On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:29:13AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > (Sorry about double-pumping a couple of posts.) > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU > <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 06:22:30, Joel Rees wrote: > >> > >> Ever seen a ball of yarn? > > > > Yep. Disentangled a few. Not a monolith. :) > > Ever considered the molecular structure of obsidian, marble, or granite? > > Pushing the metaphor a bit far, but then so is my question about yarn, > and so was your question about a monolith being entangled. > > While I'm on the subject, diamond's hardness is derived in great part > from the interconnection between the crystals. But that's still not > really the kind of "hardness" we want in an init system.
Mixing one's metaphors and analogies can quickly get you climbing up the wrong ladder. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
