RE: [escepticos] Cosas de informaticos

["Xavier Nieto" <xavin@...>]

Carlitos, simplemente genial. Hay que ver que hasta los buenos
programadores/diseñadores/analistas, en resumen, los informaticos mas
conocidos son capaces de no pensar. ;-)
Por preguntar: ¿alguien le comento a Torvalds que estaba cometiendo un
error? Porque el correo es de ayer, pero se merece un rapapolvo (creo que
voy a volver a suscribirme a la lista solo para decirle eso al Sr. Torvalds
:-) ).

Saludos magufinformaticos
Xavier Nieto.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: owner-escepticos en dis.ulpgc.es
> [mailto:owner-escepticos en dis.ulpgc.es]En nombre de carlitos
> Enviado el: miércoles 15 de diciembre de 1999 21:37
> Para: escepticos en ccdis.dis.ulpgc.es
> Asunto: [escepticos] Cosas de informaticos
>
>
> Hola, hola.
>
> Ya que se habla tanto de Unix y Linux, un par de detalles de dos
> de las figuras del mundillo me han llamado la atencion ultimamente.
>
> Por una parte Linus considera que estamos a punto de cambiar de milenio:
> > Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:57:38 -0800 (PST)
> > From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds en transmeta.com>
> > To:     Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel en vger.rutgers.edu>,
> > Subject: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..
> (...)
> > We're obviously not going to have a 2.4 this millenium, but
> let's get the
> > pre-2.4 series going this year, with the real release Q1 of 2000.
>
> Por otra parte en la pagina de Jamie Zawinski (jwz, autor del XScreenSaver
> y programador de los antecesores de XEmacs y Netscape Navigator)
> cuenta en
> su pagina como recurrio a la acupuntura para tratar su dolor de muñecas
> (http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/wrists.html):
>
> Why did I do acupuncture? Well, I tend to place more faith in
> Eastern medicine
> than Western for things like this, both because you tend to get more
> personalized care (your HMO is going to
> misdiagnose you and put you on the wrong assembly line) and
> because the holistic
> approach just makes more sense to me -- your body is good at
> healing itself, if
> its healthy. You need someone
> who is going to look at the big picture. It's easy for their
> terminology to
> scare you away, with talk of Qi flowing and being blocked and so
> on, since we
> know that's not really what's going on, but
> look at it this way: Newtonian mechanics isn't really what's
> going on either,
> but it's a model, and it works really well almost all the time.
>
> But there is a lot of empty-headed new-agey snake-oil out there,
> too, as any web
> search on these topics will reveal. Skepticism is also healthy.
>
> Saludos,
> 	Carlitos
>
> PD: No hablo de informatica, sino de informaticos,
> asi que no he roto mi promesa :-)
>