Monday, February 10, 2014

Remember everything, Learn nothing

Remember everything, Learn nothing.

(House of Bourbon: Remember everything, [forget nothing, and] learn nothing.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon
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DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines - SlashdotYou have put a name to my pain, sir/madam.

I realized that the "Beta sucks!" chorus was bothering me, not just because it was a huge overreaction to, as you pointed out, a _proposed_ change to a _free_ site.
The thing that bothers me the most is that there seems to be almost a competition to show who can be the most obnoxious in registering their objections... from people who went through "gamer shaming" in high school, insults about nerdiness through college, and what not. It seems that these are people who have wanted to strike back at a handy target.
Like the French Bourbon dynasty when they were restored to power after Napoleon's defeat, they seem to have remembered everything, forgotten nothing, and learned nothing.

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