Given all this, ... what would you prescribe for your family members who are not particularly expert in these matters?
What computer/laptop, tablet, phone, email service, applications (assuming they need at least one of an office suite), hosting service for their new business, TV components, video services (NetFlix, Amazon, iTunes), sync service, ... I could go on. But what? They really want to know. -- Owen On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:36 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]>wrote: > On 02/21/2014 07:35 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> To make this relevant to the discussion... I don't think I could ever >> have come to recognize the value of such a data structure if I *hadn't* >> felt obliged to re-invent (re-implement?) a number of algorithms that >> had already been implemented by others... to differing degrees of quality. >> > > The meat of the discussion lies in the person's (or organization's) > agility to change paths once prior work, or a better way regardless of its > source, is brought to light. I recently had to characterize "agile" > software development in comparison to ... what? ... "large-scale, > entrenched process" to a CIO type who understands some of the economics, > but not the technologies. Me being largely agnostic, trying to explain the > two to him in an informal setting proved more difficult than I would have > thought. (Shows how often I talk to those types these days.) > > In microcosm, the contrast isn't between engineer-types and > scientist-types, but between ... I don't know... authoritarian vs. > egalitarian(?) types. I've met plenty of authoritarian scientist-types and > plenty of egalitarian engineer-types. I've even met some certified PEs who > showed remarkable agility when shown a better way. Actually, "better" is > loaded. "More appropriate to the task at hand" is better than "better". > > -- > glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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