> > TeX has great elegance, LaTeX doesn't. I never got
> > into C or C++ far enough to see its conceptual unity. From what I could
> see,
> > I didn't particularly like it.
>
>I don't like mushrooms.
Ha! that was excellent. Thanks! ("it's white and has rounded corners" -- almost as funny, yeah.)
Yesterday, one of the UI people on my team was talking a recent "continuous quality improvement" initiative. He was saying that it's all a organizational culture thing and struggling to indicate what he meant by that. As lead developer, with world's more experience in these initiatives, I would have laid it all out but I thought it best to shut up while I let the developers struggle to identify something I know they know but rarely have time to think about.
Eventually, he tried to say it was all really a personality thing -- and thus moving away from the original structural (culture-thing) analysis he was struggling to develop. His list of what makes a person interested in quality was that they are "picky", "annoying in their tendency to look for errors, holes, inconsistencies."
"They're the people who buy iBooks instead of a Dell."
uh, yeah. Okey Dokey.
shag --
"let's be civil and nice, but not to the point of obeying the rules of debate as defined by liberal blackmail (in which, discomfort caused by a challenge is seen as some vague form of harassment)."
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