Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-03 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Tim Bradshaw writes: > On 2012-05-02 14:44:36 +, jaialai.technol...@gmail.com said: > >> He may be nuts > > But he's right: programmers are pretty much fuckwits[*]: if you think > that's not true you are not old enough. > > [*] including me, especially. You need to watch: http://blog.ted.co

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Others who have crossed this list appear to have aspergers or autism > too, such as Ranting Rick.  He pops up occasionally, posts quite > normally and even helpfully, and then lapses back into periods of > ranting about how he can fix python

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > I think you can catch more girls with honey and I'm not sure if I'd like > to catch those who prefer vinegar. I think we can make it into some kind > of law, say Angelico-Rola Law (of girlscatching), ok? > > "One cannot catch a girl on honey wit

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 05/02/2012 09:31 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2012, jaialai.technol...@gmail.com wrote: > >> OP lives out of his car and his main source of income seems to be ad > >> revenue from his website. > > I'm always curious about this sort of thi

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Torrie
On 05/02/2012 09:31 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012, jaialai.technol...@gmail.com wrote: >> OP lives out of his car and his main source of income seems to be ad >> revenue from his website. I'm always curious about this sort of thing. Do you know this for a fact, jaialai.technology?

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Tim Wintle wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 17:31 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > positive aura drives more people and more permamently towards you. Perhaps > > he should > > develop an alter ego that could stand side by side with Dalai Lama and see > > which one gets more atte

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > He may be smart but obviously hasn't figured out this yet: positive aura > > drives more people and more permamently towards you. > > You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but who want

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Temia Eszteri
>On 27/04/12 03:11, Xah Lee wrote: >> John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words >> >> http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/ >> >> where was he ten years ago? >> >> O, and btw, i heard that Common Lispe

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > He may be smart but obviously hasn't figured out this yet: positive aura > drives more people and more permamently towards you. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but who wants to catch flies? I don't see much value in Xah Lee'

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tim Wintle
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 17:31 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > positive aura drives more people and more permamently towards you. Perhaps he > should > develop an alter ego that could stand side by side with Dalai Lama and see > which one gets more attention. Really?

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 2 May 2012, jaialai.technol...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm not a 'Common Lisper' or a 'Pythoner' so I'm not directly or > > personally affected by your retarded and offensive comment. However, who > > the fuck do you think you are to post stuff of this nature? (I believe) > > I'll understand

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Tim Bradshaw
On 2012-05-02 14:44:36 +, jaialai.technol...@gmail.com said: He may be nuts But he's right: programmers are pretty much fuckwits[*]: if you think that's not true you are not old enough. [*] including me, especially. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread jaialai . technology
I'm not a 'Common Lisper' or a 'Pythoner' so I'm not directly or personally affected by your retarded and offensive comment. However, who the fuck do you think you are to post stuff of this nature? (I believe) I'll understand if you've got some sort of psychological issue affecting your behaviour.

Re: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-05-02 Thread Miguel Guedes
On 27/04/12 03:11, Xah Lee wrote: John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/ where was he ten years ago? O, and btw, i heard that Common Lispers don't do functional programing, is that right? Fuck C

John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words

2012-04-26 Thread Xah Lee
John Carmack glorifying functional programing in 3k words http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programming-in-c/ where was he ten years ago? O, and btw, i heard that Common Lispers don't do functional programing, is that right? Fuck Common Lispers. Yeah, fuck them. One bun