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Innovation on the Edge?

Posted by Cliff on from the an-edge-so-sharp-it-bleeds dept.

MCassatt asks: "It's a truism in many fields that breakthroughs come from the edge: the scandalous Impressionists become pretty pictures for posters and umbrellas; the world of science fiction becomes the world of science. The wonderful, the fantastic, and the mad of today are tomorrow's mainstream. Are there examples of this in computer science? Not extreme programming, but extreme programs?"

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  1. Minesweeper. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To this day this prolific timewaster has left a very impressive swath of damage to production. If that isn't extreme, then I don't know what is.

  2. WARNING!! by Bearded+Pear+Shaped · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is obviously a microsoft ploy to discover what's new and interesting so that they may destroy it! you have been warned!!

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  3. Re: LEGALIZE IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree. Legalise vigilante execution of slashdot trolls NOW!

  4. Foes tha anology hold.... by iamatlas · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...the scandalous Impressionists become pretty pictures for posters..."

    I dunno... impressionist programing? It would only look like code from far away.

    Besides, Microsoft already makes programs that look useful from far away but crappy close up.

  5. Re: Bricoleur ? by Balinares · · Score: 2, Funny

    Literally, someone who enjoys tinkering about with things.

    To illustrate, maybe I shall say that Linux is a bricoleur's dream OS, for example?

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  6. Re:Hellow World by BigBadBri · · Score: 2, Funny
    if it was on the edge, surely it'd be ...

    "Goodbye World"

    AAAAAAAAAAARGH!

    SPLAT!

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