"Signs that you're a very special and boring hipster"
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It depends on both your reasoning behind it and if you constantly make a point of not listening to it.
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'up'
Do you mean moving the object or the scrollbar handle? It used to be the second one depressingly often…
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A hipster because you don't use emacs? Oh hoh hoh hoh, that's so fucking rich it should be William Henry Gates III!
Uh, yes. In this day and age, with a ton of awesome editors and IDEs, people are still using something derived from vi? Yeah, I call that hipsterism akin to the guy who made a bicycle from one of these (I can't find the actual picture ATM):
or a pennyfarthing.
Emacs is a bear to learn but it does everything.
Yes, I did know people in college who used it as their login shell. That's probably hipsterism of some kind, too.
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Or just stopped being a hipster and learned how to use emacs.
I'll take the hemlock cup before i learn emacs!
GIVE ME VI OR GIVE ME DEATH YOU HEATHEN SCUM!
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Or you could use nano, which is intuitive and simple and works for 99% of the population.
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nano is the one *nix text editor that isn't ass.
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Yes, and if that wasn't the first book you thought of, the article doesn't apply to you.
Oh, I guess I must be shit, because I thought of:
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constantly make a point of not listening to it.
Again, sounds too much like work. I guess I'm too lazy to be a hipster.
Oh, I guess I must be
shitnormal, because I thought of:FTFY
In this day and age, knowing about the Dragon book means that you either have an onion belt () or are firmly in Story of Mel territory.
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Can someone here give me a definition of ‘hipster’?
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a definition of ‘hipster’?
Someone who equates knowledge of obscurities with superiority, and loudly proclaims so to all in earshot.
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I thought he was referring to fantasy books, too.
Whatever, the article's shitty AND bad at communicating.
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Someone who equates knowledge of obscurities with superiority, and loudly proclaims so to all in earshot.
Like for example, they might belong to a steampunk club and go to obscure teahouses for fun.
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Or constantly rant about Mac Classic and how much better it is than modern OS's.
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I was using Mac Classic before it was cool.
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Commenting on the first post. The guy is a tool and I would activly pursue removing him from gene pool as a hobby. He's also a terrible writer and I would pay him stop writing if I couldn't ignore him.
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Can someone here give me a definition of ‘hipster’?
Someone who gets incredibly butt-hurt if you call them "hipster".
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Can someone here give me a definition of ‘hipster’?
More details on what @da_Doctah posted:
http://cdn.styleforum.net/9/98/98cff86a_funny-are-you-hipster-graph.jpeg
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Can someone here give me a definition of ‘hipster’?
A hipster is someone who was a hipster before it was cool to be that.
Every age has them. The people who feel they desperately need to be setting the trend for what is going to be the society thing. They don't want to be mainstream because that doesn't set the trend. They don't want to be at the peak of cool, or rather they do but can't afford the stupid amount of money that takes to sustain. Therefore they spend their free time trying to spot what will become cool soon and adopting it ahead of time.
But it is a pathological condition because they don't relax and ride through the peak and join normality. Instead, as soon as they detect what they are doing is becoming popular, that it will actually become cool, they transition onto the next thing. It's because they are addicted to being ahead of the curve. Of course, they sometimes get it entirely wrong too, and fashion goes in a different direction entirely.
Don't be too cruel to hipsters. They're sick in the head and can't help being annoying berks.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Dealing-with-dragons-first-edition.jpg
i like your taste in books.
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I was using Mac Classic before it was cool
and we're still waiting for it to be cool.
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@antiquarian said:
I was using Mac Classic before it was cool
and we're still waiting for it to be cool.
BOOM!
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I use pico more when I have to work on Unix.
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"This is recorded on sticky tape and rust" was said on "the secret life of machines", a tv show that told the history and operation of various inventions, like audio tape. They demonstrated how audio tape works by making their own with sticky tape and rust.
The Secret Life Of Machines - The Video Recorder Part-2 – 09:16
— mdftrasher
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Yah, I don't care. But thanks I guess?
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I do.
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The difference (to me) is that A) those sound like hobbies and B) nobody is saying "oh, I belong to a steampunk club, not like you'd understand that with your brainwashed mainstream media mind watching CNN 24/7 and not understanding the global issues that are caused by Ashton Kutcher's limp penis, and I love the Mac Classic, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet I don't know any more Latin
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In this day and age, knowing about the Dragon book means that you either have an onion belt () or are firmly in Story of Mel territory.
