A board filled with plumbers. Said plumbers rarely do any plumbing.
They prefer to spend their money and life to buy new wrenches and make
sure they have the latest and greatest wrenches money can buy. They come to
/plumb/ to compare their wrenches and mock those of inferior wrenching capabilities.
Suddenly one of them gets hired to do plumbing. He grabs a normal wrench.
+It is steel. Not the perfect steel-titanium-vanadium alloy.
+It doesn't have grips.
+It doesn't have multitool qualities.
Yet the plumber does the job and gets paid. He comes back to /plumb/ and tells his story.
A storm of "theoretical plumberists" rush in the thread to note that his wrench is the shittiest
wrench the wrench industry has to offer.
"Get a proper wrench holder."
"I crafted my wrench my own from ingots! It has 0.01% faster twist"
"My iWrench is aerodynamic , I paid 1500$ for it"
"I just use my old MS-wrench to scare people off so I need it big and ugly"
"Yeah but how cool is your wrench when you try to melt it?"
>>1
its not about making money, its about wrenching an wrenches.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 6:07
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as wrench, is in fact, GNU/wrench, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wrench. Wrenches are not a profession unto itself, but rather another tool of a fully functioning GNU toolbox made useful by the GNU screwdrivers, wood screws and vital system components comprising a full toolbox as defined by PLUMBRSIX.
Many plumbers run a modified version of the GNU toolbox every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "wrench", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU toolbox, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a wrench and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the toolbox they use. The wrench is the main tool: the tool in the toolbox that allocates the screw depth to the wooden planks and graphic cards that you use. The wrench is an essential part of a toolbox, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete toolbox. The wrench is normally used in combination with the GNU toolbox: the whole system is basically GNU with the wrench added, or GNU/Wrench. All the so-called "Wrench" toolsets are really distributions of GNU/Wrench.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 6:12
At least the plumbers don't have to wear ties..
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Anonymous2010-03-28 7:20
Which still doesn't my question: Do plumbers read "Structure and Interpretation of Non-Newtonian Fluids" like we read SICP?
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Anonymous2010-03-28 8:45
Well I'd like to your question but I don't know the answer...
>>1
What are you on about? The generic wrenches get their full share of elitism around here. The only wrenches that are shunned are the ones made of plastic, and adorned with girly things.
[spoier]We also shit on plastic tubings.[/spoiler]
>>10
It's hard to take seriously a grammar nazi whose buttcrack is showing.
ITT a Java code monkey tries to pretend he didn't make some terrible choices in life by pretending there is only as much variability between programming languages as there is between professional-grade wrenches, even though he secretly knows he's trying to unscrew a bolt using plastic scissors.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 16:06
WRENCH MY ANUS
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Anonymous2010-03-28 16:34
OP is a C# or Java programmer and his post is just a disguised "C++ is dead" rant. Back in the 90s C++ and VB were the only game in town for doing anything in programming, which created a lot of butthurt as the complexities of a systems programming language was overkill for what it was being used for 80% of the time. Now all these enterprise programmers love to flaunt how C# does everything C++ did, but without the pain of memory allocation/deallocation, memory leaks, lost pointers, etc. So they take offense that people still use C++ and advocate its use. So really OP is just another tool fanatic trying to convert the masses.
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Anonymous2010-03-28 17:20
>>1
Normally I'm against this sort of thread, but I'll allow this.
A board filled with programmers. Said programmers rarely do any programming.
They prefer to spend their money and time to learn new programming languages and make sure they are using the latest and trendiest programming language. They come to
/prog/ to compare their programming languages and mock those of inferior programming language capabilities.
Suddenly one of them gets hired to write code. He grabs a normal programming language.
+It is java. Not the perfect programming language.
+It doesn't have closures.
+It doesn't have first class functions.
Yet the programmer does the job and gets paid. He comes back to /prog/ and tells his story.
A storm of "theoretical computer scientists" rush in the thread to note that his language is the shittiest
language the programming language industry has to offer.
"Get a proper development tool-chain."
"I write my code in binary, it has 0.01% faster execution"
"My IBM C++ compiler is super efficient, I paid 3680$ for it"
"I just use Visual Basic to scare people off so I need it big and ugly"
"Yeah but how cool is your Java when you try to decompile it?"
This has nothing to do with the language. The language in his metaphor would be the pipes the plumber is laying, each made by a different company, with different strength and weaknesses. The wrench is the IDE. The tool with which you lay the pipe. So basically all he is saying is stop fighting over what IDE to use \\ Faggots||
>>37
I'm not sure [functioncall][functionname]increment[/functionname][argc]1[/argc][operand][int][datamember][datastructure][type]player[/type][name]left[/name][/datastructure][membername]score[/membername][/datamember][/int][/operand][/functioncall] is part of the BBCode standard yet.