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textarcana / slack_loading_quotes.txt
Last active May 2, 2018 05:45
Slack loading quotes. There is a way to insert them programmatically but there are only 150 of them so why bother to script it.
When the going get weird, the weird turn pro. — Hunter S. Thompson
Moving Heaven and Earth without effort is simply a matter of concentration. — The Way of the Samurai
The problem with intelligent communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw
Why is it that every time I try to build a thing of beauty I find a mob with pitchforks and torches outside my castle??? — Victor Sussman
The Three Virtues of Programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. — Larry Wall
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textarcana / lol.md
Last active January 13, 2020 15:20
The most comprehensive list of programmer jokes on the internet. Period. (Comprehensiveness of this list is in no way guaranteed. Statements of comprehensiveness are not meant to imply comprehensiveness. Use jokes at your own risk.) LICENSE: Creative Commons Sharealike

Comprehensive list of programmer jokes

How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one. But then the whole house falls down.
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. That is a hardware problem.
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
This is a known issue. When we installed the lightbulb we knew it had a finite TTL.
How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
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textarcana / jq_recipes.sh
Created March 25, 2017 02:58
JQ Cookbook Examples by Noah Sussman
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -x
# jq Recipes
# _ _____ _
# (_) | __ \ (_)
# _ __ _ | |__) | ___ ___ _ _ __ ___ ___
# | | / _` | | _ / / _ \ / __|| || '_ \ / _ \/ __|
# | || (_| | | | \ \| __/| (__ | || |_) || __/\__ \
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textarcana / devops_borat.dat
Created March 7, 2017 09:10
The wisdom of Devops Borat (RIP, may Taichi Ohno himself carry him into Valhalla!) condensed in fortune cookie format without any @ messages included. Just the goofiest random shit :)
I remember very clear I cry when I finish volume 3 of Knuth.
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I am work on CSS SQL.
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First sign of depression in devops is denial: you start of ignore Nagios alert.
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In devops language is not success unless is another language++.
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In devops you are addict to graph if first thought after orgasm is send duration and intensity to Graphite.
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textarcana / 1-1000.txt
Created August 28, 2016 20:01 — forked from deekayen/1-1000.txt
1,000 most common US English words
the
of
to
and
a
in
is
it
you
that
1 .["_links"]
1 .["_links"]["comments"]
1 .["_links"]["comments"]["href"]
1 .["_links"]["commits"]
1 .["_links"]["commits"]["href"]
1 .["_links"]["html"]
1 .["_links"]["html"]["href"]
1 .["_links"]["issue"]
1 .["_links"]["issue"]["href"]
1 .["_links"]["review_comment"]
2 .[n]
2 .[n]["_links"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["html"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["html"]["href"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["pull_request"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["pull_request"]["href"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["self"]
2 .[n]["_links"]["self"]["href"]
2 .[n]["body"]
2 .[n]["commit_id"]

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textarcana / anagrams.txt
Created October 29, 2015 18:16
Anagrams for Teachers Pay Teachers
Wordplay Version 7.22 03-20-96, 1991 by Evans A Criswell
University of Alabama in Huntsville criswell@cs.uah.edu
Candidate word list : no
Anagram Generation : yes
Adjacent duplicates : yes
Vowel-free words OK : no
Max anagram depth : 32

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

by Eric Raymond

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on. >