vrijdag 27 september 2002

David Weinberger wrote a column where he said programmers are cynical and this is a good thing. This bothered me. I don't think of programmers as cynics, that's too negative. I played around with the thesaurus a bit, and think cynic is the wrong word. I think the correct work is skeptic. Or if you're British, sceptic. And when he talks about programmers telling the truth, that's something else entirely. "You can't lie to the compiler." People with an imprecise understanding of the truth don't make software. They can't. [Scripting News] 11:55:22 AM     comment [] Is Visual Studio .NET Environmentally Conscious?. Microsoft's new .NET architecture promises to relieve us of nasty compatibility dependencies, but the price of admission is potentially very high. The author explains. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 11:49:51 AM     comment [] Music firms try to 'gag' net café. Music chiefs try to stop an internet café going public on their wrangling over £1m damages for allowing music downloads. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY] 11:46:01 AM     comment []

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