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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by ChuckMcM on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:42AM (#7756055)
Yup. I suspect this is the core of his incompatibility with nominal employment in the tech space.

I agree with others that perhaps a documentation role on an open source project would be something that would be in demand, but having the tech writer telling the developers they are doing it wrong is not a good recipe for success (and that seems to be a real possibility here).

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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by IanKelling on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:53AM (#7756119)
He was unemployed by choice, not incompatibility. I know he has written quite a bit of good emacs documentation and elisp code, and just that is worth donating for to me.
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Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee by chazu on Monday May 19, 2014 @11:34AM (#7767921)
I second this. His emacs/elisp docs have been exceedingly helpful for me in the past, certainly helpful enough to warrant a donation, regardless of any reputation for being difficult to work with.
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