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As I have no doubt said before [1], the idea that forums will be run like code, in which everything is DRY and after the first day nobody posts anything but #in
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
As I have no doubt said before [1], the idea that forums will be run like code, in which everything is DRY and after the first day nobody posts anything but #includes pointing to their former words, is crazy and has always been crazy. Forums are conversations.
Teaching is all about saying and doing the same things over and over, with variations depending on the local audience and the immediate issues at hand. So it most of the rest of life, really.
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[1] Yes, I meant to do that.
- Poiesis 17y ago> Forums are conversations Yeah, and if you're like me, a conversation means you're repeating yourself all the time because you don't have a hash table in your head keeping track of who you've said what to.
- n8agrin 17y agoActually I once saw a neurologist talk about how the brain and computer science might be related and he basically said that an oversimplified explination of the brain is that it's a hasH table. Now if only I could remember who it was that gave the talk.
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