From: bijan ghavami-kia <ghavamikia@hotmail.com>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>,
Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: good practices in science
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 22:00:51 +0000 [thread overview]
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Oh my goodness, I didn’t know who Danny Hillis was before a google search..., except I did because the way I heard about this project first was from him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmF7KvsldGU
A good salesman! I’m embarrassed I brought it up!
It’s an interesting prospect, shouldn’t we be working towards this fantastical goal?
From: Konrad Hinsen<mailto:konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Sent: 07 April 2020 09:40
To: Bengt Richter<mailto:bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org<mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: good practices in science
Hi Bengt,
> (I guess I get excited reading prose that shows attention
> to the distinction between abstractions and their representations.
> Sort of like reading quotes from Plato, and thinking, "Hey, wow,
> I've had some of those thoughts." :)
There are plenty of good ideas in that project, I am not claiming the
opposite. Unfortunately, that has never been a guarantee for success.
> I hope they are not just preparing themselves for spinning off
> and becoming rich as a monopolist takeover target ;-/
With people like Danny Hillis on board, they should be aware of that
trap!
> So what makes you hopeful about guix? :)
It's so technical that politics-minded people won't even look at it.
Cheers,
Konrad.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-07 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-03 11:54 good practices in science Marco van Hulten
2020-04-03 13:00 ` Pjotr Prins
2020-04-03 13:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-03 14:28 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-03 16:11 ` Cook, Malcolm
2020-04-03 16:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-05 9:55 ` Marco van Hulten
2020-04-05 13:50 ` Bijan
2020-04-06 8:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-06 10:01 ` Bijan
2020-04-06 15:09 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-06 18:51 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-07 8:37 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-07 17:51 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-07 22:00 ` bijan ghavami-kia [this message]
2020-04-08 7:30 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-12 17:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-06 16:34 ` Bengt Richter
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