<story><title>Emacs-Helm development is now stalled</title><url>https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikorym</author><text>A lot of mathematicians are oddities that by some stroke of luck, or perhaps by consistent switching of hobbies, somehow figure out that they understood the basic premises of mathematics.&lt;p&gt;After all, the issue is that mathematics is &lt;i&gt;simple&lt;/i&gt;. Humans don&amp;#x27;t like simple things. And when humans think they have found simple things they start wars or some novel iteration of discrimination against others.</text></item><item><author>patrec</author><text>I find it pretty amazing that someone who&amp;#x27;s been working for 20 years as a mountain guide and spends as much time as possible outdoors picks up an obscure piece of niche software like Emacs, learns to program in his 40ies and then becomes one of the most significant package contributors, all as a side hobby to his outdoor interests.</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>The Emacs package `Helm&amp;#x27; is&amp;#x2F;was maintained by one guy alone named Thierry Volpiatto who is not even a developer. He is 57, and a mountain guide in the Alps!&lt;p&gt;See this rare interview from 2018: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sachachua.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;interview-with-thierry-volpiatto&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sachachua.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;interview-with-thierry-vo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>Humans like simple things when they have social signaling value.&lt;p&gt;Creating new complex things is easy, because you can assemble them from existing simple things. Creating new simple things is more difficult, because you must go beyond assembling existing simple things.&lt;p&gt;Simple things lose their signaling value when they become well-known. Complex things lose their signaling value when they are replaced by simple things.&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it makes perfect sense that humans attack simple things: they threaten the signaling value of the easier to create complex things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Emacs-Helm development is now stalled</title><url>https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikorym</author><text>A lot of mathematicians are oddities that by some stroke of luck, or perhaps by consistent switching of hobbies, somehow figure out that they understood the basic premises of mathematics.&lt;p&gt;After all, the issue is that mathematics is &lt;i&gt;simple&lt;/i&gt;. Humans don&amp;#x27;t like simple things. And when humans think they have found simple things they start wars or some novel iteration of discrimination against others.</text></item><item><author>patrec</author><text>I find it pretty amazing that someone who&amp;#x27;s been working for 20 years as a mountain guide and spends as much time as possible outdoors picks up an obscure piece of niche software like Emacs, learns to program in his 40ies and then becomes one of the most significant package contributors, all as a side hobby to his outdoor interests.</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>The Emacs package `Helm&amp;#x27; is&amp;#x2F;was maintained by one guy alone named Thierry Volpiatto who is not even a developer. He is 57, and a mountain guide in the Alps!&lt;p&gt;See this rare interview from 2018: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sachachua.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;interview-with-thierry-volpiatto&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sachachua.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;interview-with-thierry-vo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomoreservices</author><text>&amp;gt; Humans don&amp;#x27;t like simple things.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s amazing how true this is. You can see it very clearly in your day-to-day as a software engineer. The vast majority of people you will encounter in your career favor fancy, complicated solutions to problems that could be easily solved with fewer resources. And yet when you float those ideas, you&amp;#x27;re laughed at.</text></comment>