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1 Programmers who lock onto a design decision and cling to it in the face … | |
2 contradictory new information -- well, that's almost everyone in my | |
3 experience, so I better not say what I think of them or people will start | |
4 saying bad things about me on c.l.l. | |
5 -- Ken Tilton | |
6 % | |
7 This reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When | |
8 they got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the | |
9 fare he just laughed and said he should have known. | |
10 -- Ken Tilton | |
11 % | |
12 >> Actually, I believe that Aikido, Jazz and Lisp are different appearan… | |
13 >> of the same thing. | |
14 Yes, the Tao. /Everything/ is a different appearance of the tao. | |
15 -- Ken Tilton | |
16 | |
17 "Ken, I went to the library and read up on Buddhism, and believe me, you | |
18 are no Buddhist." | |
19 -- Kenny's mom | |
20 % | |
21 That absolutely terrifies the herd-following, lockstep-marching, | |
22 mainstream-saluting cowards that obediently dash out or online to | |
23 scoop up books on The Latest Thing. They learn and use atrocities like | |
24 Java, C++, XML, and even Python for the security it gives them and | |
25 then sit there slaving away miserably, tediously, joylously paying off | |
26 mortgages and supporting ungrateful teenagers who despise them, only | |
27 to look out the double-sealed thermo-pane windows of their | |
28 central-heated, sound-proofed, dead-bolted, suffocating little nests | |
29 into the howling gale thinking "what do they know that I do not know?" | |
30 when they see us under a lean-to hunched over our laptops to shield | |
31 them from the rain laughing our asses off as we write great code | |
32 between bong hits.... what was the question? | |
33 -- Ken Tilton | |
34 % | |
35 Shut up! (That last phrase has four or more syllables if pronounced as | |
36 intended.) | |
37 -- Ken Tilton | |
38 % | |
39 Nonsense. You'll be using it for the GUI, not protein-folding. | |
40 -- Ken Tilton | |
41 (responding to a comment that LTK was slow because it | |
42 was based on TK) | |
43 % | |
44 Continuations certainly are clever, but if we learned anything from the | |
45 rejection of the cover art for "Smell the Glove", it is that "there is a | |
46 fine line between stupid... and clever". | |
47 -- Ken Tilton | |
48 % | |
49 Ah, there's no place like academia for dispassionate, intellectually | |
50 honest discussion of new ideas on their merits. Thank god for tenure | |
51 giving your bold antagonist the protection they needed to shout down | |
52 your iconoclastic..... hang on... | |
53 -- Ken Tilton | |
54 % | |
55 Whoever objected must be in my killfile, ... | |
56 -- Ken Tilton | |
57 % | |
58 From memory (but I think I have it right): | |
59 | |
60 "But Jesus said, Suffer captured variables, and forbid them not, to come | |
61 unto thine macro bodies: for of such is are DSLs made." | |
62 -- Ken Tilton | |
63 | |
64 Can I get an Amen? | |
65 % | |
66 Awareness of defect is the first step to recovery. | |
67 -- Ken Tilton | |
68 % | |
69 You made a bad analogy (there are no good ones, but you found a new | |
70 low) ... | |
71 -- Ken Tilton | |
72 % | |
73 Yes, it is true that Kent Pitman was raised by a closet full of Lisp | |
74 Machines, but the exception only proves the rule. | |
75 -- Ken Tilton | |
76 (in a postscript after positing that computer | |
77 languages are not learned in infancy) | |
78 % | |
79 I suggest you try bartender's school to support yourself, start | |
80 programming for fun again. | |
81 -- Ken Tilton | |
82 (responding to a comment that 98% of anything to do | |
83 with computers was not interesting code) | |
84 % | |
85 You could add four lanes to my carpal tunnel and I still could not | |
86 write all the code I am dying to write. | |
87 -- Ken Tilton | |
88 % | |
89 Neutrality? I want to bury other languages, not have a gateway to them. | |
90 -- Ken Tilton | |
91 % | |
92 Ken: "Cute puppy. Did you get it for companionship or to pick up chicks?" | |
93 Simon: "Hunh? My puppy /always/ gives me companionship." | |
94 -- Ken Tilton | |
95 (on how he was understood by a native english speaker) | |
96 % |