A la peanut butter sandwiches!

Why isn’t “top” better at adapting to a wide terminal window? Why can’t “locate” prune form its output the content of a matching directory. It’s like once these tools were created and deemed good enough, nobody has cared. But people use these and are frustrated with them every day. Most command-line programs aren’t very good as direct human interfaces, yet they aren’t good as building blocks for more complex tools either, like the UNIX creators originally intended to some degree. System administrators and lowly developers still have to use these tools all the time, why has nobody been able or willing to improve them by any significance?

Why do software developers, as a community, put up with so much crap: tools, techniques and metaphors that don’t work very well but have barely changed in over 30 years. I can hardly believe that all the world’s software is still built on dumb mono-spaced text files.

Bunny wrote:
>Dear Brain:
>
>If we know the bulk of the Taliban are assembled in the Swat Valley in Pakistan…
>And we know the rest of them are assembled in a large camp outside of Islamabad…
>
>Why don’t we just carpet bomb the shit out of these two sites?
>If we unleash the dogs of hell on this location, and kill all the Taliban.
>
>Checkmate war is over.
>
>This would work!
>
>Bunny

“Genocide: at least it’s not Terrorism.”

Rofl.

-Michael

[from mailing list intp-list.org]

so god is in the calculations

god is the calculations

the all-knowing initial conditions

the perpetually-observing algorithm

he is the runtime

and he is the unimaginable iron that must execute it all

not the sunrise, not the weighted footprints,

which we can now ourselves, since newton and turing, calculate

with our toys that run emulated in his layers of virtual machines,

but instead that core processor,

the algorithm that runs upon it,

that is the divine