Ph.D. thesis on debian flamewars
Collins Richey
crichey
Thu Sep 22 22:04:24 PDT 2005
On 9/21/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:00:49PM -0700, Net Llama! took 7 lines to write:
> > You know that you're messed up when someone writes their thesis about you:
> > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=805287
>
> That's too funny. I would hardly characterize the Debian flamewars
> as "conflict-free enculturation." However, I quite concur with their
> nature as "legal pedagogy" and especially, "crisis."
> ;-)
>
> Great link, Lonnie.
Holy S---, Batman! OMG, if the article is as full of meaningless
academic jargon and BS as the Abstract, I'll pass. OTH, Debianites may
eat this stuff up.
--
Collins Richey
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
-Brian Kernighan
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