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<Nuck> Wow.
<Nuck> Apparently the Selective Service System got my address wrong, in sending my registration acknowledgement card
<Nuck> So the envelope with my draft confirmation has been sitting in the abandoned house next door for, oh, 6 months, at least?
<Nuck> Not to mention the fact that I've had to register no less than 3 times, because their system lost the registration the first two times
<Nuck> This is fucking pathetic
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<purr> <alexgordon> elliottcable: 1. seduce isaacs, 2. change the name
<alexgordon> Nuck: what's with that anyway?
<alexgordon> why does the US still have a "draft"?
<purr> <elliottcable> I think John Mulaney is turning me gay.
<Nuck> alexgordon: Because.... I honestly don't know
<Nuck> We don't use it, it just sorta... sits there
<Nuck> Last time it was used was Vietnam
<alexgordon> lol
<purr> lol
<alexgordon> you think they would have learnt from that eh?
<Nuck> Using the draft to fight a war that doesn't affect your nation = bad idea
<Nuck> Thus Vietnam failed miserably
<alexgordon> yeah
<alexgordon> tbh "fight a war that doesn't affect your nation = bad idea"
<alexgordon> *cough* iraq
<Nuck> Yeah, but that was voluntary
<Nuck> At least the people fighting in Iraq signed up for it.
<Nuck> The people fighting in Vietnam didn't even sign up for this shit :P
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<Nuck> How did I live before vim?
<vil> Nuck: I've been wondering the same thing
<alexgordon> vim is like a drug
<alexgordon> you were doing fine before, but now you're addicted
<vil> absaolutely
<vil> ABA SOL UTE LEY
<Nuck> Absynthlutely
<Nuck> Reasons why I can't use anything but vim now: (1) nesting it in tmux, allowing splitscreen between running and writing (2) :r! (3) dd (4) Gundo
<Nuck> :r! pbpaste <3
<alexgordon> lol
<purr> lol
<Nuck> I mean, it's Cmd+V in most things, but this works just as well :P
<alexgordon> Nuck: not hardcore enough. Try writing your own editor
<Nuck> Why write an editor when you could just configure Vim to make your own :D
<Nuck> Or use emacs' write-my-own-editor command.
<alexgordon> Nuck: you haven't written an editor until you've written a syntax highlighter!
<Nuck> Well, a syntax highlighter is basically just a configurable tokenizer, right?
<alexgordon> lol Nuck
<purr> lol
<alexgordon> Nuck: yes, and one that has to run in real time
<alexgordon> if it takes more than 1/30 of a second, you're dead
<Nuck> alexgordon: True, but you should be able to know the diff between last and current run and then be able to narrow the tokenization based on that
<alexgordon> nope
<Nuck> Why not?
<Nuck> How can a token 500 chars in affect a token 100 chars in?
<alexgordon> it can't but a token 100 chars in can affect a token 500 chars in
<Nuck> True
<alexgordon> which means if you type at the top of the document, you're doomed to reparsing the whole thing
<alexgordon> which works for documents under say 1000 chars
<alexgordon> after that, it's a losing battle
<alexgordon> to do it in under 1/30 of a second, anyway
<Nuck> And technically
<alexgordon> of course, there's a way around that
<Nuck> It doesn't matter
<alexgordon> it doesn't?
<Nuck> If it takes 1/2 a second, as long as you do it in a separate thread and retain the current stuff
<alexgordon> sure, as long as you don't have a twitter client
<alexgordon> otherwise prepare for complaints
<alexgordon> *twitter account
<Nuck> It's just highlighting. You can be looser
<alexgordon> lol, you haven't met your average programmer
<purr> lol
<Nuck> As long as you're not freezing up (*cough* Chocolate *cough*)
<alexgordon> Chocolate? what's that
<Nuck> Er, Chocolat
<alexgordon> ;)
<Nuck> Fucking French
<alexgordon> also chocolat doesn't freeze up
<Nuck> It did when I used it.
<Nuck> It did *a lot*
<alexgordon> when was that?
<Nuck> Like, 6 months ago
<alexgordon> what were you editing?
<Nuck> Some JS I think
<Nuck> Nothing big
<Nuck> Every time I'd type it'd lock up
<alexgordon> well it's not a common problem I've heard of
<Nuck> I was giving it a chance to replace Sublime
<Nuck> Didn't work out
<alexgordon> was maybe 18 months ago
<alexgordon> but not now
<Nuck> Ended up back to Sublime, but nowadays I just use MacVim for a GUI editor, and Vim for a terminal editor
<Nuck> And VSVim or GVim for a Windows editorD
<Nuck> Oh, also, vim.
<alexgordon> oh well, it's tough enough making it work for me, if it works for other people it's a nice bonus
<Nuck> haha
<Nuck> At least you dogfood it :P
<alexgordon> at some point it just becomes easier to drive more people to your site than to fix the non-reproducible bugs people get
<alexgordon> there's a certain opportunity cost (to use HN's favourite phrase) in fixing bugs
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<purr> <alexgordon> tried vim, it sucks
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<purr> <elliottcable> IT WAS AN ARDUOUS TASK ... BUT I HAVE FOUND PORN INVOLVING CLOACAS.
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<Nuck> Great, now my phone wants to restore apps that had been deleted for *years*
<Nuck> Just because the app backups were on my computer and hadn't been updated since I switched to mac
<purr> <inimino> Actually elliottcable is narcissistic too, but it's more endearing because he's insane.
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<whitequark> Nuck: *still* trying to restore it? :D
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<purr> <IamTash> what's klined, hobbits?
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<purr> <Navarr> i'm wondering if #Paws isn't really a language, but a state of zen
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<gqbrielle> 'lo nerdlets
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<whitequark> ohai
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<alexgordon> sup gqbrielle
<gqbrielle> hallo.
<purr> <brr> elliotcable is *really intelligent*
<whitequark> wlat, again
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<purr> <brr> is prophile a bot too
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<purr> <micahjohnston> I'm about to code all of Paws in an hour