Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: Designers and Builders (was: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases?) | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:30:40 +0300 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > The problem is not builders, or designers - this list has plenty of > > both. > > > > What Adrian is talking about are the people who go to designers and say > > "Build me something blue, with a design that doesn't work with the VFS". > > And the real test of whether someone is a good engineer or a dodgy > consultant then follows. The engineer says "no" the consultant says > "it'll cost ya" ;)
And the realist may say: look there is a middle way that reduces complexity many-folds and still gets us what we want.
> Humour aside don;t knock the people who have the ideas - in amongst all > the people wanting something that is insane are aluable pieces of > information if you can ever work them out - What they actually *want* > to be able to do, and sometimes ideas that are ones people used to the > technology wouldn't have - most are silly but just occasionally you get > the "that would be silly, we'd have to umm, interesting maybe we could, > I'll get back to you" type ideas.
Exactly, and that's what makes these ideas so valuable.
Thanks!
-- Al
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