[FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
Nick, On a recent FRIAM you expressed mild regret on your naming of MOTH (My Way or the Highway) http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/4.html *Given a chance to rename it what were some of the options over the years? Does the list have better suggestions?* Naming may seem trivial and arbitrary bu

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread thompnickson2
oup Subject: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame Nick, On a recent FRIAM you expressed mild regret on your naming of MOTH (My Way or the Highway) http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/4.html Given a chance to rename it what were some of the options over the years? Does the

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
k University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Sunday, November 1, 2020 11:00 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
>> though I can play it. >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Nicholas Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology >> >> Clark University >> >> thompnicks...@gmail.c

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread thompnickson2
Guerin Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2020 12:17 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame > I think the proper name is Conditional Association Strategy Yes, I think of Conditional Association Strategy as its "genus&

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread thompnickson2
mber 1, 2020 12:22 PM To: Stephen Guerin Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame And as I look at it more closely, Nasty Moth isn't actually "MOTH" in the meaning of "My Way or Highway" as i

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread Stephen Guerin
*From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin > *Sent:* Sunday, November 1, 2020 12:22 PM > *To:* Stephen Guerin > *Cc:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-01 Thread thompnickson2
From: Friam On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2020 5:03 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame > Why is this coming up now?? * Some sense of urgency as I want to get your input and

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-02 Thread Barry MacKichan
When I interviewed at Microsoft, one of my interviewers was Charles Simonyi, the originator of what is called “Hungarian”. It is a small set of rules and a bunch of prefixes used to encode type information in variable and function names. For example, ‘lpszName’ is the name of a long pointer to

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 11:24:39AM -0500, Barry MacKichan wrote: > When I interviewed at Microsoft, one of my interviewers was Charles Simonyi, > the originator of what is called “Hungarian”. It is a small set of rules and a > bunch of prefixes used to encode type information in variable and functi