Is it?
It's probably a statistical certainty based on
9-fans being a fairly fixed-size group, which it does seem to be and
human beings being remarkably similar in their ability to forget things.
Max kudos to Russ as usual for spotting it.
Let's wait another approx 4 years less 3 weeks and see
>> right on schedule!
>>
>> http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
>> http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
>
> okay, that timing's just freaky.
And I keep missing the crucial message :-(
Freaky, definitely. Thanks for the explanation. Specially to Jim :-)
++L
> right on schedule!
>
> http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
> http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
okay, that timing's just freaky.
> I still can't figure what "typestr" does in the C compiler!
right on schedule!
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
russ
>> Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
>> with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
>> Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
>> only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
>
> read ken's code!
I still can't figure what "typestr" does in t
Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
ps, the quote is "Simplify, then add lightness"
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
wrote:
Is this sarcasm?
yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
least one person caught that.
internet is bizarro world.
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:10:47 MDT andrey mirtchovski
wrote:
> > Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
> > only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
>
> but somehow we can add "weight". can't we? bash is perceivably
> "heavier" than rc, xml perceivably "heavier" than 9p... stat
what, no SOAP? Not enterprise ready.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
> receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent be
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
> only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
In manufacturing, I'd suppose lighter materials are harder to make and
use, kind of like using low level languages for components. Standard
op
> Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
> with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
> Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
> only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
read ken's code!
- erik
> Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
> only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
but somehow we can add "weight". can't we? bash is perceivably
"heavier" than rc, xml perceivably "heavier" than 9p... statlite()
perceivably "heavier" than stat() :)
we just don't quantify "wei
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:31:35 MDT andrey mirtchovski
wrote:
> ps, the quote is "Simplify, then add lightness"
Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
only si
> according to wikiquote.org it is "Simplicate, then add lightness".
yes, it's even better than how i remember it!
> ps, the quote is "Simplify, then add lightness"
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
> wrote:
>>> Is this sarcasm?
>>
>> yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
>> least one person caught that.
>>
>> internet is bizarro world.
>>
according to wiki
ps, the quote is "Simplify, then add lightness"
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
wrote:
>> Is this sarcasm?
>
> yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
> least one person caught that.
>
> internet is bizarro world.
>
> Is this sarcasm?
yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
least one person caught that.
internet is bizarro world.
> in the immortal words of Colin Chapman: "Complicate, then add weight".
Is this sarcasm?
I remember the quote as: "To add speed, add lightness"
-Steve
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:22:48PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > Already part of HTTP
> > >
> > > Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
> > > q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
> > >
> > > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Wow. Could it
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> > Already part of HTTP
>> >
>> > Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
>> > q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
>> >
>> > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Wow. Could it get any worse?
>
> y
> > Already part of HTTP
> >
> > Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
> > q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
> >
> > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
> >
> >
>
> Wow. Could it get any worse?
yes. just read a few lines further in the rfc and note that
there's
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, maht wrote:
> andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>>
>> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
>> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
>> receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
>> est
andrey mirtchovski wrote:
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf, .te
from the man pages^W^Wpdf:
// FUTURE DIRECTIONS
//
// None.
we should be so lucky.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Thu Apr 9 13:44:50 EDT 2009, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
>> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
>> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
>> receive the man page. a 'setup
> or you could refrain from making the web any worse by just
> providing the document in ... oh, what's that archane format ...
> right, html. if i recall correctly, it's the standard for web content.
in the immortal words of Colin Chapman: "Complicate, then add weight".
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
> >>
> >> statlite()
> >
> > the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
> > on the web in pdf form.
>
> And MS doc! There's a common
On Thu Apr 9 13:44:50 EDT 2009, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
> receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
> establish the availab
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf, .tex,
.rtf, etc).
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
>> www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
>>
>> statlite()
>
> the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
> on the web in pdf form.
And MS doc! There's a common Unix-y file format.
On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
> www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
>
> statlite()
the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
on the web in pdf form.
- erik
www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
statlite()
ron
31 matches
Mail list logo
