I did not know about how terribly is that:
Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury
http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.htm...
Seems that Emacs is no good in excess!
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/_p/KickbanXahLeeFromEmacsChan...
He was banned from HN long ago too. Random long-ass thread he started on the Python un back in 2009 about this stuff I had saved an archive of for some reason: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg23603... He even replies for once further down in typical style complete with a classic Also, thanks to many supporters over the past years. Truly Your Superior, Xah Like, yeah he is likely somewhere on th…
> He was banned from HN long ago too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xahlee
Does not appear to be banned, just inactive?
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#13Xah deserves more attention and help. Is he still unemployed? Someone should help him find a job if possible.
People like him need basic income, the rent paid and a social worker. Nothing else works.
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#14Xah deserves more attention and help. Is he still unemployed? Someone should help him find a job if possible.
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#15I did not know about how terribly is that: Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.htm... Seems that Emacs is no good in excess!
The risk is overstated, many people have used without any issue and there is no control group as well, those programmers might have issues either way, Emacs or not.
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#16This guy is unhinged in like the best of ways. First found out about him on /g/
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was banned from HN long ago too. Random long-ass thread he started on the Python un back in 2009 about this stuff I had saved an archive of for some reason: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg23603... He even replies for once further down in typical style complete with a classic Also, thanks to many supporters over the past years. Truly Your Superior, Xah Like, yeah he is likely somewhere on th…
> He was banned from HN long ago too. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xahlee Does not appear to be banned, just inactive?
He himself says in that thread I posted he was banned in 2009. Maybe he appealed, it was temp, he confused an automatic shadowban and enough people vouched his good elisp stuff that it was undone (was that even a thing at the start?) or he just imagined the whole thing for some other reason. I forgot my account from that time and then browsed for years before remaking a new one, and I can't really remember anymore what moderation was like under pg. Xah's stated reason makes no sense and there is nothing objectionable in his comments but there it is.
>"“Hacker News” website, at http://news.ycombinator.com/, banned me around 2009-02 or earlier."
¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Anyway, no deep meaning there on my part and this is all kind of a sidetrack from folks who want to talk elisp. it was just seeing the name again after so long made me think back and reflect a bit on how human society remixes old and new as technology changes. A number of communities from the old era can probably think of colorful characters like that, not trolls seemingly but genuinely neurodivergent, not necessarily welcome yet not exactly out of hand rejected either. And with pearls amongst everything else. Also echoes of different civilizations than classic western.
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#18I'm glad Xah Lee is still around, and seems to be doing well.
(Protip: his Unicode search pages are very useful, I use them all the time: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html)
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/_p/KickbanXahLeeFromEmacsChan...
He was banned from HN long ago too. Random long-ass thread he started on the Python un back in 2009 about this stuff I had saved an archive of for some reason: https://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg23603... He even replies for once further down in typical style complete with a classic Also, thanks to many supporters over the past years. Truly Your Superior, Xah Like, yeah he is likely somewhere on th…
I hadn't heard the name in quite some time, but I distinctly remember similar behavior on other mailing lists. I think it was one of the Omni Group's Mac lists - macosx-talk or -admin or -dev, I can't quite recall.
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#20Not related to this, but since we're talking trolls... I noticed that n-gate.com hasn't been updated in more than half a year.
I always enjoyed reading their over the top critiques of HN posts... anyone know if they're okay and maybe just burnt out -- or that something else is going on?