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Thu May 21 11:46:27 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: if you're a capitalist everything exists << this makes no sense to me.
Thu May 21 11:46:27 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu thinks gabriel and janna would make a perfect couple. << I'm almost insulted.
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: im not going to go into how "Most ideas humans would like to communicate using the computer are quite simple." is both factually incorrect and a very poor premise. << I didn't see this prior to our conversation, courtesy of not paying my bills. This is actually the crux of it, so let's revisit. You've publicly stated something to th
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> e effect of "linux devs are idiots and I'd like a judiciously defaulted gentoo please". The question is, at what point does this become something that you (or others ben_vulpes, mod6, asciilifeform etc have already wasted time derping with gentoo) would pay for? People pay for (what they see as) quality software - sublime text makes money, as does
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Intellij. The problem with these (ALGOL based) businesses is that their organizations ossify because of the sheer number of people that must get involved in any sort of "automation of programming". This is inescapable if you choose to use ALGOL. I realize that this isn't a result you believe exists, but reality doesn't care. Aside from software dev
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> s, industrial chemists, architects, research physicists etc would like to have a plug-and-play solution for going about their work. There is money to be made here. Afaik the only way to get there is: 1. revert to paper 2. teach *everyone* what an AST is, choose a language, add AST traversal mechanisms and write *everything* in it (this will continu
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ally burn some of Earth's brighter minds, someone needs to think about the gnarly parser semantics when the language's syntax is updated - my experience is that you can't pay people to care) 3. use lisp. People have already tried 1 & 2, and the result is inevitably that even if they make money (Mathematica, Microsoft, Oracle...) the foundations of
Thu May 21 11:46:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> shit catch up with them and we end up where we are today - nothing works and everyone insists that it does because they've bought into a lie. As for "is both factually incorrect and a very poor premise", thank you, will update.
Thu May 21 10:04:29 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> alright, goodnight.
Thu May 21 10:04:19 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> story time: I ran into loper-os after a stint programming clojure as a day job. I ended up getting evicted for playing around with CL instead of paying rent. I got another place, found trilema+#bitcoin-assets and... got evicted again.
Thu May 21 10:00:23 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Though I'll note the "chasing a better world a dollar at a time" makes a great deal of sense, unless one lives in the peculiar bezzle-buck nightmare we currently inhabit.
Thu May 21 09:55:55 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I'd end up having to type for them, and at that point, wtf I'll just do it myself
Thu May 21 09:55:34 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> but in this particular situation, who?
Thu May 21 09:55:28 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> admittedly, you can hire people
Thu May 21 09:55:22 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> This model is bizzare. So if I'm a capitalist I should make money to purchase that which does not exist?
Thu May 21 09:53:20 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "he;s a capitalist not a metaphysicist. " << I don't understand how this follows
Thu May 21 09:48:48 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> If it doesn't exist, and other people want it - go make and sell it.
Thu May 21 09:48:12 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Hmm.. I think 4 should be "the capitalist simply presumes it *will* exist"
Thu May 21 09:47:09 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> My position is simply that I can be broke and work on what I want to work on without being terribly inconvenienced
Thu May 21 09:46:28 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "that didn't. well... suppose it exists and costs what I have +1"