>>1
You can read up on them, but unfortunantly you've missed the beat; you'll never be able to experience the joy of memes during their gestation period.
You probably won't believe me, but I've invented a few memes of my own. First, there's the forced indentation meme. Some guy posted a ``Bad things about Python" thread, which I proceeded to troll by posting ``One word, forced indenting. Thread over.''
After a while, I posted the extended version (``forced indentation of code...'') which literally spread like wildfire from then on.
There's also the ``My other car is a cdr'' meme. I created a ``Programmer's Joke" thread, where the two jokes I posted were ``My other car is a cdr'' and the dec 25/oct 31 joke. The former seems to have caught on quite well, the latter didn't do so good.
I think it was around that time someone began posting ``suave yoshi'' lisp, after someone's somethingawful forum avatar (it was, literally, a suave looking yoshi)
That's about all of the meme's I know of. There's also the Expert Programmer meme, which was based on a post about a guy writing an ansi c compiler when he was 12, etc etc... I'm sure we've all read that post and enjoyed a few laughs.
Oh, and of course there's the Touring Complete meme, ducks being touring complete, etc... I'm not sure how that one was formed.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 5:34
Oh right, I forgot to mention the recent Tuna Fish (failed) meme. I posted a second programmer's joke thread, this time featuring a line from the tunefs man pages ``You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish''
Unfortantly, by this stage most people had picked up on the whole forcing meme tactic, and so it didn't really catch on. Although a few people here seem to have accepted it okay.
From my short browse through /prog/ I've enjoyed the cultural uniqueness it has in relation to other boards, but I do get a sense of decayed former glory.
>>14
Hey, I made that post at late at night give me a break. I only really posted about the ones I had some personal involvement in, or which really stuck out to me. Yes, there is BBCode, No exceptions, forget it its np complete, enterprise scalable mission critical turnkey synergistic solutions, etc etc . . .
but they aren't as memorable as the ones I posted
I'M THE SUSSMAN
SON OF A BITCH ABELSON
ABELSON IS PIG
DO YOU WANT PYTHON?
DO YOU WANT FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE?
ABELSON IS PIG DISGUSTING
GUIDO VAN ROSSUM IS A MURDERER
FUCKING ABELSON
>>12 OKAY YOU FUQIN ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER
GODFUCKIGNDAMN
FIRST OF ALL, YOU DONT FUQIN KNOW WHAT A MAN PAGE IS
SECONDLY, THIS IS /prog/ DO NOT DEMAND USEFUL ANSWERS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO BE
THIRDLY PROGRAMMING IS ALL ABOUT PHILOSOPHY AND ``ABSTRACT BULLSHITE'' THAT YOU WILL NEVER COMPREHEND
AND FUQIN LASTLY, FUCK OFF WITH YOUR BULLSHYT
EVERYTHING HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED IN >>4,2
HI, I AM G.J. SUSSMAN, FOUNDER AND CEO OF SICP. WHILE LAMENTING OVER THE LACK OF FORCED INDENTATION IN SCHEME LAST NIGHT, YOUR MOTHER CALLED ME AND ASKED ME IF I WOULD BE SO KIND AS TO HELP HER WITH A SICP EXERCISE; BEING THE FINE GENTLEMAN THAT I AM, I PUT ON MY DAPPER WIZARD HAT AND ROBE AND WENT OVER TO HER HOUSE. ROGUISHLY SNEAKING THROUGH THE BACK DOOR I KNOCKED HER OUT WITH A CUDDER AND TORE THE GARMENTS OFF HER RIPE BODY. HER FULL BREASTS AROUSED ME TO THE DEGREE THAT MY EVALUATOR STOOD STRAIGHT IN THE TIME IT TAKES TO DO A LAZY COMPUTATION. NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTAIN MYSELF, I SHOVED MY RIGHTEOUS SUSSBOY IN THE MANHOLE OF THE FINE LASS. IT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT DESIGNED FOR A MAN OF MY OBSCENE GIRTH, AND SHE WOKE UP FROM THE PAIN. NOT CARING ABOUT ANYTHING BUT MY MANLINESS, I CONTINUED THRUSTING AS SHE FAINTED AGAIN FROM THE AGONIZING TORTURE OF THE TRIPEDAL CREATURE LOOMING OVER HER. IN A MINUTE I WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE WITH THE FORCE OF SEVERAL ANGRY SUPERNOVAS IN A SACK, -- THE FLOOD CAME, AND LIKE MOSES I CLEAVED HER IN HALF FROM THE SHOCK. NOT STOPPING, I SHOVED THE HOSE IN HER EYE SOCKET AND LET THE REST OF THE SAUCE ENTER HER SKULL. AFTER THAT I WENT HOME AND READ SICP UNTIL I FELL ASLEEP. I GUARANTEE IT.
