GWTP - neo-realistic absurdism, reinvented!

Jan: Here's a bunny! And a doggy! And a doggy mauling a bunny!
Pretty amazing, eh? Took years and years of training.
CrazyJoe: Its brought tears to my eyes, I tell ya.
Philbert: Isn't hand shadow art of the dark side?
Wait, does mentioning the Dark Side fall under Godwin's Law?
CrazyJoe: Not that I was aware of.
Daar: No, mentioning the law itself is though.
Whocares: Who wants a piece of this pie
Jan: <mumbling>The ratio of people to cake is too big...</mumbling>
But yes, Office Space references aside, that is an awesome cake.
Daar: Hey, no anti-SOPA blackout on GWTP? Does this mean Jan supports SOPA?
Jan: No, I'm completely anti-SOPA. I think REST is a much better way to implement web services.
Seriously though, what I know of SOPA/PIPA sucks. I'm just not sure that us blacking out a tiny site like GWTP will accomplish anything. And people are annoyed enough that Wikipedia is offline.
Unforgiven: You can use SOAP for RESTfull services. The first is a transfer format, the latter is an architectural style. They are not mutually exclusive. :-p
Jan: Oh, I'm sure. However, as I understand, idiomatic SOAP and idiomatic REST are very different from each other. The first is basically an RPC mechanism, focusing on operations, and wrapping everything in XML, while the second is a CRUD interface over HTTP, focusing on content and using XML/JSON/... . Both approaches have their merits of course, it all depends on your problem domain.
Ha, if that was not a chat-killing comment I don't know what is! :-)
Gijs: It sounded like a foreign language to me... My nerd license might have to be revoked now
Jan: Heh, no, I don't think this is general nerd knowledge, just webservices nerd knowledge. It's not like not knowing what a Tribble is, or why making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs is a weird thing to say. Those, I'm afraid, are license-revocation-worthy.
Also, Wikipedia is back! My life has meaning again! Disputed meaning, with a disturbing lack of reputable sources, but meaning nonetheless.
Philbert: Actually, XKCD was blacked out yesterday, you can still see the comic now. (Though I didn't see it yesterday).
Also, don't disparage XKCD's influence. I'm pretty sure they chose a wednesday because that is one of the days a new XKCD comic is posted.
BTW, does any of you see the hidden sysadmin message?
Jan: Wait, who disparaged XKCD's influence? Did I miss something?
Daar: For crying out loud Jan! Making the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs is both a great feat, and a sensible thing to say. The Kessel run involves flying past a black hole, the most daring pilots try to make the run as fast as possible by flying as close to the black hole as possible, thus making the run quicker. The closer you fly to the black hole, the less detour you have to make.
So only an especially skilled and daring pilot would be able to fly less than 12 parsecs, most would stay far, far away from the hole and make the run a lot longer.
Unforgiven: That's the retcon that Lucas came up with, yeah. I've always just thought Han was talking out of his arse. Obi-wan's reaction to the line fits with that interpretation too. :-)
Philbert: Eh, Jan, you did: "I'm just not sure that us blacking out a tiny site like GWTP will accomplish anything." I'm pretty sure some Congressmen had sweaty armpits about XKCD entering the fray.
Daar: Nono, Obi-wan reacted like that because 12 parsecs is very short for the Kessel Run and he didn't believe Han was that good! Really!
Unforgiven: The black hole explanation doesn't make sense either. A black hole has the same mass as the star it replaced, and gravity still falls off quadratically, so you'll experience the same amount of gravity at X distance from the black hole as you did at X distance from the ex-star.
Only when you get really close to them (e.g. inside the radius of the old star) does their gravitational pull really become a problem).
Ergo, the "safe distance" from a black hole is not that much bigger than that of any star, so I doubt the distance you could gain by flying close to it would be measured in parsecs.
Unless the normal kessel run is 12.000000001 parsecs, and Han did it in 11.9999999999 or something. :-p
Philbert: All joking aside: I found a new job today, and will be starting on monday. Things can go quickly indeed...
Gijs: Ah yes, saw that on twitter as well. Congrats!
What kind of job is it?
[egon]: good luck with your job
i am new, what is this site about?
i see some sort of... mnigames, is this a gamessort of site?
nevermind
figured it out, thank you
have a nice day
Jan: Wow, that is quick! Congrats!
@egon: thanks for stopping by, please come again! :-)
CrazyJoe: Congrats, Philbert. I didn't even know you were looking for a new job.
Unforgiven: Yes, congrats on your recent enslavement, Philbert!
Also, nice review for your game, Jan and Gijs. Is this the start of your path to becoming the next Romero and Carmack? :-)
Also also, I have to laugh at the description of Goggle on the Qwok Games site: "The game is quite popular with our regular visitors"... yes, all five of them. :-)
Philbert: Thanks guys. It is for a cable company in Almelo. They will be rolling out fiber, and I will be functionally designing a number of their new services.
It will be a good opportunity to learn about some new (cutting edge) tech, and to learn agile (Scrum)
Jan: @Unforgiven: Yep! We haven't completely worked out which one of us gets to be Romero and which one Carmack. Also, updated the description of the Goggle to better reflect our actual number of visitors. :-)
Unforgiven: Well, Jan == John so obviously you get to be... oh, right. :P
Daar: I've always thought of Gijs as the creative guy, you know, a Steve Jobs kinda guy, Jan is more of a I'll program it nerd, say, like Bill Gates.
CrazyJoe: You mean like Steve Wozniak. I mean, if you are going for an analogy you might as well use one that makes sense.
Unforgiven: On the topic of Bill Gates, apparently he's better than Batman.
Jan: @CJ: I think he was going for a troll. And you just fed him. :-)
Then again, according to Wikipedia a troll is a message "disrupting normal on-topic discussion". That pretty much means it's impossible to troll the minichat.
But comparing Bill Gates to Batman comes close, I'll have to admit. So he saved a few million lives, big deal. Batman saved Gotham and/or the world hundreds of times, I'm sure that beats that puny 5M.
Daar: @jan: Om nom nom
Daniel: @Philbert grats on your new job
Unforgiven: Very obvious Dutch word in the top row of the Goggle. Not an English word, unfortunately. ;-)
Wow, very low scores on this goggle. But according to my solver, the max points in 50 words was 294.
Highest scoring word: retrophiliac (9 points).
Three 8 pointers: retrophilia, prophetical and neotropical.
I'm not all that surprised you didn't get these words, to be honest. :)
Jan: They're most excellent words though! Apparently, the Neotropic is South America, Central America, and Florida.
CrazyJoe: Wow, the Goggle: Bloody hard and educational too!
Daar: I predict high scores on this Goggle based on the fact that there are three ways to end in "ing" in it.
Unforgiven: There are 314 points possible in 50 words in this Goggle.
The two top scoring words don't have "ing" in them, and I'd be extremely surprised if anyone gets them. :-p
I just realized that meant there are 100pi points in this Goggle. Hmm, pie...
Jan: Well, to be exact: 100pi + sqrt(0.25) * (25² + 3) - 50e^{(ln 2pi)} points ;-p
Unforgiven: And as predicted, no one got the top words. They were "noncharacter" and "marconigraph" at 9 points each (I think you can see why I didn't think you'd get it, especially the latter one).
We also had three 8 pointers: marathoning, chairmaning and renowning.
How is "splort" not an English word? It's the thing that happens to your head when you see things like this: URL
Jan: Yeah, it is, I'll have to update the list. If I recall correctly, it's also the legal term for being in contempt of a former world champion of pole vaulting. A serious offense which is thankfully not that common.
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