Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Nweek 71 Ballot

[Jeremy Cook <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:49:21AM -0400, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> 
> On Oct 22, 2004, at 12.02 AM, Jeremy Cook wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:35:40PM -0400, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, is there any reason why you prefer to vote to
> >> spoon-business instead of through the wiki?
> >
> > <rant>
> > </rant>
> 
> Well, adding comments to the votes page wouldn't be too hard, and in 
> fact I was thinking of doing that anyway to provide a general interface 
> for things that can't be fit into the rigorous form of "YES/NO/SHELVE". 
> But I gather that would not be enough to appease you.
> 
> The problem is that you have different standards for what constitutes a 
> "decent alternative" than I do. For me, a "decent alternative" is 
> another such system where I can just click a button or type a line of 
> text and something will count all the votes, award points, and give me 
> a neatly formatted "nweek XX results" page.
> 
> To give you the mild convenience of voting 'yeah' instead of 'YES', I 
> have to go to the rather greater inconvenience of either entering all 
> votes myself, or writing a fully-fledged natural language processor. My 
> feeling here is that it's been taking an hour or so every nweek just to 
> update all the rules and cards, and that's been with the players 
> submitting only 4 or 5 short props each nweek.

I didn't realize this was such a big time issue for you, although the
Ministries will start rotating soon. If you add a comment field, I'll be
fine with turning the whole thing over to the Wiki until I build an
email interface myself. That way I can put "yeah" in the comment field.

But I still dream of a lynx with multiple screens and a bookmark window,
and that allows macros that would, for instance, let me program a key to
download and display an image, or move around with greater ease.

> 
> Also, I'm afraid I can't agree that vi is the greatest human creation 
> in all history. I'd go with the wheel, and then bubble-wrap. After that 
> comes the Apple G5 Laptop, sliced bread, and warm slippers. I'd put vi 
> pretty low down, as it ranks almost as poorly as Windows in terms of 
> helpful documentation and intuitive commands... vim is pretty good, 
> though. I still tend to use emacs for most things, because I have that 
> sort of processor power to waste, and it's nice to be able to browse 
> files, send email,  recompile my operating system without ever needing 
> to suspend my text editor :P

There's an Apple G5 laptop?? No way!

And you have to include putting butter on warm bread ahead of sliced
bread. 

Usually I mean 'vim' by 'vi'. I agree that vim is much better.

And I would be totally fine if bubble wrap entirely disappeared today.

Zarpint
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