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Post #48,742
by ben_tilly
8/8/02 10:05:09 PM
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New A tip on links, and a good additional one
Today if you remember a good quote, you can go to google, enter it with double-quotes around it, and you usually will come up with a pretty good reference to give out.

As for links, my favorite that I have seen today is [link|http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/burros/ewd594.htm|this parable]. :-)

Cheers,
Ben
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #48,762
by Andrew Grygus
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8/8/02 11:31:29 PM
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New But, that is entirely unneccessary . .
. . someone always does that for me.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
Post #48,789
by drewk
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8/9/02 8:46:08 AM
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New Re: the parable
Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point.

And people who have worked from someone else's specs, without the opportunity to participate in creating the spec, just once too often ... are completely unsurprised. I mean come on, if you're going to remove an amenity you have to consider the impact it will have on the customers. Then you calculate lost business by simply sucking up the complaints vs. money saved. Then you consider ways to mitigate the complaints and what they would cost.

(Ok, self[1], stop ranting now. It's just a story. [pant pant ... whhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooo])

[1] Not you, Self.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
     RIP, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra - (Yendor) - (28) - Aug. 7, 2002, 10:21:57 PM EDT
         He will be missed - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 7, 2002, 10:37:00 PM EDT
         Edsger Dijkstra - a humble giant of Computer Science. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 7, 2002, 11:26:03 PM EDT
         Wasn't he the one who quipped... - (jb4) - (23) - Aug. 8, 2002, 09:08:01 AM EDT
             OK here's what I found so far: - (jb4) - Aug. 8, 2002, 09:35:42 AM EDT
             No, the quote was: - (Andrew Grygus) - (21) - Aug. 8, 2002, 11:10:37 AM EDT
                 A link for the quotes... - (ChrisR) - (16) - Aug. 8, 2002, 11:33:26 AM EDT
                     Thanks! - (jb4) - (15) - Aug. 8, 2002, 12:46:03 PM EDT
                         Ten blunt axes - (wharris2) - (14) - Aug. 10, 2002, 01:33:59 PM EDT
                             VB is not a programming language... - (ChrisR) - (13) - Aug. 10, 2002, 03:52:23 PM EDT
                                 VB sucks, but the PHBs love it - (orion) - (12) - Aug. 10, 2002, 04:55:05 PM EDT
                                     Best of the worst - (ChrisR) - (11) - Aug. 10, 2002, 06:33:55 PM EDT
                                         A cogent commentary. -NT - (wharris2) - Aug. 10, 2002, 10:54:01 PM EDT
                                         RE Objective C - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 11, 2002, 01:48:41 PM EDT
                                             Yeah, but it won't work for embedded -NT - (tonytib) - Aug. 11, 2002, 05:32:54 PM EDT
                                             Have you actually tried Delphi, so you can compare fairly? - (CRConrad) - (2) - Aug. 11, 2002, 06:02:55 PM EDT
                                                 My Delphi Experience - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 12, 2002, 03:07:25 AM EDT
                                                     Delphi evangelism, continued... (new thread) - (CRConrad) - Oct. 25, 2002, 11:31:43 AM EDT
                                         Several counterpoints - (jb4) - (4) - Aug. 12, 2002, 02:42:05 PM EDT
                                             What version of gcc are you using? - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Aug. 13, 2002, 02:55:46 PM EDT
                                                 Re: What version of gcc are you using? - (jb4) - (2) - Aug. 13, 2002, 06:41:25 PM EDT
                                                     Re: What version of gcc are you using? - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Aug. 14, 2002, 10:22:14 AM EDT
                                                         I'd rather switch than... - (jb4) - Aug. 15, 2002, 09:33:13 AM EDT
                 A tip on links, and a good additional one - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Aug. 8, 2002, 10:05:09 PM EDT
                     But, that is entirely unneccessary . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 8, 2002, 11:31:29 PM EDT
                     Re: the parable - (drewk) - Aug. 9, 2002, 08:46:08 AM EDT
                 Yes, that was it. - (static) - Aug. 10, 2002, 03:33:23 AM EDT
         The one I always remember - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 9, 2002, 03:39:50 AM EDT
         Dime store Platonism - (andread) - Aug. 10, 2002, 02:25:14 PM EDT

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