My Grandma told me something similar. "You can go anywhere with a white shirt and a smile." Shortly after I followed that advice, I learned that "pants" should definitely be added to that list.
A site I maintain ( http://rejuvenation.com/ - a lighting manufacturer ) has hundreds of products that have separate configuration with their own constraints and logic. Though I'm squeaking by with our current online solution (PHP translations of configuration files created by a proprietary product), I've been looking around for a good standard in which to create an alternative solution. This might be it? I'm not sure, but it certainly looks like it could be.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a statisitcal correlation between
hackers and mystics. Just as Alchemy spawned Chemistry, and just as Astronomy and Astrology were once the same study, I believe there's a profound
tendency for people to approach new studies with a touch of mysticism.
Those who set out to understand and hopefully master complex systems learn
quickly that reaching for answers outside of logic can be rewarding (in moderation at least). Also, having at least tentative faith in hidden laws is necessary to the first steps of any serious study. Scepticism, of course, should play strong role as well.
Furthermore, if computers are a large part of one's reality, and one finds a way to control parts of this part of reality through faith and indirect methods, a great temptation exists to step away from the keyboard and hack life int he same manner.
This all doesn't address the merits of a mystical, nor a scientific, approach to computing and life in general. It just explains why I wouldn't be surprised.
I have maintained for years online oracles, shrines and other religious resources (at http://www.artwells.com/oracula/ and only recently have I started to receive emails from people who are surprised that there can be religious and/or mystical online experiences. When I started out, nobody seemed surprise.
I have had some success using PHP and included language files. I added Portugese translations to a few pages on my site http://www.artwells.com/oracula/ by creating separate language files for all content on these pages. Of course, this makes it necessary to pass a language variable from page to page. It's also necessary to put php commands to print content from variables set in the language files. The pay off, however, is in the ease of translation. I can distribute a language file for each page to a translator, who can then easily tranlsate the file without too many technical barriers.
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My Grandma told me something similar. "You can go anywhere with a white shirt and a smile." Shortly after I followed that advice, I learned that "pants" should definitely be added to that list.
Be forewarned.
How do you say "off a short pier" in Chinese?
Wouldn't it be great if you had a patent on the process of trolling the internet for possibly infringing filenames?
You could create a honeypot of warezy names, create a boilerplate Cease and Desist email and wait for the fun to start.
Ah, if only I had thought of that earlier...
A site I maintain ( http://rejuvenation.com/ - a lighting manufacturer ) has hundreds of products that have separate configuration with their own constraints and logic. Though I'm squeaking by with our current online solution (PHP translations of configuration files created by a proprietary product), I've been looking around for a good standard in which to create an alternative solution. This might be it? I'm not sure, but it certainly looks like it could be.
Those who set out to understand and hopefully master complex systems learn quickly that reaching for answers outside of logic can be rewarding (in moderation at least). Also, having at least tentative faith in hidden laws is necessary to the first steps of any serious study. Scepticism, of course, should play strong role as well.
Furthermore, if computers are a large part of one's reality, and one finds a way to control parts of this part of reality through faith and indirect methods, a great temptation exists to step away from the keyboard and hack life int he same manner.
This all doesn't address the merits of a mystical, nor a scientific, approach to computing and life in general. It just explains why I wouldn't be surprised.
I have maintained for years online oracles, shrines and other religious resources (at http://www.artwells.com/oracula/ and only recently have I started to receive emails from people who are surprised that there can be religious and/or mystical online experiences. When I started out, nobody seemed surprise.
I have had some success using PHP and included language files. I added Portugese translations to a few pages on my site http://www.artwells.com/oracula/ by creating separate language files for all content on these pages.
Of course, this makes it necessary to pass a language variable from page to page. It's also necessary to put php commands to print content from variables set in the language files. The pay off, however, is in the ease of translation. I can distribute a language file for each page to a translator, who can then easily tranlsate the file without too many technical barriers.