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  1. Last 7 days
    1. There is for himno royal road to order. Knowledge andright will a r e indispensable. This doesnot mean that the world will heed, andeducate its feelings and thoughts forthe sake of self-preservation. But quiteproperly, Mr. Wells should not care.He has diagnosed the ailment and pre-scribed the sensible dose. The patientis always a t liberty to pass out in self-conceit or with the aid of quacks.PRODUCED 2005 BY UNZ.ORGELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED

      relationship to Eric Hoffer's The True Believer and modern politics?

      relationship to the Great Books idea in 1942-1952 and beyond?

      repeating history...

  2. Jul 2022
    1. modern web development has become selfish
    2. focusing on the developers and making sure the developers can quickly output projects at the expense of the end users
  3. Nov 2021
    1. Until last week, I found this completely mystifying – I had no idea what import was doing and I didn’t understand how to use libraries in that way.

      The build tools are irrelevant (or rather, a red herring).

      JS has import statements. The build tools are (or at least should be) approximating what you get without the build tools interposing themselves into the development process, but doing it in a way that reinforces The Iron Law of Bureaucracy.