From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Fortune suggestion
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:28:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHL7psGFsWhBPF-X0OKZ0J2tNCCnNSnfgvMsJewU3N-TTQnD-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D17BADA-6CC3-4360-B3FE-3CA142D922D5@stanleylieber.com>
Last night, I tried with a grep over the files listed in fortune(1).
That Dijkstra sentence suddenly reminded me that:
> Cat-v.org hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective, questioning orthodoxy and fomenting elitism and high standards in topics from software design to politics, passing by art and journalism and anything else interesting.
Thus the suggestion.
Giacomo
2018-01-31 15:54 GMT+01:00 Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>:
> On Jan 31, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't check if it's already there, but this Dijkstra quote should
>> really be in 9front fortunes:
>>
>>> Personally I think the world could benefit from an International League for the Derision of User-Friendliness.
>>
>> From http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
>
> how do you check if it’s already there?
>
> sl
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-31 14:41 Giacomo Tesio
2018-01-31 14:51 ` [9front] " hiro
2018-01-31 14:54 ` Stanley Lieber
2018-02-01 10:28 ` Giacomo Tesio [this message]
2018-02-01 16:19 ` hiro
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