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Re: RSS output format (was: Re: Lugnet for beginners)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:45:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Rick Kujawa writes:
> > Huh? Sounds waaay too complicated for me. I subscribe to the KISS
> > principle. Guess I'd have to see an actual example to see if it would be
> > useful. My $0.02
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> There's a couple reasons that it sounds complicated. First, even though it'll
> be simple on the outside, it's complicated on the inside, and I was describing
> the insides more than the outsides. Second, for stuff like this, it's often
> useful to look at things from a "maximum orthogonality" viewpoint. Doing so
> sometimes doubles or triples the overall complexity, but makes ten times as
> many things possible while also highlighting clear lines for division of
> design elements. In other words, by taking something simple and special,
> and making it more general -- more complicated -- a completely different kind
> of solution sometimes arises -- often a solution which solves ten times as
> many problems as the original problem, with only twice the complexity, or, if
> one is really lucky, with two to four sub-solutions, each of which is one tenth
> the complexity. The irony of added complexity (done properly) is that it's
> sometimes actually less work to do more stuff! :-)
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> So in the design process, it's important (if you buy into this line of
> reasoning) to make things as complex or complicated as possible, and then
> simplify from there, where needed, once a good general solution is found.
> Many of the solutions then to specific problems turn out to be very simple
> to express in terms of the more general solution.
>
> --Todd
Yeah but can you get there from here? Because remember: no matter where you
go...there you are. Sounds kinda Zeny. Excuse the smart ass postclub
response.
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