I did quite a lot of work in NeWS using HyperNeWS and it really was one of the nicest graphics environments that I have ever used. Maybe not the easiest, but certainly the most elegant.
Maybe building something similar in SVG would be the way to go.
However, I'm also sure that customers might jump to the same conclusion. Don't get me wrong - I think Google is by far the best search engine for the Web. However, I was just curious whether the company who provides the best search engine for the global Web is necessarily in the best technical position to build the best search engine for Intranets. They may well be, just that it isn't a certainty.
AFAIK they have been selling a similar device for a long time now - has anyone used one?
Google's PageRank algorithm does seem to be the best approach to searching the Web. However, this would appear to work well because they can exploit the huge size of the Web - the sheer volume of data makes the system look smart.
I suspect that in most corporate intranets there won't be enough documents, or enough links, for PageRank to be appreciably different from any other search engine.
Lets face it - the biggest advantage this has over other tools is the Google brand.
Apologies for sounding like a Joel fanboy, but I'm pretty sure that if Joel thought that being "dynamic or extensible" would make his company more sales then he would do it.
No, I think the original post sounds like he has actually worked in academia. I have, as a contract researcher rather than a sys admin, but universities are pretty weird places to work. Hence the advice, which sounds a bit crazy to those of us in the Real World, actually makes sense in the context of academia.
Dont worry, one thing I never do is underestimate him (or for that matter, any other kid). However, he does seem particularly fond of the Harry Potter thing - almost as much as Star Wars Battlefront on the PS2.
Well, my five year old son now loves his Harry Potter Lego Creator (or whatever it is called). Someone bought it for him a while back and it was a bit too advanced, but not he is really into it.
The impressive thing about the UI design is that I've never shown him how to do anything - hows that for usability?
Yes, I've used it for over a year. It isn't nearly as slick as VS.NET but I find it to be pretty usable. When combined with the GUI debugger from the.Net SDK it makes a pretty decent development environment.
The point about outside the team gets to talk to people inside without clearing it with you every single time is an excellent one, but I'd be careful about being quite so strict. Talk to your team and get them to understand that the main thing is to never make commitments to people outside of the team without clearing it with you.
Beware the senior manager or exec who goes straight to developers and asks "how long do you think X will take"!
There is no doubt that sometimes, working crazy hours can be productive and occasionally it can be fun. However, taking a cold hard look at these things from a business viewpoint do I think that it makes sense for this to be the normal working pattern? Absolutely not!
I wonder what their statistics are for their defect rates - I'm guessing that the rate of defects introduced for every feature added or defect fixed must be awfully high if your entire team is that far up the stress curve.
Eventually, they might figure that it doesn't make business sense to run things this way. However, I wouldn't count on it.
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Great post! I initially though "what a great troll", but then realised that I have actually met people who think like this.
For what its worth, I think Joel does a pretty good job. Clearly there is a subtext of him marketing his products (I know people who use them and think they are great), but thats OK as he is pretty up front about it.
I have to say that I have probably seen more problems caused by over-zealous application of patterns causing enormous bloat of systems than whatever the original problems were that Design Patterns are supposed to solve.
Its not that I dislike the concept of design patterns, but their use requires an element of judgement that appears to be frequently missing.
Oh well, I guess I won't be the only heretic burned then;-)
Surely the whole "but you may want to do something in a setter/getter" breaks the whole "You Aint Going To Need It" rule, which I tend to think overrides the "Blindly Apply Design Patters" rule.
This was the very first thing I read about computers - the original cover looks familiar so I probably saw this when I was six or seven round about '71 or '72.
For some reason the digital/analog thing always stuck in my mind.
I really think that the biggest problem with OSS is that its advocates typically have problems selling the business benefits in a credible way.
Too often the cries of "we should use OSS and it'll be cheaper/faster/better" sounds to your average exec like a special case of "we should reimplement all our systems with ThisYearsNewTechnology and things will be cheaper/better/faster".
Arguably, whether or not things will be cheaper/better/faster is actually fairly incidental to most short term business thinking. But then again I suspect I'm a cynical old git.
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An excellent bit of advice. If anyone is ever offered options as part of a package you have to do the calculation of what they are likely to be worth, all too often the answer is likely to be "not nearly as much as you would hope".
