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Post by vault »

capableweb wrote: post #19

Few people could probably argue that they helped as many humans in dire situations like Bram did in his life. Vim was the first time I came across "charityware" as vim encourages users to donate to International Child Care Fund Holland on its splash screen, instead of begging for money for itself. I feel a bit of shame when I say that I've only donated to ICCF once over all these years.... As a remembrance of Bram an…

Who knows why there's no financial statement for 2022? 2021 is on the home page. https://iccf-holland.org/iccf.html

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Post by sandGorgon »

RIP. This makes me really really sad today. I first used vim when i was in college over 25 years back. And it was magical. It was my first tryst with what a text editor should be.

My .vimrc is 25 years old :(

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Post by otterpro »

I've been using Vim for the past 10 years every single day. I don't know any other software that I've used daily, with exception to the OS. While I come from the old school vi days, Vim really became the ultimate productivity in editing everything.

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Post by jorams »

vault wrote: post #311
capableweb wrote: post #19

Few people could probably argue that they helped as many humans in dire situations like Bram did in his life. Vim was the first time I came across "charityware" as vim encourages users to donate to International Child Care Fund Holland on its splash screen, instead of begging for money for itself. I feel a bit of shame when I say that I've only donated to ICCF once over all these years.... As a remembrance of Bram an…

Who knows why there's no financial statement for 2022? 2021 is on the home page. https://iccf-holland.org/iccf.html

It looks like Bram was the treasurer, so his medical condition could potentially have something to do with it.

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Post by soulofmischief »

Sharing a piece of advice Bram gave to me once:

"It appears you think that everybody is like you. But that's not so."

I didn't take the advice well at the time, but now, a little older and wiser, I understand.

Thank you, Bram. Thank you for vim, for your time and dedication, and for taking the time to deposit a small amount of your wisdom into my brain. Sorry for being a dick.

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Post by 1letterunixname »

lolive wrote: post #160

Went to his website. There was an interview of him from 2022. The answer that really stroke me was not about Vim, but about software craftmanship vs professional programming: « I have been working for a company where quite a few managers, educated in physics and mechanics, thought the software was just the same as what they knew and they could decide how to make it. That company went downhill and was eventually taken…

I've worked with enough "professional" programmers to know I don't want to work with them and their sloppy, reckless, uncurious, and inconsiderate ways.

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Post by Denvercoder9 »

myst wrote: post #300
sillysaurusx wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s remarkably uncommon to find an employee who strikes a balance between the two. But I think this doesn’t make the sentence wrong.

Literally everyone strikes the balance. According to their experience. The older, the more experienced, the more balanced.

There's a difference in the balance that people like to do, and what's best for the organization. I definitely can't deny that I've sometimes gone for the side that made my job better for me, but not necessarily helped the organization the most.

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Post by uean »

Personal anecdote: I had lived and worked in southern Uganda with a Canadian organization called Kibaale Children’s Fund (now Kuwasha). One day Bram came by our location. We talked a bit - someone told me he was influential and “worked for google or something” and then I learned his real identity and the software he was a part of. I was just on the brink of beginning a career in IT at the time and later in life as my skills and toolset grew I realized his significance. He never spoke of VIM in person during our time and was an incredibly humble quiet man, dedicating his time to helping children in need through ICCF Holland, which operated out of the same school I was working with as I recall. I found Bram incredibly genuine, and was also highly impressed with the ethics he brought to his efforts in the local work in Uganda (where it is typical to see fundraising dollars sliced and diced with admin-fees - ICCF turned every cent of a dollar back into the community.) He will be missed by many in that part of the world for such a massive impact he was able to have through funds raised through VIM. May he rest in peace.
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