Re: Why wasn't I told about logbitp?!

Ken Tilton wrote:
> 
> 
> Leandro Rios wrote:
>> Ken Tilton escribió:
>>
>>>
>>> But Paul Graham's essay rationalizing the crappiness of Arc has 
>>> encouraged me to stop sweating perfection and Just ****p Something.
>>>
>>
>> Kenny, would you please post a link (or at least the name) to that
essay?
> 
> http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html
> 
> Look for the punch-line mid-way thru:
> 
> "Now people are saying the same things about Arc that they said at
> first about Viaweb and Y Combinator and most of my essays. Why the
> pattern? The answer, I realized, is that my m.o. for all four has been
> the same.
> 
> "Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked
> problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as
> informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then
> (f) iterating rapidly."

This is Guru speech. "I was right before, so I will _always_ be right 
from now on." That's pretty unrealistic.

http://www.amazon.com/Guru-Papers-Masks-Authoritarian-Power/dp/1883319005


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