Gabrielle Vaughn: elliott?
Gabrielle Vaughn: goddamn neil patrick harris
Gabrielle Vaughn: and you
Gabrielle Vaughn: for ignoring a girl in need of emotional bandaids
Gabrielle Vaughn: if not real ones
Elliott Cable: SORRY
Gabrielle Vaughn: NO.
Elliott Cable: HE'S HOT
Gabrielle Vaughn: YOU'RE NOT.
Elliott Cable: hahahahahaa
Gabrielle Vaughn: ...
Quote:

sketching shapes then erasing the dumb bitsEnd quote.

—Jenna’s estimation of how you make Art
Quote:

What do monsters have nightmares about? Me!End quote.

—The Doctor — 2.04 “The Girl in the Fireplace”, Doctor Who

bait 'n' switch to the elliottcable platform

elliottcable: I've developed an interesting habit, it seems, over my time as a coder.
elliottcable: I usually don't like the way things are done, in general. I seem to disagree with people a lot.
elliottcable: My solution thusfar, has been to work like a maniac to make myself indespensible in said community; then produce an assload of really useful shit.
greyface: heh tell me about it
elliottcable: But then I go and make that shit require that the people do things *my* way.
elliottcable: I essentially write "coder DRM".
greyface: it's a bit of a problem though
greyface: like, I just can't use most of the libraries out there
greyface: cause when I look at the code
greyface: I'm like, err no - there's a better way to do that
elliottcable: I make the Sugar manager, and the Ruby sugar, and the Regex sugar - and I make them all awesome - but I require that you do things my way. It's sort of a bait and switch.
greyface: lol
greyface: hehe
greyface: a bait to switch to the elliottcable platform
elliottcable: fuck yes
elliottcable: I'm going to quote you on that somewhere, somewhen
Quote:

I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project. I am not beginning a search for like minded developers to avoid duplication of efforts. I am not showing up at someone else’s door hat in hand, asking for commit access.End quote.

Alan, regarding GitHub (via the GitHub blog)
Quote:

More significantly, the fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.End quote.

Quote:

That might be brilliant. I can’t tell.End quote.

William Golden Wilkins (in reply to an idea I was trying to explain to him).

It perfectly explains everything about me and my ideas.

Quote:

Romanians are awesome.End quote.

—anonymous

I just lost what?

Mikael: hey dude
Mikael: you just lost The Game
elliottcable: I what?
Mikael: lost The Game
elliottcable: lost what?
Mikael: http://tr.im/uja?wikipedia
elliottcable: http://tr.im/ujc?grabup
Mikael: wtf o_O
Mikael: WTFF
Mikael: … do you have some sort of filter on tharr or something?
elliottcable: Word filter on what?
elliottcable: http://tr.im/ujh?grabup
elliottcable: That wikipedia page you linked me is pretty fucked up.
Mikael: ffs
elliottcable: What's it supposed to be talking about?
Mikael: http://tr.im/uji?grabup
Mikael: The FUCKING GAME
Mikael: oh shit
Mikael: it's filtered out EVERYWHERE
Mikael: WHAT THE HELL
elliottcable: That picture you sent me, wtf? http://tr.im/ujj?grabup
Mikael: I know
Mikael: I'm asking if you have a filter
elliottcable: Filter for what?
Mikael: The string "The", followed by “Game”
Mikael: with spaces inbetween
Mikael: you saw those, right?
elliottcable: "" + " " + "" == " "
Mikael: FFS
elliottcable: So we're talking about a space?
Mikael: SERIOUSLY
Mikael: no
Mikael: oh wait
Mikael: you didn't see the words af “lost” in my fucking SCREENSHOT either?
Mikael: … you must be trying to fool me
elliottcable: what the fuck?
elliottcable: I have no idea what you're on, dude.
elliottcable: But you're tripping pretty bad.
Mikael: no seriously
elliottcable: Do I need to call denmarkian 911 or something?
Mikael: that's 112, btw
Mikael: and no
elliottcable: then do I need to call that?
Mikael: some weird shit is happening …
elliottcable: Well I dunno you're usually all perfect on grammar and shit, but you're saying weird shit and freaking out <,<
elliottcable: Drink some coffee?
Mikael: okay look
Mikael: I'm sending you a *photo* from my iPhone
Mikael: surely those cannot be filtered
elliottcable: filtered from what?
Mikael: trust me, two words are being filtered
elliottcable: I'm so confused
Mikael: um
Mikael: what's the length of the string "the"?
elliottcable: uh Fixnum 3
Mikael: how about "The"?
elliottcable: same dude
elliottcable: wtf are you on
elliottcable: seriously
Mikael: relax
Mikael: I'm trying to get to the bottom of this
Mikael: two words are being filtered somehow
elliottcable: bottom of what?
Mikael: how about "Game"?
Mikael: 4 or 0?
elliottcable: the former, are you retarded?
Mikael: no
Mikael: okay
Mikael: Now I'm gonna write "The"
Mikael: then a space
Mikael: then "Game"
Mikael: then an exlamation mark
elliottcable: yeah we already went over this
elliottcable: that's a space
Mikael: The Game!
elliottcable: yep
elliottcable: and?
Mikael: … what?
elliottcable: " !"
elliottcable: Where is this going?
Mikael: FFS
elliottcable: I'm so very confused
elliottcable: I also think you're high
Mikael: okay something is REALLY
Mikael: REALLY wrong
elliottcable: TJ used to act like this
Mikael: I'm not high
Mikael: jI know perfectly well when I'm high, thank you very much
elliottcable: ookay
Mikael: check your email
elliottcable: I'm going to go back to my regexen now … let me know when you're sane again …
Mikael: I am sane, ffs -_-
Mikael: if anything, *you're* not making sense
Mikael: You can see the word “The” right?
Mikael: and the word “Game”
Mikael: then why the fuck can't you see “The Game”?
elliottcable: You're pattering on about the government filtering me or something
elliottcable: And and yes I can see them, if by 'word' you mean 'string'
Mikael: who the hell mentioned the government?
elliottcable: though I wouldn't really call an empty string or a whitespace-only string a 'word'
elliottcable: You should be using StringRay
elliottcable: It's smart, it wouldn't evaluate whitespace or the empty string to a number of words.
Mikael: oh ffs
Mikael: ["T", "h", "e", " ", "G", "a", "m", "e"]
Mikael: that array should contain a bunch of one-letter strings
Mikael: first three with a-zA-Z
Mikael: then one with a space
Mikael: then another four of a-zA-Z
Mikael: does it?
elliottcable: arr.group_by {|e| e } # => [" "], ""=>["", "", "", "", "", "", ""]}
Mikael: what.
Mikael: the.
Mikael: fuck.
elliottcable: one of a single whitespace, a bunch of empties
elliottcable: why?
elliottcable: what teh balls are you on about?
Mikael: look
elliottcable: are we going towards a golfing topic of some sort?
Mikael: I'm sending you an email now
elliottcable: this sounds like golfing
Mikael: of a picture taken by my phone
Mikael: I'm looking at it now
Mikael: and the line after “hey dude” has exactly five words
Mikael: get it yet?
elliottcable: I see three words, I think.
elliottcable: it's blurry as fuck.
elliottcable: http://tr.im/ujw?grabup
elliottcable: What's a "spillet"?
Mikael: okay, that's obviously been photo manipulated
Mikael: And I'm *pretty* sure it's you doing it
elliottcable: I can't believe it took you that long.

…but I'm busy being awesome

subtleGradient: i really need to learn C from the ground up
subtleGradient: but I'm busy being awesome