Tidbits
May 2nd, 2003
Various [insert blog title here]:
- When Mark rants, it's funny. Again, the Circle of knowledge chimes in (as indicated by Tim's
I’m amazed that this obvious premise seemily went over the heads of all the intelligent people that commented on your tabs.) - Techno Weenie talks about missing RSS updates during the day. That's the reason I'm still using HEP as a messaging server (kindly provided). Although it's hard to kill subscriptions (I'm still receiving Slashdot updates, while I deleted that feed 2 weeks ago, when they started acting "tough" about "too frequent updates"), it does make sure that I don't have to worry about having missed anything after 2 days of zero keyboard time.
- Steven detects the be-honest vs. get-the-contract dilemma. This is a problem. But the good (ahem) news is: this doesn't only affect software business. You can see it everywhere. People tend to think short-term when comparing products. When did you last choose the more expensive option between two products that seemed equal to you? You can buy a plant in a pot at various prices too, but some will have enough menure in the pot for another year, others for 2 days. How will you tell the difference? Now I know it's not good behaviour to answer a rethorical question, but still: Only if the expensive-plant-vendor steps to you, and tells you the difference. That's of course what Steven is doing, and he's totally right about it. However, the client must (A) take the time to listen, (B) understand what "menure" is, and what it does to a plant, and (C) trust and believe the vendor. A hard threesome in a world where there are cheap-plant-vendors.
- Matt validates where he likes. I can only hope that he has never to switch DB vendors (he probably won't, but still), and that he doesn't have to unit test his code (euh... is that "hope"?), or otherwise needs a non-web interface to his code (batch processing? command line processing?).
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