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)
next prev 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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