'm *also* behind in class and kinda fucked this week
<glowcoil>
ec: one fucked thing about proofs is
<ec>
I'm going to drop out of this class. fuck it.
<ec>
I fucking hate latex
<ec>
wow this is interesting as fuck
<alexgordon>
ec: no I was looking for it earlier. you know about the 7 millenum prize problems right, well 6 of them are pretty straightforward like P = NP or the riemann hypothesis, but then there's the fucking hodge conjecture, and wtf did they pick that
<ec>
it's so, so fucking weird to me that I actually understand more than half the words in this
<ec>
SO FUCKING CONFUSED
<ec>
I mean I went to a diverse school intentionally but right now it's a fucking clusterfuck ;+;
<ec>
fucking frustrated by this course
<ec>
I've dug How 2 Prove It out of my mathematical library, because the textbook for this class is fucking incomprehensible
<ec>
I neeeeeeed to be in bed before like 2am too, FUCK
<ec>
I'm just totally fucking lost.
2016-02-01
<purr>
<whitequark> oh fuck. the acid is kicking in. COPPER CRYSTALS EVERYWHERE. THEY'RE GROWING.
<purr>
<locks> * notes to everyone, even elliott asks how the fuck does Paws work
<purr>
<whitequark> what the everloving fuck did just happen to my shell
2016-01-29
<ec>
wish me luck I am so fucking loossssttttt
2016-01-28
<purr>
<ec> gleaming fucking love sword.
<purr>
gq: so long you fucks
<glowcoil>
-fuck you
<purr>
glowcoil: When elliottcable says “I lied,” it usually means he fucked up. #secret
<glowcoil>
-find fuck
<glowcoil>
-fuck
2016-01-26
<purr>
<ELLIOTTCABLE> don't fuck with me, I'm dating a lawyer now.
2016-01-25
<pikajude>
what the fuck is everyone doing
2016-01-24
<purr>
<devyn> I'm high on cold medicine, so I don't give a fuck, yay
<purr>
<alexgordon> fuck oop is so complicated
2016-01-22
<ec>
okay, but what if we *define*, however absurd it may be to you, for the sake of the current conversation, ‘racism’ as exclusively ‘racism against black people,’ as a random example. boom, nobody's angry at you for derailing, and you still get to come back later and go “okay, now that we're done with that ... hold the fuck on, that's bullshit.”
<pikajude>
that's fucking classic JS isn't it
<ec>
I'd say that *truly open venues for discussion* are pretty fucking rare on the Internet right now. /=
<ec>
pikajude: also check out my externalization system, I think it's P. Fucking cool
<pikajude>
there's something beautiful about weirdly fucking formatted C code
<ec>
like what the fuck did I think I was doing here
<ec>
since the fuck when is that a thing
<thealphanerd>
I think the conf gives a fuck
<jfhbrook>
anything with an enterprise flavor gives zero fucks from what I've seen
<jfhbrook>
there are definitely confs that give zero fucks
2016-01-21
<purr>
<nuck> "Our bus got towed, so now we just fuck on the curb"
2016-01-20
<gq>
the fuck is a cashtag
<gq>
so much fucking backlog
<ec^>
-learn omfg = where the fuck is that fucking factoid, ffaesgrgsrdtfjyawresrdhtfjyk
<eligrey>
fuck
<eligrey>
actually im so fucking dumb
<ec^>
the FUCK
<whitequark>
-fuck off @ eligrey
<whitequark>
ugh fucking xilinx
<whitequark>
what the everloving fuck did just happen to my shell
<purr>
ec^: ##Hat¦TheLifelessOne: I type at "holy fuck I make a lot of errors"
<eligrey>
-fuck you purr
<ec^>
why the *fuck* did I golf -whereisthelove into four factoid-limit-length subfunctions, instead of just actually writing it into purr ...
<purr>
glowcoil: Found: what the fucking fuck, no, seriously, i do, everything, battlecollie, and botsnack