A tale of 132 e's

I loosely followed this after seeing the repo. Once it was taken down I made an organization and repo in honor of it: https://github.com/Ifyoudonotwantpeopleusingthemaximumchar/a...

e38e had become much like https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen or https://github.com/jackdclark/five in my opinion. Except instead of being a silly NPM package it was a silly Rosetta Stone of programs that returned "e" in some way. The only difference was the ridiculous name that used the full character limit.

The Conway's Game of Life mentioned at the bottom of this blog was a thing of beauty, so I hope the creator is able to get an archive and recover it.

E: Turns out the Repo is back up. So here's Conways Game of E: https://github.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/eeeeeeee...

Incredibly disappointing response by GitHub support. Making up a bullshit limit that is clearly not the least bit based on reality given the massive number of projects that violate it.

> “We’d ask that you limit the organization and repository names to 10 characters each for now.” - GitHub support https://linuxwit.ch/assets/github-email-3.txt

Another update, it's now archived: https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/everything-that-lives-is-de...

> I then did the most chaotic neutral thing I could and created the longest possible repository name.

This sentence just made my day. Thanks for posting.

The HN title should be changed to "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee".

Many people may not know that in the olden days, a disk was formatted with all bytes in all sectors set to hexadecimal E5 (11100101). When dumped, or looked at with a hex/ASCII editor, the E5 was displayed as 'e' because nobody cared about extended ASCII back then (and Unicode did not yet exist). So to me, a Github repo name with all 'e's is a pretty cool thing.

It's pretty puzzling that somehow this repo became polarizing. It seems entirely harmless and silly.

This is a thing of pure beauty: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3859/49709410-c842...

The GitHub support response makes me incredibly sad. Programming is supposed to fun.

The origin of the letter "e" might be helpful in the interpretation of this event: http://www.templestudy.com/2008/02/17/the-origin-of-the-lett...

I think the most interesting part, that I don't fully understand as yet, is that it cannot be cloned, apparently, but people are making pull requests, so they must be using lower level mechanisms to achieve it.

There should be another such account, but pirate themed and based on "r"

I’m eeeeeeeeeestatic its back up

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Eeeee ee eeeeeee eee Eeeeeee Eeeeeee! E eeeee!!!

This is some heavy-handed testing & I love it. I think it's an instant classic.

aww, thought this was going to be a story about 132 molly adventures! maybe not the right forum..

> Someone asked “what it is supposed to represent that an employee of a large company is making such a garbage repository” as if my employment at a massive dystopian megacorporation quickly taking over the world has anything to do with this.

That if you were an intelligent person, you could in the past be a doctor or a lawyer and also a philosopher. But nowadays, all the intelligent people working for Amazon and Google think they have philosophizing opinions.

But unlike past professional disciplines, computer science, I.T. and STEM stuff is actually so removed from society, that these people have nothing really valuable to add to the daily conversation in society at all. So instead, they engage in the massive production of one-dimensional "hot take" content, broadly called "Irony" or "weird Internet." This provides the facade of meaning to their otherwise obviously finance and prestige driven lives.