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16:38:23
jcowan
Shinmera: Such arbitrary site annotators have been tried many times, but they are just a vehicle for spam
16:39:53
jcowan
The principle is: if you are not within the (possibly small) organization that is (held) responsible for a site, then anything you can upload to the site cannot be downloaded from the site by anyone outside that organization without approval from the organization.
16:40:19
jcowan
$FORMER_EMPLOYER got into repeated trouble with Google by breaching this principle: people would upload phishing spams and get the whole site blocked.
16:42:16
beach
I wouldn't mind having someone manually check each annotation. There are not going to be tons of them.
16:50:43
Shinmera
for the purposes of a clhs/etc annotation, a read-only-by-default model would be just fine.
17:49:50
jcowan
In that case a Github site with local editing and pull requests makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the CLHS copyright doesn't allow changes of any sort, even if conspicuously marked.
22:32:54
Gnuxie[m]
beach: if you think that the industry is ignorant to practices that would make them more efficent, why hasn't there been an organisation that dominates the industry that uses the better techniques?
22:42:52
jackdaniel
given a free market is driven by maximizing the profit and minimizing the cost it is all but suprising that you get inferior yet easy to produce solutions there
22:43:24
jackdaniel
that said "free market" here could be replaced with "modern capitalism", because the former doesn't necessarily imply such sad state of humanity
22:43:49
Shinmera
indeed, if you spend any time at all working at a company you'll quickly get to experience why almost everything is a horrid mess
22:46:27
Shinmera
Gnuxie[m]: not just sunk cost, but also simply lack of understanding by the people in power
22:47:44
jackdaniel
I think I'm going to resume works on Matroska build system, with proper clim visualisation / interaction this time
22:51:09
Gnuxie[m]
I'm kinda finding it hard to justify having this viewpoint, it's really depressing
22:52:40
jackdaniel
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. ;-) good night
22:58:38
Shinmera
Gnuxie[m]: if you think about how often people make mistakes, how many accidents happen, and how frequently people act short-sightedly or self-centered, and extrapolate from there, it's far more surprising that our world functions as well as it does
23:00:33
Shinmera
The good news is that it's not your responsibility to fix everything, so just try to do your best.