Then again, if people like Jeff actually did read the Dragon Book, maybe we'd have a sane Markdown parser and not the regex soup we have now.
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@Yamikuronue said:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Dealing-with-dragons-first-edition.jpg
i like your taste in books.Dealing with Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel written by Patricia C. Wrede, in which the princess Cimorene escapes her tediously ordinary family to be a dragon's princess.
Dear Lord, that makes Twilight look downright mature.
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Dear Lord, that makes Twilight look downright mature.
Depends on the quality of the writing, I guess. Good actual writing can make even a lame plot good to read.
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Dear Lord, that makes Twilight look downright mature.
read the book, it's much better than the synopsis makes it sound like.
at least within the realm of YA literature... it's not going to be Tolkien-esque quality because as mentioned before, YA literature, but it's still a good book.
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My pet peeve with the article is that it's overflown with American cultural assumptions. There are people who are international, for fuck's sake, we grew on other stuff.
Also, you know, I've never seen a single episode of Star Wars. I don't even fancy seeing them. I'm still a bit of a geek.
(Trying to cobble together a new custom controller for my dead Model M keyboard gives me up, I think.)
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My pet peeve with the article is that it's overflown with American cultural assumptions.
Those are just the illustrative indicators. The traits themselves are more universal than that.
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I've never seen a single episode of Star Wars.
the original trilogy are worth the experience, i'd recommend giving the prequels a miss.
no idea about the new one, between the prequels being shite and lucas arts (or disney, i really don't care who) suddenly retconning the ENTIRE expanded universe of books into non-canon status (yes they were canon before) i have negative interest in seeing the new movie, no matter how good it may be.
(Trying to cobble together a new custom controller for my dead Model M keyboard gives me up, I think.)
USB with N-key rollover?
if you manage it i'd like a wiring schematic if that's not too much trouble. i've got a couple of those still with the AT connectors on that i'd like to resurect
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USB with N-key rollover?
Nope, 2KRO at best. They use membranes. People experimented with diodes, but I personally have never run into a single problem with 2KRO.if you manage it i'd like a wiring schematic if that's not too much trouble. i've got a couple of those still with the AT connectors on that i'd like to resurect
If the original controller still works, head to Deskthority for Soarer's firmware, get a Pro Micro (or another Atmega32U4 board), and you only have 4 pins to solder. If you prefer an open source solution, TMK firmware is the way to go.My original controller seems really dead, though. So I need a complete new controller: the membrane connectors go in, USB HID goes out. There is a bloke making them in the US, but recently he doesn't reply to mails, so I don't know if he's alive at all and if he can produce one for me. Anyway, he published a schematic, too (http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/universal-model-m-controller-t9820.html).
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You worry far too much about that.
when you tell someone like Timothy Zahn that his books that were previously official Star Wars canon that now they are effectively fanfiction.... well yes i get a little emotional about that! Tose books were fantastic and expanded the star wars universe immensely.
not only that but the level of research and detail that went into them was phenomenal! unlike the StarTrek books each and every book was cannon and a huge amount of research went into ensuring that they all worked consistently with the core universe and with each other.
and now the owners of the copyright have decided that all that effort is worthless, because they don't want to be bothered to do their own research into those stories to make sure the new movies are consistent with the expanded universe?
FUCK YES I'M MAD ABOUT THAT!
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Proprotip: Be nice to secretaries in general.
Proproprotip: Just be nice/polite/understanding in general.
If you act like a dick to people, you can be sure that people will do the same to you. You never know when and with whom you'll have to cash in on some built-up good will.
( Pro^4tip: that doesn't mean "let people take advantage of you". )
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suddenly retconning the ENTIRE expanded universe of books into non-canon status (yes they were canon before)
I can't see how anything that isn't in the movies could possibly be canon. And even if it were, the entire history of books to movies should be enough to tell you that it's a good idea to throw it all out and start over.
and now the owners of the copyright have decided that all that effort is worthless, because they don't want to be bothered to do their own research into those stories to make sure the new movies are consistent with the expanded universe?
Did your books disintegrate when the new movie came out or something?
