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From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:58:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181013065818.spbnl6wazdlvpvtt@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MZDwSXoatLFE=unzWzEVwYaRozooJ0pH+FMZ5kV70LRA@mail.gmail.com>

On 10 Oct 2018 11:45 -0400, from clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole):
>> There seem to be two kind of people in the world; i) those who cannot bring
>> themselves to change anything, and ii) those who change all sort of things,
>> usually with no good reason (perhaps just to be different).
> 
> Although I suggest that there miight be a third kind, which I think might
> be defined as usually those that have had some experience:  *"iii) Those
> that have learned when its now wise to break from the past, but have
> learned enough from it to change just the amount that needs to be changed
> and no more."*

I know I'm a bit late to the party here too, but from personal
experience, I'd add *"iv) those who change all sort of things, and
thereby end up with something eerily similar to that which was
recently changed away from"*.

Case in point: "the cloud".

-- 
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
  “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
              is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-13  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-10 15:26 Noel Chiappa
2018-10-10 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-10 15:48   ` David
2018-10-13  6:58   ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2018-10-12  0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-10-10 14:43 Norman Wilson
2018-10-10 16:26 ` arnold
2018-10-11 19:10   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 17:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-10-11  0:22   ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-11  2:33     ` David Arnold
2018-09-28  2:39 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-27 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-28  5:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-09-27 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 20:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 14:31 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 12:08 Cág
2018-09-27 12:30 ` Alec Muffett
2018-09-27 12:58 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 13:54   ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-27 14:09     ` Ronald Natalie
2018-09-27 14:18     ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 14:28       ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 15:36         ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 15:54           ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 18:49             ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-28  0:50               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-01  1:52                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10  2:38               ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10  3:07                 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-27 17:33   ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 14:47 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 17:20   ` arnold
2018-09-27 20:42   ` Cág
2018-09-27 21:07     ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 22:04       ` Clem Cole
2018-09-27 22:18         ` Henry Bent
2018-09-28  8:33   ` Tony Finch
2018-09-28 18:23     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-09-28 16:02 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 16:15   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 17:28     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 19:38       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 19:47       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 20:30         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 20:00     ` Nemo
2018-09-28 21:07       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS

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