Re: "I've tried it" doesn't instill interest

"J. B. Rainsberger" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:59:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming.adoption
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So said  Arien Malec  on  2003-01-13 --------------------

>--- Ron Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   Mimetic isomorphism, bitter and acrimonious, stochastic nature,
>presence
>>   of network effects, overall selection matrices, lacuna, relatively
>>   pedestrian, neoclassic institutional theory, /Protestant Ethic and the
>>   Spirit of Capitalism/, framed as a negative endorsement by the earlier
>>   social psychology work of Kahneman and Tversky, ...
>
>> P.S. I mean this review to be neither bitter nor acrimonious. Only
>someone
>> with a large lacuna in their relatively pedestrian sense of humor would
>see
>> this article as a negative endorsement of the article.
>
>And if your humor situational perception schema is a memetic isomorphism
>to a
>process with a stochastic nature, you may or may not, depending on your
>overall
>selection matrices, agree. One would expect the humor response of a group
>of
>observers to highlight the presence of network effects, however.

Argle gargle google goop.

Now you know how I feel. :)


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