Comments on: Define yourself or be defined?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:22:03 +0000

internal reflection on the values of life or really just a plain attempt to understand the two different mind sets

A little of both. :)

By: Tobey

Tobey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:47:01 +0000

Very captivating elaboration on this topic. I am honestly not sure whether it was more an internal reflection on the values of life or really just a plain attempt to understand the two different mind sets through the example of WP… Interesting, nevertheless :-)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:13:24 +0000

@Angelo

I think that any idea will have a few “fanboys”
Only that for some ideas it is natural… For some it is cold-blooded engineered to profit off it.

It’s a strange situation where everyone (or almost) has experienced the other side, but we always feel that we’re right.
Not strange at all. Humans are biologically wired to feel that they are right.

it should have been easy enough

Would be even better to make this opt-in feature, as it should be. But that is tool perspective, philosophy perspective would look for how to correct even more w0rdPRESS (as some now type it) misspellings.

By: Angelo R.

Angelo R. — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:34:49 +0000

I think that any idea will have a few “fanboys”. These are the people that treat it as a philosophy. The greater number of people, however, will always see it as just another tool. But they tend to have their own products that they are fans of, which other people may not feel similarily about.

It’s a strange situation where everyone (or almost) has experienced the other side, but we always feel that we’re right.

That being said, to address the wordpress issue, it should have been easy enough to provide an update that simply mapped url’s to other url’s. Ideally, anything mentioning “WordPress” in the url would be automapped to WordPress.

But I guess my answer shows that my stance on it is that it remains a tool and nothing more.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:51:36 +0000

@Jason

It is with great irony I must note that in two days it took this post from draft to publish “capital P” is no longer latest WordPress issue. It has been completely overshadowed by new round of GPL holy war.

Anyway WP here is merely illustration, I think paradigm applies to many.

By: Jason H

Jason H — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:47:20 +0000

“Latest WordPress version automatically corrects “WordPress” in posts to “WordPress”. I had to add code to my theme that overrides this function just so I could write WordPress in this post.”
LOL, wow. Priorities…

Always enjoy reading your perspectives like this.