Makers of MAKE

BoredStiff writes "An NPR show called The Connection inteviewed The Makers of MAKE. They discussed who's behind MAKE magazine, and why they think there are a lot of people out there with an interest in re-inventing with the gadgets that run our daily lives. MAKE magazine is a deliberate throw-back to the how-to science manuals of an earlier era -- back when technology wasn't so cheap people did more 'do it yourself.'"

Pick your Poison

[Dancin_Santa]

Saturday night I'd like to MAKE my girl, but right now I cannot make ends meet.

It's great to have a magazine dedicated to the people who want to build their own stuff. I remember carving my first spoon. Out of a bigger spoon.

The problem is that you end up with all these little toy gadgets and nowhere to put them. I wish there was a magazine that explained how to build something that could be used to store those gadgets.

But

[Timesprout]

Do the makers of MAKE really make MAKE or is it the content that will make MAKE? Enquiring minds want to make, I mean know.

Re:Pick your Poison

[Anonymous Coward]

They do, it's called "Finer Cabinetry and Amputations!" it's part of the mediocrity in execution series of books. You can Build some storage and get to know your medical professionals all in one fell swoop. After you have the storage space, you can then turn that old 286 with the sound card into an analog control system for automaing the opening and closing of your new cabinets since those new hooks are a pain in the butt when turning knobs.

Oooh, and a mouse based wired remote control for the old TV in the den. Left button, channel up, right button channel down.

Re:Pick your Poison

[paranode]

$ cd girl
$ ./configure

checking for car... yes
checking for scheduling availability... yes
checking if living with mother... no
checking for cash... no

**ERROR cash >2.01 not found. REQUIRED.

$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Hrmm...

my inlaws

[udderly]

The inherent DIY-ness of the 'Makers of MAKE' reminds me of my in-laws. With them (in-laws), they have a genetic predisposition which makes them have to do every task themselves, no matter how ridiculously hard and non-cost-efficient.

When he sliced open his leg, my brother-in-law was totally incensed because Walgreen's didn't sell a home suture kit (you think that I'm kidding, but I'm not). I was really scared when my wife decided that she need Lasik eye surgery and began looking at lasers on ebay and googling 'home eye surgery how to.'

Re:It may be a throwback

[Anonymous Coward]

... the whole hippie/commune/energy conservation crowd has been doing-it-themselves for a long time...

Don't forget the whole Slashdot crowd has been doing-it-themselves for a long time as well! Maybe someday when we can get some chicks we won't have to take matters into our own hands.

make magazine

[Anonymous Coward]

make: *** No rule to make target `magazine'. Stop.

I prefer...

[Fallingcow]

./configure magazine.

And now a word from our content provider.

[Willeh]

In other news, the makers of MAKE magazine sue the makers of the popular command "make", forcing hunders of thousands of l{u,i}n{i,u}x users to type "eckyeckyeckySHAZAM" instead. Man pages proved to be inconclusive and no help to confused sysadmins.

make(1)

[xbytor]

I thought everybody knew that Stu Feldman wrote make(1)?

Oh, wait...

Re:And now a word from our content provider.

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats awesome! I think I'm going to alias make to eckyeckyeckySHAZAM in anticipation.

Made my day, thanks! :D

Re:When I was a little boy...

[Dogtanian]

I'd ask my dad and say, "where can I get insert-highly-toxic-explosive-compound". He'd say, "Son, we live in a pussy age where you'd get arrested for just asking about that stuff." I guess this is how we grow up today. Sterile, hairless wimps.

No, the reason you grew up as a sterile, hairless wimp is because all those highly-toxic-explosive-compounds your father and grandfather played around with had horrible effects on their genes and reproductive systems.

Re:Pick your Poison

[Dogtanian]

The solution is to make cash.so.2.0.1 a softlink to cash.so.0.0.1; this fools the installation into thinking you have greater 'cash' than you actually do.

You'll run into compatibility problems when you start invoking the more advanced 'relationship' or 'marriage' functionality; the program will complain vociferously, but let's face it; most of us just want to play around with 'girl' for an evening or two, and then try something else. "cash.so.0.0.1" does fine, so long as you can pretend it's "cash.so.2.0.1".