Monthly Archives: December 2006

Talmudic codes

Posted on December 30, 2006 by yodaiken

My knowledge of Talmud is, to be generous, zilch, but consider the format and style of Talmud. This is what you get when each commentator takes the arguments of colleagues and predecessors seriously. In the center a discussion between one … Continue reading →

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Elegance shmelagance, the Le Corbusier fallacy again (rev3).

Posted on December 17, 2006 by yodaiken

Spolsky recently writes Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will find familiar. And I do find it drearily familiar: it is ignorantly dismissive and embraces … Continue reading →

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Free software economics

Posted on December 10, 2006 by yodaiken

Here are four quotes. Quotes 1, 3, and 4 all make sense together, if you are sufficiently cynical, but quote #2 is remarkably odd when taken with the others. 1For ten years now, free software developers have tried various methods … Continue reading →

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