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Come on man, Mensa? I’ve never taken an IQ test and the only pedigree I have is the school (UCSD) that I flunked out of. I didn’t say that I’m personally a sma

Come on man, Mensa? I’ve never taken an IQ test and the only pedigree I have is the school (UCSD) that I flunked out of. I didn’t say that I’m personally a smarty-pants Haskell hacker. I said that those people skew smart and capable. How come @dang is always there like the Batman spotlight when I stray into ad hominem but I always get smashed with this stuff?

gilbetron 5y ago
I'm bemused that you think Mensa is such an ad hominem :)
- mischov 5y ago
  “Do you put Mensa on your resume?” is clearly a personal attack in this context. At least own up to your words.
0des 5y ago
- benreesman 5y ago
  - 0des 5y ago
    Given your befuddled comment, I'd say no, you don't, evidently. I've been here longer than some readers have been alive. Some of us are not interesting in cultivating a persona. I love your cheeky little attempt at an appeal to authority though.
    - benreesman 5y ago
      I’ll take you at your word that your on an alt or something and assume that you’ve also been around since the beginning. It doesn’t seem like we’re going to get along, so I propose that we just stay off one another’s comments to keep things civil.
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      - 0des 5y ago
        You're going to repeat this same issue as long as you have the "but they always get away with it, why cant I" mentality. Two faults in judgement don't make a good decision, no matter how many take part in it. Bless your heart and good day.
    - dang 5y ago
      Please don't cross into personal attack or post flamewar comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
jodrellblank 5y ago
> "I didn’t say that I’m personally a smarty-pants Haskell hacker." You didn't? You said serious Haskell programmers are smart and then pointed out that you worked on the largest Haskell codebase on the planet; we were supposed to not conclude that you are smart, but rather that people working on said codebase are non-serious Haskell programmers? "Nobody likes to talk about it, but we Haskell programmers are smarter than everyone else, especially bickering Javascript plebs" is kinda surprising it hasn't been flagged as flamebait.
- benreesman 5y ago
  I’m a fairly intermediate Haskell programmer at best. My point about working in a serious industrial setting was that I’ve seen the real deal, up close, and over time.

gilbetron 5y ago

I'm bemused that you think Mensa is such an ad hominem :)

mischov 5y ago
“Do you put Mensa on your resume?” is clearly a personal attack in this context. At least own up to your words.

0des 5y ago

benreesman 5y ago
- 0des 5y ago
  Given your befuddled comment, I'd say no, you don't, evidently. I've been here longer than some readers have been alive. Some of us are not interesting in cultivating a persona. I love your cheeky little attempt at an appeal to authority though.
  - benreesman 5y ago
    I’ll take you at your word that your on an alt or something and assume that you’ve also been around since the beginning. It doesn’t seem like we’re going to get along, so I propose that we just stay off one another’s comments to keep things civil.
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - 0des 5y ago
      You're going to repeat this same issue as long as you have the "but they always get away with it, why cant I" mentality. Two faults in judgement don't make a good decision, no matter how many take part in it. Bless your heart and good day.
  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't cross into personal attack or post flamewar comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jodrellblank 5y ago

> "I didn’t say that I’m personally a smarty-pants Haskell hacker." You didn't? You said serious Haskell programmers are smart and then pointed out that you worked on the largest Haskell codebase on the planet; we were supposed to not conclude that you are smart, but rather that people working on said codebase are non-serious Haskell programmers? "Nobody likes to talk about it, but we Haskell programmers are smarter than everyone else, especially bickering Javascript plebs" is kinda surprising it hasn't been flagged as flamebait.

benreesman 5y ago
I’m a fairly intermediate Haskell programmer at best. My point about working in a serious industrial setting was that I’ve seen the real deal, up close, and over time.