Re:A Non-Programmer’s Apology
by Alex3917 on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:22PM
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>"A Mathematician's Apology" is the bitter rant of a man who only valued one thing in his life and had largely lost the ability to do it in his old age.
It's been a while since I've read it, but isn't it mostly a theory on what makes something beautiful and worth doing? It's always struck me as being probably one of the most important essays of all time.
I find it interesting that what Aaron and you took from the essay has essentially zero overlap with my take.
Re:A Non-Programmer’s Apology
by robg on Saturday March 05, 2011 @01:55PM
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I thought AMA was incredibly sad. Both for what he thought was important, what he didn't, and how that changed. As a huge baseball fan, I also loved that the one constant were the daily scores.
It's been a while since I've read it, but isn't it mostly a theory on what makes something beautiful and worth doing? It's always struck me as being probably one of the most important essays of all time.
I find it interesting that what Aaron and you took from the essay has essentially zero overlap with my take.