duh. if people all wear such protective clothing, other people will aim for the unprotected area, namely your head. either that or they walk around w/ disrupters that cause the clothing to squeeze you until you comply. wonderful.
you don't seem to respect user freedoms as much as the GPL does.
if that bleeds over to a lack of respect for your users, your code will probably reflect that and garner less users.
do you really want to be a gollum, hissing "my preciousssss tarballzzzsss"? wake up!
definitely! i'm
moving
to italy in the next
few years, partly because US culture is getting to be a real drag, and partly because a good number of the hackers i respect are in that time zone. (i'm serious.)
i wonder if slashdot will be around,
or if there will be a slashdot.it by then...
Re:An argument I don't understand
on
Microsoft vs. Ximian
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· Score: 3, Interesting
people misunderstand fsf position as "extreme".
well, another way to think about it is: the bedrock you build your house on is quite extreme. extremely stable (unless on pacific rim;-), extremely low (usually underground), extremely boring. this extremism is a feature, not a bug. same goes for fsf position.
hope that helps clear up this common misconception.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. beauty is an act of recognition, in essence, a verb.
an artifact of process can have hints of the beautiful (or ugly) actions that go into its creation, but no more.
if you want truly beautiful software, you have to use truly beautiful process, expose the process, and help both purveyors and surveyors educate themselves to refine their aesthetic.
this article is itself ugly to me because (1) some weird-ass language example; (2) strange formatting that causes "?" to appear in unexpected places; (3) overfocus on the artifact. (feel free to disagree w/ my aesthetic.)
IMHO, admonishing people to write beautiful software is almost as much a waste of time as commenting on such endeavor....:-/
damn, i knew i forgot something on my
support
page! herb is very productive to my programming.
(should you decide to follow through, please be
discreet.)
hee hee, who is being inflexible? cyc's ontology is not static; it also includes programs (hooks, if that's your preferred jargon) to resolve inconsistencies and do automated adaptive exploration of the static space.
you did a lot of reading but failed to read enough. you did a lot of thinking but failed to think enough. maybe you accuse cyc due to envy?
this is precisely the sticky point: malicious, subversive, or even just plain
incompentent ontologies. (it used to be you could only find management that
was like this, but now software is acquiring these traits, sigh.)
example: ((send) (the funny clowns) (to (party address))) w/ the cdaddr
misparsed as "party dress".... now we have big shoes and red noses poking
about at the fashion mart as well as the post office. ugh.
on the other hand, i'm glad tblee is moving away from simply syntax. good for
him, good for everyone.
you troll, wrt IP, he's not "against them" en masse, that's his whole point.
try to read beyond your prejudiced ideas. let me spoonfeed to help those
sharing your KJIC (knee-jerk inferiority complex) develop more fully
their long-lasting neuroses: IP is a hairball you may not want (or are not
able) to think about, so let Benjamin the donkey speak, you Squealer.
oh, you're so tolerant of RMS for so long, let's reward you w/ a
pink ribbon to match that useless slab of muscle flapping around in your head.
you can tie it on your curly tail so your busy hands are free to amend "but
some animals are more equal". oink oink oink!
"but any freedom is a worthy freedom [squeal!]. why, Boxer, you are free to
break your back for the Farm, just as i [squeal!] am free luxuriate on my two
legs and think of Tactful Ways and Means and Ends. being an defective
dismissant is hard work, too, you know. [squeal!]"
haha! you fear loss of respect! well, try giving it first to get it!
are you the kind of teacher that walks around w/ a ruler whacking kids
for daydreaming?
in any culture (company, business, volunteer group), mores get passed down
from those who "manage" to those who do. if those mores suck, the end
result will suck, plain and simple. is it no surprise that "manage" is a
colloquialism for "get by"?
thi (who was fired from last job, you can guess why)
if a child delights in learning, the learning of others is often even more
delightful. if the teacher teaches teaching, the child learns to apply the
teacher's compassion and guidance not only personally, but for posterity.
circular investment is also known as enlightened self-interest.
