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a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2014-02-26 06:23 asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2014 06:23:40; asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2014 06:23:40; asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of
books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other
books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these
cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
mircea_popescu: all the kids bought
books afair, mostly because it was
cheaper to buy the book than to photocopy
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've been putting money on Auburn at as many
books as I can that haven't been rather conclusively labeled scam yet.
Cheaper exercise than the one you did with Patrick Harnett.