If anyone is considering giving Greg (aka Lucius Gregory Meredith) any of their AMPs, they might want to check out the last project Greg raised money for on Kickstarter.
Monadic Design Patterns for the Web Book
Last fall i began writing a book called Monadic Design Patterns for the Web about the use of certain functional abstractions to facilitate building real web applications at scale. By scale i mean both, lots of users/big data/big compute and scale in the sense of complexity management, scale in the sense of understandable and maintainable by small teams. i got a contract with APress; and everyone i told about the project was very excited. By April i'd only written the second and third chapter -- largely because i also work for a living. So, APress decided to drop the contract. i turned to the community. The support to complete the project was overwhelming and so Artima stepped up to publish. Since then i've written well over two thirds of the content; and developed the code that supports the text; but, to complete this work i really need to focus. Artima doesn't offer an advance. At the time i went to the community for support many people offered to buy advanced copies of the book or make donations, but i demurred. So, i'm doing all of this on spec. i realize it's just not possible to do this without a little help. i need about 12,500.00 USD so that i can focus on just this project to bring it to completion. It's good work; high quality work; and the community really deserves to have this knowledge distilled in a way they can put it to use. i'm the guy to do this; but i see now that i can't do it alone. i need a little help from the community i'm seeking to serve.
Obviously, Greg is too lazy or stupid to use proper grammar and follow basic capitalization rules. What a joke.
He raised $13,099 from 162 people from Dec 1, 2010 to Jan 15, 2011. To this day,
SIX YEARS LATER, he has not completed the book. Nobody has received anything.
The last comment from one of his supporters, Thomas Lockney, on Feb 15, 2015 reads as follows:
"It's now been over 4 years since this book was funded. I haven't heard anything from Artima in a long while and nothing from here in even longer (by a long shot). It would be nice to at least officially hear why this project appears to have died completely."Greg took over $13,000 USD from these people and failed to deliver a complete, working product!This is the same stunt that this joker pulled on Synereo LTD, and he is now trying to con you into giving him your money. Do
NOT fall for it. Greg is a scammer pure and simple.
Here is his Kickstarter picture smirking at his victims:
Too lazy to even button up his shirt or sit up straight in a chair. He looks totally demented and imo, strung out on something. We now know that none of the $13,099 USD was spent on a haircut.
