Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
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Alrighty then, xposted!
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This showed up in my feed and immediately reminded me of Swampy:
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I can't get the hang of this disco thing. When I hit End, it seems I can only reply to the last comment, not to the topic itself. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I hardly ever post here, but to this "search" monstrosity I am somehow compelled to. I can't decide if this is the funniest or the saddest thread I've ever read.
Dear Swampy
I wrote my own share of bad code, during my seven year stint using crystal meth, but never, not even when I was awake for 8 consecutive days, high as a kite and out of my fucking mind, I really mean it - never, was I ever as fucking deluded as you are.
Never, no matter how fucked I was and no matter how badly I tweaked, did I ever go so far down the wrong road with such obsessive enthusiasm as you have with your software or your video-making-madness. Never.
When I first read your rants, I thought maybe you were using too many hard drugs, but even that wouldn't explain it. It astounds me that somebody can go through life, just drifting along, not quite functioning but somehow surviving, when they are obviously so far removed from reality - so far removed that they will probably never find their way back. Somehow you do remind me though, of a phrase that I came up with in my active addiction:
Life is always a grand adventure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Get some help.
Jerome
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I can't get the hang of this disco thing. When I hit End, it seems I can only reply to the last comment, not to the topic itself. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
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I can't get the hang of this disco thing. When I hit End, it seems I can only reply to the last comment, not to the topic itself. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
.. he said, as he replied to the topic, instead of the last post...
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Actually I started replying to the last post, then cancelled, hit Home, started replying to the topic, then cancelled because I wasn't sure what "Reply as linked topic means" - it looked like it was going to quote the whole thing. Then hit End again, and pasted my copied comment after hitting Reply to the last comment.
Hence my statement that I can't get the hang of where the fuck this reply is going.
[Edit... oh fuck, that REPLY button at the bottom. Apparently I thought I didn't notice it, while somehow clicking it the last time. I'm confused. It reminds me of my bad old daze that I mentioned in the first place.]
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I wasn't sure what "Reply as linked topic means"
It would make a whole new thread that was also a reply to this thread. You didn't want that in this case :) If you see threads that start with "in reply to" quotes, that's how they did that.
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I can't get the hang of this disco thing. When I hit End, it seems I can only reply to the last comment, not to the topic itself. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
YMBNH
But yeah, everyone
lovesDiscourse.
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If you see threads that start with "in reply to" quotes, that's how they did that.
DYM "Continuing the discussion from..."
</useless pendantry>
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Hmm... I don't spend a lot of time on forums. So discourse is no newer to me than any other... Also my brain is tired... just had a 3 hour code review for something I wrote 6 months ago,.. (Long story.)
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everyone Discourse.
http://www.teamasunder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Zelda3.jpg
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@Yamikuronue whats a stalfos?
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To keep your in at night. Hey, no drumroll emoji? Damn... well, still better than Dicksores
I just hope we haven't summoned Swampy from his slumber in R'lyeh... BTW, did anyone ever try to get Swampy and Temple into the same thread? If so, what happened?
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I try to leave this forum topic and a box pops up that says, "Wait don't go, would you like to view the video instead?"
Oh, and the comment section below is fake. He even sockbotted to add negative comments to make it look real.
In fact, my post is fake. Don't believe me, inspect the page.
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@ben_lubar I knew that but couldn't think of it... thanks.
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First Swampy, then Nagesh, now presidentsdaughter... all we need is someone pretending to be IrishGirl and we'll have successfully erased the Discourse Era from existence.
And apparently TempleOS never actually posted here. Pity, that, it would have been entertaining to watch that particular train wreck... maybe throw @gavinolearning in while we're at it, too, just to add some kick to the mushroom cloud.
Filed under: and maybe then we can have a séance to raise up the shade of Archimedes Plutonium.
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@ScholRLEA said:
gavino
NO!
NO NO NO NO NO!
That loony jerkwad needs to stay the fuck out of this place.
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@ScholRLEA said:
First Swampy,
No, @xaade replied to an old post. According to his profile page, Swampy, himself, hasn't been seen in 6 months.
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@HardwareGeek He figured there's no point, Discourse had enough random random random already, nothing to compete with.
