Out of alignment Unicorns can cause all sorts of undefined behavior

This post was tagged support and dupehammers by ShadowWizard so I would assume that there aren't any special conditions or anything along those lines.

Although, he is self admittedly a wizard...

true

I'll try again tomorrow after the 03:00 UTC scripts have run

On that note, I'm off to bed ...

o/ zzzzzzz

where z is a sleeping reference and not a reference to the set of positive integers.

shog9.com is an inkblot wrapped in a div hidden by jquery

It isn't fair to include Shog in this race. It'd be like Usain Bolt and I competing in, well, anything at all, actually.

The only way to win a Perl contest is to never enter.

I stopped learning new programming languages after c#

Every other language started to feel like a step backwards.

@Jon - If your sock wants to keep learning about Ruby, then the Standford public videos on programming are a good place to go. They are mostly a RoR shop, and their examples use Ruby for the most part.

C# just adopts bits of other languages when it can. C# 1.0 was crap, but it's gotten progressively better since then.

I think I came into c# at 3.0, and have been impressed ever since.

C# is actually ahead of the game in some regards now. The lambda syntax and async design patterns were only recently adopted by JavaScript (ref arrow functions and async/promises).

Although c#'s whole asp.net core (vnext) was inspired by node's middleware approach

async is a good move. Takes something that was possible for a long time but too much boilerplate (== opportunity for mistakes) and makes it simple.

I actually had to move web hosts because I liked async so much when it first came out.

Something I've noticed with C# is that it tends to add syntax when it makes something easier to do correctly, vs adding syntax that makes something possible (as is often the case in certain other languages beginning with C)

Yeah that does seem to be true. For example, it is possible to use methods or delegates instead of using Func or Action, it just isn't as streamlined.

Aside... Web devs sure do love boilerplate. Whether C#, Node, Webpack... The default setup assumes the thing you most want to accomplish is a lengthy, error-prone reiteration of what's already implicit.

I wonder if this isn't a generational nightmare born of Makefiles; programmers waking up in a cold sweat whispering softly, insistently to themselves, "DO repeat yourself. DO repeat yourself. DO repeat yourself."

As web developers, we know that it is impossible to make a wheel because that would require an infinite amount of angles, and we know that there is not an infinite amount of memory to represent such a set. Thus, we must all implement a wheel based on a finite amount of angles, to be determined individually by each developer on a case by case basis.

Looks like it's going to be a very silent Happy Hour...

using air horn to wake everyone up and leaves

@JeremyBanks Yes, on chrome, Windows, large screen size