What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit.
Utility is not the end goal of everything.
Utility is not the end goal of everything.
And maybe Gladwell-esque light stories suitable for our Powerpoint pitch.
An extremist point of view should always be taken as sarcasm (or more accurately, as pisstake). Extremism should be derided as facile and ridiculous, but kind of funny - just like sarcasm. It is absurd whether the proponent regards it as such or not and as such should be treated with the sense of humour it deserves.
At one point, scientists were 'extremists.'
In regards to your example, the broad assumption that they ever were regarded as such is predicated on the fact that they tend to present their findings before their research. Extreme findings, if they are facile, ridiculous, and also kind of funny, deserve derision in the absence of research to back them. Once the research is presented, the minutiae of proof of cause and effect shifts the relative position of the audience to occupy previously questionable ground.
Wow, I obviously put way too much thought into what was a just stray musing ;)
Derision is not extremism, that is to bastardise the meaning of both words.
If the target is an extremist, I absolutely think their view should be dismissed and suppressed. However making fun of their point of view - particularly in mistaking their argument for obvious trolling/sarcasm - will render it unusable or counter-productive as evidence of suppression.
As to the last point http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA
When reacting to people and teasing/making fun of them or deriding them, keep this in mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allport's_Scale
See above re: relativity.. plus I would note that the very definition of extremism means it is only relative insofar as it is a long way from everything else, which pretty much rules out edge cases. Allport's Scale was new to me, thanks!
The only thing that bothers me about Dogescript is that the joke is too forced. The typical Shibe pictures are just "wow", "such X", "very Y", "wow"; when one adds in the "shh", "plz", and "rly", and (even worse) starts crafting a coherent sequential story, it removes the humor from the doge meme.
[1] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004442.h...
http://cdn.runt-of-the-web.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...
While I agree with you that this is forced and cancerous, it's pointless to care about it.
As RMS once wrote, "Hacking included a wide range of activities, from writing software, to practical jokes, to exploring the roofs and tunnels of the MIT campus." (http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html).
Moreover, no cognitive system of canine can corroborate this as a valid dialect of canines. It's English-projection. At best it's mockery of canine dialects.
I really wish I hadn't deleted that program.
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> you did.I'm getting so sick of "sprints" and Trello cards and test-driven-hubris... The Internet is falling apart; economies are going ape-shit everywhere...
The least we can do is preserve this beautiful craft of programming, and have fun with it. Rather that deluding ourselves into believing that we need yet another Search-for-the-Thing-in-our-Company's-Metadata app.
I particularly enjoy the ingenuity of some constructions in there :
such nested
plz console.loge with ['so', 'wow']