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@HardwareGeek Side effect of porting to new forum tech, getting notified of EVERYTHING
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@dkf said:
NO NO NO NO NO!
That loony jerkwad needs to stay the fuck out of this place.
now I'm curious about how some troll can be so trolly to scare even tdwtf forum users
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Why in the world is this topic back?
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@WPT
Ben imported everything ... and since this is WTDWTF it was necro-ed
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@fbmac said:
now I'm curious about how some troll can be so trolly to scare even tdwtf forum users
He's not a troll. He's a sperglord who is on a grand project to reorganise the whole world's information along lines he believes to be logical. Utterly nothing will stop him short of giving him his own internet sandbox and letting him shit that up for a few lifetimes.
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@dkf some sort of bond villain?
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@dkf said:
He's not a troll. He's a sperglord who is on a grand project to reorganise the whole world's information along lines he believes to be logical. Utterly nothing will stop him short of giving him his own internet sandbox and letting him shit that up for a few lifetimes.
The Internet seems to know nothing about the guy. Any sources for our amusement?
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By the way...
Aside from "heh heh, it says Satan"... has this thread really been viewed over half a million times? Seems like Swampy did find his audience after all!
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@Maciejasjmj said:
@dkf said:
He's not a troll. He's a sperglord who is on a grand project to reorganise the whole world's information along lines he believes to be logical. Utterly nothing will stop him short of giving him his own internet sandbox and letting him shit that up for a few lifetimes.
The Internet seems to know nothing about the guy. Any sources for our amusement?
Look up moti from Israel who make invention of AI.
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@ScholRLEA said:
maybe throw @gavinolearning in while we're at it, too, just to add some kick to the mushroom cloud
I thought he was busy trolling comp.lang.* on usenet.
@dkf said:
That loony jerkwad needs to stay the fuck out of this place.
I don't see how he's any worse than sjw-fox.
@dkf said:
He's not a troll. He's a sperglord who is on a grand project to reorganise the whole world's information along lines he believes to be logical. Utterly nothing will stop him short of giving him his own internet sandbox and letting him shit that up for a few lifetimes.
Wait, I thought we were talking about gavino the -poster?
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@Maciejasjmj said:
The Internet seems to know nothing about the guy. Any sources for our amusement?
I discussed him a while back in the I-Hate-Oracle-Club. While a full indictment of his crimes against the Net would be too long, this Usenet search should give you some flavor of his particular psychosis. He haunts the newsgropes for several languages (mostly Scheme, Forth, and tcl, each of which he has repeatedly claimed was his favorite), demonstrating his ignorance in a wide variety of topics, begging for code, horribly abusing spellar and gramming, insulting people, being an embarassment to capitalists the world over, and ranting about how Ayn Rand was the voice of the God she didn't believe in.
Here's a few samples submitted to evidence:
I of course plan to replace LAMP with forth and open a series of awesome websites of course, perhaps using the appserver by mr paysan. I hold a degree in albiet misguided keynesian economics from top 20 school, and econ dept might be top 15 when I went. I have since learned how austrain school economics IS economics and keynes was simply a response by big government to fight the intellectual weapon that would get in thier way. Even Henry George had better ideas. I should be hired by Romney as economoic advisor. First thing I would do is end all carpool lanes. Second I would mandate all governmetn offices use unix desktop [free] not oracle or microsoft crap.
remember fdr caused the great depression and that 1000 phd in government economics aka keyens didn't stop 2008
also atomic power is sustainable and nasa can be made useful finally by launching debis into sun
mass produced metal houses
private union free train
fairtax.org
cut gov spending 99%
end all pensions and public school and money to universities
let uiversities morph into private think tanks producing methods nad produciton efficienciy technology and selling such
no restricitng market with patents anymore
factories galore make the dumb productive and poor richThis, keep in mind, was on comp.lang.scheme, and he was the sole poster to bring up economics.
Oracle is a bunch of crony communists and government tax money pocketers.
Expensive and shady.He never once explained why he thought a for-profit corporation which has spent years feuding over tax payments is ' a bunch of crony communists', but hey, crazy is as crazy does.
same thread, demonstrating that his ignorance of the history of Scheme and Project MAC is rivaled only by his ignorance of both open-source development and capital-driven economics:
free software is free market capitalism
the essence of which is freedom to add value to that which exists
no government program created scheme
unregulated individuals did
communism never worksI could go on, but this is more than I can stomach already.
