Shit or not Shit (a poll)

1. GC
2. LISP
3. C
4. x86
5. ARM
6. Cudder
7. Suckless
8. Lounge
9. RedCream
10. Admin-kun's moderation policies
11. Halting problem
12. Dependent types
13. Haskell
14. Ocaml
15. Functional programming
16. Doom
17. Object oriented programming
18. Flow charts
19. Meta Object Protocol
20. syntax-rules
21. Monads
22. malloc/free
23. Doubly linked lists
24. Resizable arrays
25. Lazy evaluation
26. PHP
27. Regular expressions
28. Recursive decent parsers
29. The Unreal Engine
30. Blender
31. Maxima
32. Mathematica
33. Matlab
34. GNU Octave
35. call-with-current-continuation
36. sage as a downvote
37. javascript
38. xhtml
39. jquery
40. Google
41. Facebook
42. reddit
43. http
44. openssl
45. The use of C for Mission Critical Applications
46. Chomsky Normal Form
47. Virtualization
48. LE CLOUD XD
49. Rust
50. Port knocking
51. Port scanning
52. Intrusion detection
53. Random number generators
54. Infinity
55. Mozart
56. OpenGL
57. Cuda
58. OpenCL
59. NVidia
60. ATI
61. AMD
62. Intel
63. Microsoft
64. The Free Software Foundation
65. NSA
66. FBI
67. GHCQ
68. C++
69. *.c++ or *.cxx or *.C or *.seeples?
70. Scheme
71. Statically typed scheme
72. Dependently typed scheme
73. Coq
74. Hume
75. Infra
76. Rust (oxidization)
77. OpenBSD
78. FreeBSD
79. Plan9
80. Inferno
81. Uriel
82. Aaron Swartz
83. The Dolphin Emulator
84. Solving Captcha with Elinks
85. Cloudflare
86. Google Recaptcha
87. Domain Name Registration
88. Tor
89. I2P
90. Freenet
91. bittorrent
92. Retroshare
93. Vim
94. Emacs
95. Vi
96. Ed
97. DOS
98. Windows 95
99. Windows XP
100. dubs
101. Linux
102. Minix
103. Unix
104. Solaris
105. Initialization vectors
106. Symmetric ciphers
107. Public key encryption
108. Certificate authorities
109. Web of trust
110. ManPerson in the middle attacks
111. trips

Nobody ever wrote a book about Godel, Escher, and Mozart, and if they did, no one would read it, because Mozart is a bland little sellout.

Whatever you say, >>12-person.

>>10

1) The Art of the Fugue - really let this one burn into your brain.
2) A Musical Offering - Very intricate set of universes here. Do NOT listen to all of this in one sitting. That is way too much to process. Listen to 2 pieces at most at a time. Let your mind process the glory it has just witnessed. When you get to Ricercar a 6, this is a SIX VOICE FUGUE with 3 subjects. Listen to this, and nothing else. Wait half an hour, and listen to it again. When you really listen, this music will move you. You will witness the tragedy of a species that struggles against the mocking glare of its natural circumstances to touch the divine.

3) Goldberg Variations - much mellower, you can listen to several or just a few at a time, but still, not too many or their meaning will pass you by.

4) Harpsichord Concertos - This is easy listening techno Bach - fun to listen to, but still rewards repeated listenings. This music will excite you.

5) Magnificat - Latin, falsetto, a choir singing fugues, a choir convincing you you are part of something beautiful

6) The Allegro movement of Brandenburg Concerto 3. I like this one.

7) Well Tempered Klavier, books 1 and 2. Specifically:
From book 1:
- Prelude and Fugue in C minor
- Fugue in E major
- Fugue in A minor
Book 2:
- Fugue in F minor
- Fugue in G minor
- Fugue in A minor (a nice long one)

8) French and English suites

>>10,14
Sorry, I think I have the Ricercar a 6 confused with the unfinished 4 voice/3 subject fugue from The Art of the Fugue (Contrapunctus 14). They are both absolutely magnificent. The Ricercar a 6 is a 6 part fugue based on the single "Thema Regium" theme that all the rest of the pieces in "A Musical Offering" are based on. Its the "Unfinished Fugue" from "The Art of the Fugue" that is based on 3 subjects.

Mozart was mad into poo jokes though, >>12-san.

>>14

Do NOT listen to all of this in one sitting. That is way too much to process.

Stop being pretentious. All of those pieces are incredible, but reading your descriptions made me cringe.

Also, if we're approaching Bach from a "look at all that counterpoint" perspective, the sixth Brandenburg concerto stands out the most out of that collection.

In case I wasn't clear when I said "that collection", I'm referring to the six Brandenburg concertoes, not the list of Bach compositions that >>14 posted.

>>17
I guess I can only speak for myself. Sorry that my descriptions made you cringe. Its hard to convey how much I love those pieces.

Human history is a banal, tedious story of blood-soaked misery, greed and garbage. The tiny proportion of humans who devote themselves to being genuine, to give the people around them a genuine thing are typically ruthlessly destroyed in their time and forgotten. When I read history, it seems to me our main talent as a species is for maximizing misery and destroying the ones who show us the light. Due to historical accident or luck, Bach is one of those that wasn't destroyed and forgotten. The music of Bach is one of a bare handful of things humans have done that argue the case for humanity. His music is genuine, sincere and beautiful and it has endured despite being produced amidst a species of murdering, greedy idiots. As luck would have it, it has endured and is now a part of western culture.

The present day is the same shit that has always been, the only difference now is that our thuggish species has new tools it can use to express its thuggish brutal nature. Tools and technologies that were invented by many a forgotten "loser".

I am not smart, my ability to concentrate and think is limited, so my brain needs things in small pieces. That's why I say I need to listen to one, maybe two pieces at a time at the most. Any more, and I can no longer appreciate it. I need to read and write small programs, listen to single pieces of music. If I have to sit through a long recital or work with ENTERPRISE legacy apps written by /b/rogrammers with a dozen COM objects, no documentation, undiagnosable race conditions and literally megabytes of boilerplate sepples write-only "code", my brain shuts down and I become catatonic. When I improvise, I can only improvise short pieces.

check 'em

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100. Dubs

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