chesterton

One should read the exchanges between friendimies GK Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw.

What Chesterton would imply here is to try to understand what these do and after doing so maybe deciding on a better way - even, if this means just documenting the stuff.

Agreed, and I think it's especially uncomfortable because that sort of reasoning is exactly the sort of thing Chesterton would've hated.

I've always felt uncomfortable with the discussions I've had with people about Chesterton because I find that they use the _fact_ that he attacked scientific determinism and moral relativism as _proof_ that they are on the right side.

I have many favorite Chesterton quotes and could recommend at least half of what he's written, but this is probably my favorite because it is completely inverse to how we treat ourselves and the people and places around us.

Chesterton is saying that if you're trying to build a better application, you have to understand what the application is even trying accomplish at a high level before you can begin writing code.

For example couple of months back I found 'all things considered' [1] a collection of selected essays by GK Chesterton.

Chesterton reiterated similar ideas to this in several of his writings.

I didn't expect to see something from Chesterton.org on the front page of Hacker News.

Chesterton may have been a great guy, but the person who wrote that article dearly needs an editor and to learn how to get to the point.

Chesterton just has a way with words and thoughts.

Chesterton is spectacularly quotable - but I am afraid he was English.

Chesterton wrote, "The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." A long enough foreign stay will do that to one's mind.

I've read the man who was Thursday a couple times, and I'm having a hard time thinking what you might find objectionable about it that isn't giving away pretty early in the story or "spoiled" by a passing familiarity with Chesterton.

Chesterton is saying that if you're trying to build a better application, you have to understand what the application is even trying accomplish at a high level before you can begin writing code.

For example couple of months back I found 'all things considered' [1] a collection of selected essays by GK Chesterton.

Chesterton reiterated similar ideas to this in several of his writings.