On Thursday 24 February 2005 00:01, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
I'm interested in solving real problems in the simplest possible way, even if they end up feeling hacky at times.
And wasn't you just a few days ago warning against Cocoon crumbling under its own burden?? (burden I assume == "simplest thing that works for me now" ).
No, I just ranted about the way that it's misbalanced simplicity is spoiling me and therefore helping me now and maybe hurting me later.
But I am also with you that SilkWorm is a far too big step, which never will get enough momentum to fly around here. But it IS fun to speculate, discuss wild ideas and so on... All kids are setting out to conqueror the world, over and over again :o)
I will never stop people from sending RTs, I won't even try, not even if this generates a thousands email in a long thread.
Brainstorming is key to the vitality of this community, to evolution and to adaptation. You'll never see an action from me to try to slow it down (maybe the opposite).
But my elegant design scars are too think and still too bleedy and I won't shut up when I hear something that solves problems by elegance *only* and not balanced with real-world needs.
Silkworm represents, to me, an avalon-style whiteboard elegance exercise.... and, believe me, it might be the past and the suffering that avalon brought that speak for me, but I can't help getting a sour taste in my mouth everytime I feel something like that ;-)
-- Stefano.