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I can't see how anything that isn't in the movies could possibly be canon.
it can be when the owners of the copyright declare it to be so.
i'll agree with you on the history of books to movies though. what makes a good book rarely makes a good movie and when it does it's inevitably mangled in translation.
Did your books disintegrate when the new movie came out or something?
no, but now they're not as valid.it's like.... hmm.... okay it's like this, you have a sports figure. let's call him Tom Tomson (i don't know any actual sports celebreties).
tyou are a huge fan of Tom Tomson and have a bunch of his collectable memorabelia.
now Tom Tomson swaps teams and the new team says that all existing memorabelia is invalid and no longer official because they bought the rights to that momorabelia so they can do that. wouldn't you be upset too?
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official Star Wars canon
It was never exactly canon, but it was never exactly non-canon. See:
The Holocron's database includes an area for a single-letter (G, T, C, S, N or D) representing the level of canonicity of that element; these letters have since informally been applied to the levels of canon themselves: G-canon, T-canon, C-canon, S-canon, N-canon and D-canon. [...] G, T, C and S together form the overall Star Wars continuity.
Books were only C-canon, unless they were graphic novels, which usually made them S-canon until they were referred to in a C-canon source, elevating them to C-canon. N is explicitly non-canon, and D is less canon than non-canon. Fanfiction would be below D probably.
What all this means is that anything in C-canon could be overruled without warning by a new film or TV special, and the writers just had to deal with it. So when Force Awakens came out, it invalidated pretty much everything in C-canon that was set post-Original Trilogy, and would have even without Disney's proclamation.
Disney just wanted to make it easier for the kids to follow along, so they declared G- and T-canon "canon" and everything else "Legends", which makes it easier to brand. People are still allowed to write Legends material; no idea if Disney is publishing much of it, but they didn't shut it down altogether.
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my cares for your
Very nice pedantry though. 8.773 out of 10, could use a touch more dickweedery.
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...what's my necktie got to do with anything?
Oh, I needed to hover over the dots, not the icon, mea culpa
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now Tom Tomson swaps teams and the new team says that all existing memorabelia is invalid and no longer official because they bought the rights to that momorabelia so they can do that. wouldn't you be upset too?
Possibly. But mostly, no. The closest I can think of is the opposite, where Kevin Anderson and Frank Herbert's son wrote a bunch of Dune books supposedly using Herbert's original notes and stuff. Some of what they wrote had echos of the real deal, but mostly it was crap. I, personally, don't consider it to be canon, and it really doesn't bother me much that it probably should be considered "canon."
It's all made up stuff, so there's no reason why I can't pick and choose what I like and enjoy it how I see fit. Not nearly the same as the origins of the word "canon": church law–where what's canon and what isn't actually makes a difference and an individual is free to pick and choose what to pay attention to.
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church law–where what's canon and what isn't actually makes a difference
Why would the canon of one fictional universe be more important than the canon of another?
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People (like me) grew up on that shit and got into technical fields because Tim Hunkin and Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard) made science cool.
Yes, people care. But you're too cool to care I guess? Hipster.
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My pet peeve with the article is that it's overflown with American cultural assumptions. There are people who are international, for fuck's sake, we grew on other stuff.
Um, actually, the fine article explicitly mentioned Red Dwarf and Monty Python, the only two television series (NOT SEASONS!!!) that were produced by the BBC. Unlike other uncultured Americans who rot their brains on empty calories like Jersey Shore or The Real Life, the author was watching REAL television (because they were on PBS and thus high class and cultured, so he watched them to be unique just like everyone else watching PBS).
And he was watching these shows YEARS before they were cool (even though it was years after the shows went off the air in the UK and finally made their way to the US-- sorry, "across the pond").
You have NO appreciation for the rich and deep cultural experience that he has. I bet you watch your anime with dubs instead of subs like a mouth-breathing mongoloid.
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Sometimes I wonder if Aaron Allston's heart attack was due to finding out Disney was planning on throwing away his life's work. The timing is about right.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
You have NO appreciation for the rich and deep cultural experience that he has. I bet you watch your anime with dubs instead of subs like a mouth-breathing mongoloid.
Never watched anime. O_o
Watched Monty Python, the whole thing, three years ago for the first time in my life.
And roughly at the same time, the classic Dr. Who.
Didn't get enlightened. The humor is good, so... what of it?(Returns to coding)