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This is the sort of person that I want to be engaged with: * highly opinionated * driven by personal interest * not afraid to go down the worm hole and come
by kvnn 14y ago
This is the sort of person that I want to be engaged with:
* highly opinionated
* driven by personal interest
* not afraid to go down the worm hole and come up with little public recognition and enormous personal gain
This is the sort of project that makes me grin:
* highly engrossing project page
* mysterious motivations
* unknown implications
* legally ambiguous
I love this shit. Keep it up, Christina.
- christina_b 14y agoI love you.
- taligent 14y agoIs it just me that reads this and is reminded of Linus/Linux ?
- Camillo 14y agoThis is really weird. When there is a submission about some guy's project, do we evaluate his potential as a mate? Does that become the top comment? What in the world is going on here?
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- coob 14y agoI think you're misinterpreting 'engaged with' there…
- Camillo 14y agoOh, I guess I am! But it still seems weirdly personal, though more subtly.
- SimHacker 14y agoIt seems even more creepily weirdly personal if "engaged" was a freudian slip rather than the intentionally self deprecating humor of trying to sound like a horny cyber stalker. I assumed because of the rest of the gushing it was meant to be a humorous parody of a horny cyber stalker.
- Danieru 14y agoIs there a chance you guys are not native english speakers? I'm Canadian and didn't find anything odd about the sentence. I think the context made it clear that he was talking about contributing.
- stcredzero 14y agoIs there a chance you guys are not native english speakers? Yes, it's commonplace for someone to "want to be engaged with brilliant people" without bringing marriage into the picture. I've seen that on cover letters a number of times.
- Cushman 14y agoIndeed. "Engaged with" doesn't ever describe a marriage proposal in any case, so it's hard to imagine a native speaker being confused. (The idiom is "engaged to".)
- gcr 14y ago(Upvoting this post so others can see the context -- don't let your disagreement rob others of being able to follow the conversation, HN!)
- kenrikm 14y agoI think he ment engaged on a mental level? not like.. you know engaged.
- Dove 14y agoI'm surprised that people are confused. Is there a regional difference in the way this would be phrased? In my (US) experience, "engaged with" unambiguously means working together, while "engaged to" unambiguously means getting married.
- mortenjorck 14y agoIndeed, at least from my American Midwest perspective, I agree it's all in the conjunction, with no ambiguity at all.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThe same here, in the UK.
- duaneb 14y agoI understood what he meant, but it still made me double-take.
- adrusi 14y agoI didn't notice any ambiguity until I read the replies
- biturd 14y agoI immediately thought engaged -> married. I didn't even pay attention to the with/to conjunction. Anything "engaged" means marriage to me unless presented as something that is not a person. I get it now, and it makes sense, but I have a feeling there are a lot of people who would think, programmer finds female programmer that is excellent at what she does and wants to "engage" her.
- ktizo 14y agoPhrases like "I tried to call, but they were engaged." must really confuse you then. There are a lot of things in the world that are engaging, many would say far more engaging, than just the prospect of marriage.
- imd 14y agoI see that philosophy and math aren't the only fields where someone's work is more praiseworthy for being less practical!
- dspillett 14y agoless immediately practical How much "non practical" mathematics from the last couple of hundred years has turned out to be useful in physics problems and other areas (or just inspired other bits of maths that have had uses) over the last few decades? If you are doing something new then there is no such thing as science purely for science's sake.