Re^4: Papal infallibility

Dear eyepopslikeamosquito (our historician:)

the meaning appears very clear to me given the context: Saints in our Book goes:

> These are our most cherished users — quantitatively speaking. Work hard and you will receive the recognition you deserve! And remember: there are a lot of things monks are supposed to be, but lazy is not one of them!

Rank is based on XP and XP on parteciapation ie: vote and being upvoted. So laziness is not a monk daily virtue, but operosity.

That said we all wait the author enlightening us!

An ancient monks motto fit well (where Ora in our case is Programma ): Ora et Labora

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

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Re^5: Papal infallibility by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 23, 2021 at 14:02 UTC
I remember a famous BrowserUk experiment where he set out to prove he could gain lots of XP by posting nothing but utter rubbish. Despite holding all ten worst nodes of the week his XP kept on flying upwards! At the time, I felt Buk's experiment was redundant because another infamously lazy perl monk had already proved it. Given the success of Buk's experiment, perhaps that quote should be re-worked somehow by replacing "lazy" with another word, such as your "operosity" suggestion, or perhaps "busy", "buzzing", "active", ...	[reply]
Re^6: Papal infallibility by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 23, 2021 at 15:21 UTC
Wow -- I must have missed that contretemps in the Monastery. He was an interesting, knowledgeable character. I take laziness to mean that a developer should be so familiar with their tools that they can write something fairly simple to solve a complicated problem. So lazy is not idle, it's efficient. Alex / talexb / Toronto Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.	[reply]
Re^7: Papal infallibility by LanX (Saint) on Jan 23, 2021 at 15:40 UTC
"Lazyness" is for me a tongue in cheek way for "progress by automating boring steps". Like avoiding boilerplating by authoring a clever module which comes much cheaper in the long run. The point is that this investment in a module is quite expensive in the beginning. But after one climbed that mountain one reaches more fertile grounds. (which are feeding you for less work) Example? I wrote this Wikisyntax for the Monastery out of laziness° and it saved me tons of time in the meantime, but was expensive in the beginning. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) Well and hubris! Using JS for this was considered a no no, when I started.	[reply]