They let you hang out in the basement. They feed you Cheeze-Its and Mountain Dew. When you show them your latest bash script (which cleverly reverses the output of somebody else’s “Hello World!” program. You are still working on your own “Hello World!” program), they smile and say “That’s nice, dear!”
When you bring back your 50m breast-stroke certificate, with “50m breast-stroke” crossed out and “MSc (Computer Science), MIT: Magna cum Laude” scrawled over it in purple crayon, they say “We’re so proud of you, sweetie! But remember, being happy is the main thing in life!”
What’s not to like about Mothers?
Some Loons take this to extremes and go for GrannieLove™. That’s a little disturbing.
But not quite as disturbing as someone dear to the heart of this site, who borrows a sibling’s Windows computer and trolls Piestar using Internet Explorer 6.
Yes, it’s SisterLove™!
Ark, Ark, Ark, Arkansaw!
I think I’ll just keep Mum.
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There’s an incredibly stupid version of this challenge on GoogleDocs, btw. Check out this.
But can it be made recursive, asks the author?
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Wow… now this is deep and disturbing…
And makes me wonder, What does big FLOSS project leaders do for a living? Projects like GNOME, KDE, ALSA, OSS, X/Xorg…
And once you take those out, what’s with the next most active developers… If their live like this (which now I think is very likely) then …
Bear in mind that I am not accusing Adam King of interfering with either of his grannies in any way. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships).
I have no idea whether his (older, if it helps you picture the relationship) sister even likes him. Presumably not, after he was so rude about his faux pas on Techrights.
But you never know with Adam, do you?
He’s quite mouthy about other people’s supposed defects … although I’m sure that is purely out of love for his fellow humans, not some sort of twisted desire to cover up his own personal misdemeanours.
And I’m sure he loves his Mum. Also apple pie, as long as the Apple in question is out of a dumpster.
And why would you think I was talking about Adam anyway?
This could be about almost anybody.
Why, it might even be about Hans Reiser.
Oops.
Well, Age disparity in sexual relationships is playing it softcore on the freedom fighters.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_sex
As far as I’m concerned Adam may keep the whole range of examples named by Stallman around his house and claim he keeps them for great justice. Better keep some death leaves on my drawer
http://www.stallman.org/articles/texas.html Search for Rhinophytonecrophilia
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer
I used to borrow my older sister’s copy of “Jackie” — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_(magazine) — because it had photo-stories teaching girls how to snog. No word of a lie. Apart from the fact that I don’t have an older sister, and I’ve never read Jackie.
This is infinitely more disturbing.
And there’s nothing wrong with having nasal sex with plant-life, as long as it’s consensual on both sides.
But … “Stallman does Dallas?” Has anyone let the Grassy Knoll know?
“My dismay was quieted with a check larger than I had expected for the whole time originally planned.”
But I thought the whole point of Free Software was that you don’t need to throw money at a programmer — a decent living is enough?
Presumably, overcome by remorse, RMS handed the excess over to the Hare Krishnas at Dallas Fort Worth on the way out. After all, one good Cult deserves another.
“My dismay was quieted?”
Jesus. And people accuse me of flowery writing.
“Down boy, down! Quiet that dismay! Out on yonder blasted gorse is Heathcliff, roaming like a WiFi beacon with his faithful hound from hell, an Introductory Offer to Active Directory!”
“There were certain people at TI who were excited about the chance to talk with a truly legendary Lisp machine expert…”
What, Stallman? The one who refused to come out of his cozy little nook at MIT and actually join either of the Lisp Machine companies?
Wow. Just wow. Texas was throwing money around for absolutely no reason in those days, wasn’t it?
In PHP you could just use a built-in function to reverse strings. No complexity needed.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strrev.php
$adamkings_sh1t = “'Adam King rulez’ ~ Adam King”.
strrev($adamkings_sh1t)
If only I knew that already.
It would make the entire post redundant, wouldn’t it?
This is a very cool program – in the GoogleDocs. On prima vista I guess the author havent heard of buffer overflow or strncpy (although fun things can happen with the string termination). Yeah, I havent read the whole stuff, Im lazy.
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