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> [ Note: this is where I lost interest and stopped writing. ] Kudos for actually bothering to publish the damn thing. Many people (myself likely included) wou
by travisd 4y ago
> [ Note: this is where I lost interest and stopped writing. ]
Kudos for actually bothering to publish the damn thing. Many people (myself likely included) would have spent hours agonizing over minute unimportant details and ultimately never actually get it out the door.
- sph 4y agoI've never seen that line before and that might motivate me to finally keep a blog. I like collecting thoughts, but I often dislike the polishing required to turn thoughts into a complete blog post. Sometimes one just wants to do the 80% of the effort and be done with it.
- blue1 4y agoTo me, it feels like sloppiness presented as a virtue. Even if you have lost interest, there are more civil ways to close a text.
- eCa 4y agoIf you had said ’lazyness’ instead of ’sloppiness’ it would have become a higher order joke.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoHigher order if misspell ‘laziness’? Don’t get. I am so unsophistimacated :(
- revolvingocelot 4y ago"According to Larry Wall, the original author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about." [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150205083209/http://threevirtues.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150205083209/http://threevirtu... [1] [1] NB that threevirtues.com, in this late year, has been taken over by some sort of sea salt seller
- Kaibeezy 4y agoAh! Thorough, helpful and interesting answer.
- absurddoctor 4y agoGiven the author, higher order jokes seem especially appropriate.
- dotancohen 4y agoI noticed that, too, and realized how thought-provoking the ability to just say "OK, I'm done" really is. That, and marking (though not actually serving) as `Content-Type: text/shitpost` really demonstrates that the author is more interested in sharing the technical aspects of his discovery than in needless elaboration and commentary.
- samstave 4y ago>sharing the technical aspects of his discovery than in needless elaboration and commentary. He should start a recipe blog.
- openfuture 4y agoI believe that people should be a lot more trigger happy when it comes to writing stream of consciousness and sharing it.. but at the same time we should be structuring our communication tools around iterative refinement so that the reader can pick up the slack and make the adjustments they feel make sense and slowly the final version of the text emerges from this process.. Right now we do a lot of denial of service attacks on science because we've raised the bar to an anxiety inducing extent, I believe it is important to bring it back down again so that we can all be humans.