Amplification: if I wagered a guess, I'd go with "of human reach" or "of potential leverage."
I also have one amp that goes up to 11, which is really nice because sometimes I like a touch of extra kick for the solo. On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Julian Leviston <jul...@leviston.net> wrote: > > On 14/06/2011, at 1:17 AM, Alan Kay wrote: > >> It would be great if everyone on this list would think deeply about how to >> have an "eternal" system, and only be amplified by it. > > Hi Alan, > > You might need to elucidate a little more on this for me to personally > understand you. Not sure how others feel, but the "Worlds" work seems to be > just a description of a versioning pattern applied to running program state. > Why is it especially interesting? In the Ruby community, we have "gem" which > is a package manager and also bundler, the two of which handle dependency > management and sets of bundles of dependencies in context and situ elegantly > and beautifully. Depending on your requirements when writing code, you can > point to "a" version of a gem, the latest version, or say things like > "versions greater than 2.3". It works really well. It also fits very neatly > with your idea of (Alexander's? ;-)) the arch and biological cellular > structure being a scalable system: this system is working in practice > extremely well. (Mind you, there's a global namespace, so it will eventually > get crowded I'm sure ;-)) > > What do you mean by an eternal system? Do you mean a system which lasts > forever? and what do you mean by amplified? Do you mean amplified as in our > energy around this topic, or something else? > > Sorry for not understanding you straight away, > > Regards, > Julian. > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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