Sometimes hjaving project managers without development experience can be a good thing. They tend to look at things from the view of the customer more and don't focus on what the technology can and cannot do. It should be up to the the developers to tell the project manager what can and cannot be done with the technology because that is their specialty. Of course, the PM has to listen to what the developers say and the developers have to actually be honest about what the technology can do. I have seen a few projects where the developer said that the technology couldn't do something because they didn't want to do that amount of work and the PM wasn't really listening anyway...who do you think won that argument?
I agree with you completely. The article is making comparisons that don't really work well. You may be able to make some comparisons between different commodities but the number of links that Amazon has is (mostly) an effect of it's success not a contributing factor.
I don't think that competition for photographers is a good example because location plays a big part in choosing a photographer. I know that some photographers travel alot but they are mostly chosen because of their reputation (often in spite of their webpages;) )Also, the market share of offline stores is lower due to logistics. For example, all offline booksellers must have a location to display the books and a way to get them there. This costs money.
I also think that the "rich-gets-richer" thing is more about economics than about the number of links a site gets. Amazon buys bigger quantities, and ships more quantities which means that the economies of scale are a HUGE factor. I would venture that the number of links will be a trailing indicator of the relative size of a retailer much more than a contributor to this relative size.
To sum up logistics, economies of scale...intro economics anyone?
You don't need to. you just warn them not to execute any file of type "Visual Basic Script" (or whatever other bad file type will exist)
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But who gets to decide what the preferred form is? Wouldn't that be open to some interpretation? It is obviously the form that the company in question would prefer you to have.
I know that this is not the same but if I want to edit your GPL program in APL (my preferred form) but it is only available in C does that mean that you are violating the GPL? Does the original author always get to decide what the preferred form for all future uses of the code is? In some ways that doesn't seem very open to me.
.Net does save previously compiled code for later use. It also can let you to compile code before executing the program for the first time so that when the user runs it for the first time they don't have the initial cost. For example you can compile the code at install time to take advantage of the specific hardware in the machine you are installing to.
If you pay this you are not paying for the privilege of developing software. You are paying for access to.Net My Services. you can still develop.Net for free, you just have to pay to use Microsoft's Web services. If I was providing a service I would also charge people to use it. (Programmers do get paid for their services)
I heartily disagree with this. I have worked on several projects where the foreign keys were removed because performance was important. The keys were still logically there but there was no referential integrity. If I have complete control over every application that accesses the database then I can ensure that garbage data is not put in.
Also, I agree that views can be useful in some situations but I have never run into a problem where they could be avoided by good application design.
Manitoba generates almost all of it's electricity from hydro (much of it gets sold to the states) and Ontario has several Hydro dams in the northern part of the province. Quite a bit of the pollution in the southern part of Ontario comes from industry and vehicles, not all of it is from electric generators.
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Sometimes hjaving project managers without development experience can be a good thing. They tend to look at things from the view of the customer more and don't focus on what the technology can and cannot do.
It should be up to the the developers to tell the project manager what can and cannot be done with the technology because that is their specialty. Of course, the PM has to listen to what the developers say and the developers have to actually be honest about what the technology can do. I have seen a few projects where the developer said that the technology couldn't do something because they didn't want to do that amount of work and the PM wasn't really listening anyway...who do you think won that argument?
I agree with you completely. The article is making comparisons that don't really work well. You may be able to make some comparisons between different commodities but the number of links that Amazon has is (mostly) an effect of it's success not a contributing factor.
I don't think that competition for photographers is a good example because location plays a big part in choosing a photographer. I know that some photographers travel alot but they are mostly chosen because of their reputation (often in spite of their webpages ;) )Also, the market share of offline stores is lower due to logistics. For example, all offline booksellers must have a location to display the books and a way to get them there. This costs money.
I also think that the "rich-gets-richer" thing is more about economics than about the number of links a site gets. Amazon buys bigger quantities, and ships more quantities which means that the economies of scale are a HUGE factor. I would venture that the number of links will be a trailing indicator of the relative size of a retailer much more than a contributor to this relative size.
To sum up logistics, economies of scale...intro economics anyone?
You don't need to. you just warn them not to execute any file of type "Visual Basic Script" (or whatever other bad file type will exist)
But who gets to decide what the preferred form is? Wouldn't that be open to some interpretation? It is obviously the form that the company in question would prefer you to have.
I know that this is not the same but if I want to edit your GPL program in APL (my preferred form) but it is only available in C does that mean that you are violating the GPL? Does the original author always get to decide what the preferred form for all future uses of the code is? In some ways that doesn't seem very open to me.
.Net does save previously compiled code for later use. It also can let you to compile code before executing the program for the first time so that when the user runs it for the first time they don't have the initial cost. For example you can compile the code at install time to take advantage of the specific hardware in the machine you are installing to.
If you pay this you are not paying for the privilege of developing software. You are paying for access to .Net My Services. you can still develop .Net for free, you just have to pay to use Microsoft's Web services. If I was providing a service I would also charge people to use it. (Programmers do get paid for their services)
I heartily disagree with this. I have worked on several projects where the foreign keys were removed because performance was important. The keys were still logically there but there was no referential integrity. If I have complete control over every application that accesses the database then I can ensure that garbage data is not put in.
Also, I agree that views can be useful in some situations but I have never run into a problem where they could be avoided by good application design.
Manitoba generates almost all of it's electricity from hydro (much of it gets sold to the states) and Ontario has several Hydro dams in the northern part of the province. Quite a bit of the pollution in the southern part of Ontario comes from industry and vehicles, not all of it is from electric generators.