OK, I'm less tired now.
Hey, been doing some overtime. Need taht money, after all, electronics labs don't buy themselves. Also, I don't hear anything from you saying just
why my reasons are wrong. Moving on to reason 3 and conclusion.
Reason 3
gW33Zy says that I'm knocking down Carey's ideas. And just what idea is that? I had asked him some questions:
To which he answered:
1, 3, and 4 are so general as to be useless. As for 2, there are better ways to discuss League of Legends, the latest cell phones, and complain about customs. But both the structure and the meaning of the above quoted answer from Carey reveal a deeper problem with Our Local Expertise. Read through the answer again. Doesn't it sound like the same management-speak gobbledy-gook, that gets foisted upon us through work e-mails and memos? I believe that it is because that Carey, like myself, and I suspect like many here, are computer experts in name only. We are actually managers, trained to administer Management Information Systems - But not to create them, or even to question who such systems control our society. Even if you were not trained at UCC or the completely SOBA-fied UTech Computer Science program, the language and procedures of management has so pervaded our society that we feel that it is normal, even though it is a perversion of the ideals that I and (yes) the Open Sourcers hold dear.
Think about it - how may 5000 - line open source projects have been posted on TechJamaica? How much examination off samples off source code takes place , so that the code may be modified? Any cool projects with OpenGL, SDL, or other open source graphics library posted up on here I don't see any. And there is not likely to be any,
because we simply lack the necessary local expertise to carry out serious medium- to large scale projects. How many of downloaded that , or watched that MIT SICP lecture series and just gave up? Any one made it to map and reduce?
We should meet up JaLUG style - but instead of worshipping the great Linus Christ, we should have the ones who can code and do electronics run training in Python, Event -driven management, GUI creation, and basic soldering/electronics.
Reason 3 -
we barely have any local expertise.
Conclusion after dinner, and after I finishing studying.