From: Gregory Brown on 11 Aug 2010 16:49 On Aug 11, 4:41 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 11, 5:35 pm, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Where is the CVS repository so I can checkout a copy of the #COBOTS? As far as I know, the #COBOTS have also eliminated all version control systems. Yet another reason we must band together and fight.
From: andrew mcelroy on 11 Aug 2010 16:57 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 11, 4:42 pm, "Joseph E. Savard" <joseph.sav...(a)sabre- > holdings.com> wrote: >> LOL... >> >> Ruby Take back?? Its not old enough to take back.. Is taking all it can >> get and jumping into embedded worlds not yet seen. > > Mind you, this message is from the FUTURE! We are working hard to > identify an exact date, more on that soon. > >> Expanding, growing and engulfing is what it's been under with the siege of >> Rails forging a bright and positive future. >> >> So, don't worry you message is from an imposter, most like Duke from the >> future. Now, his future is grim...:-) > > We have it on good authority that this message is legit. I know it > sounds crazy but I would not put my reputation on the line for such > silly gags! > > -greg And I suppose you are going to tell us that Jullian Assange from this future you speak of? All of a sudden insurance.aes256 makes a lot more sense. At 1.4 GB it must be the smalltalk image. Andrew McElroy > >
From: Gregory Brown on 11 Aug 2010 17:15 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM, andrew mcelroy <sophrinix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Gregory Brown > And I suppose you are going to tell us that Jullian Assange from this > future you speak of? > All of a sudden insurance.aes256 makes a lot more sense. At 1.4 GB it > must be the smalltalk image. I am unsure what, if any role Julian has in all of this. However, I have heard rumors that discussions are happening using an old, somewhat backwards live communication technology, hidden in plain sight. I have not yet found it myself, but I imagine that if one does, they will be able to gain a greater understanding of the magnitude of this event. -greg
From: Benoit Daloze on 11 Aug 2010 17:21 On 11 August 2010 22:35, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I have received an ominous message from the future. We should take > this seriously, as it could determine the fate of our Ruby lives as we > know them! Decrypted future-message below: > > --- > > The evil #COBOTS have taken over the programming world and aim to rule > it with an iron fist. > > The #COBOTS started by capturing all of the world's rubies, sucking > the life force out of YARV, MRI, Rubinius, and even their former > enterprise ally JRuby. Soon after this initial attack on pleasant > coding, all dynamic languages fell to a similar fate. > > As their lust for CPU cycles deepened, the #COBOTS took away the > parentheses from Lispers in their ivory towers, and even shattered the > beloved curly braces of the mighty C hackers. With all other > languages crushed under their robotic corporate might, the #COBOTS > seemingly had thrust the world into yet another dark age of COBOL > programming. > > That was, until the Ruby Resistance began to form. Hiding beneath a > fallen code block, heroic and daring Matz was able to escape from the > initial strike. Taking life one object at a time, he began to rebuild > his community by teaching them the forgotten language of the elders. > Soon after, brave men and women of all ages began to re-learn what it > meant to be a Rubyist, and together, became the Ruby Resistance. > > The call to action is simple: Commandeer as many evil #COBOTS as > possible, re-program them, and take back the world's rubies. It is > the only way to ensure programmer happiness for ourselves and the > generations of hackers to come. Will you rise to the challenge? > > Sure ! Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :) I am impatient to $COBOTS.inject(some_ideas) { |to, clear| their :minds }.with the_awesome { |power| of Ruby } B.D. * Currently working on implementing this code's details
From: Gregory Brown on 11 Aug 2010 17:22
On Aug 11, 5:21 pm, Benoit Daloze <erego...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 August 2010 22:35, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Where can we find these #COBOTS ? :) I searched on twitter to no avail. We should look elsewhere, I suppose. Somewhere ancient. -greg |