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@ScholRLEA You won't see most of what the Tcl community did to him, as that was mostly about detecting what IP address he was using to access our community Wiki and giving him his own world to shit up without bothering the rest of us. Database space is cheap.
He's moderately difficult to detect on Usenet by searching as he switches From address quite often (<sarcasm>I wonder why?!</sarcasm>) but his style is entirely his own. And there is exactly zero point arguing anything with him at all; he never listens.
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@dkf said:
there is exactly zero point arguing anything with him at all; he never listens.
QFT, as I learned the hard way.
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@SpectateSwamp said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
A Search Showdown is the only way
All my emails are in 2 files. Inmail.txt and outmail.txt. Not much difference if it was 50,000 word documents. They never get printed or sent again. Why not combine them after you have done a Backup of the originals to DVD. Dump the files to text and merge them. You directory with that many files in it, has to be a bit much to look at. And slow.
The initial reason behind the merge was that the directory lookup was so slow. To just find all the txt files on C drive took a minute or more. So instead. I created a Merge. Any good search needs a merge/append. The start and end of each file is in the combined file. So when search finds a match. I know which file it came from and display it in the form border. The file name is generally useless, unless your are searching source code.
Combining files allows me to easily share all my info. Once there is a Mac and Linux version of the search. Then the OS won't matter to me. Right now I'm stuck with Windows.
When your search has a replace option and can run as a background jobs. How hard is it to create a simple accounting system. Update the info using a background job running the replace option. When you deal with nothing but plain text. It's simple to make fixes with an editor. Having a databases makes it's a whole different matter. The average person on the street can understand most of what I talk about. And probably non from this bunch. This search is for the masses. They will use it and be far ahead of the naysayers when it comes to being in control of their data. Again Me and my Swampies would kick all your butts in a Search Engine Showdown
The SourceForge.net site takes two or 3 days to approve a project. See some of you there.
So it's an index, then. I thought you didn't use indices.
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Surprised Google hasn't tried something like this.
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@dkf said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@ScholRLEA said:
gavino
NO!
NO NO NO NO NO!
That loony jerkwad needs to stay the fuck out of this place.
my.
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@viraptor said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@stinch said:
Unfortunately I think he is talking about literally videoing a book. Pointing a camera at a book and turning the pages. One way to get the information in your library into your computer I guess.
Wooden table v2.0! Now with moving images.
well... we already have audiobooks, it was just a matter of time until someone decided to try videobooks, sadly...
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@sh_code said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
well... we already have audiobooks, it was just a matter of time until someone decided to try videobooks, sadly...
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@error "This is as much video as we can put onscreen at once, please don't laugh" was not too uncommon at one point.
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@morgano said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
Go back to the usage instructions (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict_info.htm)
i've read that whole thing, and...
really, he's either a troll or severe case of dunning cruger.
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@sh_code said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@morgano said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
Go back to the usage instructions (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/pict_info.htm)
i've read that whole thing, and...
really, he's either a troll or severe case of dunning cruger.itym donner-keurig
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@Gribnit said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@error "This is as much video as we can put onscreen at once, please don't laugh" was not too uncommon at one point.
It does seem a lot less impressive now than it did at the time. Interactive CD-ROM. Multimedia!
I kind of want to see a modern Myst. Not a remake. A spiritual successor.
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@error said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@Gribnit said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
@error "This is as much video as we can put onscreen at once, please don't laugh" was not too uncommon at one point.
It does seem a lot less impressive now than it did at the time. Interactive CD-ROM. Multimedia!
I kind of want to see a modern Myst. Not a remake. A spiritual successor.
"The Indifferent Wonder Of An Edible Place" is, about the right level of weird maybe, but has no other recommending qualities.
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afaik every major OS now has a prominent search feature.
You've done it, @SpectateSwamp! - but you'll never know how much of your code they stole.
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@error said in Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?:
I kind of want to see a modern Myst. Not a remake. A spiritual successor.
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You fuckers.
If you want to talk to SpectateSwamp, do it here:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/6458/nobody-shares-knowledge-better-than-this/5268