Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:40 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev: I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the University of Maine in order to get my Master's in Mathematics where I focused on abstract algebra and number theory, I liked the challenges of discovering proofs, and pretty much ignored any real applications. Please give him the normal welcome. Regards, Petteri Justin, welcome. Perhaps you ran into the Banach-Tarski paradox, at least, so that you know how to make mountains out of molehills. (Necessary for any good flame war.) Sorry about that. Other mathematicians always welcome. :) PS. Uncle Seemant told me he was mentoring him so that he could himself retire at some point so now it's time to start persuading him to stay again :) Regards and welcome, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:40 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev: I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the University of Maine in order to get my Master's in Mathematics where I focused on abstract algebra and number theory, I liked the challenges of discovering proofs, and pretty much ignored any real applications. Please give him the normal welcome. Welcome Justin! If you like beautiful code with firm mathematical underpinnings and a slight lack of real applications you'll love Haskell ;-) You're most welcome to come chat with us in #gentoo-haskell -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)
Petteri Räty wrote: It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev: I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the University of Maine in order to get my Master's in Mathematics where I focused on abstract algebra and number theory, I liked the challenges of discovering proofs, and pretty much ignored any real applications. Please give him the normal welcome. Welcome Justin! I spent a lot of time in the Boston area. In fact, I had a car stolen from Brighton once! They found it in Mattapan in the woods. I'm in the Rockies now, but I do miss New England. -Joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)
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Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:40 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from
Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a
good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev:
I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the University
of Maine in order to get my Master's in Mathematics where I focused on
abstract algebra and number theory, I liked the challenges of
discovering proofs, and pretty much ignored any real applications.
Please give him the normal welcome.
Welcome Justin!
If you like beautiful code with firm mathematical underpinnings and a
slight lack of real applications you'll love Haskell ;-)
You're most welcome to come chat with us in #gentoo-haskell
Hmm, a mystery developer.
Hi Justin, I wonder why I haven't seen you on the functional programming side
of Gentoo, you being a maths guy and all. Anyway, welcome and don't let the
Haskell guys fool you ;P
Marijn
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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