Also look into the tax situation, which in some cases can be really tricky - speak to a professional or at least someone who has some direct personal experience of making some money from options or stock.
Just curious, are there Perl libraries for handling disributed transactions? Do these support things other than relational databases (at the very least, message oriented middleware such as MQ)? Note that I'm actually interested in your opinion as to whether such things exist and whether they are any good!
Various features of Common Lisp: CLOS (particularly multimethods and:before,:after and:around methods), the loop macro and the whole 'language that is its nown macro language thing'.
Almost all of PostScript, which actually makes a pretty find command line language.
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Maybe building something similar in SVG would be the way to go.
This first answers.com?
However, I'm also sure that customers might jump to the same conclusion. Don't get me wrong - I think Google is by far the best search engine for the Web. However, I was just curious whether the company who provides the best search engine for the global Web is necessarily in the best technical position to build the best search engine for Intranets. They may well be, just that it isn't a certainty.
AFAIK they have been selling a similar device for a long time now - has anyone used one?
I suspect that in most corporate intranets there won't be enough documents, or enough links, for PageRank to be appreciably different from any other search engine.
Lets face it - the biggest advantage this has over other tools is the Google brand.
Apologies for sounding like a Joel fanboy, but I'm pretty sure that if Joel thought that being "dynamic or extensible" would make his company more sales then he would do it.
No, I think the original post sounds like he has actually worked in academia. I have, as a contract researcher rather than a sys admin, but universities are pretty weird places to work. Hence the advice, which sounds a bit crazy to those of us in the Real World, actually makes sense in the context of academia.
Dont worry, one thing I never do is underestimate him (or for that matter, any other kid). However, he does seem particularly fond of the Harry Potter thing - almost as much as Star Wars Battlefront on the PS2.
The impressive thing about the UI design is that I've never shown him how to do anything - hows that for usability?
Yes, I've used it for over a year. It isn't nearly as slick as VS.NET but I find it to be pretty usable. When combined with the GUI debugger from the .Net SDK it makes a pretty decent development environment.
Beware the senior manager or exec who goes straight to developers and asks "how long do you think X will take"!
I wonder what their statistics are for their defect rates - I'm guessing that the rate of defects introduced for every feature added or defect fixed must be awfully high if your entire team is that far up the stress curve.
Eventually, they might figure that it doesn't make business sense to run things this way. However, I wouldn't count on it.
For what its worth, I think Joel does a pretty good job. Clearly there is a subtext of him marketing his products (I know people who use them and think they are great), but thats OK as he is pretty up front about it.
Its not that I dislike the concept of design patterns, but their use requires an element of judgement that appears to be frequently missing.
Oh well, I guess I won't be the only heretic burned then ;-)
Surely the whole "but you may want to do something in a setter/getter" breaks the whole "You Aint Going To Need It" rule, which I tend to think overrides the "Blindly Apply Design Patters" rule.
For some reason the digital/analog thing always stuck in my mind.
Too often the cries of "we should use OSS and it'll be cheaper/faster/better" sounds to your average exec like a special case of "we should reimplement all our systems with ThisYearsNewTechnology and things will be cheaper/better/faster".
Arguably, whether or not things will be cheaper/better/faster is actually fairly incidental to most short term business thinking. But then again I suspect I'm a cynical old git.
Perspective
I know its a function and not an equation.
I guess the equational form would be:
Y(X) = Y(Y(X))
Or in SKI combinator form:
Y = S (K (S I I)) (S (S (K S) K) (K (S I I)))
Or possibly even in SK form:
Y = S (K (S (S K K)(S K K) )) (S (S (K S) K) (K (S (S K K)(S K K) )))
Also look into the tax situation, which in some cases can be really tricky - speak to a professional or at least someone who has some direct personal experience of making some money from options or stock.
If anyone is interested in a GPL-ed open source Wiki Engine that works with Microsoft technology then you could try looking at Perspective
Just curious, are there Perl libraries for handling disributed transactions? Do these support things other than relational databases (at the very least, message oriented middleware such as MQ)? Note that I'm actually interested in your opinion as to whether such things exist and whether they are any good!
Almost all of PostScript, which actually makes a pretty find command line language.
'using' in c#
f(y) = f(f(y))?