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WE TRUE SMUG LISP WEENIES
WE READ SICP TOGETHER
WE COUNT PARENTHESES TOGETHER
send this SUAVE SPACE TOAD to every thread you care about including this one if you care. C how many times you get this, if you get 6001 your A TRUE SMUG LISP WEENIE
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HI, I'M PAUL GRAHAM, FOUNDER AND CEO OF Y COMBINATOR. I HAVE MADE MANY INSIGHTFUL STATEMENTS IN MY ESSAY ENTITLED "YOUR MOTHER AND THE 48 VERY SMART PEOPLE" AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK TREVOR BLACKWELL, ROBERT MORRIS AND JESSICA LIVINGSTON FOR HAVING READ DRAFTS OF THIS ESSAY, WHICH YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FIND WITH 21 OTHERS ESSAYS IN MY UPCOMING BOOK "HACKERS AND YOUR SISTER". I GUARANTEE IT.
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!!
ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
HAHAHAHA
YOU THINK YOURE THOUGH UH ?
I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU
THE FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE
GET IT ?
I DONT THINK SO
YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT MY OTHER CAR I GUESS ?
ITS A CDR
AND IS PRONOUNCED ``CUDDER'' OK YOU FUQIN ANGERED AN EXPERT PROGRAMMER
THIS IS /prog/
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POST HERE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SATORI
PROGRAMMING IS ALL ABOUT ``ABSTRACT BULLSHITE'' THAT YOU WILL NEVER COMPREHEND
I HAVE READ SICP
IF ITS NOT DONE YOU HAVE TO
TOO BAD RUBY ON RAILS IS SLOW AS FUCK
BBCODE AND ((SCHEME)) ARE THE ULTIMATE LANGUAGES
ALSO
WELCOME TO /prog/
EVERY THREAD WILL BE REPLIED TO
NO EXCEPTION
>>37
Maybe you did, but I've done it independently of you.
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:00
>>38
I have a morning ritual that I need to share. I call it 'the sussman'. First I crouch down in the shower in the classic 'I put on my robe and wizard hat' pose. With my eyes closed I crouch there for a minute, visualizing either Sussman or Abelson and I start to hum the SICP theme. Then I slowly rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me to proceed through my day as an emotionless EXPERT PROGRAMMER. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my sussman leg. It ruins the fantasy.
>>39
Once you've seen my copypasta once, you are tainted for life!@
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:09
I was at the mall today buying another edition of SICP (tryin' to complete my SCIP set) & this kid standing next to me in line at the book shop says "Man, that SICP is homo, you shouldn't be wasting your faggot cash on some lame fucking s**t crap like that. Fuckin' cocksucker." I turned around, saw no one, then peered down at a child who looked about 10 years old holding a java book.
I then got into a debate (for what seemed like 30 minutes or so) on the superiority of SCIP to his Java Reference. And at the end he just called me a "fag" and proceeded to punch my in the stomach. I finally crawled on my bruised stomach to a nearby mall cop, and pointed to that snot nosed brat, last I saw of him he was on the mall cops shoulder cying for his mother. Ha...kids..
