Hi all!
I'm including here a few funny (or hopefully funny at least) IRC conversations
that took place recently, and which I added to the bottom of
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/shlomif . I omitted two
conversations:
1. One that mentions a certain girl (not by name), along with some sex-talk. I
don't think it's offensive but I'm not taking chances (search for "QBasic was
the sh*t!").
2. One in which we emulate some famous phrases about the Third Reich (but more
universal in message). See "graphics I did in crayon" there.
But here are the rest. Feel free to comment on them as they may start
interesting conversations on Perl-IL and/or Hackers-IL.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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--> spx2 has joined #soc-help
<spx2> I want to FIGHT FOR PERL IN GSOC !
<spx2> I feel the power of metal in my veins
<spx2> perl is flowing in my blood !
<spx2> What perl Armies can I join this YEAR ?
<ambs> spx2: a lot :)
<spx2> ambs: Hail BRETHREN !
<spx2> where are the armies ???
<spx2> I want to ENGAGE and start preparing my weapons !
<spx2> ambs: what projects are this year ?
<ambs> spx2: ideas at
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
<spx2> I will fight this year in the PERL battle !
<rindolf> spx2: Python is for the WEAK and TIMID!
<spx2> rindolf: TOTALLY !
* spx2 examines the war grounds
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<edeca> Hrm. More infernal questions, mainly because I am trying to
make my perl prettier and contain less nasty if's. I have
$foo and $bar which are obtained from split(/ /, 'kitten
loving'). But I don't want undef if the split fails, I'd
rather '' for $bar or both. What's the nicest way to do
that?
<Khisanth> ($foo, $bar) = map { $_ // "" } split / /, $str; # 5.10
version :)
<edeca> Noo 5.10! :)
<Khisanth> ($foo, $bar) = map { defined $_ ? $_ : "" } split / /,
$str; # probably some other shorter ways too
<rindolf> edeca: [bad idea] you can also try using the
conditional->inheritance refactoring.
<rindolf> :-)
* Khisanth pours boiling coffee on rindolf
<rindolf> Khisanth: I hate coffee, but I guess I deserved it.
<rindolf> That was a joke, of course.
<Khisanth> you weren't really supposed to like having boiling anything
poured on you but I guess you are into the kinkier stuff
-- Freenode's #perl
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<rbastic> Juerd: eh in today's world of heavy JS on the clientside, i
think it makes a little more sense to use the same lang.
everywhere
<Juerd> rbastic: JS on the client side is because often it's the
only option the universe provides.
<rbastic> Juerd: from a business perspective, you reduce the
complexity and potential difficulties in finding new hires
with the same skillset
<rindolf> rbastic: have you heard of RJS?
<Juerd> rbastic: On the server side, however, you have great
freedom.
<rbastic> rindolf: no, what's that?
<Caelum> larry wants perl6 to run on javascript :)
<rindolf> rbastic: "One Language; and One Sayings".
<Juerd> rbastic: Exactly. I would never hire a server side
programmer who knows *only* Javascript, and is too stupid to
learn whatever we're using on the server side.
<rindolf> rbastic: my translation to a sentence from the Tower of
Babel myth.
<rbastic> Juerd: i'll agree with that also. any real programmer knows
or has at least coded in half a dozen languages before
<Juerd> From a business perspective, you should avoid crap coders at
all cost.
<Juerd> Knows *or* has coded... Hmmm...!
<rindolf> rbastic: though according to what most scholars believe it
was not about using one language but rather thinking the
same.
<Juerd> I hope they haven't coded in half a dozen languages without
knowing them.
<Juerd> That'd be scary.
<zshzn> Reality is scary, Juerd
<talexb> Hmm, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, assembler, C, more assembler, C,
Pascal ... Perl!
-- The Grand Unified Programming Language
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<rindolf> rbastic: now I'm working with C++.
<rindolf> rbastic: I found out that my project compiles really
quickly.
