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by zedshaw 15y ago
I've gone through http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and it wasn't too hard. About the only difficulty is the pointless and contradictory jargon like "point free" or the hand-waving about Monads and how they violate their purely functional exec
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by zedshaw 15y ago
1. It's not a "post", it's a single chapter in a whole book http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ which I'm guessing you won't read because you clearly can't read. 2. I am old compared to a lot of programmers, but yes it was kind of a jo
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Ah, pedantry, the pinnacle of all evaluations of a single statement one could make. Next you should criticize how the book doesn't cover decorator generators that use @wrap or how it doesn't cover discrete mathematics. That'll be very eff
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Well, good thing you gave up rather than using code to solve hard problems other scientists in your field can't solve.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Thanks, I really do appreciate that.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh, I'm so glad you, the one arbiter of all that is art, is able to correct our misunderstanding of the definition of "art". The truth is, you can't define art, so in the same way I can use paint to paint my house, or use paint to create a
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Hmm, you really got a problem with this don't you? http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/i1j67/advice_fr... There you are on reddit, saying the same thing, and ignoring the fact that you're confounding your experience as a Biology
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Because Wall Street runs the government. Haven't you been paying attention?
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by zedshaw 15y ago
No, because failing to ignore the history of the person telling you something and their motivations is how you get slippery slope logic that leads to things like using Eugenics to validate killing people who are poor or mentally ill.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Only 10% of the ruby on rails community who had to admit the entire platform was based on lies hates me for that. The rest of the world is glad I wrote it.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
So, you basically were stirring up drama by exaggerating what I said for effect, yet I'm the drama queen and attention whore. Next time, actually read what I write instead of just imagining you read it after seeing a stream of tweets and
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Chill out? You just called me a whore douchebag. Now you want to buy me a beer? You see, this is what pisses me off about you whiners claiming I'm stirring up drama. I didn't say a damn thing to you until you started insulting me in thes
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh look, another anonymous troll that has exactly the same validity and standing as my comment. This place is awesome with the anonymous posters.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You know what, you're a dickhead. Guys like you are all tough when they're on forums like this, but you wouldn't ever say anything like this to my face. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've been to a couple meetups in the city and you've not sai
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yep, that's what people seem to gloss over when they think I just overreacted. I knew for a fact that several Ruby people considered this hilarious, and that one or more of them worked at github. In that situation, it's either I leave sile
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by zedshaw 15y ago
> If Zed hadn't written a blog post detailing how he fucked everything up (in all his greatness, apparently) it wouldn't have gotten such exposure and would likely have died out. Can you explain where in my blog post I claim I'm great?
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I love how you're this paragon of stoic virtue, and I'm a drama queen, yet, here you are talking about it even more instead of ignoring it and going back to whatever it was you were doing.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I knew some github employee(s) were in on it, and that if I removed it he'd just add it again, and at that point just figured why the hell am I bothering with this? Might as well fight back at the jerk and then hope he gets a hint.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
While I don't claim to be any kind of feminist or understand gay rights, I will say this kind of odd "macho homophobe" seems to be a Ruby on Rails thing.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
If I suspect someone at github is in on the joke, then submitting a ticket to have them fix the problem wouldn't work. They'd just laugh at me and ignore it like they've done with other people.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You have to stand up to the trolls now. The internet has created a permanent record of slander and humiliation from anonymous people, so if you don't stand up to it then it'll be assumed that there was some merit to what they said.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
That'd be a good moderate solution. It'd keep the simplicity of your collaborator UI intact, but let me avoid this kind of abuse. You might want to make it a "remove" and a "remove and block" so that people don't get into a bad state on ac
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I didn't DDOS the site, I did commits that overwrote ones he was doing then tried to break his repo. Keep in mind that I suspect there's at least one gihub employee in on it and supporting it, so no amount of submitting tickets and begging
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Github is a company. Remember, they make money, have employees, and are a corporation. I didn't say Tom Preston-Warner was an asshole, I said github has a problem with how their collaborators work and they refuse to fix it. Without peopl
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Sorry, but it's not a rant. I think it's fairly well reasoned and slightly funny way to point out that they're doing this and probably allowing it. Trust me, when I rant you'll know it. :-)
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by zedshaw 15y ago
There is nothing to block someone from doing it other than report them for abuse or get a different account and hope they don't find you. The problem with reporting this as abuse though is the owner of the project wins his little lame-troll
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Hehe, yeah, and I'm probably in their weird secret block list they vaguely mention. The thing to remember is most of the entrepreneurs claim to want a meritocracy but don't really. They don't want people to criticize their products, call b
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by zedshaw 15y ago
That's why I liked fossil. It was like a little mini-github in a tiny cross platform package. Too bad it nuked my code.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I never said Nick Martini is a github employee, I know who he is and he's definitely not there. I said: 1. I suspect HackerNewsTips is a github employee. I'd also suspect a fellow former PowerSet employee. 2. They are not only in on the j
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yes, one of their employees actually fixed a bug I caused so someone there knows, yet here we are again. Now I know what you're saying, I should go through their bug tracker bureaucracy for a few weeks. File some nice bugs, talk with peopl

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