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From: David <david@kdbarto.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
	Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:48:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358EC61B-9C6B-4238-9DC6-DE7C9049F4B3@kdbarto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MZDwSXoatLFE=unzWzEVwYaRozooJ0pH+FMZ5kV70LRA@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu <mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>> wrote:
> 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).
> 
> The world of Unix seems to be thickly stocked with both.
> Demonstrating that we are, after all, human. ;-) 
> 
> 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."
> 
> Clem
> 
> ᐧ

That third kind is so rare as to be unheard-of in common software circles.

	David


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-10 15:48 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 [this message]
2018-10-13  6:58   ` Michael Kjörling
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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