Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

[Marcus Daniels]

Heh, it amuses and frustrates me the pressure to publish when one could instead 
do something useful like develop and share code.   Those "mental models" 
scribbled down on paper obviously have less value than tools to solve the 
general problem (i.e. working through all the boring but necessary cases to 
make it all computable), both as formalisms and from a utilitarian point of 
view.   Nonetheless, I hear all the time from theory types that they "have it 
in their head and just have to write it down".    Some of them I believe.  
Others are just involved in collective performance art in the hopes of pushing 
their citation count higher.  Hmm, I seem to be down on academics today.
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