[SLL] faking Unix knowledge? pretend to know open source Unix?

[Chuck Wolber]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Kurt Buff wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Chuck Wolber <chuckw at quantumlinux.com> wrote:
> >
> > In other words, it is not enough to say an idea is flawed because "I 
> > have never seen it succeed"... At best, "I have never seen it succeed" 
> > means you suspect there may be something wrong, but you cannot nail it 
> > down to whether it is a conceptual problem or an implementation 
> > problem.
> 
> Wow. An articulation of the problem of induction in a programming 
> context.

Well, I wouldn't call it a perfect articulation. I left out Occam's razor.

..Ch:W..


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