Re: Are we in this for ourselves?
Hi,
>>"bruce" == bruce <bruce@va.debian.org> writes:
>> What would happen if Atlas Shrugged?
bruce> Really very little. There are enough of us to carry on if Atlas
bruce> decides to walk off in a huff. That's been proven a hundred
bruce> times.
When Atlas shrugs, Bruce, all the workers shall walk off. No
individual is Atlas, but it is a conglomeration of all the people who
contribute (contribute includes constructive criticisms and requests,
in some interpretations).
When atlas shrugs, you'll be left with a husk of a project and
angry, demanding non-contributors.
Continue to alienate Atlas, and who knows? It may well happen.
manoj
one tiny little cell in atlas
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...henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) wrote: The trouble is that
getdate() is relatively costly and Geoff is reluctant to run it on
every single article ...and then all sorts of people started coming
up with rube goldberg schemes to avoid parsing dates. However, it
turns out that even using C news's getdate (which is 10% slower than
the B news version), parsing the dates in every article in a full
Usenet feed takes about five Sun 3 CPU seconds per day. And if you
were to use the lex-based date parser included in the MH
distribution, you could get it down below a second per day, although
it hardly seems worth the (minimal) effort. Jef Poskanzer
(jef@well.sf.ca.us)
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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