
Famous Internet personality Xah Lee has graced XMonad with one of his classic reviews: http://xahlee.org/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html -- gwern http://www.gwern.net

Gwern Branwen
Famous Internet personality Xah Lee has graced XMonad with one of his classic reviews: http://xahlee.org/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html
I love how he complains because using key bindings causes RSI *and* interferes with his emacs key bindings.
Did anyone have to tweak any appreciable numer of applications to work with XMonad? The only thing I did as keepass, since I wanted it's global hot key to use the same bucky bit as XMonad.
I also have to wonder if I may have inspired him:
http://blog.mired.org/2011/11/why-mac-ui-sucks.html

On 20 April 2012 14:29, Mike Meyer
Gwern Branwen
wrote: Famous Internet personality Xah Lee has graced XMonad with one of his classic reviews: http://xahlee.org/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html
Is "famous internet personality" the same as those "celebrities" who are famous for being famous? :p
I love how he complains because using key bindings causes RSI *and* interferes with his emacs key bindings.
And how he didn't just tweak the defaults to use the keybindings he wants...
Did anyone have to tweak any appreciable numer of applications to work with XMonad? The only thing I did as keepass, since I wanted it's global hot key to use the same bucky bit as XMonad.
The only tweak I did was to emacs' default naming scheme for multiple buffers with the same filename, but that strictly speaking was for xmobar, not xmonad.
I also have to wonder if I may have inspired him: http://blog.mired.org/2011/11/why-mac-ui-sucks.html
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Is "famous internet personality" the same as those "celebrities" who are famous for being famous? :p
It's my little way of saying infamous Lisp Internet troll and/or crazy person. Xah is even more eccentric than Eric Naggum. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:04:14AM EDT, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
wrote:
Is "famous internet personality" the same as those "celebrities" who are famous for being famous? :p
It's my little way of saying infamous Lisp Internet troll and/or crazy person. Xah is even more eccentric than Eric Naggum.
No offense meant, but you do realize that you are the one who's trolling here..? CJ -- ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

On 04/20/2012 12:49 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
On 20 April 2012 14:29, Mike Meyer
wrote: Gwern Branwen
wrote: Famous Internet personality Xah Lee has graced XMonad with one of his classic reviews: http://xahlee.org/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html
Is "famous internet personality" the same as those "celebrities" who are famous for being famous? :p
No, he's famous for his vitriolic castigation of things he doesn't like about things he loves. For a man who's nearly a wholly-owned subsidiary of emacs, Xah can sure gin up a serious hatin' on bits of it he doesn't like. He's kind of the paradigmatic example the high-functioning coder with poor social interfaces. - Allen S. Rout
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