On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:10:08 +0900, Karl von Laudermann wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
I find it somewhat unsurprising that somebody who was totally anonymous
in the first place might up and disappear one day.
–Ken
Ken B. wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:10:08 +0900, Karl von Laudermann wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffI find it somewhat unsurprising that somebody who was totally anonymous
in the first place might up and disappear one day.–Ken
Good point, may have been something he planned from the start, something
he expected to do one day just not sure when. I guess he felt Ruby was
well supported and entrenched (for the right reasons) and had helped
enough people he was no longer needed to a certain degree.
But if you think about, how many stories have there been over the
Centuries about a man or women in a whole class and level of there own
in something. That they were referred to as “THE” person regarding “X”.
But in the end, they some how mysteriously vanish.
Me Personally i hope he is off to help the REBOL team in making REBOL 3
a reality before its time passes by.
On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Todd B. wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Todd B.[email protected]
wrote:On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karl von
Laudermann[email protected] wrote:_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffHe is now working for the NSA :>
No wait, I meant the MiB, of course.
And in that case, he’d be known as Y
Hi _why!
Somehow, I had premonition you would make this ‘dis-appearance’.
Understandable in a _why sort of _way.
All the best to your efforts.
You’ve given some great handles to the pot.
—para
G’day people,
I hope we are all well today. I’m looking at a kind-of 4gl type thing
(fourth generation language - 4GL). I had the idea that REBOL was out
and about a long time back. I stand corrected, the wikipedia says
1997.
Don’t call me crazy if I’m thinkin’ there was REBOL before 1980 ~
Wasn’t it a kind of parallel with FORTH & PICK as better ways to live
– Stemming from Algol68 and Simula? I had an Amiga back then, and
the poor thing went to the tip, 3 house moves ago. I Simula, Algol68
and Simscript are the reasons I jumped into C++ when it ‘arrived’. I
still miss the Algol 60/68 call-by-name hey!
NOT according to the REBOL.org area – In fact, my recollection was a
“rebol” thing that was build on COBOL. I’d love to know if I’m memory-
revising/ hallucinating?
Anyway, I am [Generally] interested in conversations about things like
PICK or 4GL-s. Mail direct.
Looking at REBOL … It reminds me very much of the MT983 financial
terminals and B-series from Burroughs (now Unisys). When I first saw
that … I was reminded of AWK, Snobol and the Hayes modem command
syntax.
No wonder I’m tired today !
Take care,
will
Rob B. wrote:
On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Todd B. wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Todd B.[email protected]
wrote:On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karl von
Laudermann[email protected] wrote:_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffHe is now working for the NSA :>
No wait, I meant the MiB, of course.
And in that case, he’d be known as Y
What is nsa we people dont know about it
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Karl von Laudermann
[email protected] wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
Why do I find myself thinking he just might surface again for this:
–
Rick DeNatale
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I don’t know if this has been sent out already, but I really enjoyed
reading this article about _why:
Siddarth
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What is nsa we people dont know about it
NSA: National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency (because
for many years its existence was not acknowledged by the U.S.
government). Their motto is supposed to be “never say anything”.
As it is mostly the case if no country is given it is a United States of
America agency. It is responsible for the collection and analysis of
foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence. In short: They
are the big brother of all people unless they live in the USA and don’t
communicate with any foreigner.
Rumor has it that they are able to eavesdrop any communication that is
at least in part transmitted wirelessly (for example via satellite) and
almost any other communication that isn’t either face-to-face or
transported by means of physically written word as well.
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt [email protected]
wrote:
NSA: National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency (because
for many years its existence was not acknowledged by the U.S.
government). Their motto is supposed to be “never say anything”.
Now that you told him, you’re going to have to shoot him.
–
Rick DeNatale
Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Github: rubyredrick (Rick DeNatale) · GitHub
Twitter: @RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Rick DeNatale
[email protected]wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt [email protected] wrote:
NSA: National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency (because
for many years its existence was not acknowledged by the U.S.
government). Their motto is supposed to be “never say anything”.Now that you told him, you’re going to have to shoot him.
