Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:35:35 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I think you've pretty much proven how well random > development works.
i think it's fair to say that we should not increase entropy artificially, eg. we should not apply randomly generated patches to the kernel tree.
the point is, we should accept the fact that while this world appears to be governed by rules to a certain degree, the world is also chaotic to a large degree, and that a Grand Plan That Explains Everything does not exist. And even if it existed, we are very far away from achieving it, and even if some friendly alien dropped it on our head, we'd very likely be unable to get our 5 billion brain cells into a state that is commonly referred to as 'fully grokking it'.
and having accepted these limitations, we should observe the unevitable effects of them: that any human prediction of future technology development beyond 5 years is very, very hypothetical, and thus we must have some fundamental way of dealing with this unpredictability. (such as trying to follow Nature's Smart Way Of Not Understanding Much But Still Getting Some Work Done - called evolution.)
Ingo
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