<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: dude, my sister turned 17 this year.
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: like, my youngest sister.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I didn't even remember that you had siblings
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: because when we met that sister was 8 :) and i never talked about them because the other two were 16-17 and 13/14 respectively :)
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
erinspice's daughter is like, 11 now or something? I think
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
idk it blows my fucking mind
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
this child that was born when I was friends with this person, is now *a whole person of its own*
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
fuuuuuu
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
help AVL tree, rotation, rebalancing
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I care zero about these things
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I am clearly a bad computer scientist
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
It's *amazing* how out-of-touch my *entire thought process* seems to be, going to a comp-sci programme at A School™
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: i have two neices and two nephews now.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
like, everybody, everywhere, every moment, is all about PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
no fucking wonder All Programming Sucks.
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: existential angst about people aging is totally my jam.
<gq>
ELLIOTTCABLE: yuuuup
<gq>
my courses on codeacademy are so sad looking
<gq>
also i poked my github today
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
everybody's being inundated every moment with the assumption that Priority Number 1 of their program is having some clever data structures
<gq>
because ELLIOTTCABLE i was looking at your twitter and noticed the pronoun thing.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I haven't heard the word ‘user’ from an instructor's mouth in a single class in my entire programming career.
<gq>
bahaha yes
<gq>
the user is a person who must be lured
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
made happy*
<gq>
"this is how to build a website." "what is a website?" "sometimes people visit it." "what kind of people?" *endless programmer dudebro jokes*
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
making beautiful, happy-making products has little-to-nothing to do with performance -_-
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
performance matters … after literally almost *every* other concern
<gq>
i'm stereotyping. i'm sorry :)
<gq>
++
<gq>
++ ELLIOTTCABLE
<purr>
Let it be known that gq loves ELLIOTTCABLE.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
you can start thinking about performance shortly before colouring the bike-shed, but immediately *after* literally every other single goddamn thought and conversation? /=
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it's weird because when I talk to my professors *in person*, we're all on the same page, and excited about the same things
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
it's neat: I've amassed a little clique of professors who love PLT, or hate the institution of mathematical notation
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
being an older student is cool, because it gets me *even more* attention (to the level of friendship) than even being white/male/financially-secure gets me.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
lol ‘read-eval-pride loop’ I roffled
<purr>
LOL
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
thx purr
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
-what
<purr>
<prophile> is the Y combinator defined on boobs?
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
there's pseudo-APA, to the extent that I could stomache it, with a few intentional violations
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Not The Version Getting Turned In™
<gq>
oh god what a throwback
<gq>
i had to download that, then 'use system viewer' which opened fucking internet explorer/microsoft edge
<gq>
we have linux on this computer but It's Complicated
<gq>
no no no ignore me i'm reading it
<gq>
COMORBID
<gq>
oh god that's the word i always want and can never remember
<gq>
when i'm trying to explain to doctors why "no this med fixes the mania but gives me a raging case of the PTSD 'oh god every male i see is going to rape me'"
<gq>
gonna tattoo that on my forehead
* gq
shutting up and reading
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