@Lensflare the horror.

Lets hope the ad agencies never figure out how to use psychics for marketing.

@BordedDev perfect time to pick up erlang and see how much thoroughput you can abuse with its concurrency system!

I once knew a homeless schizo who would get mad about every little thing. Someone didn't hold the door? "They should burnt with a fucking lighter!"

Someone cut him off at the gas station. "They should be burn with a lighter!"

Guy just seemed like he really wanted to burn things with lighters.

Same vibes as this rant.

I miss that homeless guy.

I hear he died from getting burnt with a lighter.

I would have never guessed thats how he would go!

Any way, upvote for "twinkle-toed cocksucker."

@Lensflare You mean oranges?

@BordedDev don't you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result?

@djsumdog clever.

@hjk101 I just came here to write exactly what you wrote.

The problem is not using just what you need.

It's that everyone does that and soon no one understands anyone elses code without great effort.

Python is like sugar and fats.

Fun in small doses.

Working with anything larger than 20 pages though is a slog precisely because of a lack of proper static typing.

@12bitfloat I'd assume you'd have to have a chunking system, or a fixed amount of time a read or write can go on, determined empirically.

Fuck, maybe everyone is right that its reinventing the wheel.

@Lensflare "poat"

This is actually an acronym for a common indian phrase:

"please offer alluring tits."

the indian word for this phrase is dense and not easily translated to a single english word, but is written as

"bobs".

@BordedDev "with the plan of setting up a rack"

Cool, always wanted to do that.

You talking like a server rack proper, or just mass storage?

@BordedDev first days can sometimes be last days too!

But I wasn't aware. Thought you were talking about your last day.

Unless you were.

In which case I hit the nail on the head in writing that.

@Lensflare did you happen to watch creature from the black lagoon before going to bed?

@hjk101 depends on how many threads you have, and the maximum value of the counter.

Part of the reason I wrote it might need tuning, but you bring up some solid concerns.

@AlgoRythm "It's not physically possible, and people just tend to end up inventing queues in more and more complicated manners."

This is what you get when amateurs like me who are unfamiliar with a topic try to be inventive.

Oh well. It was an idea.

@12bitfloat "the counter along so that *other* threads can access the resource"

Each thread keeps its own internal counter, initialized by some argument passed in when it was spawned. The counter is incremented based on a timer, not on a full pass over the thread function.

@12bitfloat yeah wait free was a bit of a reach.

I was operating on 3 hours sleep over two days, as you can tell from all the fucked grammar though.

Heartache and disappointment let you know you're still alive mate.

@AlgoRythm this is the kind of casual sociopathy that both entertains and impresses me.

you're invited to join my mad max faction if the post-apocalypse ever happens.

we have crotchless leather pants, bikes with too many spikes, and roads signs for armor baby!

@Lensflare I was expecting the terminators, but I didn't expect they'd try to scam my grandma.

Didn't pick up math until I got out of highschool.

Turns out its mostly incompetent and overworked teachers sucking the joy out of every subject.

God damn savage you!

Over there hogging all the misery!

@Ranchonyx is that a scott pilgrim reference? I heard it in that one indian's voice.

@retoor at least the days of lithium battery fires are mostly bygone!

Thats a good metric to track on a per screen and per audio basis:

How long does it take a given tester/user to begin turning down the volume, both sfx, and music, on a given screen, and by how much?

You're testing for how grating the audio is over long-plays.

Playing music over a game may of course be normal user behavior, but it also impacts the ability to judge the user experience as intended.

@Lensflare Offer $3.50 to a passing office employee to use it, and add a button to email results.

offer a chocolate muffin to the fastest person in the office.

tell the new guy "it'll make a good impression here if you participate in morale building."

Gather data for 3-5 days. Thats all you need.

Depends on your humor, how badly you want to burn reputation, and maturity level.

For example you could, COULD leave an ascii moody fine art portrait of a steaming dump.

I'm just saying you COULD is all.

Wrap the line length just right so it is unrecognizeable. Someone will see it eventually, scratch their head, unwrap it, and say "wtf" out loud. I guarantee it.

Driver probably had to stop and rub one out.

Wear gloves when you get your packages.

Seen a lot of the opposite. Super late expected delivery time becomes earlier and earlier.

Must be a regional/service-related thing?

@Lensflare Sounds like an opportunity to do an informal or tongue-in-cheek study with some co-workers, post to arxiv, and in turn share that on hackernews.

I bet there would be plenty of discussion that follows from it.

Love those sort of days where its like the whole house is gonna take off any second and be deposited straight into the land of oz.