echo

Wow this is a really big room

Yes, Alice.

But not if you drink this potion.

@Færd Oh, thanks, it's fine now. I just mentioned it as a warning. Sometimes you have an ear infection and don't know it because the pressure actually prevents the pain somehow, and you don't even know there's pressure until you hiccup or something to release it then--Ouch! I was concerned that the pressure may already be there, just not noticeable without the ear plugs in. A good family doc should have a device to check the pressure, just in case.

@Mitch Stranger Things has happened... It's obviously an ode...enjambed? It's cute when men think they've invented something...or think they're Russell Crowe...or more attractive than Johnny Depp...or Beetlejuice.

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Hi

How would you perceive the difference between wicked awesome and awesomely wicked?

@Mitch and now it's gone. so much for your reversal! better luck next time.

@user1357113 wicked awesome means "very good" whereas "wickedly awesome" means "awesome in a wicked way". awesomely wicked on the otherhand means "wicked in an awesome way".

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@SmokeDetector If there were any evidence I'd say that's guy who asked about rhyming schemes

@MattE.Эллен weird that it took so long. Should have been closed as 'proofreading'.

Also, I just noticed that you gave it the title that made it answerable.

Also, those guys have no idea. The text got pretty 'salty' but there are degrees, and that was only a 7.

@MattE.Эллен This latest one is actual lyrics from published music. I'm not totally convinced it is the same person, because the deleted one seemed original.

@KannE I haven't seen the second season, so...

@Mitch that's true.

@user1357113 'wicked awesome' is a thing that people actually say earnestly or probably say more often to sound like lower class Bostonian, and 'awesomely wicked' has probably never been said by anyone ever. Maybe a reviewer of the latest hit Broadway musical in Newsweek magazine.

spot the odd one out: "wicked awesome", "wicked sick", "wicked candle"

The last one. No one uses candles anymore.

a wicking candle, though, keeps the melting wax from pooling in ugly places.

@Mitch but the apocalypse is coming! look how cold the north of the USA has become!

also, kids these days say 'sick' to mean 'cool' or 'righteous dude'

candles will be essential

@Mitch that's why I chose it. I'm down with the kids

@MattE.Эллен Kids get out of school ('Awesome!'), and get to play Nintendo all day or whatever the technology of choice is.

phone games?

That just seems wrong.

stick and hoop is still popular, isn't it?

@Robusto and @Robusto are the vocal gamers here, maybe they're young enough to know. Have they started shaving yet?

top Oculus Rift game of 2020: virtual stick n hoop

@MattE.Эллен Haha yes for the vulgar dirt-cheeked street urchins.

@MattE.Эллен I'd... no, I wouldn't play that.

it's also the only Oculus Rift game of 2020, so...

I tried to play hypernom, but my phone is more than three weeks old so it didn't display well.

hypernom is the travel through a 4-D platonic solid and visit all the cells.

Hypernom? all I see on duckduckgo is pictures of shoes

That dude is totally going to walk into the real life brick wall

I am not a prude: I am an ex-pat New Yorker who manages to work "fuck" into every other sentence. However, recently we have had some middle-schoolers trying to participate here, and this question is not something I would want to show off to my children as an example of what we are all about here. – Cascabel

Dude...you're totally a prude.

Hey, I'm a poet and I don't know it!

If I take the time I can make it rhyme.

maybe yo should ask about rhyming schemes

I'm thinking of bowdlerizing the text and resubmitting.

:D

Replacing *** with $&%&%^&#

Saucy!

I should avert my gaze... but I can't!

stupid VR web

Wait...how, in the practical sense, does anything get more than -3 score, when it becomes mostly invisible then?

