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Hitler has a wiki page? Why doesn't it turn up as the first hit on pretty much *any* Google search?

Aug 15 2010 2:17pm from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd
The conundrum of data center operations:

Reliability requires redundancy.
Redundancy introduces complexity.
Complexity reduces reliability.

Gramlath says:

Solution: self-reinforcing simplicity

heh, use emacs for everything because emacs is better than eclipse.

yeah, he's just another stupid piece of shit posting on a website, but I've seen so many of these articles, and they're all wrong.
His 10 tips are good for him. Why is he so small as to assume that what is good for him must be good for everybody.
Hell, forget that we're all individually built humans, and lets just take the more obvious: the job tasks are different.
I write java programs. emacs is not superior to eclipse when writing java programs. Period, it just isn't.
Yet this is what he's pitching because he knows better.

Well at least to me it's obvious that he doesn't know better, he's not mature, or more importantly, not wise, does not see the error of his ways and as a result I can't imagine why anybody would listen to him.


Of course my dark side says he knows exactly what he's doing and the more people you get to follow that kind of bullshit the less people you have to compete with in the job market.

Only one thing might be better than eclipse for writing Java, and that's JIDEA. Lispers, I suspect, don't need that Refactor menu, because they already have good language support for referential transparency, and a dynamic type system. Not the case in Java, where changing structure can cause so much carnage that in a nontrivial program it has to be automated.

Well that's exactly it - suppose ... perhaps emacs *is* the perfect environment for writing LISP code. Does the text editor suit the developer, or the language being used? Eclipse for Java, emacs for LISP, and vi for C? ;)

You can use emacs for Java too, but that doesn't make it optimal.

Eclipse can do that too,

It just uses > 20 times as much memory for that than emacs (or vim)
do...

So... the only difference you see between eclipse and vi is how much memory they use?

Emacs will secretly convert all of your code into LISP, regardless of what language it was originally written in.

It doesn't matter whether it works. All that matters is that it is Free.

Well that's exactly it - suppose ... perhaps emacs *is* the perfect
environment for writing LISP code. Does the text editor suit the
developer, or the language being used? Eclipse for Java, emacs for
LISP, and vi for C? ;)

Nano for e-mail. =)

Damn... we should start giving our product away, so I don't need to
be concerned that it works anymore.

This, of course, is most of the impetus behind the free software movement: get rid of all those pesky customers ;)

Notice that LS said "free software" and not "open source." I believe this was deliberate, as it refers to Richard Stallman and his hippie belief that no one should ever make any money from anything.

(Stallman joined the hacker set quite late in the game and resorts to extremism to make up for it.)