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I don't have time for that. It wasn't succinct enough :-/
Reprisal wrote:
> You might consider reading the article.
>
> On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:10 AM, gregarican wrote:
>
> > Isn't there a business rule that postulates that a
person can be
> > promoted starting at the level of his/her own
incompetence? Kind of in
> > the same vein. Maybe not. But in terms of
succinctness being power as
> > Paul Graham article states, I wouldn't jump on
that bandwagon for
> > sure.
> > I could whip up some obfuscated, cryptic Perl line
of code that is
> > very
> > succinct for my company's internal development but
if I was to get hit
> > by a bus someone would pick up the code and frown
menacingly and throw
> > their hands up to the heavens (or down to the
hells perhaps).
> >
> > Terse doesn't mean powerful. It means ugly IMHO. I
like to use Ruby
> > for
> > its elegance and readability. If it takes a few
more lines of code to
> > express myself I still prize those selling points
above being a man of
> > few words. After all, breaking things down to
binary form I could just
> > punch a bunch of 0's and 1's. But what fun would
that be?
> >
> > Hal Fulton wrote:
> >> Matt Lawrence wrote:
> >>> Knowledge is Power
> >>> Power Corrupts
> >>> Study Hard
> >>> Be Evil
> >>
> >> Knowledge is power.
> >> Time is money.
> >> Power is work / time.
> >>
> >> So knowledge = work / money.
> >>
> >> Therefore, the more you make, the less you
know.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hal
> >
> >
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