Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Off-topic] Loss of humour
John Melesky
> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing
> IRC quotes.
Are you perhaps thinking of the "Quotes of the Week" section in the
Haskell Weekly News?
Back issues seem to be at http://sequence.complete.org/hwn if you want
to check.
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Miguel Mitrofanov
> to Lambdabot's quotes database, but on my system, clicking this link
> just displays a few hundred pages of gibberish. Is this normal?
Of course it's not. But deciphering is very simple, it's named "gunzip".
Andrew Coppin
>> Also... the current Humour page on the Haskell wiki contains a link
>> to Lambdabot's quotes database, but on my system, clicking this link
>> just displays a few hundred pages of gibberish. Is this normal?
>
> Of course it's not. But deciphering is very simple, it's named "gunzip".
Right... so why does it have the MIME type "text/plain"? o_O
(Also... how do you know it's ZIP, and not, say, gzip, bz2, RAR, LHA...?
I can't see anything that looks like an identifying header in there.)
Jeremy Shaw
Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC
> on earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it
> down. (In particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a
> typical Haskell newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well
> it amused *me* anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?
http://web.archive.org/web/20070609061216/http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/QuotesPage
j.
Jefferson Heard
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Coppin
<andrew...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC
> quotes. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished. I can't remember where on
> earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it down. (In
> particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a typical Haskell
> newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well it amused *me*
> anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?
>
> Also... the current Humour page on the Haskell wiki contains a link to
> Lambdabot's quotes database, but on my system, clicking this link just
> displays a few hundred pages of gibberish. Is this normal?
>
> As I final note...
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Humor/Goldilocks
> Damn, I wish *I* thought of that! ;-)
>
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Andrew Coppin
> At Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:45:56 +0100,
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
>> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC
>> quotes. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished. I can't remember where
>> on earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it
>> down. (In particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a
>> typical Haskell newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well
>> it amused *me* anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?
>>
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070609061216/http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/QuotesPage
>
LOL!
Thanks, that's the one...
Miguel Mitrofanov
On 24 Jul 2008, at 00:45, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
>>> Also... the current Humour page on the Haskell wiki contains a
>>> link to Lambdabot's quotes database, but on my system, clicking
>>> this link just displays a few hundred pages of gibberish. Is this
>>> normal?
>>
>> Of course it's not. But deciphering is very simple, it's named
>> "gunzip".
>
> Right... so why does it have the MIME type "text/plain"? o_O
Probably because it should be in "Content-Encoding" header.
See, most web browsers are capable of gunzipping content - but only if
they know it's gzipped, so they look at the Content-Encoding header,
and if it's present and says "gzip", it decompresses the content. This
is perfectly safe, since before receiving content browser lets the
server know it accepts compressed pages (by sending "Accept-Encoding"
header), so the server knows it can send compressed content.
> (Also... how do you know it's ZIP, and not, say, gzip, bz2, RAR,
> LHA...? I can't see anything that looks like an identifying header
> in there.)
Hmmm... your "file" tool doesn't know about gzip archives?
Benjamin L.Russell
<andrew...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Jeremy Shaw wrote:
>> At Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:45:56 +0100,
>> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>>
>>> A while back I found a page somewhere containing some rather amusing IRC
>>> quotes. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished. I can't remember where
>>> on earth I found it, but I've scoured the Internet trying to track it
>>> down. (In particular, it contained a quote of somebody impersonating a
>>> typical Haskell newbie - lots of enthusiasm and no attention span! Well
>>> it amused *me* anyway...) Anybody have any ideas where this has gone?
>>>
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20070609061216/http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/QuotesPage
>>
>
>LOL!
>
>Thanks, that's the one...
You're referring to this one from that page, right?
> Ninja Jones does a not-too-far-off parody of a certain flavor of visitor to #haskell
>
> *** highlyInterested (~ijones) has joined channel #haskell
> <highlyInterested> hi! I'm highly interested, but have no attention span!!!
> <highlyInterested> Can anyone help me?!?!?
> * highlyInterested runs around!!
> *** highlyInterested (~ijones) has quit: Client Quit
-- Benjamin L. Russell
dermiste
--- Michael Schuerig <schu...@acm.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
> wrote:
> > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
> and
> > you could only master *one* language as your
> weapon of
> > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
>
> Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
> seem to be somewhat
> conservative and CL beautifully captures the
> anachronistic elegance and
> power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
> generations might choose
> more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
> among the contenders.
xD
I love this guy
Benjamin L.Russell
wrote:
>The sixth quote :
>
>--- Michael Schuerig <schu...@acm.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
> > wrote:
> > > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
> > and
> > > you could only master *one* language as your
> > weapon of
> > > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
> >
> > Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
> > seem to be somewhat
> > conservative and CL beautifully captures the
> > anachronistic elegance and
> > power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
> > generations might choose
> > more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
> > among the contenders.
>
>http://www.xkcd.com/297/
But you missed the punchline:
> seen on The Pragmatic Programmer's yahoo mailing list:
>
> From: Ronald Legere <rjl...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Jedi Programming (was: [pragprog] Common List or Dylan?)
> To: prag...@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 03:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Reply-To: prag...@yahoogroups.com
>
> No no no, a jedi master must fashion his
> OWN language.
>
> <*grin*>
>
> --- Michael Schuerig <schu...@acm.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:27, Edward Wilson
> > wrote:
> > > The real question is: if you were a Jedi Knight,
> > and
> > > you could only master *one* language as your
> > weapon of
> > > choice, what would it be--Common Lisp?
> >
> > Probably. In particular, considering that the Jedi
> > seem to be somewhat
> > conservative and CL beautifully captures the
> > anachronistic elegance and
> > power of a programming lightsaber. Future Jedi
> > generations might choose
> > more modern weapons; Haskell, OCaml and Oz being
> > among the contenders.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
Jason Dusek
<shapr> in a strict language, you can't easily play with infinite lists
<dark> In a strict language, you would write that as "6" :)
--
_jsn
Gwern Branwen
> <shapr> for example: "head (filter (\x -> x > 5) [1..])"
> <shapr> in a strict language, you can't easily play with infinite lists
> <dark> In a strict language, you would write that as "6" :)
>
> --
> _jsn
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