From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it possible for a 14 year old in the UK to be able to contribute to Emacs? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:33:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87egotq4tr.fsf@gmx.de> References: <20150312111214.GA531@apertron.net> <87r3suotqh.fsf@gmx.de> <5501FF43.6000802@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426196032 10062 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2015 21:33:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Zack Piper , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 12 22:33:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAjX-0006P6-IP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:33:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAjX-0000aC-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38003) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAjJ-0000Zw-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAjF-0007wn-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:49786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWAjF-0007wL-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([79.195.29.84]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LrrRi-1ZYlHb1UlS-013cll; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:33:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5501FF43.6000802@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:04:03 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:tfUyg/lUYMvGuK43dOF2f5A1O36vfTSMNI2SVa+pv6jbi3u3aEJ QBnYERcHlYfoN1LBIE40/3kI4k56YD4zFqvH9dXEY7YiGAgq+OwBceEu+4iB2i/TqnxsS0b 43l/GDar+djUzdgCGoFvXbvNjdEvLdy+3oAvevwPlfP46kNukn0iYhfWNdk/C3GEO0+97pn a8EpKgklpbO81IiL0nb0A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183836 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > On 03/12/2015 01:17 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: >>> Like most games, it's only for "7 to 77", but it looks like you're still >>> within the limits. >> Oh shit! I'll become 59 this year; just 18 years left for Emacs hacking. >> >> Will be there a way to shift the upper limit? > > Sure: switch to base 16. That's what Turing would have done. Thanks, you save my day. That means I'm still under 40 ... not so bad. Best regards, Michael.