臨床系の講堂

               *  rindolf tries to think what can cause the KDE 4 SNAFU on
                  his user.
       <rindolf>  And hopefully to avoid bissecting the KDE 4 config tree.
           <Zuu>  snafu... that wounds like a delicious cake :D
           <Zuu>  *sounds
       <rindolf>  Zuu: Situation Normal - All F****ed up.
           <Zuu>  :/
               *  Zuu gives the snafu cake to Dmage :D
           <Zuu>  Dmage, just eat the cake already
         <Dmage>  Zuu, are you hate my english? ;)
           <Zuu>  i hate your non-english
 <Black_Phoenix>  I english your hate
         <Dmage>  xD
           <Zuu>  Dmage, but i dont hate you! :D
 <Black_Phoenix>  and now I can do that
         <Dmage>  Zuu, learn russian then! :)
           <Zuu>  Hehe
           <Zuu>  Dmage, i think you'd hate my russion far more than i
                  would ever hate your english
       <rindolf>  Spasiva.
         <Dmage>  xD
         <Dmage>  learn 'Eto huinya!'
               *  Zuu steals the snafu cake back from Dmage and gives it
                  to rindolf instead
         <Dmage>  and apply everywhere
               *  rindolf eats the SNAFU cake
           <Zuu>  :D
               *  rindolf eats Zuu's Danish too.
           <Zuu>  Noooh!
               *  rindolf loves Zuu's Danish.
       <rindolf>  Yum yum.
           <Zuu>  tis mine!
           <Zuu>  My daaaanish :'(
       <rindolf>  My precioussssssssss!
           <Zuu>  tis gone :<

    -- SNAFU Cake
    -- ##programming, Freenode

Bundling all these different types of work together in one department may be
convenient administratively, but it's confusing intellectually. That's the
other reason I don't like the name "computer science." Arguably the people in
the middle are doing something like an experimental science. But the people at
either end, the hackers and the mathematicians, are not actually doing
science.

The mathematicians don't seem bothered by this. They happily set to work
proving theorems like the other mathematicians over in the math department,
and probably soon stop noticing that the building they work in says "computer
science" on the outside. But for the hackers this label is a problem. If what
they're doing is called science, it makes them feel they ought to be acting
scientific. So instead of doing what they really want to do, which is to
design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs feel they
ought to be writing research papers.

Paul Graham
"Hackers and Painters" - http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

    -- Paul Graham
    -- "Hackers and 
                Painters" (the Essay) ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html )