From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00db01c0cb3b$aca5a620$e0b6c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200104220937.KAA13789@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [9fans] Publish and be damned. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:51:11 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89556468-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: "Steve Kilbane" > Boyd wrote: > > > > bullshit. > > Which bit? You're talking about different things, you know this, > or you don't want to listen? it was in response to not wanting to listen. i went to some trouble to reply; citing doctrine, a paper and personal experience of distributed software repositories. total waste of my energy and /n/dump. if i could be bothered, which now i can't, i coulda set up the url solution in the time it took me to write the damn message. yeah, i just checked it out, i have the window open, i can create the a/c and the page. hell, think of a good name for it and I'LL DO IT. naming conventions are important. no CVS though. that's too complex -- at this stage. simple stuff works. see how it works, learn, improve, loop. design top down, implement bottom up. just like NASA used to do until that shuttle thing they DESIGNED. the engineers told feynman that the SRB problem was well known and that the probability of an accident was 1 in 300. turned out to be a lot less than that because NASA management wouldn't listen to them. jmk was right about one thing: drivel; this thing has been thrashed to death and NOBODY has done anything.