I always struggle with how to express to programmers that it's not worth going Ahab on a task or goal.
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Replying to @bitemyapp
That's . . . actually a really good way of describing it right there imo
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Replying to @bitemyapp
possible I'm just unusually succeptible to melville-themed exhortations
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bitemyapp
american dark romanticism has an aesthetic gravitas to it.
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I'm sorry, what's ahab mean?
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Replying to @spacepopstar @bitemyapp
the esteemed Captain Ahab, whose nemesis was God Himself in the guise of brute Leviathan
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bitemyapp
I understand this statement even less now
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going ahab is a metaphor for chasing your obsession to the pits of hell if necessary.
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heh yeah this in retrospect my answer was probably the opposite of clarifying PS the whale eats him
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break your backs and crack your oars men.
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Oh yeah, programming rewards and punishes this behavior in spades
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