There’s a CIA Black site for that ™
Andrew McElroy
On 16.06.2010 18:26, Rick DeNatale wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt[email protected] wrote:
NSA: National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency (because
for many years its existence was not acknowledged by the U.S.
government). Their motto is supposed to be “never say anything”.Now that you told him, you’re going to have to shoot him.
Me too, me too! 
robert
PS: For those who want to learn more I recommend James Bamford’s books
on the matter (“Body of secrets” and “The shadow factory”).
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Robert K.
[email protected]wrote:
Now that you told him, you’re going to have to shoot him.
Me too, me too!
I was going to suggest (after seeing Rick DeNatale’s post) that after
shooting the questioner, Josef probably ought to shoot himself, but
after
seeing your post - were you suggesting that Josef should shoot you, or
that
you should shoot the questioner ? - it occurs to me that to be on the
safe side maybe we should just shoot everybody including ourselves!
(For some reason I’m reminded of the SAC chief who allegedly said that
if
after a nuclear war there were two americans and one russian left “we
win”:
clearly someone who had not heard of “pyhrric victories”. In the
interests
of balance, I ought to point out that not all american military shared
this
opinion. I think if Admiral Spruance had heard it, he would have
disagreed:
he had some faults, but I’m rather impressed that he spoke up against
the
internment of the Japanese-Americans in the middle of WW2.)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Colin B.
[email protected] wrote:
For some reason I’m reminded of the SAC chief who allegedly said that if
after a nuclear war there were two americans and one russian left “we win”
That sounds like a line from a movie, maybe Dr. Strangelove?
–
Rick DeNatale
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Github: rubyredrick (Rick DeNatale) · GitHub
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Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt wrote:
communicate with any foreigner.
That is only half of their job. The other half is exactly the dual of
that: protection of US communications.
jwm
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Colin B. [email protected] wrote:
For some reason I’m reminded of the SAC chief who allegedly said that if
after a nuclear war there were two americans and one russian left “we win”That sounds like a line from a movie, maybe Dr. Strangelove?
General Thomas S. Power, commander of the Strategic Air Command,
interrupted Dr. Kaufmann two minutes into his four-hour briefing: “Why
do you want us to restrain ourselves?” Power bellowed, according to
people who recalled the episode to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Fred Kaplan. “Restraint! Why are you so concerned with saving their
lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards!”
After several more minutes of the briefing, Power finally said, “Look.
At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we
win!”
Dr. Kaufmann retorted: “Well, you’d better make sure that they’re a
man and a woman.”
“Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is
to kill the bastards. . . . Look. At the end of the war, if there are
two Americans and one Russian, we win!”[i] Everyone who knew Power
seems to have thought he was crazy.
Even the man he replaced as SAC commander, General Curtis LeMay,
regarded him as unstable—and everybody knew that LeMay himself was, as
Dr. Strangelove’s Group Captain Lionel Mandrake would have put it, “as
mad as a bloody March hare.” After LeMay left his command at SAC, he
became Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force in 1957 and Chief of Staff
in 1961. He is most often remembered as a tireless advocate of an
all-out, nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union and its allies, and
as the most likely inspiration for General Buck Turgidson in
Strangelove. Either Power or LeMay might have served as a model for
the Strangelove character General Jack D. Ripper, whose own nuclear
first strike on the Ruskies came straight out of the LeMay-Power
playbook.
[i] Power as quoted in Fred Kaplan, The W.ards of Armageddon
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, [1983] 1991), p. 246.
On 17.06.2010 19:48, Colin B. wrote:
NSA: National Security Agency, formerly known as No Such Agency (because
shooting the questioner, Josef probably ought to shoot himself, but after
seeing your post - were you suggesting that Josef should shoot you, or that
you should shoot the questioner ?
- it occurs to me that to be on the
safe side maybe we should just shoot everybody including ourselves!
I agree. You go first.
Cheers
robert
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Rick DeNatale [email protected]
wrote:
Rick we got a problem in the states we have to shoot ourselves 9 times
while here in france 7 times suffice. A classical I18N bug.
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