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Not to be negative but why the perception that someone spelling "you" as "u" is illiterate?

Also if you look at my all posts I personally use the full form and correct spellings (thanks spell checks) of words. My movement was not just limited to the use of incorrect spellings but also HN not excepting any idea other than their own. It makes it look like fashion where the real review are done by only people in Milan or New York, for the rest these reviews are just copied and translated.

I can too agree we must tell people that its not hacking but phisihing so they can be better aware of threats like these.

If you look at it closely my responses are replys to specific posts. I am not against being downvoted. To me it just proves that people are not buying my view, and that I am totally different. Which is good, in a way.

Also to you this may be a pointless meta-meta-discussion but I take it upon myself to reply to people who have something to say about my views.

who said anything about a war or winning anything?Is stating your opinion about something been called being a jerk these days?Have we been so caught up in being a "Stylist community" that we care so much about style that anyone against it is now "starting a pissing war", "being a jerk" or "trying to win here"?

If thats so then I am fine with my negative karma and "attitude". I really hoped this community to be above such trivial matters or at least try to look at it from a different view point. But NO, even you are too busy with your "style",you dont care to look about anyone who does not think like you. Then I am again compelled to comprehend that this is another mob, which has no right to say they are different from others. But I am going to stay here, just because I care about the content this mob develops not the "atmosphere". I am gonna be happy with a negative karma point here. Because I believe in whatever I say and whatever I feel is right. And there is not a thing you can do to shut me up to stop me saying that.

Well I dont think its the authors job to make it always aesthetically pleasing to everybody, he just wanted to convey his ideas and he did. I am not concerned about the tenth of a second I save by not typing y and o but the one second I do spend making "u" "you" again. The kind of short hand (or SMS) language is just the part of the authors habit. Has it became just so "aesthetically displeasing" to read "u" as the word and not alphabet?

As to the fuckery analogy I wanna say that it would not leave the post entirely understandable because you will have to still think if the word was actually part of the sentence or not?But I think (dont bother to deny it) that everybody who owns a mobile or had used internet would know simple things like "u" stands for "you","ur" stands for "your" and "bt" for "but". And if they dont its entirely possible to get that from context. But your fuckery example is just opposite.Nobody will "know" and will at least have contemplate as to whats the use of that word in the context.

For the 1337 point I wanna say two things. First if the author sounds like six but has a good or at least competent thing to say then whats the matter?You should just except the authors view and choice, also be scared by the fact that he is competent with you by the age of 6 and he would be surely outsmarting you when he reaches your age. Secondly I too dont like such 1337 language, but only when the spellings are so obscure that the reader may never even begin to understand what the word is. But again when someone rights "u" you can easily understand that he means "you" which is not the case when someone writes 1337 $|o3/-\|< |=/-\57 3|\|0U9|-| u </-\|\| 937 /-\ |0T 0F \/\//-\7 |7 5/-\5, 7|-|3|\| U c/-\|\| F|9uR3 0u7 \/\//-\7 u |\/||553o|.

I know to some people atmosphere is very important (like my college professors), but what dont understand is why these people dont understand that for some people it is not. To some people its just the content that matters the most (if you can understand it fully of course). If you expect people to respect your choice, why not first start to respect theres? Or like mahatma Gandhi once put it "You should be the change you want to see in the world". And here by change i mean respect for other people's choice.

PS:- I dont really care if you are down voting me or not, I am already having a rough day at the forum and I am actually eager to see if karma can go into negative or not.Nor do I expect a standing ovation to this post but this is exactly I feel in 500 words.

Edit: Now I officially Know that karma can go into negative, but I would like that people who down vote may just give me a reason as to why they did it

Why use two extra characters when you can get away with one?I know this logic does not appeal to many, but must you not judge the post by its content and not by its language?I mean you know when he is saying "u" he means "you" and language is just a tool to make you understand his ideas, and when that is accomplished why bother about the extra two characters.

PS:- Funny thing is according to my above logic I wasted a whole post just to make you understand the not so great value of two extra characters

I dont understand why people are taking that post of mine against clojure so seriously, and if they are why they are misinterpreting it. I never said anything against the language or even the JVM in they-are-very-bad sense.Its just a psychological block that was created when my project crashed In front of my teacher, and I simply blame it on JVM. I know that its wrong, because I never debugged it. I just rewrote the whole thing in Ruby without any investigation. Maybe I was wrong,maybe my code was buggy or my project just didnt deserve and A+ (my teacher never gave me any reason for the minus in my grade). I just needed something to blame my crashed project on. Call it escapism and you are right actually. But still when you put something in your mind, a sheer hate for a thing when you are just 13 or 14 you tend to hate it forever. May be thats the case with me. May be it isnt and I am just too stubborn. Maybe I will just learn clojure after my term paper is submitted and then will write a post. Now what I wanna see is what I write in that post

I may be wrong but I think it all started with

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859669

If I got down voted so many times just for this comment clojure sure must be a fine language.But I am still not going to learn it just because it targets the JVM. But maybe some day I will forget the 3 sleep less nights I spent rewriting the project in ruby or the A- I got where I had expected an A++, and try to look into clojure.

