On 6/14/11 4:55 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
No, what will happen is that a class of people will arise who*do* understand
http-range-14 (and other issues that are perceived as 'hard') and they will for
a short while be able to earn a living writing (or writing code which
generates) this stuff properly. This situation will last at most a decade,
because by then a new generation of people will have educated themselves to
'speak' correctly in this new style without apparent effort, and all the
whining about how terribly hard it was will be the stuff of nerdish jokes on
XKCD.
Yes!
Serving folks their lunch works better than warning them about the
effects of your pending actions or the ill effects of their current
action. This is why the solution to the problem lies in delivering
applications and services that provide value to a broad spectrum of
consumer profiles, courtesy of their fundamental understanding that
Generic Names and Location specific Names (Addresses) != same thing.
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