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Reading this man's homepage he comes across as a insufferable egotist. I couldn't find any trace of didactic value among the self aggrandizing rhetoric not poss

by retcon 4y ago

Reading this man's homepage he comes across as a insufferable egotist. I couldn't find any trace of didactic value among the self aggrandizing rhetoric not possible to convey with infinitely greater humility and persuasion as well as concision. Edit: reference source decades of being quite intolerable myself. Takes one to know one. And by my experience incredible good fortune and more decades to repent.

whimsicalism 4y ago
Having interacted with Mickens quite a bit, he is far from intolerable.
doctor_eval 4y ago
Is that you, Mickens?
vlmutolo 4y ago
The page is supposed to read as a joke. That's his schtick. I think his writing is pretty funny.
- teekert 4y ago
  Haha, I love this humor, it's the kind I write in a frenzy of enthusiasm and inspiration often fueled by a sudden realization of the crazy state some things are in. I also have gotten a lot slack for it. But I see it as a way to convey that new feeling of wonder and awe a child has upon entering a new world. Challenge the assumptions, make up some nice words, pretend very hard that your academic title is an actual thing that gives you some blessed superpowers (as is the way that people often treat it!). I love it. It's truth wrapped in humor to soften the blow to the ones that think themselves overly important. The "shocked ones" are the ones that I try to avoid in life anyway, nice discussions begin at the edge of your comfort zone.
RagnarD 4y ago
The page is extremely obviously full of satire.
sodapopcan 4y ago
I think even with the edit that this comment is also satire.
Veen 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
x0n 4y ago
Dude. How can you read "I’ve been a legendary hacker for 98% of my life, but there was a brief period when I did not possess the sum totality of human knowledge." and not realize this is self-parody?

by retcon 4y ago

whimsicalism 4y ago

Having interacted with Mickens quite a bit, he is far from intolerable.

doctor_eval 4y ago

Is that you, Mickens?

vlmutolo 4y ago

The page is supposed to read as a joke. That's his schtick. I think his writing is pretty funny.

teekert 4y ago
Haha, I love this humor, it's the kind I write in a frenzy of enthusiasm and inspiration often fueled by a sudden realization of the crazy state some things are in. I also have gotten a lot slack for it. But I see it as a way to convey that new feeling of wonder and awe a child has upon entering a new world. Challenge the assumptions, make up some nice words, pretend very hard that your academic title is an actual thing that gives you some blessed superpowers (as is the way that people often treat it!). I love it. It's truth wrapped in humor to soften the blow to the ones that think themselves overly important. The "shocked ones" are the ones that I try to avoid in life anyway, nice discussions begin at the edge of your comfort zone.

RagnarD 4y ago

The page is extremely obviously full of satire.

sodapopcan 4y ago

I think even with the edit that this comment is also satire.

Veen 4y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

x0n 4y ago

Dude. How can you read "I’ve been a legendary hacker for 98% of my life, but there was a brief period when I did not possess the sum totality of human knowledge." and not realize this is self-parody?