Comments on: Rudy: An iTunes love story http://www.charlesknutson.net/2010/06/09/rudy-an-itunes-love-story/ “It is impossible for a software organization to be saved in ignorance.” Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Charles Knutson http://www.charlesknutson.net/2010/06/09/rudy-an-itunes-love-story/#comment-10855 Charles Knutson Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:50:31 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2010/06/09/rudy-an-itunes-love-story/#comment-10855 Just re-read this article after a long break since writing it. Something is nagging at me, and I don't know how to resolve it. Near the end I state the following: "...consuming only 1.29 GB of hard disk space in the process." Okay, so... I meant this to be ironic. 1.29 GB of disk space is a significant chunk. Even on a 1 TB disk, it's, um... hang on... a fraction of a percent. Yeah, that's not so much. But on a 300 GB MacBook Pro hard disk such as the one I wrote this post on, it's like... um... a fraction of a percent. But a much, much larger fraction, like... 3ish times bigger. Ish. Still, if you pull down 300 movies from iTunes you're pretty much cooked a few movies ago. I have a writing philosophy that one should trust the reader and not explain every cleverness or attempt at humor. But in this case, I think I missed. The average reader probably did something like this, "Only 1.29 GB?! Is this guy an idiot?!" Distinct possibility. But in any case I feel much better now. :) Just re-read this article after a long break since writing it. Something is nagging at me, and I don’t know how to resolve it.

Near the end I state the following: “…consuming only 1.29 GB of hard disk space in the process.” Okay, so… I meant this to be ironic. 1.29 GB of disk space is a significant chunk. Even on a 1 TB disk, it’s, um… hang on… a fraction of a percent. Yeah, that’s not so much. But on a 300 GB MacBook Pro hard disk such as the one I wrote this post on, it’s like… um… a fraction of a percent. But a much, much larger fraction, like… 3ish times bigger. Ish. Still, if you pull down 300 movies from iTunes you’re pretty much cooked a few movies ago.

I have a writing philosophy that one should trust the reader and not explain every cleverness or attempt at humor. But in this case, I think I missed. The average reader probably did something like this, “Only 1.29 GB?! Is this guy an idiot?!” Distinct possibility. But in any case I feel much better now. :)

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