The Nineteenth Byte

my father was a perl programmer my grandfather was a perl programmer my great-grandfather was a perl programmer my great-great-grandfather was a perl programmer...

RikerW

@quartata perl-haters

Alex A.

@anOKsquirrel You can do what my girlfriend and I do. Get a Mac, set up a Bootcamp partition for Windows that has everything but Steam removed, and just boot into Windows as needed.

RikerW

11:09 PM

@AlexA. Can I run my perl-hater bot for about a minute in here?

El'endia Starman

I have Java programs on my computer from 2007. 15 years old at that time.

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. but macs suck

RikerW

I don't like java.

@anOKsquirrel Offense taken

anOKsquirrel

^

El'endia Starman

Me neither.

Alex A.

11:09 PM

@RikerW I'll defer to @Dennis and @Doorknob.

@anOKsquirrel Incorrect.

El'endia Starman

It was one of the first languages I tried to learn, though. The other being C++, which was doomed from the start. :P

SuperJedi224

@RikerW Why not?

Nathan Merrill

I must be the only person in this room that likes both Java and Windows

RikerW

@Doorknob, Can I run my perl-hater bot for about a minute in here?

anOKsquirrel

@AlexA. Your statement stating I was incorrect was not correct.

SuperJedi224

11:10 PM

@NathanMerrill You're not.

anOKsquirrel

@NathanMerrill I like Java, but I'm bad at it

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel Thank you.

Alex A.

@NathanMerrill I despise Windows but I don't mind Java. (Haven't used it enough to really have an opinion on it.)

anOKsquirrel

@RikerW I was referring to a different comment, the hate java one

RikerW

Well, it turned out better this way.

El'endia Starman

11:11 PM

Then I actually learned TI-BASIC, and then I got a "Game Programming for Teens" book, whereby I learned Blitz Basic, then "3D Game Programming for Teens" half a year later taught me Blitz 3D, then my brother introduced me to Python and Project Euler about half a year after that...

He also introduced me to Blender.

RikerW

I like blender.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Project Euler is how I learn python.

Nathan Merrill

I've used Linux (Arch, Chakra, and Mint) and Macs pretty extensively

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Same.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:D

Nathan Merrill

11:12 PM

but windows is still my favorite

El'endia Starman

@RikerW What do you think of these?

SuperJedi224

One thing I don't particularly like about windows is that it always attempts to open javascript files in Windows Script Host. I could probably configure it not to, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

anOKsquirrel

lol yeah

RikerW

@El'endiaStarman Okay. You win by a very large margin.

@El'endiaStarman I'm not very good.

El'endia Starman

Ha, there's no "winning" here.

Only time and practice.

Nathan Merrill

11:13 PM

also, notepad++ is windows

RikerW

Only Golfing.^^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@NathanMerrill notepad++ is amazing and practical'

Alex A.

@NathanMerrill ಠ___ಠ

anOKsquirrel

What comes next in this sequence? 00000,11111,01111,10111,00111,11011,01011,10011,00011,11101,01101,10101,00101,1‌1001,01001,10001,00001

Nathan Merrill

I've used so many text editors, and they either require a high learning curve, or are buggy

RikerW

11:14 PM

I like TextWrangler

Alex A.

@NathanMerrill atom.io

sublime is good

@AlexA. buggy

False

sublime is my second favorite

Alex A.

11:14 PM

At least not on Mac

anOKsquirrel

@anOKsquirrel also, how did I get this sequence?

Nathan Merrill

the base editor doesn't have bugs

El'endia Starman

@RikerW The difference between "not very good" and "good" is pretty much just playing with it. Note that the time between the first image on that page and the last image is five years. Five years of making something every now and then, and pushing the limits of what I could do, Googling whatever I needed or wanted to know.

Nathan Merrill

but the majority of the plugins I want to use do

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel 0110

anOKsquirrel

11:15 PM

@RikerW nope, why would you guess that?

RikerW

@El'endiaStarman Okay, fear not, for I will be valient and continue.

