I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by lispm on Friday May 16, 2014 @09:53AM (#7755476)

Xah Lee is open source contributor to the LISP communities? Really? Where?

He acted as a troll for years in the LISP communities. There is no other contribution I'm aware of.

He was more helpful with Emacs.

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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by e40 on Friday May 16, 2014 @10:01AM (#7755525)

In the 90's, he was the biggest troll on comp.lang.lisp. I actually found some of his stuff funny. It wasn't like it was hard to tell he was trolling. It was performance art, IMO. I often wonder, though, what strange person was behind it. Now I know, sadly.

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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by at-fates-hands on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:02PM (#7756169)

I guess this is a cautionary tale then about not burning bridges? Seems like the guy is pretty bright, but for all the years he was trolling people, those are the people he needs now more than ever to help him out.

Sad, really sad.

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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by lispm on Sunday May 18, 2014 @02:56AM (#7762406)

I guess there are a lot of people willing to help him out.

He might be 'bright', but he is not a programmer - though he lectures programmers in his trollings.

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