ESR Recasts Jargon File in Own Image

don.g writes "As reported by NTK, ESR appears to have embarked apon the process of recasting the Jargon File in his own image, adding terms like "Aunt Tillie" and "GhandiCon" that he dreamt up and seemingly no-one else uses, and various terms from (of all places) the warblogging community, where he is active. He's also updated the "Hacker Politics" page to be more closely aligned with his own views."

Comments

Re:Talk about misconceptions

[Black Parrot]

> And here I thought ESR was a level-headed, objective advocate of OSS.

Eric's going to be the star of the upcoming Hackers Gone Wild! video.

Irony is ..

[stevey]

Just glancing over the site I see that the first entry in the changelog is the Entry called '404' - clicking upon that entry gives you what?

A 404 - page not found error.

I wonder how that'll be represented in the paper version of the book, perhaps listing it in the index as page 2.5?

Re:Unit of ego

[pete-classic]

It was someone like you that came up with the Farad.

Damned uselessly large units.

-Peter

Linux hackers' fault

[gallir]

They gave ESR more free time to waste by not accepting his CML2. Linus, you should measure your decisions more carefully.

Re:Unit of ego

[dogfart]

I like this:

• pico-ESR : Engineer brags about fixing a project design flaw, ignoring intern that did all the work
• micro-ESR : Project manager brags about bringing project in on time, within budget, ignoring unclocked overtime work by engineers
• milli-ESR : Upper manager gloats over his own division profitability, giving no credit to project managers
• centi-ESR : Corporate CEO take full credit for exceeding analyst's earnings report. Takes credit for Fed's changes to interest rate, favorable currency exchange rate, and underpaid work done by everyone who works for him (including the ones losing their job in the latest outsourcing fiasco)
• ESR : The limit as all of the above approach an impossibly high number. Requires heavy sedation. Alternates between belief is self as omnipotent Deity and as sole owner of all SCO intellectual property.

With apologies to Scott Adams.

politics

[loudici]

Someone should tell ESR there are hackers outside of Texas. Neo Conservatism is virtually inexistant in Europe, where the corporate brain washing procedures are much less developped than they are in ESR's trailer park, and have to actually compete with a working education system.