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Re: Jason Scott - Fuck The Cloud, Still, Mostly.

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On 7/31/14 7:00 AM, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
>An interesting article on Jason Scott's blog re "the cloud" and how, with a
>little knowledge and understanding, it can be put to use without the user
>simply bending over and putting themselves at the mercy of the Evil Data
>Overlords. 
>
>http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4352
>
>-- 
>Stephen Thomas Cole // Sent from my iPhone


An excellent read, as is everything on that site.  I love the graphic where
 it's "clown computing" and "leverage the power of the clown.". Quote from
 the piece:

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The fundamental issue for me, you see, is pledging obfuscation and smoke as
 valid aspects of a computing process. To get people away from understanding
 exactly what’s going on, down there, and to pledge this as a virtue. That’s
 not how all this should work. Even if you don’t want to necessarily be the
 one switching out spark plugs or filling the tank, you’re a better person
 if you know why those things happen and what they do. A teacher in my past,
 in science, spent a significant amount of time in our class describing
 every single aspect of a V-8 engine, because he said science was at work
 there, and while only a small percentage of us may go into laboratories and
 rockets, we’d all likely end up with a car. He was damn right.

Hiding things leads to corruption. It leads to shortcuts. It starts to be
 that someone is telling you all is well and then all the wheels falling off
 at 6am on a Sunday. And then you won’t know where the wheels even were. Or
 that there were wheels. That is what I rail against. “The Cloud” has come
 to literally mean anything people want.

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Jason Scott - Fuck The Cloud, Still, Mostly. Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-07-31 07:00 +0000
  Re: Jason Scott - Fuck The Cloud, Still, Mostly. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-11 02:17 +0000
    Re: Jason Scott - Fuck The Cloud, Still, Mostly. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-08-11 13:24 +0200

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