On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:11:43AM +0000, Nigel Wetters wrote: > p.s. Quova has a funny requirement in its current job advert for > Director of Software Development: "Ability to combine technical and > business issues to make pragmatic trade-offs between theoretical > concepts and market/business realities". This would worry me if I was > thinking of buying their geolocation service.
Why does that trouble you? I think it can be de-bullshitted as "we want someone who can tell us what is actually possible, and give us realistic cost/accuracy rations so we can judge what level of service we can offer at a profit" Of course if you want to be cynical you can further annotate that as "needs to be capable of working out just how far we can push our claims of data reliability without customers discovering evidence that makes them suspicious that we are exaggerating" Is this whole game s/steal underpants/mine WHOIS data/ ? Nicholas Clark
