Is it?
It's probably a statistical certainty based on
9-fans being a fairly fixed-size group, which it does seem to be and
human beings being remarkably similar in their ability to forget things.
Max kudos to Russ as usual for spotting it.
Let's wait another approx 4 years less 3 weeks and see
Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
read ken's code!
I still can't figure what typestr does in the C
I still can't figure what typestr does in the C compiler!
right on schedule!
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
russ
right on schedule!
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
okay, that timing's just freaky.
right on schedule!
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/05/482 (may 31 2001)
http://9fans.net/archive/2005/05/69 (may 7 2005)
okay, that timing's just freaky.
And I keep missing the crucial message :-(
Freaky, definitely. Thanks for the explanation. Specially to Jim :-)
++L
Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
ps, the quote is Simplify, then add lightness
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this sarcasm?
yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
least one person caught that.
internet is
On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
statlite()
the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
on the web in pdf form.
- erik
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
statlite()
the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
on the web in pdf form.
And MS doc! There's a common Unix-y
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf, .tex,
.rtf, etc).
On Thu Apr 9 13:44:50 EDT 2009, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
establish the available
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Thu Apr 9 13:19:11 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
www.pdl.cmu.edu/posix
statlite()
the statlite man page is itself lightweight, being available
on the web in pdf form.
And MS doc! There's a
or you could refrain from making the web any worse by just
providing the document in ... oh, what's that archane format ...
right, html. if i recall correctly, it's the standard for web content.
in the immortal words of Colin Chapman: Complicate, then add weight.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Thu Apr 9 13:44:50 EDT 2009, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man
from the man pages^W^Wpdf:
// FUTURE DIRECTIONS
//
// None.
we should be so lucky.
andrey mirtchovski wrote:
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf,
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, maht mattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote:
andrey mirtchovski wrote:
i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent
Already part of HTTP
Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
Wow. Could it get any worse?
yes. just read a few lines further in the rfc and note that
there's also a level
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
Already part of HTTP
Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
Wow. Could it get any worse?
yes.
in the immortal words of Colin Chapman: Complicate, then add weight.
Is this sarcasm?
I remember the quote as: To add speed, add lightness
-Steve
ps, the quote is Simplify, then add lightness
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, andrey mirtchovski
mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this sarcasm?
yes, but not addressed towards Mr. Chapman, bless his cars. glad at
least one person caught that.
internet is bizarro world.
according to
according to wikiquote.org it is Simplicate, then add lightness.
yes, it's even better than how i remember it!
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:31:35 MDT andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com
wrote:
ps, the quote is Simplify, then add lightness
Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
but somehow we can add weight. can't we? bash is perceivably
heavier than rc, xml perceivably heavier than 9p... statlite()
perceivably heavier than stat() :)
we just don't quantify weight in
Makes perfect sense for Chapman's purposes. Replace steel
with aluminium. Fiberglass instead of sheet metal and so on.
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
read ken's code!
- erik
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com wrote:
Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
In manufacturing, I'd suppose lighter materials are harder to make and
use, kind of like using low level languages for
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