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The best projects are when someone talented uses their considerable abilities on something really really pointless.
by runnr_az 5y ago
The best projects are when someone talented uses their considerable abilities on something really really pointless.
- anthk 5y agoUnix itself was born in order to play a game, so yes. Heck, today every BSD ships with BSD games in base.
- scop 5y agoYour comment reminds me of a little gem of a book, Leisure The Basis of Culture by philosopher Josef Pieper. > The act of worship creates a store of real wealth that cannot be consumed by the workaday world. It sets up an area where calculation is thrown to the winds and goods are deliberately squandered, where usefulness is forgotten and generosity reigns. Such wastefulness is, we repeat, true wealth; the wealth of the festival time.
- quercusa 5y agoGreat little book; truly counter-cultural.