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:11
Im looking for a SICP Box, it cant be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it first (i want to make shure it's kawaii (cute)). And it would be nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (korea) or whatever. I have found a SICP Box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i dont want my SICP to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii)
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:21
Okay, so my girlfriend was supposed to come over to my house today because I was going to go take her to a movie. She lives about 20 minutes away, and the movie we were supposed to see started at 4:15, which was in about 40 minutes. I figured "cool, I'll just read SICP while I wait".
So I'm reading SICP, and having a pretty damn good time. Anyway, she finally does show up, except she's crying as she walks into my room. Instead of doing the right thing by comforting her, I half-focus on my book and her. She starts telling me her cat died, and just as she was getting into it, I get into a rather interesting topic on the nature of time in concurrent systems.
Holy shit. I stare into my book in wonder, yelling "holy shit, YES", interrupting her mid-story. She sobs more, and she starts to yell "You don't even ****ing care! YOU JUST WANT TO READ YOUR ****ING BOOK!" I'm still looking at my book, still focusing on figure 3.29, when she walks over, and tosses the book against the wall. I run over and pick up my SICP hoping that she hadn't damaged it, and quickly noticed that a lot of the pages are now loose and fall out as I pick it up. My SICP and my hopes of becoming an EXPERT PROGRAMMER, gone forever.
I start screaming every obscenity I know, and started flailing my arms around. I didn't know she was behind me, and apparently I backhanded her in the face while I was being a dumbass and swinging my fists around. She yells out "**** YOU", and runs out of my house in tears.
What have I done? I've ****ed up so badly, and I need to know how to approach her. I don't want a read of SICP to be responsible for ruining my best relationship ever. Help me guys
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:22
>>42
What the hell do you put in your SICP box other than SICP?
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:31
I'm an Enterprise level programmer. I don't talk with you chumps in /prog/, I don't read your ``SICP'' with new ideas I saw forty years ago. I don't need to go to a board full of fat smelly people to watch SICP lectures all over again. I've got fuckin' live feed torrents of the newest Jython books you haven't even hear of, and books from said language being shipped to my house so I can masturbate on them. Go read your "On Lisp" on paulgraham.com, I'm downloading Java Enterprise Edition tutorials and reading the fucking specs.
You keep wearing your Sussman shirts and shit, socializing with your satori friends. I'll be walking by, Anonymous. You'll never know that the master of programming had passed you by, because I suppress my power level.
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Anonymous2007-12-11 10:31
I'm a Satori level programmer. I don't talk with you chumps in ``#java'', I don't read your ``sun.com'' with new ideas I read in SICP forty years ago. I don't need to go to a board full of fat smelly people to watch Solaris lectures all over again. I've got fuckin' live feed torrents of the newest Lisp books you haven't even hear of, and books from said language being shipped to my house so I can masturbate on them. Go read your "Beginning Programming with JavaTM For Dummies®" from amazon.com, I'm downloading DrScheme and reading the fucking R6RS.
You keep wearing your Java shirts and shit, socializing with your Enterprise friends. I'll be walking by, Anonymous. You'll never know that the master of programming had passed you by, because I suppress my power level.
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Anonymous2007-12-11 11:14
/r/ the /prog/-unrelated copypasta about a fat guy that falls and dies while the ambulance drivers laugh at him.
wat about ducks being touring complete? HALP ME ACHIEVE SATORI MASTA PROGRAMMA!
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Anonymous2007-12-13 17:14
>>52
Ducks are touring complete.
A duck can swim either up or down an infinitely long river. At any given stage, he can:
1) Quack
2) Eat
3) Take a shit
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Anonymous2007-12-13 19:00
lol, OP is one of those newfags that read every page of Encyclopedia Dramatica before going to /b/ and reposting everything he read. Welcome to the internet, this is how things are done.
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Anonymous2007-12-13 19:02
>>54
LAAAAWWWWL :AWESOME: LULZ LIVEJOURNAL DRAMA FURRYS AIDS HABBO HOTEL LUUUUUUULLLLZ ;____;