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Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Mon Jan 21 18:18:32 PST 2013


On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:16:07 -0500
Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:17:26 -0500
> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 1/21/13 2:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > > If I were a savvy businessman (read: no ethical fiber)
> > 
> > Now that came out of left field.
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by lifting that
> (arbitrary?) part of my sentence out of its full intended context:
> 
> "[portion actually quoted here], I would manufacture a line of fire
> alarms advertised as being 100% silent[...etc...]and sell them
> exclusively to programmers."
> 
> The point, of course, being that preferring to forgo the safety and
> static checks that a static language provides is comparable to
> preferring silent fire alarms (Ie because they're both good things
> to be explicitly warned about, and deliberately silencing them is
> shortsighted and ill-advised). You seem to have latched on to some
> insignificant detail there and misinterpreted it, though I'm not sure
> exactly what or how.
> 
> You're not suggesting that trying to sell non-working fire alarms
> would be *ethical* are you? I wouldn't think so, but I'm not really
> sure what your point is.
> 

Is it just that my metaphor was too wild/obscure/unclear? Sometimes my
metaphors do get a little obscure/silly/unclear, I do try to avoid
that, though perhaps not always successfully.



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