| 2023-01-30 | asciilifeform | ( ... polish holy php turd ? ) | #pest |
| 2022-04-19 | cdd | http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-04-19#1096938 << no longer interested in "re-inventing wheel" but content w/ "turd polishing" | #asciilifeform |
| 2022-04-01 | billymg | tbh i sort of lost interest in it though. in its current state, "works for me", and polishing the mp-wp turd in general was miserable and thankless work. i can handle miserable, and don't mind thankless, but the two together killed my motivation | #asciilifeform |
| 2022-03-21 | dulapbot | Logged on 2022-03-20 14:39:53 mangol: my approach to babel = turd polishing, once again. try to get existing langs working together, coordinating stuff that doesn't have to differ | #asciilifeform |
| 2022-03-20 | mangol | my approach to babel = turd polishing, once again. try to get existing langs working together, coordinating stuff that doesn't have to differ | #asciilifeform |
| 2022-03-20 | mangol | i guess the summary is that we approach the same problem from the opposite ends. how to have a beautiful, comprehensible system. i want to polish turds, you want to start from first principles and build up | #asciilifeform |
| 2022-03-20 | mangol | therefore, for my values it's better to gradualy polish a turd than to livein my own self-made bubble | #asciilifeform |
| 2020-05-11 | diana_coman | jurov: is this meant to be the chan where all matters foundation-related are to be discussed and publicly accessible? or just a chan for trb-interested people or what exactly? (I admit I don't understand the topic's "Here the mess is cooked and turd polished.") | #therealbitcoin |
| 2018-03-23 | deedbot | ben_vulpes updated rating of douchebag from 1 to -1 << polished turd of stupidity | #trilema |
| 2018-03-23 | ben_vulpes | !!rate douchebag -1 polished turd of stupidity | #trilema |
| 2017-11-25 | lobbes | Next steps: 1) some turd polishing 2) move the irc-to-archive.is-to-zip process into 'live' environment 3) plan/build the payment-to-archives system | #trilema |
| 2017-03-02 | asciilifeform | ( according to maslennikov, kgb directorate of crypto struggled with the fundamental boojum and simply gave up, and turned to turd polishing ) | #trilema |
| 2016-10-27 | trinque | same piece of shit operating system on it they've been turd-polishing for a decade | #trilema |
| 2016-06-01 | shinohai | Is it turd worth polishing? | #trilema |
| 2016-05-29 | shinohai | Polished turd is still a turd. | #trilema |
| 2016-01-31 | ben_vulpes | a well polished bash turd | #trilema |
| 2016-01-05 | assbot | Logged on 19-11-2015 20:05:06; phf: it's just impressions. i've been looking at a lot of high traction common lisp code (top quicklisp packages) and there's a lot of senseless turd polishing in the past few years. broken interfaces for the sake of "cleanliness", half baked code, needless macros, dependency hell etc. and then you look at the code and it's the same set of aggressive, google employed queergenders. | #trilema |
| 2015-12-28 | asciilifeform | this is not even turd-polishing. it is turd-washing | #trilema |
| 2015-11-19 | phf | it's just impressions. i've been looking at a lot of high traction common lisp code (top quicklisp packages) and there's a lot of senseless turd polishing in the past few years. broken interfaces for the sake of "cleanliness", half baked code, needless macros, dependency hell etc. and then you look at the code and it's the same set of aggressive, google employed queergenders. | #trilema |
| 2015-07-21 | decimation | ^ usg should raise all its money this way, voluntary taxes: "Funding the $1e9 joint strike fighter: at the $1e7 level:recieve turd hand-polished to the same specifications as the canopy" | #trilema |
| 2015-07-11 | ascii_modem | all of these turd polishings are 20+ years of wank by now, | #trilema |
| 2015-04-07 | funkenstein_ | am i correct in summing up turd polishing discussions, that once DNS is fully removed static linking will be back on the table? | #trilema |
| 2014-12-02 | * | adlai still wonders whether polish is better applied to turds than, say, shoes, or nails | #trilema |
| 2014-11-09 | Adlai | to assuage that look of terminal shock in your eyes: there's no real rush, i have an endless list of other turds to polish | #trilema |
| 2014-11-09 | * | Adlai tries his hand at the turd polish | #trilema |
| 2014-10-30 | asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: if you want polished turd, buy a girl who knows cpp, 'valgrind', gdb, understands memory discipline, can implement bdb replacement ab initio, knows ecdsa mechanics, etc, etc. | #trilema |
| 2014-10-30 | mircea_popescu | <asciilifeform> why are we polishing turd again...? << only way there is. | #trilema |
| 2014-10-30 | asciilifeform | why are we polishing turd again...? | #trilema |
| 2014-10-25 | thestringpuller | the turd is polished? | #trilema |
| 2014-10-24 | asciilifeform | i want people to see what i spoke of when said 'cannot polish turd' | #trilema |
| 2014-10-23 | * | asciilifeform checks grinding wheel on which current turd is being polished; | #trilema |
| 2014-10-22 | mike_c | charter ideas: 1) maintain a workable core with no shit in it. 2) specify bitcoin 3) write a new implementation because you can't polish a turd. | #trilema |
| 2014-10-22 | mike_c | polish the turd? | #trilema |
| 2014-05-10 | decimation | donno. la wik says he's polishing the dropbox turd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum | #trilema |
| 2014-04-23 | bounce | plenty turds in any given polish craphouse | #trilema |
| 2014-04-23 | asciilifeform | go, polish a turd. | #trilema |
| 2014-04-09 | mircea_popescu | i polish my turds ;/ | #trilema |
| 2014-04-09 | mike_c | have you seen blogs.bitcoin-assets.com? nobody polishes their turds around here. just publish it. | #trilema |
| 2014-03-31 | decimation | asciilifeform: Wong would mock those who use microscopes as hammers; his sophistocated set only use bespoke polished turds | #trilema |
| 2013-09-14 | coconut | kleeck you can only polish a turd so much | #trilema |