Re: [Pharo-users] The Wisdom of the Crowd Redux

2017-08-26 Thread horrido
Quite right. When you tout the wisdom of the crowd, you have to back it up with simple, persuasive arguments. That's what my blog series over the past three years have been all about! I just keep hammering away at the same simple, persuasive arguments again and again and again and again. Ad nauseum

Re: [Pharo-users] The Wisdom of the Crowd Redux

2017-08-26 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Yes, thanks for sharing it Richard. For me the issue with wisdom of the crowd arguments is, as you point at the end of the article, that also crowd can be pretty stupid, so when/how you difference between both cases? At some point seems like crowd is wise when they share my opinion and dumb when t

Re: [Pharo-users] The Wisdom of the Crowd Redux

2017-08-22 Thread Ben Coman
nice article. thanks for sharing. cheers -ben On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:14 AM, horrido wrote: > I'm glad people in the programming community are recognizing the value of > Smalltalk: The Wisdom of the Crowd > . I > was very

[Pharo-users] The Wisdom of the Crowd Redux

2017-08-21 Thread horrido
I'm glad people in the programming community are recognizing the value of Smalltalk: The Wisdom of the Crowd . I was very pleasantly surprised by this. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Wisdom-of-th