*plonk* On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Fluid Dynamics <a2093...@trbvm.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:19:29 PM UTC-4, Marcus Blankenship wrote: >> >> Agreed. I've been amazed at how kind this group has been, despite your >> attitude of disrespect toward them. >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Dylan Butman <dbu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> From your attitude and lack of respect for the very knowledgeable, >>> experienced, and respectful people here trying to help improve and >>> understand the short comings in your current workflow, I'd say you might be >>> walking to work in the near future. Parking's free that way. >>> >> > Really? Because I'm not the one who accused someone of nonexistent > "shortcomings" and then made the impotent threat to revoke someone's > driver's license -- and then had his threatening post deleted by the > moderator. Hmm. :) > > Meanwhile, I think some people still have not grasped the scale of what > I'm doing, namely how small it is. Small, experimental, limited to one > person, and so forth. Version control, I repeat, would be MASSIVE overkill > under the circumstances. It would make barely any less sense to reach for > version control before writing a "hello, world" program. > > IF the project grows enough and is successful enough, then I might > consider creating a github account and basing it there. But right now > things are NOWHERE NEAR that kind of state. I am unsure how else to try to > communicate the fact of how small, unpublishable, and etc. it is at this > stage, so I will probably give up on anyone here who still seems to think > it's big enough, has enough developers, or whatever to benefit from version > control. It's not. So far there's two files of combined size 1200 lines, > most of them comment and docstring lines. There might be as many as 200 > actual lines of Clojure in there so far. Using a version control system, > and dealing with all of the associated ceremony and formalities, would be > like renting a factory and setting up all of the process monitoring, > conveyor belt equipment, robot arms, safety inspections, permits, and > everything else attendant the use of such a facility, just to put together > a high school shop project wooden birdhouse to hang from a tree in my own > back yard. :) It would be like filing a flight plan with the FAA before > going to the city park with a kite. Like getting in the car and driving to > the house next door to visit the neighbors for coffee. Like bringing a map, > compass, pack full of survival supplies, camp stove, satellite phone, > avalanche beacon, ropes, pitons, and sturdy hiking boots to take a walk in > NYC that crosses through Central Park. Like commissioning the Glomar > Explorer to fish a ring out of a toilet bowl. Bringing lawyers and pages of > CYA contract text to a negotiation with a Starbucks for the purchase of a > latte. Taking out a business license and city zoning permit to open a kid's > five-cent lemonade stand. Seeking an import license before bringing a > couple of Disney T-shirts back from EuroDisney. Requiring a full credit > check before loaning your neighbor a screwdriver. Using steel-reinforced > concrete to build a sandcastle. > > I trust everyone now gets the picture, and that any exception is named > Sheldon Cooper? :) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