I guess... um... well however many people required to offensive-flag it to deletion would have been the majority

I know it's 3 spam flags, but it might still be 6 offensive ones

no, it's only 3

it had 6 spam/offensive flags over all, but 3 were dismissed

I don't think Cascabel was wrong in connecting it with 'middle school' because "haha I said 'poop' ". And there were a lot of problems with the presentation (1st time user, unclear what asking, provenance, etc), and content (parts...um most was surely awful). But the question was answerable and closing/deleting it was culturally questionable (like defacing nudes in cathedrals (but like we know what that painter was up to))

yeah. if the OP had edited the excerpt to be less vulgar, noone would have batted n eye

My guess is that the passage was so long that it took a full day before one person actually read it through entirely and realized that this was putting down in black and white thoughts they had had but couldn't rhyme them.

:D

it's not like it needed to be vulgar to demonstrate the types of rhymes

@MattE.Эллен I've been trying to deteenagerize it, but the rhymes are hard to replace and sound like an old dude trying to turn a frown upside down.

@MattE.Эллен the first line is pretty good, but then veers off into ... other things pretty quickly.

Dan Harmon had the same problem when he tried to improvise raps on his podcast, they'd always be vulgar, even though that wasn't what he meant to do

lol "improvise raps". wadyamean you can tell I'm white?

haha. I get sunburn thinking of the outdoors.

My answer actually had a perfect white-ism, I ended it with </monocle drop>.

:D

but XML tags that aren't recognized are just ignored and unwritten entirely.

did you open with <monocle drop> ?

um... wait, what's the XML for a stand alone tag with no attributes?

<blah blah/> ?

Dang, I'll have to ask on SE

yeah, except the space isn't allowed

<blah_blah/>

Isn't there an AI that programs using SE?

@MattE.Эллен duh

I knew that

I did hear about that, but I don't know what it is

If I get a compile error I randomly permute characters until it works.

Then ship it.

why compile when you can get your users to check it?

Retroactively call it 'beta'

it's early access

it's a privilege to run my untested code!

Shouldn't 'pull request' be called a 'push request'?

maybe

I think it's more like "I request you pull my code"

One should be able to pull with no justification at all, but then people should go wild looking at your code if you try to push.

@MattE.Эллен Oh.

This language thing is new to me.

but I could be wrong

Oh

Dammit

So you've been on the job 48 hours. I guess you're 'training' at the moment?

I've had a fair few induction meetings

onboarding

But I'm working on the code base. Mostly just trying to figure it out

indoctrination?

innoculation

even well written code is hard to read

yeah

@MattE.Эллен Free immunizations are great

I will get a free hep b vaccination, because we work with machines that come into contact with human livers

I totally get that especially if it is a food processing unit.

You have to wash those things down all the time.

the only downside so far, other than having to leave the house to work, is SVN. I'm not looking forward to my first merge.

@Mitch human liver is not food?

@MattE.Эллен Have you used git before?

@MattE.Эллен '...especially...'

@Mitch all the time. merging ins fine!

Oh. I kind of like SVN in realtion to git because I'm feeble minded. I understand what SVN is doing.

Every time I try to push in git, everything falls apart and I have to restart from scratch.

I have found SVN frustrating because with tortoiseSVN it's too easy to accidentally commit everything

Oh.

like my whole my documents folder

and I have to have an empty folder to start a repo

@Mitch we seem like opposites. this is my experience with svn

In my engineering design philosophy mode, I'd say that that problem is a sign that the tool is great but needs a layer of forcing for the most common pattern. Something to force you to do things the right way (but if you need something else allow it)

some may think I'm torturing myself, but I like emacs' git extension "magit"

@MattE.Эллен Emacs is a guilty pleasure.

@MattE.Эллен svn is bad, but for serious torture you need ClearCase. I didn't use anything but hg or git for the latter part of my career.

hg is nice.

@Robusto VIM is just guilt

it's a bit simpler than git, at least the windows plugins made it seem that way

@MattE.Эллен Yes. Not as full-featured, though.

yeah

Someone said git is Macgyver, hg is James Bond.

Kinda fits.

