Just stumbled across a Paul Graham article which seems to be taking the same point of view as was in the debate Martin and I had on programming style a while...
... Paul seems to have the same point of view as yourself, and the same unquestioned assumption that the code reader must be at least as great a hacker as the...
... It's not a question of being worthy so much as a question of being humble. If you come across a bit of code you don't understand, there are basically two...
... In fact either would do, but you're demanding these things of the reader. I find communicating like sendmail, or via NLP makes understanding easier. I...
... Ye-es, but there's also an obligation on the person on the receiving end to try and understand, to enquire and ask intelligent questions, rather than to...
... I don't think so - any obligation you project onto others may be unwelcome. Choice theft in a way, and disrespectful in another way. If I knowingly press...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html Wired 12.09: Scientific Method Man Quote: "His approach is built on the observation, noted as far back as...
... I am reminded a bit of a pattern I shall call Ruri's Second Law (the first being "the vast majority of people are idiots"), to wit: "Things which are...
... Kinda, except that outside our own rather limited sphere of experience we are all idiots. The problem isn't that most people are idiots, as I see it the...
... Outside our own rather limited sphere of experience we are all *ignorant* but blessed indeed is the rare person whose mind can open up to new experience. ...
... I suspect we're back to a fairly fundamental division. Obviously in the so-called "real world", there are questions of pragmatics that may affect one's...
... Beautiful but useless? Art for its own sake? Without all those constraints what would be the point of building our systems? It occurs to me that we might...
... I guess it's the distinction between artificial and man-made constraints, again. Alan believes that there are always elegant solutions to nature's problems...
... Which is a sign that you're not understanding the problem properly. Noone thinks *they* are irrational, so the problem includes all of the reasons why they...
I'm planning to write a relational database program for use in real estate offices. Since most people on this list seem to be programmers, I thought I would...
I don't think Access is all that bad. I have nev3er really found anytghing else targeted at the same level - a simple database with a friendly GUI. Depending...
Toby Hede
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Sep 6, 2004 1:53 am
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... http://www.sqlite.org Free, public domain, embedded SQL engine. Works on Linux, windows, etc. One thing to be mindful of is that for the most part, any...
... program. ... for ... Yes, but without any idea of knowing what you're trying to do except a notion that it must be fairly straightforward based on the...
... Again, I'm out of date, but the Jet database engine that Access used to be based on seemed fine for relatively small loads. There was talk at one point...
... Did you notice that the end of the article mentioned that he'd been asked to look at ADHD? I got the journo to forward a message summarising the relevant...
... Some {interesting,scary} stuff on the use of statistical studies in medical practice and management at <http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/>.. -- "The next...
... Why the mapper mind in particular? ... Why is this a problem? The papers are someone's flawed opinions, about their flawed observations, of their flawed...
... Because a deep-thinking mind is more likely to imagine the consequences of particular general themes and trends taken to their (il)logical conclusions, and...
... OK - makes sense. Ta. ... Yes. You want someone to be provably and perfectly correct forever onwards? ... Not much - they are used as ammunition for...
RE: the problem of published "science." Confidence levels are everything. Most popular reporting and writing are suspect because they tend to the bias of what...
Ivan Frasier
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Sep 7, 2004 6:04 am
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Thanks for all the replies to this thread. I probably will end up using Access. All I want to do is automate the paperwork of individual real estate salesmen...
There seem to be a few unresolved issues related to the nature of the packers' disorders. Take dopamine addiction. Explaining it as an addiction to boredom...
... Maybe the "problems" you are seeing have to do with a fundamental flaw in the premise from which you are operating. The whole idea of the lion's share of ...
... Quite - this I think is a danger in especially R1.0. I read R from the point of view of "recovering packer", rather than "just found out I'm a Mapper",...
