asciilifeform: 90% of the drama was in the form of A: 'standard is crap!' B: 'no it isn't, i love it' A: ok, how about this B: yeah, maybe this should've been different A: let's change it B: no, you'll break my satellite/aircraft carrier/jacuzzi

asciilifeform: or, to be charitable, an altar

asciilifeform: much the same psychiatric aspects as the case of an ordinary spammer. who doesn't see the channel as a place with people, but as a receptacle

asciilifeform: the sad part is that even naggum's idiots were livelier and more interesting than modern ones (that i know of)

asciilifeform: hm. kid at racetrack: 'damn those things are loud, and they stink.' old man: 'unbeknownst to you, you're in a pit where loud, stinking things are revered.' kid: goes home, smears shit on himself, yells 'vroom! vroom!'

asciilifeform: some of the people he dealt with really were living garbage of the most noxious sort.

asciilifeform: deego: it helps to know the context.

asciilifeform: i was a lurker of the worst degree - several years after the fact.

asciilifeform: because at the time i was quite irritated with commonlisp.

asciilifeform: i took the side of some of the people he was flaming (in my head)

asciilifeform: mes sheer need as the motivation to enter the field...."

asciilifeform: "something important happens when a previously privileged position in society suddenly sees incredibly demand that needs to be filled, using enormous quantities of manpower. that happened to programming computers about a decade ago, or maybe two. first, the people will no longer be super dedicated people, and they won't be as skilled or even as smart -- what was once dedication is replaced by greed and someti ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hard (but not impossible!) to cross-compile winblows trojans under mac os.

asciilifeform: i asked the fellow politely, to hush, in his mother tongue. no dice.

asciilifeform: will somebody please wake the mod ?