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A crutch
Post #244,444
by
Arkadiy
2/13/06 6:29:12 PM
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A crutch
with a nail in it.
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179. I will not outsource core functions.
--
[link|http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord2.htm|.]
Kristen Nygaard and Programmable interfaces
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systems
)
- (86)
- Feb. 1, 2006, 05:14:27 AM EST
What about his history is interesting?
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ben_tilly
)
- (85)
- Feb. 1, 2006, 09:49:24 PM EST
Re: What about his history is interesting?
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systems
)
- (84)
- Feb. 2, 2006, 03:40:40 AM EST
You would do better to read Alan Kay
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tuberculosis
)
- (82)
- Feb. 2, 2006, 04:04:27 PM EST
Wow.
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (81)
- Feb. 4, 2006, 08:59:38 PM EST
Did you see HTML on the list?
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ben_tilly
)
- (79)
- Feb. 6, 2006, 04:09:49 PM EST
OK, could you explain?
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (78)
- Feb. 11, 2006, 07:03:26 PM EST
I think the point is that they're tools that are pretty easy
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jake123
)
- Feb. 11, 2006, 07:24:33 PM EST
Here's an example
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tuberculosis
)
- (76)
- Feb. 11, 2006, 11:13:34 PM EST
lrpd the whole damn thing
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Feb. 11, 2006, 11:09:25 PM EST
I admire your pattern of use for computers
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (15)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 12:45:02 PM EST
Not necessarily so (the "beyond 90%" part).
- (
pwhysall
)
- (10)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 12:53:11 PM EST
I've got no Mac (yet?)
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (9)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 03:29:48 PM EST
squeak.org
-NT
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 04:22:21 PM EST
Python?
- (
pwhysall
)
- (7)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 05:19:59 PM EST
I've seen Python and Squeak
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (6)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 06:27:52 PM EST
I'm shocked, sir.
- (
pwhysall
)
- (5)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:44:42 AM EST
The 10% who understand things like
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (4)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 12:07:20 PM EST
I've seen that smile
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 12:09:17 PM EST
The worst part is, she is righ.
- (
Arkadiy
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 12:13:45 PM EST
DWIM?!?
- (
jb4
)
- (1)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 02:09:11 PM EST
do what I meant
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 02:13:24 PM EST
I don't believe the "crutch" is necessary
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 04:21:57 PM EST
disagree, recently sent a example of an application
- (
boxley
)
- (2)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 07:00:51 PM EST
A crutch
- (
Arkadiy
)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 06:29:12 PM EST
I need to have me a look at that
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pwhysall
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:48:21 AM EST
I'd like that to be true, but don't think it is
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drewk
)
- (58)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 07:25:14 PM EST
Ive used that treehouse design, didnt think too much of it
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boxley
)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 07:51:29 PM EST
You are a prisoner of your assumptions and conditioning
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (55)
- Feb. 12, 2006, 11:53:09 PM EST
my point is that people use what they know
- (
boxley
)
- (2)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 08:30:08 AM EST
Yes - exactly
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (1)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 04:42:47 PM EST
sounds like a fax lnp project to me :-)
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 06:24:45 PM EST
There's a central point we seem to differ on
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drewk
)
- (51)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 09:04:53 AM EST
Yes, you can only think of one thing at a time
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tuberculosis
)
- (50)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 04:55:43 PM EST
If I missed your point, it's because you forgot to make it
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drewk
)
- (49)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 09:00:32 PM EST
But the applications *are* the walls
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tuberculosis
)
- (48)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 10:50:05 PM EST
They're also inevitable
- (
drewk
)
- (47)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 09:32:04 AM EST
Necessary for other reasons as well
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ben_tilly
)
- (8)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 10:56:41 AM EST
There's a couple projects aimed at addressing security
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tuberculosis
)
- (2)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:15:51 PM EST
Bah, break for lunch and people go and end the discussion
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- (1)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:42:58 PM EST
I've made it back to the office - gotta catch up!
