You're focusing on a tiny detail. The overall point (as I read it) was that if you don't build in flexibility at the start it'll bite you later when you need to make changes. If you do build in flexibility it'll increase the up-front costs and probably the running costs too - for things you might never use.
The bummer is you don't know in advance exactly what kinds of flexibility you'll need.
When I was a kid I asked why the doctor doesn't have a medicine shop in his office. I was told the reason for having it go via a second person was so there was a check in case the doctor made an error.
I think you're being wilfully over-literal, but anyway.
Most? Really? I any case there's also the downstream (refining/marketing/sales/distribution) side of the oil business and plenty of software for that. Does that mean if you're knowledgeable in that (as I was a long time ago) you should start your own chain of gas stations?
Or how about production planning, MRP etc? Being able to write software for that doesn't mean you have the skills (let alone the contacts and capital) to start your own factory.
A POS[1] expert should start his own supermarket? I could go on.
Be patient, I've only got as far as the title: "Controversy rages: is it fine with a solid line, or are the gaps where it's at?"
I did consider "Beat all enemies[1] with this one neat trick!" but it's not hip enough.
It's also possible that Bennet Haselton might steal my thunder with his treatise "Varus and Crassus: has anyone else noticed that shit Roman generals had names ending in ~us? And here's how I would have totally won."
[1] Disclaimer: Void for those Parthian rat- bastards. And in Germany.
when people way out of their depth link spam you with stuff that in no way supports their argument.
I thought that only happened to me. I've seen it a few times in chemistry, where someone assumes a property of X in its elemental state is also a property of compounds of X, reaching a conclusion like "Derbyshire Blue John corrodes glass".
An individual human at a given point does not have the awareness of the bigger picture to make the correct decision on how to flow traffic. So the discussion of having a human versus a signal light or other mechanism is not pertinent to the discussion at hand.
Yeah, because there's absolutely no way at all an agent on the ground could be receiving information & instructions from a place - let's hypothetically call it an "in the middle bossing booth". Now if someone invented a kind of portable wireless set that would change things, but until the magical strolly-speaky comes along it's either trumpets or flags.
Teachering is now a life long profession for C students. If you have ever gone to parent teacher night I find many of the young teachers to act very uneducated. [...] basicly [...] a couple [of] exceptions to where education is a calling buy you can't build a system on this
I respect your opinions on education, because you clearly aren't burdened with any biases or preconceptions that might arise from actually having undergone one.
it may have had the slight advantage of not being developed by a narcissistic aspie kraut wanker with a reputation for never finishing things before chucking them over the wall and getting out the next toy..
Where? In the US that wouldn't be allowed for fear of lawsuits if someone got a splinter. In the UK it would be supporting terrorists. In France it would be a breach of workplace rules. And in Germany they'd find some tenuous link to holocaust denial.
By my reckoning that leaves Australia and that place with the funny shaped stamps.
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It really is very good, if memory serves. It was about ten years ago that I read it ...
Well it's posted by StewBeans - the guy who brought us the one about "getting ubered".
He's basically just a shill for enterprisersproject.com
You're focusing on a tiny detail. The overall point (as I read it) was that if you don't build in flexibility at the start it'll bite you later when you need to make changes. If you do build in flexibility it'll increase the up-front costs and probably the running costs too - for things you might never use.
The bummer is you don't know in advance exactly what kinds of flexibility you'll need.
Being a fat Alaskan red light running granny grabber < shit.
Well if Einstein said it it must be right. After all he was infallible.
This is a different Einstein from the one who was wrong about quantum mechanics, I assume?
I can just picture it. On Friday, a guy is fired for no apparent reason.
On Monday, the boss is yelling "What the hell is HE doing here! Call security! Call the police! Call my mom!".
It's such a ridiculously stupidly unfeasible thing that it must have happened dozens of times. I guess lawyers have done OK out of it.
When I was a kid I asked why the doctor doesn't have a medicine shop in his office. I was told the reason for having it go via a second person was so there was a check in case the doctor made an error.
Can robots do that?
I might be cynical, but maybe the small local pharmacy doesn't sell anything else that you might buy on impulse while you have 20 minutes to kill.
I think you're being wilfully over-literal, but anyway.
Most? Really? I any case there's also the downstream (refining/marketing/sales/distribution) side of the oil business and plenty of software for that. Does that mean if you're knowledgeable in that (as I was a long time ago) you should start your own chain of gas stations?
Or how about production planning, MRP etc? Being able to write software for that doesn't mean you have the skills (let alone the contacts and capital) to start your own factory.
A POS[1] expert should start his own supermarket?
I could go on.
[1] Point Of Sale, not systemd.
Do the rules state that the pebbles have to be thrown by hand? I see a business opportunity involving catapults here.
Esperanto's just Latin with the grammar taked out.
Be patient, I've only got as far as the title: "Controversy rages: is it fine with a solid line, or are the gaps where it's at?"
I did consider "Beat all enemies[1] with this one neat trick!" but it's not hip enough.
It's also possible that Bennet Haselton might steal my thunder with his treatise "Varus and Crassus: has anyone else noticed that shit Roman generals had names ending in ~us? And here's how I would have totally won."
[1] Disclaimer: Void for those Parthian rat- bastards. And in Germany.
I thought that only happened to me. I've seen it a few times in chemistry, where someone assumes a property of X in its elemental state is also a property of compounds of X, reaching a conclusion like "Derbyshire Blue John corrodes glass".
You have any examples?
Shhh, PETA might be listening!
Yeah, because there's absolutely no way at all an agent on the ground could be receiving information & instructions from a place - let's hypothetically call it an "in the middle bossing booth". Now if someone invented a kind of portable wireless set that would change things, but until the magical strolly-speaky comes along it's either trumpets or flags.
How about pigeons?
I respect your opinions on education, because you clearly aren't burdened with any biases or preconceptions that might arise from actually having undergone one.
Because they can vote? Because if even two of them can find their way out of the door they've outvoted the one with a clue?
Because there may come a time where they aren't.
Interesting fact: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Francis Bacon were all totally shit at using Google.
Hey Donald, you got my vote!
Crowdsourcing, 3d printers, and Elon Musk. Managed by Donald Trump using software written by Lennart Poettering.
it may have had the slight advantage of not being developed by a narcissistic aspie kraut wanker with a reputation for never finishing things before chucking them over the wall and getting out the next toy..
Why would a contract to provide extended service (no doubt for a hefty fee) to party Y oblige you to provide it to party Z?
So if a developer understands the oil business he should go off and build his own derrick? Don't think so.
Where? In the US that wouldn't be allowed for fear of lawsuits if someone got a splinter. In the UK it would be supporting terrorists. In France it would be a breach of workplace rules. And in Germany they'd find some tenuous link to holocaust denial.
By my reckoning that leaves Australia and that place with the funny shaped stamps.
Well I'm a trollop for it then.
I also like cooking, but this isn't the place to discuss whether putting Szechuan pepper in a Moroccan tajine is cheating.