to teach teaching, act as the student and do a lot of learning, yourself.
expose your learning paths and delight in sharing wisdom. be a friend, with
"parallel aim", but do not shirk from frank discussion of what is evil in
yourself and in others. demonstrate understanding of the changing nature of
things. question pompous pronouncements such as this one.
well the point is not to run your code through torturous logic. the point is
to write code that runs other code through torturous logic. software industry
is guilty of, among other things, wallowing in first-order artifact capture
instead of promoting higher-order toolsmithing.
to use an analogy some people here might understand: we have "Seed"-level
technologies but largely stick to "Feed"-style construction. blech.
isn't that the point?! "independent art", woah, that's subversive!
art is an expression of someone's soul; i would rather try to perceive the
artist's soul than the corporation's lack thereof. (same goes for code, btw.)
bring on the renaissance!
Slashdot Mirror
emacs in the middle, of course.
duh. if people all wear such protective clothing, other people will aim for the unprotected area, namely your head. either that or they walk around w/ disrupters that cause the clothing to squeeze you until you comply. wonderful.
well, they found the One, now they have to find the Zero. that would only be logical.
how about a check? that seems to be the carrier frequency in these circles.
you don't seem to respect user freedoms as much as the GPL does. if that bleeds over to a lack of respect for your users, your code will probably reflect that and garner less users. do you really want to be a gollum, hissing "my preciousssss tarballzzzsss"? wake up!
for i in *.d ; do X $i ; done
i wonder if slashdot will be around, or if there will be a slashdot.it by then...
hope that helps clear up this common misconception.
if you want truly beautiful software, you have to use truly beautiful process, expose the process, and help both purveyors and surveyors educate themselves to refine their aesthetic.
this article is itself ugly to me because (1) some weird-ass language example; (2) strange formatting that causes "?" to appear in unexpected places; (3) overfocus on the artifact. (feel free to disagree w/ my aesthetic.)
IMHO, admonishing people to write beautiful software is almost as much a waste of time as commenting on such endeavor.... :-/
damn, i knew i forgot something on my support page! herb is very productive to my programming. (should you decide to follow through, please be discreet.)
man, that's a lame attitude. but of course, you complain about it. so, how long has this self-hate been going on?
you did a lot of reading but failed to read enough. you did a lot of thinking but failed to think enough. maybe you accuse cyc due to envy?
fool! parallel algorithms may also non-terminate.
thi
example: ((send) (the funny clowns) (to (party address))) w/ the cdaddr misparsed as "party dress".... now we have big shoes and red noses poking about at the fashion mart as well as the post office. ugh.
on the other hand, i'm glad tblee is moving away from simply syntax. good for him, good for everyone.
oh, you're so tolerant of RMS for so long, let's reward you w/ a pink ribbon to match that useless slab of muscle flapping around in your head. you can tie it on your curly tail so your busy hands are free to amend "but some animals are more equal". oink oink oink!
"but any freedom is a worthy freedom [squeal!]. why, Boxer, you are free to break your back for the Farm, just as i [squeal!] am free luxuriate on my two legs and think of Tactful Ways and Means and Ends. being an defective dismissant is hard work, too, you know. [squeal!]"
haha! you fear loss of respect! well, try giving it first to get it!
are you the kind of teacher that walks around w/ a ruler whacking kids
for daydreaming?
thi (who was fired from last job, you can guess why)
not to mention "brilliant non-orthogonal" is oxymoronic.
to teach teaching, act as the student and do a lot of learning, yourself. expose your learning paths and delight in sharing wisdom. be a friend, with "parallel aim", but do not shirk from frank discussion of what is evil in yourself and in others. demonstrate understanding of the changing nature of things. question pompous pronouncements such as this one.
to use an analogy some people here might understand: we have "Seed"-level technologies but largely stick to "Feed"-style construction. blech.
art is an expression of someone's soul; i would rather try to perceive the artist's soul than the corporation's lack thereof. (same goes for code, btw.) bring on the renaissance!
thi