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If you could sum up /prog/ in a few words

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 14:26

Syntax Error

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 14:31

Segmentation Fault

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 14:36

I can sum it up in ONE word: The Forced Indentation of Code.

Thread over.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 14:39

somenoe was being a TWAP on IRC so I PWUNED them

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 15:26

/prog/is/prog/
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Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 15:29

Unscientific and ultimately destructive.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 15:52

Trolls trolling trolls.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 16:21

A flag on the moon.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 16:50

Satori

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 19:05

Dragons dragoning dragons.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 20:08

Basement dwelling cretins.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 20:22

b000000000000b1e5

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 20:32

00x0

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 20:33

More then meets the eye.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-18 23:59

Look at it this way.

On most browsers, you can bring up your browsing history by pressing Control-H. (No, this is not going to become a discussion of werecows.) On Firefox, this brings up a sidebar that shows up on the left side of the window. If you put your mouse over the edge of the sidebar, the cursor will turn into a different kind of arrow. By clicking and dragging it, you can move the edge of the sidebar back and forth. You are, to put it another way, manipulating the border between the normal window and the history window. By moving the mouse, you can increase the portion of the window devoted to either part. In a more extreme view of this situation, you're increasing or decreasing the amount of existence the sidebar has.

Now, let's apply this idea to something more abstract. Look out your window. If you don't live in a highly urbanized area, you should be able to see the horizon. Think of this as the border between the land and the sky. The land and sky are obviously distinguishable thanks to this boundary. Now, if you were to "drag" the sash between the sky and the land, or to manipulate the border between land and sky, you would end up causing the sky to become larger and the land to become smaller, or vice versa. An effect of this might be to cause something that was just on the ground to suddenly be hundreds of feet in the air. Truly a frightening situation to be in. So, look at it this way - manipulating the border between two physical things shifts whatever balance there is in the interaction between those things. Alternatively, by manipulating the border between two things, you can change the manner in which they exist.

Still, this isn't *that* abstract, since it's still dealing with real things in the real world. Many believe that in this world, there are those things that are true, and those that obviously aren't. This divides reality into two extremes: truth and falsehood. But, since we have two extremes, logically one can imagine a boundary between those two extremes - the border between truth and lies. If one were to manipulate this border, suddenly things that were pure fantasy (flying pigs, for the sake of argument) have become reality - or things from reality have ceased to exist. This is how Yukari is said to have invaded the moon - by manipulating the border between truth and lies, as applied to the reflection of the moon on a pond, she was able to make the reflection of the moon into a manifestation of the actual moon, and so send her youkai army onto it. This is what's truly amazing about Yukari's power - the ability to manipulate the border between completely abstract concepts allows her to fundamentally change reality as we know it (at least in terms of two abstract concepts).

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-19 1:32

>>ALL THREADS
>>1-1000
0/10

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-19 5:52

Sooo friggin tired of it

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-19 7:21

cons car cudder

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 14:01

Fail.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 15:57

>>15
/prog/ == /jp/?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-21 17:42

>>20
You have cause and effect backwards.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 18:38

smex?

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-23 20:10

>>20
I copied that from the Poo Shiner Touhou image board.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-16 23:13

Lain.

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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 0:06

Don't change these.
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