<rindolf> rbastic: under 5 or 10 minutes on a P4-2.4GHz with 1 GB of
RAM.
<rindolf> rbastic: maybe KDE is making g++ look bad.
<rbastic> rindolf: yeah, i'm not a big KDE fan
<rindolf> rbastic: actually I'm using KDE-3.5.8 here.
<rindolf> rbastic: I was talking about the compilation speed of KDE
apps and KDE itself.
<rindolf> rbastic: possibly because each file has half-a-gazillion
headers.
<rindolf> My C++ code is a server one, so we don't have too many deps.
<rbastic> yeah, isn't there a way to cache header files? ie. in their
"compiled" form?
<rbastic> or is that something I'm remembering from some other
programming language that purported to build on top of C?
<rindolf> rbastic: MSVC has that.
<rbastic> ahh, nods
<rindolf> rbastic: no, Visual C++ has precompiled headers.
<rindolf> rbastic: I remember that I kept deleting them.
<rbastic> yeah, couldn't remember
<rbastic> lol
<rindolf> Pascal compiles very quickly.
<rindolf> That's one of the things I enjoyed in Delphi.
<rbastic> ugh, the app i'm been maintaining in Java was originally a
fat client/server desktop app, written in Delphi
<rindolf> rbastic: ah.
<rbastic> i remember booting up the old app for the first time, and
being amazed at how slow it was
<rbastic> eventually, i had to duplicate a feature in the Java code
and i wasn't sure how it was implemented before
<rindolf> rbastic: you mean the Java app is faster? :S
<rbastic> so being as i had no Delphi experience, and the newer Delphi
environments made NO sense to me at all, i just opened up
the SQL Server query analyzer
<rbastic> rindolf: yes, but only b/c the Delphi programmer was an
idiot, issuing queries over and over again needlessly
<rbastic> rindolf: if you could've seen the MSSQL Performance Analyzer
or whatever, it was basically just.. Query1, Query2, Query3,
Query1, Query2, Query3, repeat.
<rbastic> it was probably the worst ive ever seen in my life.. belongs
on www.thedailywtf.com
-- Can I haz a fast compiler on Freenode's #perl
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<rindolf> scrottie: hi.
<scrottie> hi rindolf!
<rindolf> scrottie: are you the scrottie from use.perl.org?
<scrottie> yeah.
<rindolf> scrottie: ah, nice to meet you.
<rindolf> Well, chat with you on IRC at least.
* scrottie cowers from the swinging fist probably coming his
way
<rindolf> scrottie: I'm "Shlomi%20Fish"
<scrottie> oh, heh, thanks
<rindolf> It's a curse.
<scrottie> hmm. i vaguely remember interesting stuff from you but
can't honestly place what.
<scrottie> I know I've seen you around here before too.
<rindolf> Yeah, my use.perl.org blog is mostly technical and
perl-related.
<scrottie> I post on use.perl.org entirely too much.
<rindolf> So it may be a bit boring.
<rindolf> Sometimes it's a bit philosophical.
<rindolf> scrottie: yes.
<scrottie> heh. and mine is offensively off-topic.
<rindolf> scrottie: I have other blogs.
<scrottie> I've posted to livejournal twice!
-- I think too much - therefore I blog too much on Freenode's #perl
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<rindolf> Can we add styles like <b>, <i>, etc.?
<rindolf> Or colours?
<rindolf> Or blink?
<rindolf> Or images?
<rindolf> Or flash applets?
<scrottie> <banner>!
<alanhaggai> rindolf: No I think. Google's Web Application does not
allow them. It is just a <textarea>.
-- How intrusive do you want your text to be?
-- Freenode's #perl
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<rindolf> A lot of ise's [in Aspell's British Spelling checker] are false
positivies.
<rindolf> positives even.
<rindolf> People who say $minor_spelling_correction even, are lam.
<rindolf> lame even.
<rindolf> I never get tired of these self-referential jokes.
-- Freenode's #perl
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Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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