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you get jacob geller's latest, Art for No One

side note: this thread is significantly closer to its 20-year anniversary than it is to the 10-year anniversary mentioned in the title. if this forum is still around in two years we will see that time come

I insert a half-eaten box of assorted cookies from walmart

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: March 24, 2024, 02:58:05 PM »
that's because there is an element of loveual tension to every political debate. if someone told me you spent that much time arguing with nerdy men and didn't come out some kind of gay I would be surprised.
kind of gay to say that

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:59:16 PM »
ftfy
it's all different types of gay babes. love that for u tho

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: March 18, 2024, 02:18:11 PM »
master matthew loving gayyyyyyyyyy


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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 15, 2024, 11:21:25 PM »
I do web development, i love react and stuff like that (especially svelte baby hell yeah baby) (also preact is good if you're really a fan of the react model but want Faster). I agree with aide that it's definitely the best Run Everywhere solution. ultimately ease of development is an important trait, leads to more maintainable software with fewer bugs. like you may think modern software is buggy but if facebook had to make their website in C it would not be capable of the kinds of widespread sociological influence that it is because you just wouldn't be able to use it

although there definitely is a problem with developers (in general, but as a web dev myself i feel entitled to say that it's especially bad in this field) simply not caring about software quality and performance and resource management. a degree of performance issues is caused simply by the use of these higher level languages which hide a lot of it from you, but i would venture to say that most of it is just because devs don't care enough. lack of unit (or other forms of automated) testing is like a forgetin epidemic. there's almost none anywhere. trying to find an employer that cares about it is a pipe dream these days. including it on his little list is the only good thing joel spolsky ever did for the software industry (and contributing to the founding of stack exchange was one of his worst)

electron is bad in the way that it's like, a single runtime, but every single application has its own instance of it. that's just loving stupid. like we knew better in the 90s. there's no real excuse. otherwise however it's a pretty good way to develop a piece of desktop software that's trivially multiplatform. as long as you care. but if you don't care, then it doesn't really matter what you use to make it, it's gonna suck anyway. but for this reason I generally just advocate for making websites. everyone can use whatever runtime they want and frankly you can do just about anything. I feel like the number of things you genuinely can't do in a browser that you can with a piece of desktop software is pretty low and mostly nonessential

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Off Topic / Re: Akira Toriyama passes away at age 68
« on: March 08, 2024, 08:01:04 PM »
damn

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Off Topic / Re: What happened in your birth year?
« on: March 06, 2024, 08:51:52 PM »


What
didn't mention it to me, but it definitely just got it from the referer [sic] header. nothing weird going on

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 03, 2024, 04:13:11 AM »
i love ruby on rails!!!
how can you love ruby on rails. have you used it

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 03, 2024, 04:11:47 AM »
you're insane

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: February 27, 2024, 01:21:11 AM »
ruby on rails. it's not really a trend anymore but im still stuck with it at work and it sucks. forget you dhh. bitch

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Forum Games / Re: Word Association
« on: February 17, 2024, 11:48:23 PM »
cats

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Forum Games / Re: Word Association
« on: February 17, 2024, 01:34:24 PM »
kiss

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General Discussion / Re: someone's out here making some bangers
« on: January 31, 2024, 11:01:45 PM »
that's pretty good actually

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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: January 30, 2024, 11:13:21 AM »

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That is not what abstaining means.
oh I misread your post entirely, I thought you meant "woulda been better to abstain cause [if you had switched votes] then it would be a tie"

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