My knowledge of Talmud is, to be generous, zilch, but consider the format and style of Talmud. This is what you get when each commentator takes the arguments of colleagues and predecessors seriously. In the center a discussion between one
Elegance shmelagance, the Le Corbusier fallacy again (rev3).
Spolsky recently writes Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will find familiar. And I do find it drearily familiar: it is ignorantly dismissive and embraces
Free software economics
Here are four quotes. Quotes 1, 3, and 4 all make sense together, if you are sufficiently cynical, but quote #2 is remarkably odd when taken with the others. 1For ten years now, free software developers have tried various methods
Bitkeeper and tossing crates of money out the windows (vistas)
wish I was like Mr. Gates, all my money in big crates – Bruce Springstein One of the many peculiar features of the software industry is the stubborn manner in which important innovations are ignored. If you read this account