Comment by gary17the | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gary17the | Hacker News Reader

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> First off types can't emmit values. Types don't exist at run time.

Incorrect. Please have a look at OpenCombine sources, or, say, at the Typestate Pattern in Rust:

http://cliffle.com/blog/rust-typestate/

"Typestates are a technique for moving properties of state (the dynamic information a program is processing) into the type level (the static world that the compiler can check ahead-of-time)."

> you're completely ignorant about type theory. (...) This is just fucking rude. (...) I didn't realize how stupid and rude people can actually be.

Yes, of course, naturally, you must be right, how blind could I have been?

> I'd appreciate an apology if you had any gall.

Sure, sorry about my little previous joke[1], meant no factual offense. The very best of luck to you as a programmer and a wonderfully polite human being with a great sense of humor.

[1] "Topper: I thought I saw Elvis. Block: Let it go, Topper. The King is gone. Let's head for home." ("Hot Shots!", 1991)

>Sure, sorry about my little previous joke[1], meant no factual offense. The very best of luck to you as a programmer and a wonderfully polite human being with a great sense of humor.

Jokes are supposed to be funny. Not offensive. Your intent was offense under the guise of humor. Common tactic. Anyone serious doesn't take well to the other party being sarcastic or joking, you know this, yet you still play games. It's a typical strategy to win the crowd by making someone overly serious look like a fool. But there is no crowd here, nobody is laughing. Just me and you.

So your real intent is just to piss me off given that you know nobody is here to laugh at your stupid joke. Your just a vile human being. Go ahead crack more jokes. Be more sarcastic, it just shows off your character. We're done.

> Your intent was offense (...) you still play games (...) a typical strategy to win the crowd (...) But there is no crowd here (...) your real intent is just to piss me off (...) Your just a vile human being (...) it just shows off your character

I assure you that I am not joking when I say the following: you are beginning to act in a disturbing manner at this point, please consider speaking to a mental health professional.

Again, sorry to have caused you discomfort with my little joke and best of luck to you.

Bro. If someone was truly disturbing and you truly wanted to help them wouldn't walk up to them and tell them to speak to a mental health professional. Telling them that is even more offensive. We both know this.

You're not joking. You're just being an even bigger ass, but now instead of jokes, you're feigning concern. It's stupid.

There's subtle motivations behind everything. A genuine apology comes without insulting the other party. Clearly you didn't do that here, and clearly you and everyone else knows what a genuine apology should NOT look like: "go get help with your mental problems, I'm really sorry."

It shows just what kind of person you are. It's not me who's disturbing... it's you, the person behind a mask.

Also clearly my words are from a place of anger and seriousness not mental issues. Mental problems are a very grave issue and it's a far bigger problem and the symptoms are far more extreme then what's happening here. But you know this. And you're trying to falsely re-frame the situation by disgustingly using mental issues as some kind of tool to discredit the other party. It's just vile.

I don't wish you the best of luck. I think someone like you doesn't deserve it.

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