Notices by ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com), page 14

but today programer, i think the hard-ware based mindset is slightly going away. Partly because, new generation don't know it at all anymore. (e.g. witness the js frontend codecamp fucks.) Partly because, langs like haskell, or golang, are teaching programing to understand the separation of efficiency and abstraction concerns.

from unix to c to java to opengl (or whatever gl fuck). and these idiots say, well but it is fast! it's efficient! the problem with these fuckheads is that they don't really understand math or meaning of efficiency, they just know micro-tuning and memory address.

why programer's canvas reverse y-axes? not looking into history, but i surmise, cuz 'was just easy in the early days, like unix fuck and opengl fuck. Its ok to realize necessity, but the programer idiots is such that they see it as good. Every lang design, u run into such idiotic problems.

one very annoying thing when coding a 2d grapher is the reversed y-axies in programer idiot's coordinate. In svg, either u do (ymin+ymax-y) for every y, or, g.setAttribute("transform", `translate(0 ${ymin+ymax-y}) scale(1 ${-1})` but, ur text get flipped. what a f'ing pain.

apparently, now if you don't follow many people on twitter or don't get much notification, now twitter shows stuff in your Notifications of stuff that doesn't mention you at all.

#Emacs all you want to know about How to Search Text in Files
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_grep_find.html

@jeffcliff ah yes.

@jeffcliff the last sentence, seems strange??

in general, you mean history is too big for anyone to understand, right?

@mattskala lol, twitter now prevents one from posting that.

u know, the left, their main tenet is helping women gay blacks etc. Yet, today, we have a ton of people, who are women or gay or blacks, against the left. That's when u really should wonder, what's going on.

milo is gay, Rubin report, Peter Thiel. Lauren Southern is woman, Cassie Jay, Lacie Green, Lindsay Shepherd, etc a river. Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, black, etc.

today's sjw left, have no idea of history. Exactly which party is pro slavery etc, is really complex topic, that anything non-book-length u say can be attacked. What does “party” really mean? The point here is, sjw ideology, the zeitgeist of our time.

context
https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964296654487658498

Steven Pinker @sapinker , in 2000s, was regarded one of the great scientist, now is labeled in pop news sites as alt-right bastion.

note the term Netiquette (and FAQ), are popular net lingoes, from 1980s to 2000s. Everyone who goes online knew. Today, most millennials probably never heard of.

Back then, most tech geekers, insist, that new comers should read faq to prevent a forum from incessant newbie questions. That's also gone, since stackoverflow in ~2007. But today, stackoverflow itself is even dumber incessant newbie questions.

@mattskala yes. one of the early definition is in the Jargon file that esr maintains.

here's as of 2003

Troll Definition from Jargon File
http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/_/troll_jargon_file.html

who brought the word “troll” from programing community to become mainstream “bullying”? 'was the bigshot open source fanatic tech writters. their drivel grace sites as slashdot, reddit, boingboing etc in the 2000s, and the “we wanna help” mentality nerd armies approved and echoed.

the meaning of the word troll has mutated over the past 3 decades. In 90s, it was wisecracker in tech, in 2000s, it's anyone u disagree with, in 2010s it became mainstream, a witch hunt, of anyone who disagree with the extreme left, connotes to bullying.

When a person's sanity is at balance,
when human passion is raging,
no etiquette must get in the way.
—Xah Lee, 2001.

Netiquette Anthropology: Tales of Tech Geekers
http://xahlee.info/Netiquette_dir/troll.html

ad blacking debate
https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/964226415527907336

Spy vs Spy: Tech Geekers vs Spammers. ads vs ad blocking, tech war escalation
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/tech_geekers_vs_spammers.html