It’s just data

non-hierarchical Sam

Dave Winer:  So, is your brain really hierarchic? Nope.  Mine is definately intertwingly.  Regular expressions are filed under BOTH Perl and Python.  Can't find a screwdriver?  Perhaps a butter knife will do.  I don't divide people up into east coast vs west coast, or even blonde, brunette, and redheads... all I see is the code. (multiple semi-obscure references in that last sentence).

"all I see is the code."

Humm... I thought it was just all data :)

Posted by Tomas Restrepo at

Can you grep for the one in the red dress with a quick perl one-liner?

Posted by l.m.orchard at

Hierarchies are overrated. Bureaucracies are hierarchies. Hierarchies are Old World. We need to move beyond hierarchies to synergics.

Posted by Dan Shafer at

Heirarchies are under-rated.

I'm not gonna buy the assertion that everyone thinks in heirarchies. I don't think of things in heirarchies.

But heirarchies are under-rated. They are a proven tool for organising systems, governments, churches, and, yes, bureaucracies. But just because a bureaucracy is heirarchical doesn't make their concept of a heirarchies bad. Being "Old World" shouldn't be a value-judgment either.

Heirarchies are a mature technology. Use where appropriate.

Posted by Mark A. Hershberger at

smooth space and striated. the intertwingular crystallises, is chipped away in places, dissolves elsewhere, persists around a central core. but to deny the co-existence and the ebb and flow (it's a polarity that's a polarity between 'polarised' and 'unpolarised') is to deny the possibility of Kuhnian revolution, of productive degeneration and reformulation. ('a thousand plateaus' is your friend.)

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