where's the part of you beem into the google page: it instantly forms metrics about you and presents you with "useful" adds (as aposed to to minuses) :P
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I disagree with Jean-Baptiste Query's presentation, which implies that >> you have to understand all levels of any process to understand the process >> itself. If that were true we would all have to understand quantum mechanics >> to understand everything. But no one understands quantum mechanics. So no >> one understands anything. <snip> >> > > Well, the point is that for non tech folks, it is a tower of babble. > > I like the presentation because it starts with a simple idea: view a web > page, and shows the dirty little secret. > > I believe it should be the intro to a book that does what I think you > might prefer: top down, breadth first introduction to digitology. > > Or in other words: modularity, and its implementation in standard formats > and protocols. And no, modularity .. tho nice in program structure .. does > not happen without the standard formats and protocols. > > I have found it hard to explain modularity to non geek folks. Can you do > it? Most start with code, which as I say, is wrong. But most folks > understand contracts, and that leads into protocols & formats. > > I tried to explain DNS once to a very very smart guy. Registrars, Name > Servers, TLD hierarchy. His questions kept leading deeper into details, > and made it all impossible. My poor friend actually got dizzy and ended up > in tears. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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