An understandable mistake if you're not a native English speaker.
Re:Pentagon Wars -vs- Inmates Running the Asylum
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What I do not like from what I have seen of this book is that it seems to place all the blame for increasing featurism on the developer. In my actual experience however this is not the case. Requirements creep is usually caused by users/managers requesting more features.
Actually, I believe Cooper puts heavy blame for feature creep on managers. Managers tend to equate a longer feature list with a better product -- a fallacy that Cooper debunks.
It's interesting to see how defensive programmers get about the Inmates book. A programmer friend of mine used words similar to some of the comments here -- in particular, feeling "blamed." As a programmer myself, I've seen the phenomena Cooper describes many times, and I agree that I was part of the problem -- as *well* as managers who didn't understand how or why to incorporate a proper design phase into the development process.
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a story I'd never heard before.
How sure are you?
You can no longer go and grab your neighbors to deal with the local lascivious woman
You can't?
Uh-oh.
"Yeah, that stupid Steve Jobs! We begged him to sell our music DRM-free, but he fought us tooth and nail!"
The gall of some people is amazing.
it has a camera (which the iPhone won't from what I heard)
You need better sources. According to Apple's web site it will have a 2 megapixel phone.
How nice of Pogue to put that link in there. I wonder if he gets a kickback.
Thanks. Coming from you, that's end of story as far as I'm concerned.
Ball matching game for MacOS X: http://www.funpause.com/atlantis/
I got the game, my balls still don't match. Thanks for nothing.
I think that's where we get the saying: One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
An understandable mistake if you're not a native English speaker.
What I do not like from what I have seen of this book is that it seems to place all the blame for increasing featurism on the developer. In my actual experience however this is not the case. Requirements creep is usually caused by users/managers requesting more features.
Actually, I believe Cooper puts heavy blame for feature creep on managers. Managers tend to equate a longer feature list with a better product -- a fallacy that Cooper debunks.
It's interesting to see how defensive programmers get about the Inmates book. A programmer friend of mine used words similar to some of the comments here -- in particular, feeling "blamed." As a programmer myself, I've seen the phenomena Cooper describes many times, and I agree that I was part of the problem -- as *well* as managers who didn't understand how or why to incorporate a proper design phase into the development process.
Although when push comes to shove, it's never George W. Bush's ass-to-risk.
Also that'd explain why the Oracle (a nice piece of code right?)
Maybe, but way too expensive. MySQL and PostgreSQL suffice for all my needs.
I guess this means I should cancel my GNUPoo project over at SourceForge.
GNUPoo, huh? Do you build with a "make in stall"?
> 4) Yes, my laptop has firewire. OhMyGod!!!
> Dorks. All decent laptops come with firewire now.
Do any PC laptops come with 6-pin FireWire? I've only seen 4-pin.
All FireWire from Apple -- on desktops, laptops, and the iPod -- has always been 6-pin.
--Andy