10 Oct
2018
10 Oct
'18
9:26 p.m.
From: Norman Wilson
Unfortunately all the quick hacks and
poorly-considered tweaks of the
past have long since been cast in stone by widespread convention
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.
Noel
10 Oct
10 Oct
9:45 p.m.
New subject: The origin of /home
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)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
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9:48 p.m.
New subject: The origin of /home
On Oct 10, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)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
13 Oct
13 Oct
12:58 p.m.
New subject: The origin of /home
On 10 Oct 2018 11:45 -0400, from clemc(a)ccc.com (Clem Cole):
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(a)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)
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."* 
12 Oct
12 Oct
6:15 a.m.
New subject: The origin of /home
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Noel Chiappa 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).
I tend to fall into the former category; I don't change anything unless
there's a damned good reason e.g. a security update (which doesn't seem to
happen often, unlike a certain other OS).
-- Dave
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