missionaries

The team behind Mondo were cyberspace missionaries spinning tales of a digital utopia, inspiring us to realize it.

This isn't a very complicated idea, it's how missionaries operate in countries that frown on their work.

You may be able to point to impoverished places where missionaries are saving lives and providing support, and yes, that is fantastic.

The classic example is missionaries trying to teach malnourished landless peasants how to farm.

I've seen one too many missionaries get screwed because rumors overseas start telling congregations they aren't doing religion the right way.

Well for what it is worth, Christian missionaries are flooding Vietnam.

I recently implemented depth-first iterative deepening in an Artificial Intelligence class project to solve the classic missionaries and cannibals problem [0].

But the missionaries were soon followed by the imperialists.

Sure, that is the explicit goal, but throughout history, missionaries/explorers have always brought something back with them, be it physical items or ideas.

The missionaries had no clue what hit them.

Henry Luce was raised by protestant missionaries.

I guarantee you that if Linus Torvalds himself were being interviewed, some jackass would still be giving him questions about missionaries and cannibals crossing a river.

Sometimes HN reminds me of Christian missionaries: interposing themselves into foreign cultures that they do not understand and saying "No!

I find it funny that startups would expect to attract "missionaries" when most of them lack missions of any substance.

This reminds me of the Alan Perlis: "Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries.

My parents were missionaries and we'd visit very poor areas of town often, and some times we'd go to the famous "favelas" (slums) where people live in improvised lean-to-shack housing.