On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Martin Baldan <martino...@gmail.com>wrote:

> And that's how you get a huge software stack. Redundancy can be
> avoided in centralized systems, but in distributed systems with
> competing standards that's the normal state. It's not that programmers
> are dumb, it's that they can't agree on pretty much anything, and they
> can't even keep track of each other's ideas because the community is
> so huge.
>


I've been interested in how to make systems that work together despite
these challenges. A major part of my answer is seeking data model
independence:
http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/data-model-independence/
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