Memes are fun. I have a whole series of posts planned around Shipper if this one takes off. Shipper takes on contravariance. A Ship in a Minkowski space. Shipper and the options monster. A suboptimal algorithm to Ship Shipper around the seven bridges of Konisgberg. All in legit Scala, with just a trace of math to throw you off the scent.

To the best of my knowledge, he's just popular - I certainly haven't seem him put his name everywhere. Let's be nice to him.

No, pretty soon we'll see WWSD t-shirts and wrist bands. I think this is a net win for HN!

Not sick of it, but if I were him I'd feel sort of creeped out.

Dude. I cleared it with him before I posted it.

"Very funny (and an interesting post). Go ahead! also definitely let me know when it's "public" i'd like to tweet it out" - Dan Shipper.

Good to hear! I do also know that I'm not Dan Shipper, I was just offering my 2 cents :)

Not necessarily of Shipper but I'm sick of these "long conversation" ways of explaining things that don't need to be simplified. This is an almost boringly simple problem (I'm not trying to be condescending, but this is freshman CS stuff), we don't need to be eased into the complex situation at hand.