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Your username is con artist lol

by MeetingsBrowser 5mo ago

conartist6 5mo ago
Yes, Hi! I'm Conrad.
- _-_-__-_-_- 5mo ago
  and also a con artist?
  - conartist6 5mo ago
    I'd say a code artist, more commonly called a hacker. https://paulgraham.com/hp.html https://paulgraham.com/hp.html To be clear for the past five years I've done nothing but write OSS code (https://github.com/conartist6 https://github.com/conartist6) while sharing pretty much all my engineering thoughts on a public Discord server (https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX), so I'm not very worried at all that a person determined to find out would be unable to tell if I'm legit. You just can't fake 20,000 hours worth of public toil.
- thayne 5mo ago
  I'm not sure if your aware, but in American English, "con artist" is another term for a scammer. Someone who does "cons", short for "confidence tricks" (or "confidence schemes") where you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them in some way, usually financial fraud.
  - conartist6 5mo ago
    Yes I'm aware, I grew up in a college town in rural Pennsylvania. I chose the name when I signed up for Neopets uhhhh 20 years ago now.
    - fragmede 5mo ago
      The best time to have chosen a new name was 20 years ago. The second best time to choose one is now.
      - conartist6 5mo ago
        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm me. 's not likely to change is it? I could color inside the lines and hope it buys me a nice life, but if I was that kind of person I would never have tackled this insane of a project
swader999 5mo ago
Maybe he likes a challenge?
- conartist6 5mo ago
  I guess I happily invite people to disrespect me for superficial reasons. Baseless disrespect keeps me motivated. Sorting out people who are only kicking tires also helps protect my time. The ones who show real curiosity, those are the people I'll give my full attention to any day of the week.
dspillett 5mo ago
Yours is an anagram of “emits wrong beers”. Just as relevant a point…
- deleted 5mo ago
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Your username is con artist lol

conartist6 5mo ago

Yes, Hi! I'm Conrad.

_-_-__-_-_- 5mo ago
and also a con artist?
- conartist6 5mo ago
  I'd say a code artist, more commonly called a hacker. https://paulgraham.com/hp.html https://paulgraham.com/hp.html To be clear for the past five years I've done nothing but write OSS code (https://github.com/conartist6 https://github.com/conartist6) while sharing pretty much all my engineering thoughts on a public Discord server (https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX), so I'm not very worried at all that a person determined to find out would be unable to tell if I'm legit. You just can't fake 20,000 hours worth of public toil.
thayne 5mo ago
I'm not sure if your aware, but in American English, "con artist" is another term for a scammer. Someone who does "cons", short for "confidence tricks" (or "confidence schemes") where you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them in some way, usually financial fraud.
- conartist6 5mo ago
  Yes I'm aware, I grew up in a college town in rural Pennsylvania. I chose the name when I signed up for Neopets uhhhh 20 years ago now.
  - fragmede 5mo ago
    The best time to have chosen a new name was 20 years ago. The second best time to choose one is now.
    - conartist6 5mo ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm me. 's not likely to change is it? I could color inside the lines and hope it buys me a nice life, but if I was that kind of person I would never have tackled this insane of a project

swader999 5mo ago

Maybe he likes a challenge?

conartist6 5mo ago
I guess I happily invite people to disrespect me for superficial reasons. Baseless disrespect keeps me motivated. Sorting out people who are only kicking tires also helps protect my time. The ones who show real curiosity, those are the people I'll give my full attention to any day of the week.

dspillett 5mo ago

Yours is an anagram of “emits wrong beers”. Just as relevant a point…

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