Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

It is evident how a lot of the reasoning is flawed!  Making something harder 
than it needs to be
is good.  Only Conmen complicate things more than they should be.  And only a 
genius simplifies
complicated things.

One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often programmers have 
been proved not only
wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills 
of society -- and how
little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the 
disasters entailed by those
views.

Emacs core contributors is and probably should remain small
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Making something harder than it needs to be does ensure a certain competence. 
Manual transmission cars
are another example of such natural gatekeeping. You were more assured of a new 
driver's roadworthiness
if she could work a clutch, more so than if she relied on electronic assists to 
parallel park.


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Christopher Dimech
General Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation)
- Geophysical Simulation
- Geological Subsurface Mapping
- Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
- Natural Resource Exploration and Production
- Free Software Advocacy


> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 10:28 AM
> From: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > We now have some data, and I don't think we should just dismiss that
> > data because of statistical quibbles.
>
> Speaking of statistics -- I found Dick Mao's analysis of the survey
> pretty interesting:
>
> https://github.com/dickmao/emacs-survey/blob/main/2020/commentary.ipynb
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>
>