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spacechild1 • last Friday at 12:03 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

He is indeed a very technical and nerdy person. For example, he was an early adopter of the SuperCollider audio programming language.

Fun trivia: he was trolling the SuperCollider mailing list under the alias "eric hard jams" which is an anagram of Richard [D.] James. Some of his messages were truely horrendous and he got kicked out eventually. He is quite a character...

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spacechild1 • last Friday at 3:21 PM

I should clarify that it hasn't been 100% confirmed that "eric_hard_jams" was really him, but many people on the list thought so, including James McCartney himself:

  Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:20:06 -0600
  From: James McCartney <[email protected]>
  Subject: Re: [ OT ]very low signal to noise ratio .
  
  on 1/17/01 9:18 PM, eric_hard_jams at [email protected] wrote:
  
  > 
  >> ok boss. i'm really sorry. back to normal now. much better.
  >> my apologies.
  >> 
  > ass licker.
  > 

  shut the F up already, richard.
https://www.audiosynth.com/files/sc-users-archive/v01.n226

JMC and RDJ know each personally and hung out together. Here's a picture of the two together: https://www.reddit.com/r/aphextwin/comments/6oheli/screen_ra...

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publicdebates • last Friday at 1:05 AM

Was it confirmed that eric hard jams was actually him?

How strange it is that we so easily forgive bad behavior from people we love.

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MomsAVoxell • last Friday at 7:28 PM

This is probably the best thing I’ve ever read on Hacker News .. seriously, honestly.

I mean, wtf, the mailing lists are astonishing if you think about them .. like, how UUCP and mailman and qmail/sendmail used to be all you need to get access to the archives …

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brcmthrowaway • last Friday at 1:16 AM

Has anyone used SuperCollider or computer music framework to make anything resembling a pop song?

Look at how easily a producer can make a pop song in Ableton https://youtube.com/watch?v=F5CPQ8LU36w

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Mistletoe • last Friday at 5:17 AM

Can you link to the horrendous messages or summarize them?

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