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<q>You just participated.</q> I did not realize this was an argument. I guess I lost. Seriously, though, the most interesting arguments don't resolve for qui
by ijoshua 19y ago
<q>You just participated.</q>
I did not realize this was an argument. I guess I lost.
Seriously, though, the most interesting arguments don't resolve for quite some time, if ever. For example, who was the winner in the infamous Torvalds v. Tanenbaum argument over monolithic versus micro-kernels? One could say that Torvalds "won," in the sense that Linux became far more successful than Minix. Yet, Windows and Mac OS are both based, in part, on a micro-kernel architecture, and both have a greater share of the market than Linux.
- ijoshua 19y agoI'd like to see a scoring system that evaluates the discussion or thread as a whole, rather than the individual contributions; a metric like a signal-to-noise ratio, where a thread gets a higher score for being on-topic and relevant, or a lower score for degenerating into a pissing match.