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It would be great if someone with appropriate "back in the day" credentials would take over membership of this document and powerwash the gratuitous Eric Raymon

It would be great if someone with appropriate "back in the day" credentials would take over membership of this document and powerwash the gratuitous Eric Raymond edits and insertions off of it.

WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
1) these people are not young and getting older every day, so priorities might change too 2) after a while if person A takes this on, there will be a request to powerwash the gratuitous A’s edits and insertions off of it 3) if the purpose is to have it in pristine state and do no edits, it’s not like old versions have disappeared, just mirror them away
- fragmede 3y ago
  So in order for the document to evolve, we need a system to determine consensus. Everyone who cares runs a program on their computer that joins the network and registers their intent. With each proposed change, a query goes out to the network, and it's up to everyone on the network to say yea or nay to the proposal. With enough "yea"s, the document is updated. ...this is starting to sound like a blockchain, isn't it.
dtaht 3y ago
Not enough people born after 1980 have read either version of the dictionary, which is a shame in having a unified vocabulary across more of the internet. A companion volume with new terms, events, and foci would help. I am glad Monty Python, at least, remains popular across old hackers and new.
- ghaff 3y ago
  Without having a real opinion on Esr’s eedits, a snapshot of earlyish hacker culture (whether or not conflating LISP and UNIX) is historically interesting. With tech today so mainstream and with so many subcultures and branches one could of course a glossary but it wouldn’t be the same.
- dylan604 3y ago
  even when it is written down, things don't stick across the internet. we're still having gif vs jif pronunciation debates
  - WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
    Well concerning GIF it’s obviously soft G because it stands for Giraffics Interchange Format. Does it not?
    - reaperducer 3y ago
      It's a soft G, like the peanut butter brand, because that's what the inventor says. His algo, his rules.
EarlKing 3y ago
Better solution: Just make your own for whatever project you're working with. AIWORD was originally a product of Stanford's AI community. Let it rest and make a dictionary that reflects the usage of your own group. ..........and mercilessly mock Eric Raymond for his pretensions. :D

It would be great if someone with appropriate "back in the day" credentials would take over membership of this document and powerwash the gratuitous Eric Raymond edits and insertions off of it.

WesolyKubeczek 3y ago

1) these people are not young and getting older every day, so priorities might change too 2) after a while if person A takes this on, there will be a request to powerwash the gratuitous A’s edits and insertions off of it 3) if the purpose is to have it in pristine state and do no edits, it’s not like old versions have disappeared, just mirror them away

fragmede 3y ago
So in order for the document to evolve, we need a system to determine consensus. Everyone who cares runs a program on their computer that joins the network and registers their intent. With each proposed change, a query goes out to the network, and it's up to everyone on the network to say yea or nay to the proposal. With enough "yea"s, the document is updated. ...this is starting to sound like a blockchain, isn't it.

dtaht 3y ago

Not enough people born after 1980 have read either version of the dictionary, which is a shame in having a unified vocabulary across more of the internet. A companion volume with new terms, events, and foci would help. I am glad Monty Python, at least, remains popular across old hackers and new.

ghaff 3y ago
Without having a real opinion on Esr’s eedits, a snapshot of earlyish hacker culture (whether or not conflating LISP and UNIX) is historically interesting. With tech today so mainstream and with so many subcultures and branches one could of course a glossary but it wouldn’t be the same.
dylan604 3y ago
even when it is written down, things don't stick across the internet. we're still having gif vs jif pronunciation debates
- WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
  Well concerning GIF it’s obviously soft G because it stands for Giraffics Interchange Format. Does it not?
  - reaperducer 3y ago
    It's a soft G, like the peanut butter brand, because that's what the inventor says. His algo, his rules.

EarlKing 3y ago

Better solution: Just make your own for whatever project you're working with. AIWORD was originally a product of Stanford's AI community. Let it rest and make a dictionary that reflects the usage of your own group. ..........and mercilessly mock Eric Raymond for his pretensions. :D