-NT
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 03:09:58 PM EST
email has walls? think again
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boxley
)
- (4)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 07:22:35 PM EST
That's what client-side encryption is for
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 07:26:09 PM EST
As far as most recipients are concerned, it does
- (
ben_tilly
)
- (2)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 07:29:26 PM EST
like windows, its the perception of security that counts
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 08:25:23 PM EST
It is more complex than that
- (
ben_tilly
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 09:50:40 PM EST
I was the king of level 1 help desk
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (37)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:10:28 PM EST
Followed a link from the google search
- (
drewk
)
- (35)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 01:41:29 PM EST
Hey, I had people who didn't know a menu from a window
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (34)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 02:03:30 PM EST
I don't want to keep reinventing things
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drewk
)
- (33)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 02:18:58 PM EST
Taxes are probably a bad example.
- (
Another Scott
)
- (32)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 02:59:29 PM EST
Depends on what you want an example of
- (
drewk
)
- (31)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 04:05:05 PM EST
Bingo
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (30)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 09:32:13 PM EST
You're fighting human nature
- (
drewk
)
- (29)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 10:02:41 PM EST
Take your last thought a little farther...
- (
Another Scott
)
- Feb. 14, 2006, 10:59:50 PM EST
Evidence runs to the contrary
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (27)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 01:47:00 PM EST
you can safely ignore drewk
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boxley
)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 01:59:17 PM EST
You have a much looser definition of "make stuff" than I do
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drewk
)
- (25)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 03:06:11 PM EST
Complete Bollocks
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tuberculosis
)
- (24)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 05:28:06 PM EST
You're kidding me, right?
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admin
)
- (23)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 05:43:12 PM EST
There will always be people too old to learn
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (22)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 05:48:02 PM EST
I'll let you tell her she's "too old" to learn
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admin
)
- (21)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 06:04:06 PM EST
It's also called respecting someone else's domain
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tonytib
)
- (20)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 07:03:06 PM EST
Point missed again
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (19)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 07:47:15 PM EST
And you're missing the point we're trying to make.
- (
admin
)
- (17)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 07:50:19 PM EST
I wouldn't say immaterial
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jake123
)
- (2)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 07:54:20 PM EST
MP3 is a data format, not an architecture.
- (
admin
)
- (1)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 09:36:37 PM EST
Not my point
- (
jake123
)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 01:01:46 AM EST
I don't give a flip about your point
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (13)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 08:35:24 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
boxley
)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 08:42:25 PM EST
Uh, yeah.
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admin
)
- (11)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 09:35:01 PM EST
I don't have to bow to nobody!
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drewk
)
- (1)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 09:56:02 PM EST
Exactly.
-NT
- (
admin
)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 10:05:11 PM EST
Right on!
- (
tonytib
)
- (8)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 12:30:54 AM EST
The ignorance around here is staggering
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (7)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 01:17:38 AM EST
We disagree with you, so we're ignorant ... good call
-NT
- (
drewk
)
- (3)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 09:06:14 AM EST
Something about photos - not capable - links
- (
tuberculosis
)
- (2)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 11:33:15 AM EST
Something about Photoshop, easy to use, etc
- (
tonytib
)
- (1)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 11:54:38 AM EST
Heck...
- (
folkert
)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 12:18:35 PM EST
The arrogance around here is staggering.
- (
admin
)
- (2)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 09:09:16 AM EST
Fine - you're all wrong and we'll leave it at that
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tuberculosis
)
- (1)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 11:34:53 AM EST
As soon as you stop misrepresenting me I will
- (
admin
)
- Feb. 16, 2006, 12:07:44 PM EST
You keep missing the point
- (
tonytib
)
- Feb. 15, 2006, 08:19:16 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
lincoln
)
- March 3, 2006, 12:07:05 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (
jb4
)
- Feb. 13, 2006, 02:38:04 PM EST
The idea is that these are tools for adhoc computing
- (
tuberculosis
)
- Feb. 6, 2006, 04:38:29 PM EST
The short history....
- (
ChrisR
)
- Feb. 2, 2006, 08:13:20 PM EST
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