> because you've thought it through or yourself, weighed the balance of > factors *you* are comfortable with, and come to your own conclusion. > which may or may not happen to be the same. > > i'm comfortable with a parallel-factors "fuzzy" approach to > decision-making: it's part of reverse-engineering to consider factors > that you really genuinely have no clue on, really, as to whether > they're black-and-white "true" or not. but when you take 5, 10, 20, > 50 or even more such "no-clue" samples and they *all* agree, that's as > good an indication that the hypothesis is statistically valid as any. > > and it can be a lot faster and a lot less hassle. > > *but*... > > you try to explain this approach to people... dang it can get ugly > *real* fast. the usual sign of trouble is when people ask the > question "Give Me One Good Reason". with the analysis approach that i > take on "nebulous" topics, to give ONE reason is not only flat-out > impossible, it's completely and utterly misleading to do so. the > multi-factor signs - the entire package - *is* the "reason"... but > that is not something that many people can cope with. they consider > the entire approach to be deeply flawed... because there is no > "rational" single factor that says black and white yes or no. > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] My bad,I was just trying to say that we should trust your 20+ years of experience, considering your ethical standards in general, I thought this was a good analysis.
I see part of your point though, there are a lot more reasons... Linus at one point after all said systemd's design scope was insanely complex. So yes, I did read up a bit on it a while ago. Should I have mentioned that? probably... but oh well too late now. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
