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No, the sirens were reputed to have wellsprings of knowledge that could be whispered in the ear of a sailor, but ultimately served of little use since they were the last words that he would ever hear. The trick, heretofore unaccomplished by even the most skillful sailor, was to gain access to the sirens’ knowledge without paying the ultimate price for that wisdom.
The Behavioral Investor
Daniel Crosby
The religion has been likened to Zen based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school, as well as Taoist philosophy. Discordianism is centered on the idea that both order and disorder are illusions imposed on the universe by the human nervous system, and that neither of these illusions of apparent order and disorder is any more accurate or objectively true than the other.
Discordianism - Wikipedia
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I should have changed the definition of unset slightly: rather than deleting a variable, unset should ensure that a variable no longer exists. With the first definition, unset can’t do its job if the variable doesn’t exist, so generating an exception makes sense. With the second definition, it is perfectly natural for unset to be invoked with the name of a variable that doesn’t exist. In this case, its work is already done, so it can simply return. There is no longer an error case to report.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
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