Computo Ergo Sum

BBNfo: A good thinker and a good programmer is better than either one alone. One reason why the road to hell is paved with good intentions is that the thinker does not subject his thinking to objective questioning to avoid becoming a stinker. There is no more objective analysis of one's thinking than computer programming. If it cannot be programmed, it probably is not good thinking.

Computer programming is a lot like public policy-making. The latter is literally the root of politics but politics has come to mean corrupting public policy-making by introducing factors irrelevant to the problem and the policy. As a result, policy are irrelevant and problems are unsolved. Solution to problems are simple until you introduce irrelevant factors which make the problem complex beyond solution. Invariably, the irrelevant factors has to do with somone wanting to get something for nothing. Likewise with computer programming with payroll being an example. If you have honest pay for an honest day of work, you have a simple payroll program, e.g., Touchtone Manager. As you start introducing people getting unearned something-for-nothing privileges, the payroll program not only gets complex but it automates taking some earned income from those who worked to produce the income. This is an overall view of the increasingly imbalanced American economy as the habitual politicians redistribute income through unearned tax credits and business subsidies.

This thinker and programmer has created a relatively simple computerized system that operates as an honest problem-solver and reward-generator, that is, optimal democracy and optimal capitalism. The total size of the compiled executable program for timism is less than 500,000. Compare this to Windows XP--what a dirty whore of a program. (That was an example of introducing an irrelevant, gut-reaction into a problem-solving situation.)

The timism software is small for two reasons. The thinker shapes the program and the program shapes the thinker.

payroll ... touch-tone mgr. Introducing irrelevant expressions.BBNfo: A good thinker and a good programmer is better than either one alone. One reason why the road to hell is paved with good intentions is that the thinker does not subject his thinking to objective questioning to avoid becoming a stinker. There is no more objective analysis of one's thinking than computer programming. If it cannot be programmed, it probably is not good thinking.

Computer programming is a lot like public policy-making. The latter is literally the root of politics but politics has come to mean corrupting public policy-making by introducing factors irrelevant to the problem and the policy. As a result, policy are irrelevant and problems are unsolved. Solution to problems are simple until you introduce irrelevant factors which make the problem complex beyond solution. Invariably, the irrelevant factors has to do with somone wanting to get something for nothing. Likewise with computer programming with payroll being an example. If you have honest pay for an honest day of work, you have a simple payroll program, e.g., Touchtone Manager. As you start introducing people getting unearned something-for-nothing privileges, the payroll program not only gets complex but it automates taking some earned income from those who worked to produce the income. This is an overall view of the increasingly imbalanced American economy as the habitual politicians redistribute income through unearned tax credits and business subsidies.

This thinker and programmer has created a relatively simple computerized system that operates as an honest problem-solver and reward-generator, that is, optimal democracy and optimal capitalism. The total size of the compiled executable program for timism is less than 500,000. Compare this to Windows XP--what a dirty whore of a program. (That was an example of introducing an irrelevant, gut-reaction into a problem-solving situation.)