Re: Download Mis-director & alternatives

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK use SFTP it's still way better

Right. Whenever someone says "let's just use FTP" in a context where
you don't control both ends and the connection between them, it's
increasingly becoming shorthand for "let's use a secured form of
FTP-like transport".

Elegant
is not always simple and simple is mostly the correct way.

This is off-topic, but I want to know what people mean by "elegant"
when they talk like this. In most contexts, but especially in
mathematics, computing, engineering, science, and the like, if
something is elegant, it *IS* simple. And if it's not simple, then it
*can't* be elegant. Not everything that is simple is elegant, but
everything that is elegant is simple. And we should be striving for
elegant simplicity. Failing that, we should prefer inelegant
simplicity over complexity.

Let me quickly say that of course "works" is preferable to "doesn't
work", and is of higher priority than elegance or simplicity. It seems
that for many folks, Download Director falls into the "doesn't work"
category.

John Y.