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graffiti
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Date: Wed,
11 Jul 2001 06:55:17 -0400
From: "Cliff@tooserious.com" <cliff@TOOSERIOUS.COM>
Subject: Anecdotes
Dear Fellow
Facilitators and GDSSers,
Greetings,
For fun
I am assembling a book of the stupid things I have seen people
do to
ruin their organization or company, (a bit like the Dr. Larry
book '563 ways
people ruin their lives'.)
Got any
anecdotes?
Want to
be quoted or remain anonymous?
I'd love
to hear from you,
Cliff
Just
a quick one you might already know. The cat from India who designed
hotmail, which is a relatively simple program requiring less
than a day's work, sold the rights to microsoft for
US$400 million. Unbelievable.
From: petershaw
Date: Tue Nov 21 12:55 AM EST 2000
My preference
for graphical expressions of software design was recently
reinforced by my latest development experience: drawing pictures
finally allowed
me to comprehend the structure of a piece of software that I
had written myself.
Despite the fact that it was coded in a somewhat declarative
language (CLIPS)
and implemented as a state machine (with rules representing transitions),
I had
long lost track of the overall structure: there were too many
states and too
many transitions to remember. When I reverse engineered the diagrams
from the
code, the coherence of the design amazed me because much of it
had been created on the fly as new needs were recognized.
Sidney Bailin
CTA Inc.
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