Ka-plonk :)

> Do the names Ken Wesson or Cedric Greevey mean anything to you? Just
> checking.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Fluid Dynamics <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:19:29 PM UTC-4, Marcus Blankenship wrote:
> >>
> >> Agreed.  I've been amazed at how kind this group has been, despite your
> >> attitude of disrespect toward them.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Dylan Butman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From your attitude and lack of respect for the very knowledgeable,
> >>> experienced, and respectful people here trying to help improve and
> >>> understand the short comings in your current workflow, I'd say you might 
> >>> be
> >>> walking to work in the near future. Parking's free that way.
> >>>
> >>
> > Really? Because I'm not the one who accused someone of nonexistent
> > "shortcomings" and then made the impotent threat to revoke someone's
> > driver's license -- and then had his threatening post deleted by the
> > moderator. Hmm. :)
> >
> > Meanwhile, I think some people still have not grasped the scale of what
> > I'm doing, namely how small it is. Small, experimental, limited to one
> > person, and so forth. Version control, I repeat, would be MASSIVE overkill
> > under the circumstances. It would make barely any less sense to reach for
> > version control before writing a "hello, world" program.
> >
> > IF the project grows enough and is successful enough, then I might
> > consider creating a github account and basing it there. But right now
> > things are NOWHERE NEAR that kind of state. I am unsure how else to try to
> > communicate the fact of how small, unpublishable, and etc. it is at this
> > stage, so I will probably give up on anyone here who still seems to think
> > it's big enough, has enough developers, or whatever to benefit from version
> > control. It's not. So far there's two files of combined size 1200 lines,
> > most of them comment and docstring lines. There might be as many as 200
> > actual lines of Clojure in there so far. Using a version control system,
> > and dealing with all of the associated ceremony and formalities, would be
> > like renting a factory and setting up all of the process monitoring,
> > conveyor belt equipment, robot arms, safety inspections, permits, and
> > everything else attendant the use of such a facility, just to put together
> > a high school shop project wooden birdhouse to hang from a tree in my own
> > back yard. :) It would be like filing a flight plan with the FAA before
> > going to the city park with a kite. Like getting in the car and driving to
> > the house next door to visit the neighbors for coffee. Like bringing a map,
> > compass, pack full of survival supplies, camp stove, satellite phone,
> > avalanche beacon, ropes, pitons, and sturdy hiking boots to take a walk in
> > NYC that crosses through Central Park. Like commissioning the Glomar
> > Explorer to fish a ring out of a toilet bowl. Bringing lawyers and pages of
> > CYA contract text to a negotiation with a Starbucks for the purchase of a
> > latte. Taking out a business license and city zoning permit to open a kid's
> > five-cent lemonade stand. Seeking an import license before bringing a
> > couple of Disney T-shirts back from EuroDisney. Requiring a full credit
> > check before loaning your neighbor a screwdriver. Using steel-reinforced
> > concrete to build a sandcastle.
> >
> > I trust everyone now gets the picture, and that any exception is named
> > Sheldon Cooper? :)
> >
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