Mine are actually more dramatic and I consider it a partial form of duality. This is because I can sense what I am doing but it seems almost a third person view. When I am working feverishly on a math problem (which are not very advanced compaired to what people on HN work on but I keep evolving) it is common for my mother to find papers all over my room and books thrown out of the window just out of spite. But all this seems to be done by some other person almost a friend of mine who I can talk to. There were times when I requested myself to come out of those phases so I can go into parties and enjoy (I consider myself different for that).Its super natural to me thats why I am spiritual but not religious. I find spirituality in maths and (my recent discovery) electronics in ways even I dont understand sometimes. But what I am proud of is that I have been able to keep it as a alternate identity. Quite separate from my public self. Only people very close to me (or those whom I have ranted to) know I am capable of doing such stuff. To others I am just the sweet boy next door, average in studies, looks, but everyone knows just out of spite that I can make it big. But sometimes I get confused as to which is my secret identity and which is the super hero/villain one.The boy next door who pleases everyone or the mad scientist with skeletons in the closet

I dont know but your advice does not appeal to me, I mean clojure just doesnt cut it. And i dont wanna go into the hassel of anything java (it ate up my master high school end project, I rewrote it in ruby then). What about haskell I know its not totall Lisp but seems better than clojure

I too pronounce it Sue Doo, but because first time I read it this was what I made of the word

Umm...analyzing self...Beep...Beep...Beep...Panic...Panic...Panic...... I have all the characteristics for a BBM, from top to bottom. Whats worse?I dont even ,know lisp!!!!!What do I do what do I do????!!!!!!!!1

isnt groovy just java on steroids?and with no haskell or any of the Lisps this list is truely meaningless.

Maan... I thought such things were happening to me only. Though my focus was on getting a partner for my research/hacking escapades. I joined up university in great expectations that I will have to pick people from a fair sized pool of like minded people based on their compatible attitude. But I was so disappointed when I got to see a bunch of uninspired students which care less about anything above and beyond there curriculum. Then one of my seniors bluntly told me to stop looking for such people because I am just wasting my time. There were people with entrepreneur attitude, he being one had started a cheap tech magazine, its successful just because students will rather by a Rs20 livewire with 50 pages than a Rs120 digit with 100 pages of which they read only 40-50%. But hacking and independent research was just not the cup of tea of these get-the-job type people. He gave me a very good advise, instead of finding people of such talent I should develop on my own and then show people how much fun it is. Chances are that some people may join in.

I totally agree with you.that is just very close to the human nature

You know many people actually try to intentionally not become something like the intended audience of that article. People around us can be really dumb, you know like in a high school (or like in my case even college). Now the key here becomes not to let yourself be pampered by such pseudo eliteness. I always try to be with people who have a greater intellect than me, just so i can beat them. but when i cant help it, i make it a point to keep reminding myself this is not the crowd i can judge myself with

A crusade between programmers is just inevitable. But what the author rightly pointed out is,what we must do first is ask ourselves "Is it worth the fight/time/brain cells/what have you?". In some places yes it is. Like for example, if you are making a term project and you have a team of four. Now to fight the IDE vs Text editor/bash is pointless because nomatter what you use, the point is to contribute. But to fight the this programming language V/S that programming language is totally necessary coz if you wanna make your project better is good to discuss three or four options.

this is so cool, is it just me or someone else also thinks its something along the lines of NUMB3Rs the prime time serial (which is my all time fav TV program).

Actually I have heard many scientists utter something along the line of --

   "I find the barriers between disciplines often quite an artificial creation here doctor, the more I study the more I see the connections that bind this universe together becoming clear to me. It is the way of the future."

An Apple can be defined as the state-of-the-art PC :) maybe

Come on dude that must have been cool.My opinion sell the story at Hollywood they need just such a thing to stitch together another Computer-brings-doomsday movie. I don't care how big budgeted these movies are but they always are a good laugh.

mine was something similar to hoppy.What I basically tried to do was write a ruby script that generated newer ruby scripts.And what did all these ruby scripts do?they scaned the long long equation and then try to put in different values in it and solve them for one variable. All this was so random and vague that I had to abandon it after about 66 minutes into it.

I dont know about the others but I do feel just like you. I had also posted something like this here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824178.

And about philosophy I think every true hacker is a philosopher in its true sense. Hacking is in my opinion a type of philosophy of living. Philosophy can be summed up to being investigation of questions and also analysis of the answers. And every hacker does just that. And even if the questions are not exactly about life, but hacking is philosophy in its own right.

There is no such thing as an intro CS course in our college, but on the other hand math and statistics have been my hobby for a long so i think i have already covered what you would call intro. Actually here courses are pretty much fixed my college is an exception for providing "real" electives 6th and 7th semesters (others just tell you what elective you have to study so that is more like the choice of the institute).

If you would like here is a link to my curricula

http://www.uvpce.ac.in/departments/ec/index.php?file=contain...