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 | | From: | Ron Jeffries | | Subject: | Re: how many bugs do you find and correct during TDD? | | Date: | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:45:21 -0500 |
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 | On 10 Jan 2005 20:59:06 -0800, "krasicki"
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>Perhaps when he said "I /am/ nature", he was not referring to his
>intentional, deliberate, controlled aspects.
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>Interesting. The very act of saying, "I am" implies total control.
>Certainly, the person may not know what they're saying. For example, a
>madman claiming, "I am sane" , doesn't make it so.
I am confused. I am lost. I am wondering why you think "I am" implies
total control. ;->
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>But let's give Pollack the benefit of artistic doubt. His painting
>style was action painting. What looks thrown onto a stretched canvas
>displayed vertically on a museum wall was created from drips applied
>onto a horizontal canvas in an artistic frenzy and rhythm that was
>channeling nature [man/nature]. This pouring paint action is not
>profounding different from the procreative acts of ejeculation common
>in all male/female ual acts. So Pollack is connecting the act in
>action to creation [nature/procreation] and so on.
That's a bit too metaphorical to me. If the painting style shown in
the movie was accurate ... then the placement of the paint was not
entirely accurate, and Pollack attained his results iteratively in any
case.
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>To map this back to the original thread though, something important
>emerges and that is that someone like Pollack is being imitated yet
>those imitations lack an authentic edge. It might give one reason to
>say that all software created agile-style may not be of equal quality
>thanks to technique alone.
There's no need to qualify the sentence with "agile-style". All
software created any old way is not of equal quality thanks to
technique alone.
Regards,
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Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide if it's true for you.
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