http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660@Jeff - Why the need to cull? If it were dead trees spolsky style, I would understand, but most of the posts Ayende's ever written are insightful enough to be seen as a collection, the conversations in the comments really add to that. http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment8http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment8Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:40:53 GMTI hear you. I cringe when I read the kinds of drivel I wrote 15 years ago... Times have changed. Anyways, I think very few people come to realize your level of maturity with respect to their work as you have in the past 4 years. Some never get there. So nice going! Also, I second the suggestion that you should collect your best writings and publish a little collection of essays. You have said some very insightful things on this blog and elsewhere. http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment7http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment7Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:49:30 GMT@Ayende Some people just don't understand this concept of "I've grown as a person, see what I used to be like" ;) http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment6http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment6Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:08:51 GMTKnocte, Yes, that is the point of pointing that out. It has been four years, I learned a bit http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment5http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment5Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:26:31 GMTBut what you said in the bad OSS post is just plain wrong, or complaining about life. I mean, that is not an opensource limitation in the sense that a non-open-source program doesn't have it. A non OSS program just have a tons more limitations. The statements said there even contradict what you're current blog slogan is: "That is a great idea, send me a patch for it". Regards. http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment4http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment4Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:12:21 GMTThese posts... They are lovely :) http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment3http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment3Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:56:32 GMTA while back I spent some time going through some of your older posts and there is some absolute gold in there. In terms of technical coverage, I would rate a dump of your site better than most textbooks. Have you ever thought about releasing your blog posts as a collection for offline reading? I'd pay for something like that. Especially if it were in a decent format (xml for transforming into chm / pdf / word / something readable on my Tytn II / rss for the offline feed reader / ... ). http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment2http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment2Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:15:03 GMTOSS still has hurt feelings from that post. I hear that, to this day, she is still waiting for a public apology and retraction. :) Actually, though, I think your statement is fairly accurate. Open Source Software is bad. It's just that closed source software is much, much worse! http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment1http://ayende.com/3375/nostalgic-reading-old-posts#comment1Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:36:13 GMT