greenspun

Just because Phil Greenspun writes it doesn't mean it isn't a pure politics post.

It was reasonable to wonder whether HN should be interested in what Phil Greenspun thinks about AfPak.

Philip Greenspun says this very succinctly in his article about why there aren't women in science.

We flagged out a post by Phil Greenspun with the same content.

This is actually what Philip Greenspun did at ArsDigita.

However, once I read what Philip Greenspun had to say about it in writing about Copeland's Generation X [1], I rethought it, and came to agree with him.

Greenspun's tenth rule is tongue-in-cheek and usually followed by something like "...including Erlang itself".

Phillip Greenspun writes (accurately, I think): "Journalists keep referring to the years of “austerity” that Greece has endured.

"any other language out there is just a subset of Lisp" is just a fun statement in a Greenspun's tenth rule way.

That scheduler is called launchd -- it cleanly replaces all of the "automatically launch a process" tools: not just init and cron (along with many greenspun variants), but also event-triggered stuff like xinetd and udev.

Much of Greenspun's theory is based on male irrationality (men are more likely to pursue science Ph.

Anyway, this is a good observation, definitely a potential weakness in Greenspun's argument.

As an instance of Greenspun's tenth rule, it's hard to beat.