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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Around the world with Unicode |
| Date | 2017-12-06 19:57 -0400 |
| Organization | Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop |
| Message-ID | <87o9nbflz1.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <87wp20fke8.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> <p08k40$r50$2@dont-email.me> <87mv2woun8.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <p09d36$9oe$2@news.albasani.net> <87a7yvpkco.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> |
Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
> Our life is compartmentalized and specialized.
Regretable where true. Counterproductive for the individual albeit it
useful for h{is,er} employer.
> Blurring interfaces usually causes more problems than advantages. As
> a software engineer, I should not expose my users to implementation
> details. That'll only give them bad improvization ideas and tie my
> hands when I want to improve the internal designs.
The automotive industry has yearned for this for a hundred years.
Lock the hood with a secret key, return to the official vendor's shop
for maintanance or repairs. In an analogue world, an impossible
dream. People took cars apart, measured things, put them together
again, and knew how they worked thereafter. Today, they nearly have
the dream because everything about "how it works" is inside digital
black boxes. The black boxes are, I hear, penetrable but only in ways
utterly different from our evolved skills of learning how thw world
works.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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Around the world with Unicode RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-04 13:34 -0500
Re: Around the world with Unicode Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-04 21:30 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-04 23:53 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2017-12-05 00:14 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 09:07 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 10:58 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 13:24 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 12:46 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-05 15:28 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-05 18:10 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-06 03:48 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 02:19 -0400
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-06 09:31 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 11:25 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-06 15:25 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2017-12-06 18:32 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 00:22 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 19:57 -0400
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 18:43 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-06 20:49 +0100
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 00:25 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2017-12-06 22:56 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 22:57 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-06 19:48 -0400
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 10:02 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-12-07 16:54 +0000
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-07 14:55 -0400
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-07 14:43 -0400
Re: Around the world with Unicode Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-12-07 21:09 +0200
Re: Around the world with Unicode The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 11:48 -0800
Re: Around the world with Unicode Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2017-12-08 00:43 -0400
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