purr changed the topic of #elliottcable to: a
_better_ cult || topics << 'gamedev'
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Nuck>
So when did this room start talking about gamedev
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Nuck>
I thought it was all about anally fisting programming languages
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devyn>
neither gamedev nor programming languages
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Nuck>
Oh god kernel stuff
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devyn>
just got back into it actually
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Nuck>
I've spent all day working on Rails stuff
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devyn>
memory management was... daunting, but tackling that now
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Nuck>
Up to about 12 hours now
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Nuck>
It's okay, it's a labor of looooove
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Nuck>
Because I know when I launch this feature the users will be all over muh d
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devyn>
I don't love rails much. I do love ruby though. Sinatra is good.'
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Nuck>
I have an awkward relationship with rails
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Nuck>
Like, I love that it really does make building huuuuuuge things so easy
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Nuck>
But it sucks the fun out of programming so often
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devyn>
it's just a new java
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Nuck>
Nah, Java didn't make building huge things easy
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Nuck>
It made them classier
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Nuck>
by which I mean having more classes
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devyn>
anyway gtg bbiab
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purr>
Nuck: com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState
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devyn>
but Java when used right is decent. in very large projects with ridiculous amounts of people
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devyn>
which shouldn't really happen anyway, but hey
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Nuck>
Java is a throw-people-at-it-until-it-works
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devyn>
I guess it matters sometimes
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devyn>
pretty much
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Nuck>
And add a few XML files just to be safe
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devyn>
that's why IE took so long to get good
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Nuck>
It's the ultimate engineering project
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devyn>
I looked at the credits for Internet Explorer 4
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devyn>
it was like fucking 100 people
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devyn>
I'm sure it just got worse over time
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Nuck>
Honestly, that seems small for a browser team
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devyn>
but now they have a tiny team working on it and it's okay again
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Nuck>
Because browsers are such enormous beastly things
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Nuck>
Rendering engines have become probably the most complicated thing in the OS outside of kernelspace
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devyn>
they are, but I don't think it's beyond the scale of 16-20 people to do when you have other things to copy
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Nuck>
IE4 wasn't really "copy" though
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Nuck>
It was "invent"
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devyn>
yeah, but then the web was much less complicated back then anyway
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Nuck>
That was late 90s shit
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devyn>
anyway, bbiab
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Nuck>
Definitely, but even the simplest things were complex back then
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Nuck>
ie text rendering
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Nuck>
proportional fonts, especially spline-based fonts with multiple weights, were a recent development in the era of IE4
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Nuck>
So the interfaces were less refined as well
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purr>
Nuck: a good sandwich
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Nuck>
-find factory
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purr>
Nuck: Found: abstractsingletonproxyfactorybean
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Nuck>
-find abstractsingletonproxyfactorybean
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nuck>
... I just got a legit asl PM on Freenode
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nuck>
and it's not a spambot
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nuck>
I'm just so confused because like... this is
*freenode*
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nuck>
Who would want to cybersext with freenode users?
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nuck>
'sup elliott
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nuck>
oh my god that gallery wow
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