Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thinking it through
Most people really seem to overestimate the value of their opinion. While experience and education can often raise the value of someone's opinion in a certain expertise, an opinion is still jsut an opinion and experienced gained in one realm does not necessarily translate across realms. More to come...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Moving on
What is perpetual beta?
I think the paradigm of working towards a release of software called alpha creates situations where someone is forced into what has been coined perpetual beta. People often refer to the google applications as perpetual beta. But really this is not the case.
Though it might be a very minute line, there is definitely a difference between continuous development with no clear picture in mind, and making small steps towards an ideal product, which though perhaps is unattainable, is striven for in small steps. Google is not bug free, but each release is complete. It testing is its existence.
You can contrast that to a product which has the title "Release Version" but is never quite complete. It may be bug ridden, or just "under-featured". Its purpose for life is unclear and the care of the product is left to those who have little emotional concern. The consumers of the product are unclear what it does which makes it difficult for them to communicate what they need the product to do.
People often need to be led or told what they need. This might sound strange, but when you think of general trends, people buy products, they don't invent them. Faced with a particular problem, especially an everyday one, it is easier to implement than to invent.
How do we begin?
I think the paradigm of working towards a release of software called alpha creates situations where someone is forced into what has been coined perpetual beta. People often refer to the google applications as perpetual beta. But really this is not the case.
Though it might be a very minute line, there is definitely a difference between continuous development with no clear picture in mind, and making small steps towards an ideal product, which though perhaps is unattainable, is striven for in small steps. Google is not bug free, but each release is complete. It testing is its existence.
You can contrast that to a product which has the title "Release Version" but is never quite complete. It may be bug ridden, or just "under-featured". Its purpose for life is unclear and the care of the product is left to those who have little emotional concern. The consumers of the product are unclear what it does which makes it difficult for them to communicate what they need the product to do.
People often need to be led or told what they need. This might sound strange, but when you think of general trends, people buy products, they don't invent them. Faced with a particular problem, especially an everyday one, it is easier to implement than to invent.
How do we begin?
Friday, September 26, 2008
What I have to contribute?
I am exchanging some messages with a co-worker. He asked me if I had checked out http://www.stakoverflow.com yet. I told him I did, but I feel like that for so many of these technical site, I don't have much to contribute.
In a way this is true. Sure, I have a lot of tricks I have accumulated over the years in IT, but I often wonder if they are worth actually putting down somewhere.
You need to start somwhere I guess.
So here's my question:
If string theory is correct and there exists simultaneous dimensions, why do we assume each dimension differs either spatially, temporally or in both manners? What if in fact each dimension is an exact replica of the dimension in which we exist?
In a way this is true. Sure, I have a lot of tricks I have accumulated over the years in IT, but I often wonder if they are worth actually putting down somewhere.
You need to start somwhere I guess.
So here's my question:
If string theory is correct and there exists simultaneous dimensions, why do we assume each dimension differs either spatially, temporally or in both manners? What if in fact each dimension is an exact replica of the dimension in which we exist?
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