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I know Xah is a controversial turd sometimes, but he seems to be in real trouble right now: http://ergoemacs.org/misc/xah_as_good_as_dead.html He's a bit of a wretched cave troll, but he does dedicate a great deal of his energy towards helping people learn Emacs (and other things.) I know that I would probably not have been able to integrate Emacs into my workflow if I hadn't come across his tutorials early in my newbie phase. Help him if you feel compelled, though I'm not sure how much good buying one of his tutorials will do him (or you). Just thought I would bring this up here, since you folks will have probably heard of him. Edit: In case you do feel like helping him, pay attention to this detail towards the bottom of the linked page: Probably mentally ill troll Xah Lee posted:i won't actually be able to draw money from paypal, due to bank/IRS problem. So dobbymoodge fucked around with this message at 15:24 on May 16, 2014 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:So I remember several years ago he was living out of his car because he was a miserable turd who was far too brilliant to hold down a regular job with the rest of us plebs. Apparently he got some money at some point (sold the car?) and has been living, by himself, in a $1500/month apartment, despite no longer having an income source. Now surely even before the IRS took the money he owed, he knew he wouldn't be able to pay the next month's rent, but he still waited until he was absolutely penniless to actually get a goddamn job. Now he thinks that because he actually has a full-time job, there's just no possible time in the remaining 15 hours of the day to interview for something better? Looking at his history, I think it's apparent that he probably has some serious unaddressed mental or emotional problems. You're right, his behavior is pretty narcissistic and irresponsible, and I don't think tossing cash at him is going to change anything. Even if he had the self awareness to realize this, it wouldn't help. He's saying "I need cash for rent" but he should really be saying "I need a minimum of 3 years therapy, probably some meds, an employment counselor, and weekly visits from a nutritionist." You can't get that over paypal. I didn't make my last post in order to guilt people into donating to him; the guy is a grade-A bridge-burner, I'd be surprised if he gets enough donations to cover rent. That said, Emacs users are probably the only people on Earth who have any reason to care about his well-being, and he is a human being who deserves some compassion. I doubt anyone here really has the resources to get this guy the help and support that he truly needs. If there is some social worker who lives in the bay area, uses Emacs, is a goon, has nothing better to do and feels like helping him out, I'd feel pretty lovely if I only discovered that after Xah's bloated carcass is fished out of a storm drain. I'd be surprised if he didn't have scurvy or pellagra or something, homeboy has been eating just oats and noodles for 3+ years now? In his youtube interview with Sacha Chua his gums look pretty recessed, so who knows what else is going on. Pham Nuwen posted:I do like that he's not too distraught to download porn... and leave the download thingy up in his Chrome screenshot so we can all go to imgur and see his preferences. This is pretty hilarious. Pham Nuwen posted:Edit: If people give him enough money to pay rent (via his friends, does that make them accessories to tax evasion), I'll bet he pays rent and quits his dishwashing job. He should perhaps consider getting a job that's not in computing, since over a decade of being a very vocal shitbird on the Internet means a LOT of interviewers are going to say, "Xah Lee? Hah, gently caress that guy." I know I would. 100% with you on this; his prospects are probably whatever upwards mobility he has with his dishwashing gig, even if he does get all the help and rehabilitation in the world.
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horse mans posted:So Emacs 24.4 is out. Great. There's a bunch of new features, but one caught my eye: eww, a new web browser. Turns out it's... not really good. I think the name eww was chosen intentionally, i.e. the author knows it is terrible. That said, I don't understand why it's included in 24.4, but I haven't researched the reasoning behind the decision either. 
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midnightclimax posted:Anyone using mu4e as the standard mail client? Worth checking out/not worth the hassle? I found that it slows Emacs down for mailboxes with lots of messages. I have >10,000 unread emails, so you will get better results if you don't sick at email like I do. I will say that the search function sucks - you can't search message bodies at all as far as I could tell, and you can't search for a phrase, no matter how you quote out the search terms. Just one word at a time. When the search does work, it's pretty quick, being xapian. I'm using the Zimbra desktop client right now while I'm between email solutions on Emacs, but I'm planning to switch back to NotMuch once I get some free time. IMO you will get better results for your effort setting up notmuch. Both mu4e and notmuch require some significant tweaking, but notmuch is just more rewarding.
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duck monster posted:
Are you running in a terminal? The terminal may be sending the wrong mouse event to emacs. I'm not even sure emacs has mouse support in terminal mode, or how it compares to native mode. Try using c-x o to switch windows instead?
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