Saturday, November 26, 2016
Github=Newspeak
Looking for answers to the odd 'overrunning' of some programs, I wandered through the usual forums on Stackoverflow and similar places. Didn't see any answers, but got reminded of the most annoying aspect of such forums.
They spend 90% of their energy REJECTING unfashionable questions. The instant universal response to every question is
WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?????
If your question is out of phase with Correct Forum Format, the forum will stomp on you. If you're trying to do something real with your computer, the forum will crush you. If you're asking about a program that hasn't been re-versioned on Github in the last millisecond, the forum will stomp HARD.
Aha. It's just like Newspeak. Ideas that are not precisely congruent with Party Orthodoxy as of the current millisecond are
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