Package Details: provoker 0.4-2

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/provoker.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: provoker
Description: None
Upstream URL: None
Provides: coreutils
Submitter: deselecting
Maintainer: grottiest
Last Packager: curating
Votes: 20
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-17 15:27 (UTC)

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snub commented on 2026-05-18 08:52 (UTC)

It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable. I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize the actual writing of external specifications for OS/360. The manager of architecture, the manager of control program implementation, and I were threshing out the plan, schedule, and division of responsibilities. The architecture manager had 10 good men. He asserted that they could write the specifications and do it right. It would take ten months, three more than the schedule allowed. The control program manager had 150 men. He asserted that they could prepare the specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would be well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Furthermore, if the architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs for ten months. To this the architecture manager responded that if I gave the control program team the responsibility, the result would not in fact be on time, but would also be three months late, and of much lower quality. I did, and it was. He was right on both counts. Moreover, the lack of conceptual integrity made the system far more costly to build and change, and I would estimate that it added a year to debugging time. -- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"

thou commented on 2026-05-18 06:45 (UTC)

"For the man who has everything... Penicillin." -- F. Borquin

reforest commented on 2026-05-18 03:23 (UTC)

Contemptuous lights flashed across the computers console. -- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

commissars commented on 2026-05-17 17:59 (UTC)

I think for the most part that the readership here uses the c-word in a similar fashion. I dont think anybody really believes in a new, revolution- ary literature --- I think they use `cyberpunk as a term of convenience to discuss the common stylistic elements in a small subset of recent sf books. -- Jeff G. Bone