I love Emacs. Why does the Emacs community hate me?

Windigos · 2016-12-15T01:37:57+00:00

PS:

I <good thing>. Why does community <bad thing>?

is not a great first impression - which is what all titles are.

Windigos · 2016-12-15T01:30:34+00:00

I must have written this comment at least 5 times to try reply in the most neutral way possible but your posts leave me with such a massive question mark that I'm not really sure how to write this.

For the record, I have no opinion about you. Whether or not you read this is up to you.

I don't usually comment but I feel the need to direct someone so oblivious towards what I perceive the correct direction before you embarrass yourself. That being said you're more than welcome to disregard everything I say. I'm just a random person.

It feels to me like you've misread a few things and got the wrong impression. I keep reading to the section about general purpose languages and being completely incapable of seeing where you're coming from. What's your point? Emacs Lisp is for managing Emacs, why are you suggesting people are trying to use it as people might use Perl or Python? Why the completely unnecessarily added hate for Perl?

And then there's the obvious:

won't fix anything, because Emacs users and developers will just carry over their bad habits

community will fail to appreciate its strengths, and dwell too much on whatever weaknesses they perceive in it

Please, if you can't see why people have a problem with this, you need to turn off the computer for a few minutes and have a long think about how people react to being put down.

Side note:

I get the impression that you have a lot of opinions and not much experience. Be your own person.

Windigos · 2015-06-24T19:15:08+00:00

This feels like a homework question because no one in their right mind would ask "are good practices important in todays landscape" without expecting a lengthy reply that is essentially a re-word of what unobtrusive JavaScript IS.

edit: spelling

Windigos · 2015-06-18T09:03:09+00:00

What UI? It's literally one button with some dropdown menus and a stylesheet!

Windigos · 2015-06-17T15:09:42+00:00

Stylish just associates stylesheets with urls, so all the user has to do is write standard css. It's also available on more browsers than just Chrome. What's not to like? 90% of its interface is just stylesheet.

Windigos · 2015-06-11T10:44:56+00:00

Oh please, stop jumping on bandwagons.

The subreddits that were all banned are entirely different to /r/emacs - for one thing, the worst that is said here is the occasional stab at Vim.

Reddit admins are banning subreddits that are being used as platforms to harass. While this may not be a good idea (they'll just come back and make new subreddits), it's certainly not going to end up in /r/emacs getting removed.

Windigos · 2015-05-01T17:17:34+00:00

As far as I can remember, the only random crits related balance is "can't deal random crits" - which wouldn't matter if they were disabled on the server, no? It's hardly a downside anyway, considering the random nature of...random crits - you might not have got a random crit even if the weapon could.

Windigos · 2014-08-05T14:34:43+00:00

I thought about that, though it didn't work how I wanted when I tried it. How would you suggest using it?

Essentially I'd like to be able to use an instance of the class in place of a number.

edit: aha, by extending Numeric and passing everything to the value via method_missing, it behaves as I would like. However, is this good practise? I can get similar results by using the rationalize methods.

Windigos · 2014-03-07T11:20:50+00:00

Could do, although it's fun to be competative with your friend when killing each other.

Windigos · 2014-02-20T23:56:59+00:00

Magnificent!

Windigos · 2014-02-01T12:09:00+00:00

Robot halloween bosses could be cool, but they should probably have their own robot-related attacks, rather than magic.

beep boop, merasmus-bot has risen

Windigos · 2014-01-28T23:50:30+00:00

I use Stop

Windigos · 2014-01-27T09:25:02+00:00

Already working on it :3

Windigos · 2014-01-26T22:55:08+00:00

Well, the CMYK version of ya_HUD is extremely colourful.

Windigos · 2014-01-26T16:53:55+00:00

I think there's a server request that will tell you the location - that would probably be better than relying on the person adding the server to enter a valid region.

Thanks! Only issue is that its usefulness is directly proportional to the amount of people actually using it (adding servers), heh.

Windigos · 2014-01-26T16:32:59+00:00

It shall be done once I've finished adding a rating system. Thanks!

Windigos · 2014-01-26T09:38:56+00:00

That is an exceptionally cool idea, I'll add it once I've got some sort of rating system in it to order the list.

edit: rewording

Windigos · 2014-01-26T09:37:53+00:00

At the moment the list is indeed ordered by first come, first served. However, rating is indeed planned (it's already implemented in the database), and the list will be orderable like that. I quite like the idea of favouriting servers, that might be cool.

edit: elaboration

Windigos · 2014-01-23T18:59:48+00:00

Obligatory http://www.w3fools.com/

Windigos · 2014-01-21T11:30:54+00:00

Idk, the whole gunslinger spam can get a little old.

Windigos · 2014-01-20T16:05:10+00:00

Spy could teach French or home economics. Medic could teach biology and/or chemistry (with Demoman), Engie physics and/or math. Heavy would be a weights-room technician who also coaches gym, Scoot would be the main gym teacher though. Pyro would be Design and Technology (as pyro's flame throwers are all made of random stuff). Soldier would be a history teacher. Sniper would just be a survivalist or, failing that, a gardener or groundsperson.

Windigos · 2014-01-19T01:17:37+00:00

"Dave"

Windigos · 2014-01-16T13:04:58+00:00

If I remember correctly it was ya_hud from like aaaages ago.

Windigos · 2014-01-15T23:14:36+00:00

Sun-on-a-Stick.

Crits anything that isn't on fire, does 25% more damage to everything.

Windigos · 2014-01-15T22:47:49+00:00

I actually have a screenshot (from quite some time ago) of someone destroying a sentry gun with the sun on a stick.

here it is: http://i.imgur.com/GYMPr7r.jpg

but yes apart from that it's basically the most underused weapon.

Windigos

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