Nathan Merrill

also, atom likes to get unresponsive all the time (on both Mac and Windows for me)

Alex A.

That's odd. Never happens for me.

anOKsquirrel

It actually crashed Firefox when I used it.

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel bc I googled it and found a sequence like it here.

Nathan Merrill

11:17 PM

@AlexA. it always happens when I haven't used it for a while, and try to switch back to it

anOKsquirrel

@RikerW I found it out in Minecraft, but I made a python program to do it. want to see?

0101

11110

@anOKsquirrel Sure.

sorry

@RikerW k

Nathan Merrill

11:17 PM

it takes forever to respond

El'endia Starman

@anOKsquirrel Binary, but reversed and complemented. Starting at 31 and adding 1 repeatedly.

Martin Büttner

@anOKsquirrel if you reverse and flip the bits, it's just counting up

anOKsquirrel

@El'endiaStarman is that actually it? I found it out in a different way.

Martin Büttner

ninja'd, damn

SuperJedi224

@NathanMerrill Notepad is neither.

anOKsquirrel

11:18 PM

that's how I found it out

Nathan Merrill

@anOKsquirrel because there are infinite amounts of graphs that pass through a finite set of points, any number is valid

anOKsquirrel

@NathanMerrill true

El'endia Starman

00000
11111
01111
10111
00111
11011
01011
10011
00011
11101
01101
10101
00101
1‌1001
01001
10001
00001

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel Did you just boot up minecraft and take a screenshot right now?

anOKsquirrel

yep

RikerW

11:19 PM

@anOKsquirrel overacheiver

anOKsquirrel

@RikerW yeah, why?

@RikerW that's how I found the sequence.

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel I honestly don't know. That was a random word that popped into my head.

quartata

Using WolframAlpha usually ends up with me getting progressively more and more frustrated at its attempts to be "smart" until I just end up inputting Mathematica expressions into it, thereby defeating the purpose of using WolframAlpha

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anOKsquirrel

@RikerW lol

I'm in space.

El'endia Starman

By the way, @RikerW, given your profile picture, you might be interested in my Exploring and Understanding Hyperbolic Geometry blog series.

RikerW

11:21 PM

@quartata lol

anOKsquirrel

anyways, going to go rest now. I'm sick so yeah

bye

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

bye! hope you feel better.

RikerW

@El'endiaStarman cool i'll look into it. It is my cat fractalized. (the picture)

anOKsquirrel

thanks :)

RikerW

@anOKsquirrel Goodbye, sir.

anOKsquirrel

11:21 PM

doxxes with the cat picture

bye

SuperJedi224

@anOKsquirrel Bye.

El'endia Starman

@RikerW It's not so much "fractalized" (which is kinda true) as it is hyperbolic geometry. Did you make it with an online editor/program? I think I've seen a couple.

RikerW

@El'endiaStarman Yes, and I have been trying to find the program I made it with for a while. If you know where, let me know.

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill This, while technically true, is almost never the right answer.

quartata

in Beep Boop Maggot, 17 mins ago, by Thatha

<Papyrus> @Thatha You're blue now.

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RikerW

11:25 PM

^^ and ^

quartata

Apparently my own bot tried to silent ping itself

30 minutes until my mortarboard wears off

se pls

RikerW

you at a graduation?

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quartata

Took me a second to get that

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata 32 minutes

RikerW

then what did that mean? You mean motherboard?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:27 PM

I need mortarboard XD

feersum

Try throwing it into the air. It may wear off faster that way.

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quartata

Oh, mortarboard is the 200 rep per day cap on SE

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

35 rep away

quartata

Did you not know what it meant?

RikerW

Nope.

quartata

11:28 PM

Oh.

Unintentional joke is best joke

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RikerW

True.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:40 PM

\o/ mortarboard!

El'endia Starman

Yay!

Excellent timing too.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I know :D

RikerW

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I have to say it. That is one weird emoticon.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@RikerW It is.

quartata

Quick question about this

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