John Passaniti wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
>>> I deny the application matters... for the purposes of this
>>> discussion. That's an important qualification. I purposefully avoid
>>> the specifics of the application because I am *not* asking people to
>>> go into problem-solving mode and to discuss solutions. I am only, at
>>> least for now, interested in history.
>>
>> Always walls. That's why dealing with programmers is so frustrating
>> for the rest of us.
>
> No, just an attempt to get people to focus on history and the experience
> of that history, since that's what I'm interested in. I'm sorry if my
> focus and priorities aren't yours. No, actually, I'm not sorry at all,
> and any walls you imagine come only from you being disconnected from my
> actual work.
What is that work exactly? Explain from an application perspective.
Selling soap? Finding planets? Hooking A/D converters to processors is
not an application, only a baby step toward one.
It's you who seem disconnected: you never talk about actual work.
> But thankfully, I don't have to suffer you on my team.
You can't be as thankful as I am that you aren't on one of my teams.
--
John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
--
The axiomatic method of mathematics is one of the great achievements of
our culture. However, it is only a method. Whereas the facts of
mathematics once discovered will never change, the method by which these
facts are verified has changed many times in the past, and it would be
foolhardy to expect that changes will not occur again at some future
date. - Gian-Carlo Rota
