I have OpenELEC 4.0 beta (version 3.95.1) running off a 4GB USB stick I had lying around - no need to buy an SSD. Infrared sensor worked out of the box with my Harmony Smart Control remote.
Others (like Use cases IMHO) suck and are of little use to programmers, though more in communication with PHBs and business types.
I've found use cases to be really useful. Two reasons:
Keeps programmers focused. I've worked with programmers who had their own ideas about what ProjectX should do, and forget about what the accountants, who'll use it every day, need to do. I've inheirited code with huge chunks that have never been executed in production - stuff the programmers thought might be useful, but wasn't asked for or needed, wasting design time, coding time, testing time, and maintenance time.
Prevents me from slapping my forehead 45 days after release. Say I write some internal billing machinery - I have customers in Accounting and Sales. "We're closing up the books for last month, how do we figure out NumberX?" "We're handing out salesperson commissions, how do we figure out NumberY?" I find it difficult to anticipate all necessary use cases unless I interrogate users, write 'em down and check against 'em.
But at the end of the day, bad programmers make worthless (but compliant!) UML diagrams/use cases/flowcharts as do programmer who are forced to create them. Good programmers make good ones or don't need them.
"You see two ads: Barney's which is in black and white, has a globe breaking while a woman sings. Homer's has the Mr. Plow logo, a phone number and the fact that he is licensed and bonded (yes, I know he really wasn't, please play along). "
It was Homer's second ad that was in black and white and parodied "Obsession". Barney's ad had Linda Ronstadt and went something like ". . . Mr. Plow is a loser / And I think he is a boozer / So you better make that call to the Plow King"
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I have OpenELEC 4.0 beta (version 3.95.1) running off a 4GB USB stick I had lying around - no need to buy an SSD. Infrared sensor worked out of the box with my Harmony Smart Control remote.
Others (like Use cases IMHO) suck and are of little use to programmers, though more in communication with PHBs and business types.
I've found use cases to be really useful. Two reasons:
But at the end of the day, bad programmers make worthless (but compliant!) UML diagrams/use cases/flowcharts as do programmer who are forced to create them. Good programmers make good ones or don't need them.
"You see two ads: Barney's which is in black and white, has a globe breaking while a woman sings. Homer's has the Mr. Plow logo, a phone number and the fact that he is licensed and bonded (yes, I know he really wasn't, please play along). "
It was Homer's second ad that was in black and white and parodied "Obsession". Barney's ad had Linda Ronstadt and went something like ". . . Mr. Plow is a loser / And I think he is a boozer / So you better make that call to the Plow King"
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