Re: What databases have taught me
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:57:13 +0200
Message-ID: <44b4f1a9$0$18621$626a54ce_at_news.free.fr>
Bob Badour wrote:
> topmind wrote:
>
>> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>>
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>>> >>> Bob, >>> >>> "topmind" is our pet crank here on comp.object.
>
>
> I have been aware of topmind for many years. While I don't always agree
> with him, he exhibits none of the psychosis common among cranks.
> Bruno,
> you, on the other hand, quickly and easily made it into my twit-filter.
Mostly due to reaction to your usual behaviour of insulting people to death.
>
>>> He has a great record of >>> asserting things without being able to back them with anything else than >>> "I don't know why but it is so" >> >> >> This is bull.
cf below.
> The only thing I said that about is why change patterns
>> happen a certain way in biz apps.
cf below.
> Answering that would probably require
>> deep psychological analysis of marketers, lawmakers, and upper >> management. I don't understand their psychology and will readily admit >> that. I can only observe the patterns of changes of mind, not explain >> them. This is what I get for admitting that I don't know everything. >> One of the key aspects of business modeling is that you end up modeling >> personalities of decision makers far more than modeling say laws of >> nature such as chemistry, geometry, etc. The latter would make life a >> lot easier.
>
>
> Hear! Hear!
(snip)
>>> , then challenging the others to prove >>> him wrong, then dismissing answers as either "lab example" (implied : >>> can't work in real life) >>
(snip)
>> >>> or "irrelevant to it's own 'niche'" (which is >>> defined as "custom biz apps", whatever this may mean). >> >> So? X being good at domain Y does not automatically mean it will be >> good in domain Z.
>
>
> Do you mean like something that's passably good at simulation used for
> everything from dessert toppings to floor wax?
So? X being bad at domain Y does not automatically mean it will be bad in domain Z.
"""
(BD) Why do you think the same technical problem would require a
different technical solution according to the domain ?
"""
And the brillant answer :
"""
(-T-) Are you asking why OO techniques that apply for one domain don't
apply for another? That is a very good question. I don't know why, it
just does.
""""
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object/msg/159be5dce37fe314)
-- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '_at_'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in 'onurb_at_xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"Received on Wed Jul 12 2006 - 14:57:13 CEST