Michi Henning on Computing Fallacies

Karma Sucks writes "Check out this summary of a keynote at Linux.conf.au by Michi Henning of CORBA fame. It really hits the nail on several points. I especially liked the point about people constantly rewriting letters in these modern times, as opposed to say 1945 where it just wasn't worth the pain of re-typing a letter. The only point that didn't made sense in this summary was the one about "source code being useless"."

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I are an engineer.

[testpoint]

It really hits the nail on several points.
I like my metaphores stirred not mixed.

frm the artical

[Waffle Iron]

Back then it was okay to have 3 or so typos per page without re-typing the entire letter.

but now is ok for ppl 2 put 42 typos in inrnet msg & hit submitt

Windows for dummies.

[www.sorehands.com]

Well, that is redundant. But even so, it make me think of the book, "Sex for dummies" which gave me a whole new perspective on RTFM.

Re:I love Fallacy 10

[Rupert]

Girls - don't have sex because 'it's cool'. That only leads to burnout. Do it for money. At least you get something back and don't ruin the market for us whores.

Source code is useless

[mccalli]

...unless, of course, you either compile or interpret it into executable form and then use the resulting software tool to create lecture notes containing the text 'source code is useless'...

Cheers,
Ian

Re:I love Fallacy 10

[Rupert]

I hate Linux and Open Source in general with a passion

Which makes your 680 /. posts all the more impressive. I mean, you despise Linux, perl, MySQL, and even SlashCode itself. You are surrounded by people who deeply and abidingly disagree with you. And yet you put up with all of this to bring us comments with titles like "erf" and "zerg".

I salute you.