@Robusto I've tried to use emacs mode in Eclipse, but it's like using your weaker hand to write

@Robusto hg will shoot you in the face?

@Mitch Once the IDEs took over, the world experienced a catastrophe.

@Mitch If you can't commit, yes.

@Robusto Really? I think they made things a lot easier for programming.

@Mitch Some things, sure. Not typing.

@Mitch I tried eclipse for a bit, but because of an essential plugin for android dev it kept crashing, so I gave up. Android Developer Studio is good, though. It's based on netbeans, so I guess that must be good, too

@MattE.Эллен I think any IDE has the features needed

When I used emacs in the 90s, I never had to lift my fingers from the keyboard.

MS Visual Studio has a long history of being great. XCode is great.

ever since VS consumed resharper, it been the best .net dev tool

Emacs/fingers vs IDE/mouse is like the archetypal power struggle of love vs power.

@Mitch There are so many things I hate about VS.

I haven't used it in over 10 years, though, so maybe it's changed?

I'm talking about the whole history of it.

I hated their grep search, and their formatting.

oh sure.

@Mitch I was going to upvote your hip-hop flow answer, but it disappeared. Even though I thought it might be ADHD or something else.

The problem with MS tools is that they really really think you oughta do things their way.

@KannE Cascabel's answer was also relevant (and I would have upvoted his) but the whole situation is problematic.

The passage was interpretable as 'doggerel' from outside that poetic community

But that's like calling Dryden or Milton a bunch of couplets

For IDEs, IntelliJ was definitely better than Eclipse. But I'm glad I don't have to do Java anymore.

@KannE as to ADHD, no, it totally sounded like hip-hop. For white people, it was a lot like Eminem's freestyle (and his competitors') in Eight Mile.

What I use now is Komodo. I like being able to do macros in JS or Python.

Just saying stuff off the top of your head, which for most late teen/early 20's is potty mouth stuff.

The young dudes are not thinking about Paradise Lost, they're thinking ... ugh ... they're awful.

@Robusto Sure, the whole MS mindset is intellectually insulting, like they know better.

@Mitch Yes, I liked his answer too. I was going to answer: an enjambed ode to Winona Ryder...and delete it immediately, but I'm glad I didn't get the chance. I just couldn't take it seriously.

But credit where it is due, VS is infinity better than Notepad++

@Mitch That's the problem with hip-hop...if it just sounds like it...it's just an ode to hip-hop...and, in this case, to Kim in Edward Scissorhands...and Maximus Decimus Meridius, I think...and whatever movies were on Showtime at the time.

There are a lot of problems with the content of hop hop. But the poetic nature is better than anything for a long long time.

Just reading some. OMG the lyrics are awful.

Could someone please answer this?

@MattE.Эллен Ohhh... Cascabel put a meta question about it with attracted all the downvotes and the flags too. Makes sense. It was all self-promotion anyway.

@Mitch yeah. I think the OP wrote the verse and wanted to post it seomewhere

in the center of ...

at the center of ...

It's a classical learner's question and has certainly been discussed numerous times on the main site. But still.

@Færd the only one that works without an article is town

Right!

But not with at?

at works with room, town, table, maybe city, country, oven

Hmm.

@MattE.Эллен Oh btw those are nouns coming after the head phrase, immediately or not, counted in a corpus.

Just to be clear.

@Færd I figured. noone would say "the cake is in the centre of table". they'd at least need to say "the cake is in the centre of the table"

Right :)

@Mitch I still like a leaner platform that lets me be the main plugin.

@Mitch Oh, God, you had a discussion about code editors and I wasn't there.

And it's too long and unclear to read it backwards.

What's the conclusion?

I'm still using Sublime; should I switch?

@Cerberus I don't think any particular conclusion, just something vague like 'most IDEs are better than OK', whichever one it is.

Even MS Visual Studio.

And I mean that to sting.

@Cerberus Probably fine to stick with.